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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 seventy Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of Inside the Parker and Yes

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Speaker 2: Opening Day, the first podcast of the new season.

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Former Major League picture Mark Moulder will stop by.

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Speaker 3: Also JR.

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Speaker 2: Gamble's back, Anthony Masterson's back, David Gascon's back.

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Speaker 1: All that and more.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off, it's getting.

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Speaker 4: Robbed and keep them on.

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

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Speaker 2: Number one, We can't start this League Baseball season without

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Speaker 2: talking about the show Hail Tani gambling scandal with his

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Speaker 2: interpreter is just impossible to ignore.

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Speaker 3: Is too big and we know that.

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Speaker 2: On Tuesday show, Hey issued a statement finally talking about it,

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Speaker 2: claim that he has never bet on any sport, forget

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Speaker 2: his long term, longtime friend trainer interpreter, and that is

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Speaker 2: what happened and why four point five million dollars were

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Speaker 2: sent to a illegal bookie in California. So he's saying

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Speaker 2: And the one thing I will say, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of stuff that's still fishy. How someone can get into

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Speaker 3: But he ain't got that money yet.

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Speaker 2: So it's hard for me to believe that he didn't

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Speaker 3: So this will all come out in the wash. The

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Speaker 2: Is that he's not attached to baseball gambling, because that's

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Speaker 2: the death wish, the death warrant, that's the bad part.

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Speaker 2: We saw an icon and Pete Rose have his legacy

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Speaker 2: if any way, anyhow Show Hayes's name is attached to that,

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Speaker 2: it'll be bad news, bad news for baseball, bad news

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Speaker 2: But a man is innocent unto approve guilty. So we're

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Speaker 2: gonna watch this guy play. We'll let the investigations, uh

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Speaker 2: find out more. So until then, I'm gonna watch jo Hey.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna enjoy him until I hear different. You should too.

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Speaker 1: Number two of all.

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Speaker 2: The players I want to take a look at and

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Speaker 2: Juan Soto, who is finally coming up to his contract year.

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Speaker 2: He's now gonna play for the New York Yankees. He's

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Speaker 3: So what's gonna happen here? Will he will? Playing in

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Speaker 2: For an organization that plays big games every night and

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Speaker 1: Number three, Oh.

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Speaker 3: You're looking for a baseball hot take.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had one on MLB Now with Brian Kenny

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Speaker 2: on the MLB Network, and I'm delivering it to you here.

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Speaker 2: The Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks will not not

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Speaker 5: I know, yes, both win the World Series. The Rangers

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Speaker 5: won the World Series. Rob Hello, is this on? What

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Speaker 5: are you talking about? It's funny. Bruce Bochi's won three

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Speaker 2: The Giants, and guess what every year after his team

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Speaker 3: Here's the problem I also have with the Rangers.

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Speaker 2: for repeating not only repeating as a World Series champ,

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Speaker 2: They made a couple of moves, they got a starting pitcher,

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Speaker 2: It ain't gonna be enough. That was an eighty four

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Speaker 3: And here we go.

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Speaker 2: Remember last year, the Padres didn't make the playoffs in

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Speaker 2: number four, And here's a bonus, last but not least,

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Speaker 2: my World Series pick. Wake the kids, call the neighbors.

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Speaker 2: I know you're gonna say, Rob, this is lazy, But

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Speaker 2: it's lazy. I'm gonna go back to a rematch of

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Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty one World Series. Yes, producer Rob g

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Speaker 2: wasn't born nineteen eighty one, the Dodgers against the New

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Speaker 2: York Yankees. The twenty twenty four season started tumultuously with

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Speaker 2: the Oh Show, Hey Betting scandal, and it will end

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Speaker 2: on a high note with the two biggest markets. The

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Speaker 2: and they'll be record breaking TV waitings for baseball. The

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Speaker 2: Yankees will beat the Dodgers in six games.

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Speaker 3: You heard it right here on Inside the Park.

