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Now here's Baseball Hall of

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Fame voter number seventy Rob

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Parker.

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Welcome into another edition of

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Inside the Parker and Yes Opening

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Day, the first podcast

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of the new season.

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Twenty twenty four.

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Former Major League picture Mark

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Moulder will stop by.

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Also JR.

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Gamble's back, Anthony Masterson's

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back, David Gascon's back.

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All that and more.

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Let's go.

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Better up to lead off, it's getting.

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Robbed and keep them on.

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Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories

0:54

in Major League Baseball.

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Number one, We can't start

0:59

this League Baseball season without

1:01

talking about the show Hail Tani gambling

1:05

scandal with his interpreter is just

1:07

impossible to ignore.

1:09

Is too big and we know that.

1:12

On Tuesday

1:14

show, Hey issued a statement finally

1:18

talking about it, claim that he

1:20

has never bet on any sport, forget

1:22

about baseball. He's never bet on any sport,

1:25

and he sticks to the claim that basically

1:27

he was robbed by his long

1:30

term, longtime friend trainer

1:33

interpreter, and that is

1:36

what happened and why four

1:38

point five million dollars were sent to a illegal

1:41

bookie in California. So

1:43

he's saying that he's done nothing wrong.

1:46

He's the victim in this. And the

1:48

one thing I will say, there's a lot of stuff that's still

1:50

fishy. How someone can get

1:52

into your bank account and send four

1:55

and a half million dollars and not all at

1:57

once and payments, you know,

1:59

so the bank never alerted

2:02

him to find out why so much money was going

2:04

out. That sounds strange to me that

2:07

he had no idea that four point five

2:09

million dollars was disappearing. And

2:11

let's not forget we know he signed

2:13

a seven hundred million dollar contract.

2:14

But he ain't got that money yet.

2:16

So it's hard for me to believe that he

2:19

didn't know this year for the Dodgers's only gonna make

2:21

two million dollars. And I know he has

2:23

money, but man, four

2:25

point five million disappear and you have no idea.

2:29

So this will all come out in the wash. The big

2:31

story.

2:33

Is that he's not attached to baseball

2:35

gambling, because that's the death wish,

2:38

the death warrant, that's the bad part.

2:41

We saw an icon and Pete Rose

2:43

have his legacy and his chance

2:46

that the Hall of Fame destroyed. And

2:48

if any way, anyhow Show

2:50

Hayes's name is attached to that, it'll be bad

2:52

news, bad news for baseball, bad

2:55

news for the Dodgers, and bad news

2:57

for show Heal time. But a man is

2:59

innocent unto approve guilty. So we're

3:01

gonna watch this guy play. We'll

3:03

let the investigations, uh go

3:07

through the protocol and the procedures,

3:10

and then we'll find out more. So until

3:12

then, I'm gonna watch jo Hey. I'm gonna

3:14

enjoy him until I hear different. You

3:17

should too.

3:18

Number two of all.

3:20

The players I want to take a look at

3:23

and zero in this season, it's

3:26

not Yamamoto. Came over from

3:29

Japan three hundred and twenty five million

3:31

dollars, the biggest contract for a pitcher.

3:34

He's not the guy I want to look at, even.

3:36

Though I'm interested to see how

3:38

he pitches after he was bombed in his first

3:40

start in the big leagues in Soul

3:42

Korea against the Padres.

3:45

It is Juan Soto.

3:47

Juan Soto, who is finally coming

3:50

up to his contract year. He's

3:52

now gonna play for the New York Yankees.

3:55

He's on a big stage, he's

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in a new ballpark. I mean, he went to the

4:00

Padres for about a year and a half. He

4:02

made the All Star team last year, but I still

4:04

wasn't that impressed. It didn't seem like the same Wan

4:07

Soto who helped the Washington

4:09

Nationals win a World Series and

4:11

was offered four hundred and

4:13

forty million dollars. That's right, a

4:16

half a billion dollars practically

4:19

that he turned down.

4:21

So what's gonna happen here? Will

4:24

he will? Playing in the Bronx,

4:27

playing.

