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Speaker 1: From the berkshears 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 fifty seven, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and

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Speaker 2: what a show we have for you today. Angels centerfielder

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Speaker 2: Joe Adell will drop by. We'll talk about him his

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Speaker 2: switch to center field. Also from MLB Network and the

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Speaker 2: host of MLB Now, Brian Kenny. He'll drop by, plus

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Speaker 2: all kinds of stats information as we get you ready

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Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty five season in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Let's go better up to lead off, it's getting robbed

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Speaker 1: and keep them on. Rob's hot take and the three

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

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Speaker 2: I know, I know they were baseball fans who were

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Speaker 2: belly yaken about the Dodgers and the Cubs starting in

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Speaker 2: that Tokyo series in Japan. The games came on at

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Speaker 2: three am Pacific, six am Eastern. But guess what, guys,

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Speaker 2: let's be real when you have great Japanese players. There's

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Speaker 2: no way that baseball is going to miss an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to enhance its game and its brand to so many

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Speaker 2: Asian people all over. So when you have Otani and

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Speaker 2: Sasaki and a Hamamoto, you're going to do that. It

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Speaker 2: just makes business sense. And I understand it. Everybody wants

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Speaker 2: the opening day to be on American soil, and we'll

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Speaker 2: have that coming up on Thursday with Opening Day. But

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Speaker 2: we know baseball is about business and money as well,

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Speaker 2: and it's just made good business sense. Number two, the

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Speaker 2: biggest story in Major League Baseball coming into the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five season is it whether or not the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: are good or could win the World Series. I mean,

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Speaker 2: on paper, how can you not look at that team

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Speaker 2: and not think that they're not gonna win the World Series?

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Speaker 2: After all, they won and beat the Yankees last year

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Speaker 2: in five games, and they didn't have any pitching, They

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Speaker 2: had injuries, all kinds of stuff, and somehow they put

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Speaker 2: and they won a World Series. And now they've boasted

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Speaker 2: their rotation. We talked about Sasaki, we talked about Otani

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Speaker 2: free agent. They boasted their bullpen. It's just so many

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Speaker 2: pieces that the Dodgers now have, but they have to

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Speaker 2: beat history. And there are a lot of people surprisingly

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Speaker 2: not picking the Dodgers to win the World Series because

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Speaker 2: no team has repeated in twenty five years, not since

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Speaker 2: the two thousand New York Yankees. They won a ninety eight,

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Speaker 2: ninety nine, and two thousand, and when you talk about

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Speaker 2: National League teams, get this. No National League team has

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Speaker 2: repeated as a World Series champ since the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 2: five seventy six Cincinnati Reds. Is this on? Did you

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Speaker 2: hear that? I mean outrageous? Baseball is very weird. You

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Speaker 2: could get knocked out in the first round. You can

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Speaker 2: win one hundred and ten games like maybe the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: will and lose in a series. We've seen this team

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Speaker 2: losing a first round series when Mookie Betts and Freddie

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Speaker 2: will be interesting to see how good this Dodger team

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Speaker 2: has happened in baseball for a long time. Number three,

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Speaker 2: Here we go my twenty twenty five World Series prediction,

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Speaker 2: and I know I was wrong. I originally picked the

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Speaker 2: Thes and then switched over to the Yankees. I didn't

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Speaker 2: think the Dodgers had enough pitching last year in twenty

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go with the San Diego Padres. I

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Speaker 2: know I picked the Padres all the time. Last year

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Speaker 2: I think this year they complete the job. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: Series for the twenty twenty five Championship. Don't hold me

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Speaker 2: from the beginning. And back then I was a Mets fan.

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Speaker 2: Opening Day that stands out to me the most dates

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Speaker 1: Right, here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 4: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: All right now, let's welcome in angel centerfielder Joe Adell.

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Speaker 2: Here on inside the parker. Joe, how are you?

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Speaker 5: I'm good? How about yourself?

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Speaker 2: Great? Let's talk about Opening Day to get started. Just

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Speaker 5: That's awesome. I know for me, you know, every time

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about year number six. Last year a breakout year.

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Speaker 2: Played one hundred and thirty games, over four hundred at bats,

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Speaker 5: That was awesome. You know, I was glad to be

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Speaker 5: to me, like my defense was something that really stood

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Speaker 2: Says a lot about playing center field. All the great

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Speaker 2: But but that's an honor, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: never think that he would ever leave center field, just

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Speaker 5: So it's an honor.

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Speaker 2: Are you. We talked about it. The twenty home runs

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Speaker 5: Well. For me, you know, I've been blessed with the

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Speaker 2: How about the idea of having a healthy Mic Trout

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Speaker 7: Anthony March Madness may be on TV, but baseball is

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto.

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Speaker 2: Monday through Friday at noon Eastern, and of course every Thursday,

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Speaker 4: How are you now, I'm your guest, that's right now,

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Speaker 4: I'm your now, I'm yeah.

