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Speaker 1: live in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You

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

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Speaker 1: scoop on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame voter number one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into

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Speaker 1: Inside the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and you

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Speaker 1: know baseball news has been breaking all over the place.

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Speaker 1: We're only doing monthly podcast until the baseball season kicks back,

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Speaker 1: but we had to do a special edition podcast about

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Speaker 1: all the cheating scandals and punishment. So we'll dive into

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Speaker 1: that all over baseball. Plus Boston Globe Red Sox Beat

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Speaker 1: writer Julian McWilliams will stop by. He'll give us some

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Speaker 1: insight to the Alex Corre firing in Boston. That and

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Speaker 1: much more. Let's go to lead off. It's getting robbed

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Speaker 1: to keep him on, Robs hot take and the three

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Speaker 1: biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one, stop the

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Speaker 1: noise about Major League Baseball going soft. Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: did what it had to do. Uh bravo to Commissioner

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Speaker 1: with a cheating scandal. We've seen the NFL goes off

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Speaker 1: Belichick got caught. He wasn't even suspended, there was just

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Speaker 1: a fine. So people were saying that Baseball kind of,

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Speaker 1: one year suspensions and then said, you know, both of

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Speaker 1: They're fired, and they heard him in the draft next

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Speaker 1: And there's a five million dollar five I get it,

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Speaker 1: How much he really knew about what was going on

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Speaker 1: and what could you do? Did you do? You want

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Speaker 1: to take the team away from him? And the notion

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Speaker 1: not give it to the Dodgers, but just say nobody

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Speaker 1: won that year. Here's my only problem. If knowing what

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Speaker 1: it's definitely a benefit. It's definitely cheating. They need to

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Speaker 1: a trust issue and you and right now you just

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Speaker 1: can't trust him. His name Julia McWilliams the five Baseball

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Speaker 1: bet writer for the Boston Globe. He covers the Red Sox. Julian,

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure. Thanks for joining the podcast, bro Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks b I appreciate it. Rob. In the words of

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Speaker 1: New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you

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Speaker 1: for your time this time until next time. Rob Parker out.

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Speaker 1: He can't get it. This could be an inside the Parker.

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Speaker 1: To see you next weekend, same bad time, same station,