4:28

For an organization that plays big games

4:30

every night and everything matters, and

4:32

a crowd and fan base that doesn't

4:36

just cheer its players if things aren't going

4:38

well, or does he excel. I've heard

4:41

some people predict he's gonna win the American League

4:43

MVP playing in the Bronx and at Yankee

4:45

Stadium, and boy would have payday

4:47

o B.

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I'm gonna stand by this.

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I do not believe, even

4:53

with an MVP year, even with

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a really good year, that

4:57

he makes over five hundred million dollars.

5:00

I'm still not convinced of that. I

5:02

know he's a young player.

5:05

I know he's talented, but

5:08

I would be shocked if

5:10

he went from turning down four hundred and

5:12

forty million to making five

5:14

or six hundred million.

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Number three, Oh.

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You're looking for a baseball hot take.

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Yeah, I had one on

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MLB Now with Brian Kenny on

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the MLB Network, and I'm

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delivering it to you here. The

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Texas Rangers and

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the Arizona Diamondbacks will

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not not

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make the playoffs.

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I know, yes, both win

5:41

the World Series. The Rangers won the World Series.

5:43

Rob Hello, is this on? What are

5:45

you talking about? It's

5:48

funny. Bruce Bochi's won three World Series

5:51

with.

5:51

The Giants, and guess what every year after

5:53

his team didn't make the playoffs.

5:56

Here's the problem I also have with the Rangers.

6:00

No Montgomery, who was big for them

6:02

on the mound shures

6:04

are starting the season hurt, and

6:07

they didn't do anything in the offseason. They

6:09

already had a big payroll, They

6:12

already paid their players,

6:14

so they didn't upgrade. You can't

6:17

come back basically with the same team and expect

6:19

the same results. And that division

6:22

is a tough division in the Al West. I'm

6:25

gonna go against the Rangers for

6:27

repeating not only repeating

6:29

as a World Series champ, but even making the playoffs.

6:32

And then the eighty four win Arizona

6:35

Diamondbacks where everything worked out for them

6:37

last year.

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Same here.

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They made a couple of moves, they got a starting pitcher,

6:42

they added a little home run bop to

6:45

their lineup. It ain't gonna be enough.

6:47

That was an eighty four win team last

6:49

year, and it was held

6:51

together with popsicle sticks, tape

6:54

glue, whatever, bubble gum. It's

6:57

gonna come undone this year. I'm

6:59

not buying that they're

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going to make a playoff run.

7:02

And here we go.

7:04

Remember last year, the Padres didn't make

7:06

the playoffs in the NL, and neither did

7:08

the San Francisco Giants. Those

7:11

two teams are better than

7:13

the Arizona Diamondbacks, and

7:15

they will be able to knock the Diamondbacks

7:18

one of those two teams out of the playoffs.

7:20

So there you go, number four,

7:23

And here's a bonus, last

7:25

but not least, my World Series pick.

7:28

Wake the kids, call the neighbors. I

7:30

know you're gonna say, Rob, this is lazy, But

7:32

it's lazy. I'm gonna go back to a

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rematch of the nineteen eighty one

7:36

World Series. Yes, producer

7:39

Rob g wasn't born nineteen eighty

7:41

one, the

7:43

Dodgers against the New York

7:45

Yankees. The

7:48

twenty twenty four season started tumultuously

7:51

with the Oh Show, Hey Betting

7:53

scandal, and it will end on a high

7:56

note with the two biggest markets. The

7:58

two story franchise is playing

8:01

finally in the World Series, and they'll

8:03

be record breaking TV

8:05

waitings for baseball. The

8:08

Yankees will beat the Dodgers

8:11

in six games.

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You heard it right here on Inside

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the Park.

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Here comes the big interviews. Listen

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and learn.

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It's so good.

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All right, Now, let's welcome in former Major

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League All Star Mark Moulder,

8:27

who of course was a two time All Star AL

8:30

wins leader in two thousand and one and

8:33

made a name for himself with the Oakland

8:35

A's welcome into the podcast.