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Speaker 3: Now, you set the tone. I'll see how that goes.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Well, let's start here with the

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Speaker 4: I mean, the Dodgers are crazy deep this year of

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Speaker 2: This, No, I was you already do it right?

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Speaker 4: It is not a real world series. Titlow is going,

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Speaker 4: oh rob, But now it's funny. It's almost like a

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Speaker 2: How about this? Though, no team has repeated in Major

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, who knows it's a whole new ball game.

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Speaker 2: It's a tournament.

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Speaker 4: Anybody can get knocked out quickly in a tournament. The

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Speaker 3: I like them. I think they went from the favorite

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Speaker 3: Chooseholm. I think he was an excellent Yankee.

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Speaker 3: There'll be a little more athletic this year.

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Speaker 4: They'll be good, but like as far as the rest

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Speaker 2: Let's go for like some player I should pay attention

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Speaker 4: You know who I like? I like as a bounce

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Speaker 3: I like success though. Rob.

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Speaker 4: When you see a guy that has never failed at

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Speaker 4: Rob Kenny Wood. Kenny Would played for East Hampton High

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Speaker 4: School on Long Island. Was the New York State all

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Speaker 4: time leading scorer. I covered him at high school and

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Speaker 4: then I see then he of course Kenny Wood went

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Speaker 4: to play for Richmond Richmond Spiders.

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Speaker 3: They beat Syracuse in the tournament.

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Speaker 4: Sean Casey was like the batting champion at the NCAA

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Speaker 4: batting champion playing, you know, for Richmond at the time.

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Speaker 4: So he knows Kenny Wood. He's telling me all about

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Speaker 4: this kid coming up with the Nationals.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, I know his dad. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: this kid.

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Speaker 4: Can really hit and good process numbers like just his

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Speaker 4: his plate select pitch selection is good, plate discipline is good,

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Speaker 4: smokes the ball. I think he's going to be outstanding player.

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Speaker 4: A lot of good young players like Dylan Cruz for

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Speaker 4: the Nationals and my surprise team. But a team that

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Speaker 4: I think is going to be better than a lot

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Speaker 4: of people anticipate are the Red Sox. I think they're

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Speaker 4: just they're flush with young position players and now they've

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Speaker 4: added just enough to their rotation to be more viable

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Speaker 4: in that division.

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Speaker 2: Last thing, last word. World Series prediction two teams and

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Speaker 2: who wins.

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Speaker 3: You want a World Series prediction today?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I do.

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Speaker 3: This is so you.

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Speaker 4: So this is you, and then you want to play

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Speaker 4: it back if you're right and ignore it if you're wrong.

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Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna hold you to it. Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Oh all right, all right, hold I think uh, Diamondbacks

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Speaker 4: in the National League.

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Speaker 3: All right, hmmm, No, that's probably not gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: Uh, all right, Diamondbacks, Red Sox.

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Speaker 2: Wow, now that's off the board. I love it. Brian

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Speaker 2: Kenny makes sure you check him out on MLB network.

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Speaker 2: Is show MLB now Monday through Friday at noon Eastern.

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Speaker 2: Bk always a pleasure. I'll see you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait, Rob, I look forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Take care of No.

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Speaker 2: This is blooning.

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Speaker 1: It's the Parker pushback.

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Speaker 2: Shut here.

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Speaker 1: Rob tackles the outlandish takes in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: Shut up today, I'm pushing back on all those people

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Speaker 2: on social media who were beating up former NFL quarterback

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Speaker 2: Rodney Pete for catching a foul ball in Game two

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Speaker 2: of the Tokyo Series. Right, he caught it over Max Mounsey.

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Speaker 2: Guess what, Rodney Pete didn't do anything wrong. He had

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Speaker 2: a glove that was provided by the stadium and the

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Speaker 2: foul ball came. He didn't reach over and block Max Munsey,

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Speaker 2: or catch the ball over his glove, or do something

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Speaker 2: that was not within the rules. The all was in

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Speaker 2: the stands, he reached out, he got it, caught it.

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Speaker 2: In fact, if you watched the video closely, Max Munsey

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Speaker 2: missed the ball. Even if Rodney Pete didn't catch it,

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Speaker 2: Max Munsey would not have caught it. Rodney pet played

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Speaker 2: football and baseball at USC. This guy can handle the glove,

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Speaker 2: and we saw what he could do. Get off of

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Speaker 2: Rodney Pete. He was entitled to that ball, and he

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Speaker 2: caught that ball. In the words of New York TV

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Speaker 2: legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time

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Speaker 2: this time. Until next time, Rob Parker out d can't Davin?

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Speaker 2: This could be an inside the Parker.

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Speaker 4: See you next week, same bat time, from the same

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Speaker 4: Matt's station.