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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: 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. What a show we have

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Speaker 1: for you on tap? Former ESPN anchor a friend of mine. Yes,

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Speaker 1: from the old First Take days, Jay Crawford breaks down

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Speaker 1: to Cleveland Indians for us. Plus a little foul or

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Speaker 1: fair with j R. Gamble from MLB road dot Com.

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Speaker 1: That some trash talking and much more. Let's go up

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Speaker 1: to lead off. It's getting rocked and keep him on.

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Speaker 1: Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one. Look now, but Memorial Day is

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Speaker 1: just around the corner. Yes, and the San Diego Padres

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Speaker 1: Wednesday's action, the Padres were nine and one in their

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Speaker 1: in Fernando Tattiss Junior all season long, but since he

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Speaker 1: pitching coach Mickey Callaway is now former Angels pitching coach

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Speaker 1: list through the end of the twenty two baseball season

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Speaker 1: following Major League Baseball's investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct,

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Speaker 1: details of which were originally written by The Athletic and UH.

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Speaker 1: The behavior spanned five years and his employment with three organizations,

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Speaker 1: be after the two season. Number three bad news for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Outfielder Marcelo Zuna will be out at

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Speaker 1: least six weeks with fractured fingers and Uh, yes, he

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Speaker 1: let's welcome to the podcast. One of my favorite people,

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Speaker 1: Jay Crawford. We worked together at the Four Letter Network

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Speaker 1: But Jay, welcome to Inside the Park of my man

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Speaker 1: Rob Break love the name of the Shield, by the way,

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