8:37

How are you Mark?

8:38

I'm doing great?

8:39

How are you?

8:40

I'm doing wonderful.

8:41

We're gonna talk some baseball, the start

8:43

of the season and all that stuff, but

8:45

first I want to, you know, talk

8:48

about your golf outing.

8:49

And it's the third Annual.

8:51

Invited Celebrity Classic, which is coming

8:54

up April nineteen through the twenty first

8:58

in Irving Texas. Can you talk about out

9:00

the event because I know it features seventy

9:02

eight PGA Tour champions

9:05

and forty sports and entertainment stars.

9:07

It's a star started list.

9:10

Yeah it is. It's a lot of

9:12

fun, man. It allows us

9:14

ex athletes, Hollywood people, whatever.

9:16

It allows us to compete, you

9:18

know, and.

9:19

We get to compete right along in the same

9:21

group with the Champions Tour guys. So you

9:23

know, a lot of these Champions Tour guys are the ones

9:25

that I watched. I can't say as a kid

9:27

because some of them are only maybe four

9:30

or five years older than me, but some of

9:32

them are fifteen. So you know, I

9:35

grew up watching a lot of these guys play, and you

9:37

know, to be able to play in the same group and

9:40

form friendships with a lot of them over the years

9:43

makes for a really good time.

9:44

It's at Las Colinas Country Club. It's

9:47

entry is free.

9:49

We draw some really good crowds for

9:51

the three day tournament and even the pro am

9:53

rounds, which are a couple of days earlier on

9:55

that Wednesday and Thursday prior to the tournament starting.

9:58

But you know, just

10:00

playing along these guys is a

10:02

lot of fun because you just don't. A lot of people don't

10:04

realize. I mean, I get it, they're Champions

10:06

Tour guys are older, but man, they can flat

10:08

out golf their ball. And you

10:11

know, people have said to me like, I can play a

10:13

little bit, and they're like, Mark, you're gonna try the Champions

10:15

Tour when you get older or get old enough.

10:18

And I always laugh at it and say, yeah, if they

10:20

if they want me to come play a tournament,

10:22

you know, something like that, I'd love to. But he

10:26

is, man, you have no chance of beating

10:28

most of these guys, and

10:30

the talent is just off the

10:32

charts.

10:33

I was looking at the name of some of

10:35

the guys who are going to be there. Pretty impressive, you,

10:38

Smolty. We know what a golfer he is. Greg

10:41

Maddix, Tony Romo, we always

10:44

hear about his golf ability, Albert

10:46

pool Hools, Brian Urlacker, the Hall

10:48

of Fame of Pudge Rodriguez. It's a pretty impressive

10:51

list. Who's the best out of those guys

10:53

I just named?

10:54

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

10:57

I get that I'm kidding,

10:59

But the reality is is, you know, whether

11:01

it's myself, Tony Smoltz,

11:06

Marty Fish. There's a handful of us.

11:09

A lot of the guys, you know, they're

11:11

there for fun. There's a handful of us who

11:13

are really there to to try

11:16

to win the event, to

11:18

win the tournament. Everybody's gonna, you

11:20

know, do their best to win it. But there's a

11:22

small handful of us. I believe

11:25

Anika is playing again. She'll

11:27

obviously be up there. It's it's awesome

11:29

playing with her, obviously, but it's

11:33

uh, you know it.

11:35

We can all play a little bit.

11:37

It's just kind of who kind of makes more putts

11:39

because we're on a different format the Champions

11:41

Tour guys they're playing score. We just

11:43

do a stableford, so it's all based off points,

11:45

so you know, the more more birdies

11:47

you make, the more points you get. So for

11:50

us it becomes a little bit of a bit of a putting

11:52

contest and who's gonna put the best generally wins.

11:55

Yeah, lay It sounds like it's a good

11:57

time and for people who want

11:59

to check it out, they can get free tickets,

12:01

which is pretty incredible to come by and

12:04

watch these guys play. So you can

12:06

get free tickets. Fans can register at

12:09

www. Dot invited

12:11

celebrities. Celebrity Classic

12:14

dot Com invited Celebrityclassic

12:17

dot Com. All right, Mark, let let's

12:20

talk about the start of the twenty twenty four

12:22

baseball season.

