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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 one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into this

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Speaker 1: week's edition of Inside the Parker. Rob Parker. Here you there.

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Speaker 1: Two time World Series winner David Justice is coming by.

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Speaker 1: Plus we'll talk to the athletics Julia McWilliams about the

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Speaker 1: a's surgeon, that and much more. Let's go to lead off.

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Speaker 1: It's getting robbed and keep him on. Rob's hot take

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

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Speaker 1: I know it's early, but we have a wail of

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Speaker 1: a National League m v P race on our hands

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Speaker 1: between Cody Bellinger of the Dodge Years and Christian Yellows

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Speaker 1: of the Brewers. They are tearing the cover off the ball.

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Speaker 1: Can I give you some numbers? As of Tuesday, Bellinger

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Speaker 1: three eight three, nineteen home runs, forty nine r BIS,

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Speaker 1: great start. The Dodgers, of course, are thirty six and

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Speaker 1: Yellows has also been lethal, batting three two, leads the

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Speaker 1: And Milwaukee's out to a good start thirty one and

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Speaker 1: Bill Buckner at the age of sixty nine from dementia. Buckner,

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Speaker 1: was a really good baseball player. But it's impossible for

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Speaker 1: and win the World Series. That's one of the most

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Speaker 1: So people can remember that, but just remember it's not

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Speaker 1: the only thing about Bill Buckner. But it will be

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Speaker 1: hard for people to dismiss that number three. Eighty five

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Speaker 1: on Friday, he said that he supports athletes who use

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Speaker 1: said Hank Aaron to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Bravo to Hank.

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Speaker 1: You would think that, maybe, you know, a guy from

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Speaker 1: the big interview. Listen, Headler, it's so good, all right,

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Speaker 1: of the Year in nine of course, two times World

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Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast. How are you doing? What's going

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Speaker 1: the World Series, Rob, I think the lights of brighter,

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Speaker 1: always says winning cures everything, but people don't show up

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Speaker 1: in Oakland. It's a fact. So how do you get

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Speaker 1: how do you fix this? You know? I remember being

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Speaker 1: it's just night and day, right, and so like it's

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Speaker 1: I don't like really making like like cross sports references,

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Speaker 1: because I know this is a baseball podcast, but you

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Speaker 1: So it's just kind of the same thing with the age, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: looked through the Red Sox last year and just from there,

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Speaker 1: best team. And speaking of Boston, congratulations are on order.

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Speaker 1: Starting on Friday, you start covering the Boston Red Sox

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Speaker 1: landing that job. It's just it's been in the credible

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Speaker 1: ride and I'm and I'm looking forward to being able

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Speaker 1: as I can and bring up the best continent as

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Speaker 1: best I can. All right, Julian my Man, Julie McWilliams

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Speaker 1: from The Athletic Congratulations, thanks for joining the podcast. Now

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Speaker 1: bringing the closer, Here's why MLB is better than the

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Speaker 1: NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close. It's so

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Speaker 1: obvious why Major League Baseball is better than the NFL

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Speaker 1: and the NBA. There is no better quality time that

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Speaker 1: you can spend with somebody. The weather is nice, you

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Speaker 1: go sit out at the ballpark and you spend three hours.

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Speaker 1: Imagine being able to talk and catch up and watch

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Speaker 1: beer at the same time. No other place can you

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Speaker 1: A football game you're watching back and forth, very little

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Speaker 1: time to talk. Same goals. With an NBA game, you

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Speaker 1: gotta pay attention all the way through. You can't talk baseball.

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Speaker 1: I can talk and watch at the same time. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Rob Parker out, he can't get it.

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside the Parker to see you

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Speaker 1: next weekend, same bad time, same man station,