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Speaker 1: From the Berkshires 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 six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker, and what a show we

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Speaker 1: have for you today. Leading off, we'll talk with a

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Speaker 1: columns Bob Nightingale, let's go up to lead off. It's

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Speaker 1: getting rocked to keep him on. Rob's hot take on

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

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I am so bothered and so frustrated by

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Speaker 1: baseball today. I'm sorry, Dave Roberts I can't get on

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Speaker 1: board with what you did on Wednesday to Clayton Kershaw.

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Speaker 1: Kurtshall was pitching a perfect game through seven innings and

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Speaker 1: only thrown eighty pitches, and instead of giving this guy

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Speaker 1: who has accomplished so much in baseball a chance to

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Speaker 1: know he's been injury prone, but come on, eighty pitches.

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Speaker 1: Let him start the eighth inning. As soon as somebody

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Speaker 1: taking away a great moment in baseball. Potentially. You know

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Speaker 1: when the last perfect game was in the big leagues

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Speaker 1: ten years ago twelve, King Felix in Seattle for the Mariners.

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Speaker 1: Come on, we deserve to see Kershaw have a shot

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Speaker 1: at it. I'm bummed. Number two. On Tuesday, we saw

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Speaker 1: That's right, Alyssa Nakin took over the first base coaching

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Speaker 1: they're getting jobs as coaching. We have a woman GM

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Speaker 1: real neat all. The players where were number forty two

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Speaker 1: in honor of Jackie Robinson, who in nineteen forty six

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Speaker 1: You need to know, Well maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS,

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Speaker 1: The new collective bargaining agreement signed prior to the season

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Speaker 1: A L. E's Tampa Bay Rays off to a good start.

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Speaker 1: Bob Nightingale, one of the best baseball writers in the country,

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Hey Bob, thank you, yere my pleasure. Thank you, Rob.

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Speaker 1: thanking you for your time this time until next time.

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