12:23

Which started in Soul,

12:26

South Korea.

12:28

Dodgers and Padres going at it, and

12:32

boy after the first game which

12:34

the Dodgers came back and won, with Showhy's

12:36

debut with the Dodgers, a bomb show of baseball

12:39

with a whole gambling scandal with his

12:42

interpreter and four

12:44

point five million dollars and all this sos

12:46

A lot of stuff that's still coming out in facts and

12:48

all that. But just Mark,

12:52

since all sports have really got in

12:54

bed with the gambling houses in

12:56

Vegas and odds makers, this

12:58

is something that I think we're gonna see more and more

13:00

where people get caught up in the

13:02

gambling aspect of sports.

13:05

Well, I think, just like anything in this world,

13:08

everything has become easier for everybody.

13:10

So you just put I mean what you just put

13:12

an app on your phone now, and you

13:14

know the thing that's weird to me, and

13:18

since it's happened, I

13:20

just.

13:20

Find it a little ironic.

13:22

You know, we've everywhere in the clubhouse,

13:25

every big League clubhouse, every

13:27

minor league clubhouse.

13:28

It's everywhere.

13:29

It's posted, do not gamble

13:32

on sports, do not gamble on baseball,

13:34

do not like it's up there right

13:36

in the clubhouse. Gambling is not allowed,

13:39

you know there, It's on every door of the clubhouse.

13:41

It's it's everywhere. All

13:44

these teams.

13:45

Now, I don't

13:47

know if you want to say in bed, but they have

13:49

deals, like you know, it's all over.

13:51

I would say in bed.

13:52

I mean, yeah, let's

13:54

let's let's face reality. Like you

13:57

you don't want anybody.

13:58

You the players aren't allowed to do it, which

14:00

I totally get why clearly,

14:02

But point is is that the teams are profiting

14:05

off of it. Teams have deals, they have sponsorship

14:08

deals, they have logos everywhere, they

14:10

have all this stuff. So why then

14:12

are people surprised when it does happen.

14:15

You know, it's just it's just become

14:18

too easy. It's become I

14:21

mean, you see it with a few golfers a couple

14:23

of years ago, got suspended for

14:27

just twenty bucks on something

14:29

in golf, right, and it didn't even

14:31

have anything.

14:32

To do with them, right, And we saw it in the

14:34

NFL.

14:34

Guys have already been suspended in the NFL

14:37

for betting on the NBA and

14:39

other stuff, you know what I mean. But still they're

14:41

doing it in the facility, which is against

14:43

rules. It's it's a murky water

14:46

and we don't know how this thing will play out, but

14:48

it just wasn't I'm sure what baseball

14:51

wanted for seven hundred dollar seven hundred

14:53

million dollar. Man, you know, right

14:55

out the gate that is talk of everything

14:57

other than baseball.

14:59

So that, yeah, you.

15:00

Just hope, Yeah, you just hope that he

15:03

I obviously I don't know what's

15:05

going on or anything. You just hope that something

15:08

doesn't happen where he was somewhat

15:10

involved in any of it, right

15:12

because that that would be that would clearly

15:16

not be good. So, uh, that's

15:18

something you hope baseball avoids. It's

15:20

a it's it's a bad start to the

15:22

season to have this come out

15:24

and happen when it did.

15:26

And also then the Dodgers got

15:28

a double whammy.

15:30

They're three hundred and twenty five million dollars

15:32

man Yama multi made his start

15:35

in Game two against the Padres

15:37

and a lot of pressure, three hundred and twenty five

15:39

million. He's gonna, you know, gonna

15:42

move into a he's gone a new country

15:44

and you know, learn all kinds of stuff, and

15:46

the first start, I'm sure there's pressure on him,

15:48

marks on and that kind of a deal. And

15:50

he got beat up by the Padres, couldn't get

15:53

out of the first inning. Four

15:55

hits, a walk, forty three

15:57

pitch inning. He already stands

15:59

at forty five point zero zero

16:02

and these kind of things happen, and

16:04

he allowed uh yeah, five

16:06

runs in the one inning that he did pitch. I should

16:09

say, so, yeah, what do you make of a

16:11

start like that, that that can happen?