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Speaker 1: Here comes the big interviews. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 3: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: All right, Now, let's welcome in former Major League All

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Speaker 2: Star Mark Moulder, who of course was a two time

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Speaker 2: welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 3: How are you Mark?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 6: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing wonderful.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk some baseball, the start of the season

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Speaker 2: and all that stuff, but first I want to, you know,

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Speaker 3: And it's the third Annual.

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Speaker 2: Invited Celebrity Classic, which is coming up April nineteen through

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Speaker 2: the twenty first in Irving Texas. Can you talk about

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Speaker 3: It's a star started list.

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Speaker 6: Yeah it is. It's a lot of fun, man. It

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Speaker 6: We get to compete right along in the same group

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Speaker 4: It's at Las Colinas Country Club. It's entry is free.

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Speaker 6: We draw some really good crowds for the three day

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Speaker 6: A lot of people don't realize. I mean, I get it,

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Speaker 6: and they're like, Mark, you're gonna try the Champions Tour

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Speaker 6: Well, I'd love to just sit here and say me right,

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Speaker 6: they're there for fun. There's a handful of us who

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Speaker 6: to win the tournament. Everybody's gonna, you know, do their

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Speaker 6: best to win it. But there's a small handful of us.

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Speaker 6: I believe Anika is playing again. She'll obviously be up there.

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Speaker 6: It's it's awesome playing with her, obviously, but it's uh,

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Speaker 4: We can all play a little bit.

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Speaker 6: It's just kind of who kind of makes more putts

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Speaker 2: Yeah, lay It sounds like it's a good time and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to change your approach, you don't want

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Speaker 1: It was a big week in the Big leagues. Who's

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Speaker 2: With all the fanfare surrounding the Dodgers off season acquisitions

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Speaker 2: entering the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 1: Fair It's a fair ball.

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Speaker 7: With the exception of the twenty twenty COVID World Series,

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Speaker 7: the Los Angeles Dodgers have been the Buffalo Bills of

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Speaker 7: baseball since taking over in twenty sixteen. Roberts has won

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Speaker 7: over one hundred games five times and never lost more

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Speaker 7: than seventy one games in any season. He's led the

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Speaker 7: Dodgers to first place finishes in the National League West

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Speaker 7: Division every season except twenty twenty one, and they finished

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Speaker 7: second that year. He's been to three World Series and

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Speaker 7: one just one. The way they bowed out last season

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Speaker 7: was embarrassing, and now he's trying to juggle a star

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Speaker 7: studed team of egos while dealing with the distraction of

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Speaker 7: a gambling scalnd with prize Japanese Sluggers show Hey Otani's interpreter.

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Speaker 7: Everyone already has the Dodgers penciled in for the World

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Speaker 7: Series after getting swept three to Zho in the first

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Speaker 7: round of the playoffs last season, the fans are restless

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Speaker 7: and the heat is off for Robbers to manage all

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Speaker 7: of that talent and get them to the Promised Land,

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Speaker 7: or he might be gone no matter how much Magic

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Speaker 7: Johnson loves him.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket Protector Centro. The analytic numbers

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Speaker 1: you need to know?

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is

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Speaker 2: his game.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for me, Anthony?

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Speaker 8: The promise of another MLB season is upon us, and

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Speaker 8: with it some very interesting storylines to look for in

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Speaker 8: the upcoming campaign. The biggest story coming out of LA

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Speaker 8: at least on the field at this point is Shoho

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Speaker 8: Tani's record seven hundred million dollars deal with the Dodgers,

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Speaker 8: making him the face of LA last year's ale run,

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Speaker 8: King is looking to become just the second player to

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Speaker 8: win MVP in both leagues, joining Frank Robinson. That Dodgers

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Speaker 8: lineup post three former MVPs at the top of the order,

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Speaker 8: becoming the first team to claim that since the nineteen

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Speaker 8: eighty three Phillies with Rose, Morgan and Schmidt. The Yankees

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Speaker 8: missed the playoffs for the first time since twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 8: suffering through their worst season since nineteen ninety two. They

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Speaker 8: acquired three time All Star Juan Soto to help an

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Speaker 8: offense that only had a better team average than Oakland

