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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live

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Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give

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Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop

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Speaker 1: on Major League Baseball. Now. Here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number eighty three, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker. Great show for you. On tap.

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Speaker 1: Bobby Nightingale, who is the beat writer for the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: Inquiry covers the Reds. He'll join us, plus David Grubb,

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Speaker 1: who's a writer and editor from MLB bro dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He'll talk to us about the Jackie Robinson anniversary, that

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Speaker 1: and much more. Let's go beat up. To lead off,

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Speaker 1: it's getting robbed and to keep him on. Rob's hot

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Speaker 1: take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Number one, Say it isn't so. I mean, I did

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Speaker 1: not believe we would be here, but here we are.

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Speaker 1: We've already had the first week of games canceled. The

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Speaker 1: and opening day at the end of March. Instead, we're

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Speaker 1: looking at now moving it into April. Who knows um,

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Speaker 1: I really believe that the players and owners were gonna

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Speaker 1: get together on something. Obviously both sides feel like they

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Speaker 1: wanted to gain something in this. Nobody felt like they

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Speaker 1: wanted to lose. But as usual, it is always the fans.

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Speaker 1: The fans love this game. Seventy million people buy tickets

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Speaker 1: every single year for Major League Baseball. That's more tickets

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Speaker 1: sold in the NBA, NFL, NHL, and mL LST combined combined. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know there's more baseball games, but if you add

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Speaker 1: up all those leagues and all those games, baseball sells

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Speaker 1: more tickets. So the fans, again the collateral damage in this.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully the players and owners can get together and not

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Speaker 1: make this a drag out too long. And on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the Commissioner sent out the letter for all fans, you know,

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Speaker 1: talking about where labor negotiations are and whatnot, and fans

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Speaker 1: don't care and don't want to hear about it. The

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Speaker 1: only thing they care about is they want their game back.

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Speaker 1: Mr Commissioner number two. Enough already with the death of baseball,

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Speaker 1: and enough already with these phony national talk show host

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Speaker 1: on TV and radio always ripping baseball every chance they get. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll never and we're talking about baseball again. I'll never

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Speaker 1: watch another game, I'll never go to another baseball game.

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Speaker 1: You've been saying this since nine after the strike, and

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Speaker 1: baseball revenue has increased thirty percent. It's it ain't going

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Speaker 1: the other way. It continues to grow. It's an eleven

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Speaker 1: billion dollar business. The NFL is a thirteen billion dollar business. Hello,

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Speaker 1: is this on? Stop it that you could go back?

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Speaker 1: Go to the New York Times in their in their

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Speaker 1: clip files, you'll read stories from fifties, sixties, seventy years

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Speaker 1: ago that said baseball was dying, it was a dinosaur

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Speaker 1: the old great lady. Come on, enough with that narrative.

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Speaker 1: It's a phony narrative. Fans are mad. I get it.

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Speaker 1: They'll be back. We just had twenty eight years of

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Speaker 1: labor peace from ninety four to two thousand and twenty two.

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Speaker 1: That's twenty eight years. That wasn't baseball. Baseball was always

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Speaker 1: having labor issues every two or three years. So so

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Speaker 1: pipe down with that noise and get over it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this movie worked out in the game Will Marshall number

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Speaker 1: three At some point, we just have to understand when

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Speaker 1: had a work stoppage in nineteen ninety nine. You remember

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Speaker 1: the fifty games season. Yet, yeah, these things happen. Baseball

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Speaker 1: but when you expand the postseason, it gives another chance

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're incentivizing greater spending for UH lower

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Speaker 1: to engage more regions around the country. And that's what's important,

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Speaker 1: is that baseball is such a regional game that when

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Speaker 1: you have more regions involved, it will help grow it

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Speaker 1: at a national level. So I think that there are

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Speaker 1: some positive things coming here. It's just it's very dark

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Speaker 1: and very frustrating right now. That's it. Hey, there he

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Speaker 1: is Ryan Burr Shinger, a big baseball fan who I

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Speaker 1: felt would be great to be on the podcast to

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Speaker 1: talk about it from a fans perspective and check out

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Speaker 1: his podcast Swing Shift. That's right, Ryan and bow Man Brian,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate it, thanks so much, and hopefully we'll have

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Speaker 1: baseball sooner than later. Hopefully, Rob, thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. In the words of New York TV

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Speaker 1: legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time

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Speaker 1: this time until next time. Rob Parker out. He can't

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Speaker 1: get it. This could be an inside the Parker next

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