16:13

Kennett?

16:14

Yeah, you just this is one of those

16:16

you you forget about it as a pitcher,

16:19

you forget about it and you move on. I get

16:21

it.

16:21

It's this first start.

16:22

You almost have to treat him and look at

16:24

this a little bit like a rookie, like a top

16:27

prospect.

16:27

I totally understand he's not.

16:29

He has experience, but he doesn't have Major

16:32

League Baseball experience, and you

16:34

know, it's it's I

16:36

can't imagine what it would be like to

16:38

have that amount of pressure coming to a new

16:40

country, getting that amount of money,

16:43

Like say, if I went and played overseas back in

16:45

the day and had some huge deal that

16:47

that can happen to anybody. So give

16:50

him a little bit of time. Obviously he has

16:52

good stuff, he knows how to pitch. It's

16:54

just let's let's pump the brakes a little

16:56

bit. And I always say this to guys

16:59

who you know, the media,

17:01

the they want to crown

17:03

people the other It's

17:07

like, let's let's give this young guy

17:10

a few years and let's see what happens.

17:12

And I always go back to, oh,

17:15

shoot, Matt Harvey.

17:16

I always go.

17:17

Back to that, And and I was

17:19

doing TV at stuff at the time, and I got

17:21

so annoyed having to constantly

17:24

talk about him and make such a big deal

17:26

about him. It's like, let's give him a few

17:28

years. Let's let him, let's see what

17:30

happens. They want to crown these guys.

17:32

And it's the same thing now, you know, they want

17:35

to bash. They want to bash them for one bad

17:37

start. It's like, listen, this is the this

17:39

is the this is the this is a long

17:41

season. A lot of things are

17:43

going to go right for him because of his

17:46

talent. He's going to be just fine.

17:48

Every team is going to make adjustments to him.

17:51

Had he dealt in his first start just

17:54

like he's going to make adjustments now, and I'm

17:56

willing to guess he's going to be much better

17:58

in his next start.

18:00

Our guest is Mark Molder, former

18:02

Major league pitcher who of course broken with

18:04

the Oakland A's and two

18:07

time All Star. Mark

18:09

Uh, you know, it's funny you talk

18:11

about that crowning people. I remember having

18:13

a debate on MLB Network

18:16

about Ellie da la Cruz, who's a fantastic

18:18

young player, but people wanted

18:20

to send him to the All Star Game after the first

18:23

three weeks, you know, And I was like, dude,

18:25

you gotta pump the brakes. Let the guy play.

18:28

Let's let's let it play out and we'll see

18:30

how it happens. And he started

18:32

off great, and he really struggled the second

18:34

part of the season. But I think he'll be

18:36

a tremendous player. But I think we need to be

18:38

careful. Let's talk about the upcoming

18:40

season quickly. I

18:43

mean, how can you not pick want to pick the Dodgers

18:46

in the National League with the with the talent

18:48

they're loaded. I mean, imagine

18:51

a team where you pick up Sho Hail Tani,

18:53

but you also have Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman

18:56

just to name a couple. I mean, that has

18:58

to be some trio. They have to be the

19:00

favorites going into the season.

19:02

Yeah, I don't see how they can't be. I mean

19:04

just the line up up and down, the

19:07

names. But you know, I always

19:09

say this. You know it come

19:11

playoff time, we all know this.