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Speaker 8: in the AL. Soto is the first player to ever

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Speaker 8: make three All Star teams and get traded twice before

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Speaker 8: turning twenty six. Now with the rule changes last year,

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Speaker 8: stolen bases were up in a big way, with a

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Speaker 8: league cracking a thirty five hundred stolen base benchmark for

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Speaker 8: the first time since nineteen eighty seven and only the

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Speaker 8: fourth time in the modern era. While the average time

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Speaker 8: of game of two forty two was the lowest for

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Speaker 8: a season since nineteen eighty four. Now can the Rangers

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Speaker 8: become the first team to repeat since the ninety eight

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Speaker 8: two thousand Yankees. Twenty twenty four has a lot to

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Speaker 8: tell us.

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Speaker 1: Really turn money into more money. Now it's time for

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Speaker 1: betting on the basis with Dave Gascott.

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Speaker 4: Love that money, Love that money.

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Speaker 9: Rob, what's up man? And I'm happy to return a

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Speaker 9: new season of Major League Baseballs upon us. And we

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Speaker 9: got all kinds of drama, especially out west in Los

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Speaker 9: Angeles with the Dodgers and Showhyo Tani. So that'll start

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Speaker 9: the festivities off. Shoho Tani, Bobby Millary versus Zach Thompson

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Speaker 9: the St. Louis Cardinals. This game is gonna be on

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Speaker 9: Apple TVA ten ten Eastern, seven to ten Pacific in

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Speaker 9: La So I think the Dodgers in game number one.

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Speaker 9: Joe Muskrove had a strong couple seasons with San Diego.

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Speaker 9: No more Blake Snell, so it could be musk Grove's

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Speaker 9: show to own Padres and Giants from San Diego. I'm

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Speaker 9: gonna take the Friars in that contest as well Astros

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Speaker 9: and Yankees. This should be a lot of fun, especially

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Speaker 9: given the dynamics of these two teams of the last

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Speaker 9: handful of seasons, Yankee is trying to get over the

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Speaker 9: top of the American League East this year. Christian Javier

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Speaker 9: would be going for the Astros. I'm gonna take Houston.

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Speaker 9: So it's all three home teams to open things up.

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Speaker 1: Now, bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better

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Speaker 1: than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.

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Speaker 2: Reason number one thousand and fifty five why Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NBA the NFL.

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Speaker 3: It's Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: Nobody celebrates Opening Day better than baseball. And you know

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Speaker 2: what it brings back memories of opening days growing up

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Speaker 2: as a kid in New York, going to Shape Stadium

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Speaker 2: and Opening Day meant the world to me. So much

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Speaker 2: of my love for baseball started at an early age,

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Speaker 2: and my family knew how much I loved baseball, even

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Speaker 2: my mom, who was a stickler for school and about

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Speaker 2: getting your work done. But I was in junior high school.

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Speaker 2: My mom used to write a fake doctor's note for

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Speaker 2: me so that I could leave school early so that

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Speaker 2: I could get home to watch the Mets on Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: I had to see the first pitch of the season

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Speaker 2: on TV. I couldn't come home in the third or

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Speaker 2: fourth inning. I had to see it from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: And back then I was a Mets fan. I wasn't

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Speaker 2: a reporter.

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Speaker 3: I was a fan.

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

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Speaker 2: back to college nineteen eighty three. I was a student

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Speaker 2: at Southern Connecticut State University.

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Speaker 3: Me and my three buddies. We hopped in the car.

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Speaker 3: We barely had money for tickets, but we had to

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Speaker 3: see Tom sever return to the Mets.

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Speaker 2: We drove from New Haven, Connecticut, and I can remember

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Speaker 2: standing up in our seats in the bleachers and watching

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Speaker 2: Tom sever walk from the bull pen and to the mound.

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Speaker 3: What a moment it was.

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Speaker 1: Step right up.

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Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 2: next time.

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Speaker 3: Rob Parker out, he can't give it. This could be

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Speaker 3: an inside of Parker.

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Speaker 4: See you next week, same bat time, same Matt's station.