19:13

It's not always the best team that wins. It's

19:15

the hottest team. So it's just

19:18

about getting to the playoffs. You saw

19:20

with the d Backs last year. The

19:25

thing I find interesting is, you know a lot of the

19:27

Dodgers what they're doing. The only thing about

19:29

the Dodgers that they do is I feel like they do a little

19:31

better job of putting together a

19:34

complete team. And I always

19:36

compare it to what the

19:39

late two thousands, you know, Yankees

19:41

went out They just, you know, are all of two thousands

19:43

Yankees wanted to go out and just buy everybody. You

19:46

know, the years that I was playing, and it didn't always

19:48

turn into what you

19:50

expected because you didn't have the right

19:52

mix of personalities. You know, sometimes

19:55

the personalities the clubhouse is way more

19:57

important than just the names, the big

19:59

names on the back of the jerseys. So you

20:02

can't just expect the Dodgers to go

20:04

out and just perform, although I

20:07

find it hard to believe that they won't. They

20:10

up and down their starters.

20:12

They're just that much better, I would

20:14

have to assume.

20:16

And one other guy I want to take a look

20:18

at is Juan Soto, who was

20:21

straighted from the Padres to the Yankees.

20:24

Here's a guy who turned down four

20:26

hundred almost a half a billion dollars four

20:28

hundred and sixty million dollars

20:30

from the Nationals, goes to San Diego,

20:33

has an okay couple of year

20:35

and a half there, you know, okay for him,

20:38

But how big of a year is this for him?

20:40

And how do you think his

20:43

game plays at Yankee Stadium?

20:46

Well, I mean, I think it plays

20:48

anywhere, but you know, when you have that

20:50

short porch. I mean not that I've

20:53

I don't watch a ton of

20:55

baseball, I guess since I quit doing TV

20:57

stuff handful of years ago.

20:59

But what I have seen

21:01

is how well he uses the whole field.

21:04

And you know, he kind of hits a lot of those

21:06

those top spin line drives

21:09

off the right field wall. Well guess what those

21:11

are all going out in Yankee Stadium? So

21:14

you know, I mean as short as that porch is

21:17

in right field and right center. You

21:20

know, you just don't want to see him because he goes the

21:22

other way so well that you don't

21:24

want to see him possibly get it all pull happy,

21:27

like what happens with some left handed

21:29

free agent guys that they've signed over

21:31

the last ten twenty years, just to where they

21:34

get a little bit happy trying to hit

21:36

it out to right field. But he's

21:38

just so talented and still so incredibly

21:41

young. I mean that's the biggest thing.

21:43

I mean, he's been in he's been in the big

21:45

leagues for quite a while, considering

21:47

how young he is so and obviously

21:50

had a lot of success, I have no

21:52

reason other than to believe he'd have a big year

21:54

this year for the Yankees.

21:56

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you.

21:58

You don't want to change your approach, you don't

22:00

want to try to jack the ball of right field.

22:02

Just just do what you do and enough

22:04

will go out normally. You know,

22:06

I agree with that. So again, Mark

22:09

Mulder, our guests, I want to tell people

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again it's the Invited Celebrity

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22:32

Mark always a pleasure. We appreciate you,

22:34

my man, and we'll talk to you soon.

22:35

All right, sounds good, Have a great day

22:38

that ball.

22:40

It was a big week in the Big leagues.

22:43

Who's a five?

22:45

Believe it?

22:48

Is it foul? Or is it fair?

22:50

And now from mlbdbro

22:53

dot com, here's jrgambo.

22:57

With all the fanfare surrounding the Dodgers

22:59

off season acquisitions and

23:01

the media pressure involved with a team

23:04

that's supposed to win, JR

23:07

is if foul or fair to

23:10

say that Dave Roberts has the most

23:12

pressure than any manager

23:14

entering the twenty twenty four season.

23:17

Fair It's a fair ball.

23:19

With the exception of the twenty twenty

23:21

COVID World Series, the Los Angeles

23:24

Dodgers have been the Buffalo Bills of

23:26

baseball since taking over in

23:28

twenty sixteen. Roberts

23:30

has won over one hundred games five

23:32

times and never lost more than seventy

23:34

one games in any season. He's

23:37

led the Dodgers to first place finishes

23:39

in the National League West Division every

23:41

season except twenty twenty

23:44

one, and they finished second that year.

23:46

He's been to three World Series and one

23:49

just one. The way they bowed

23:51

out last season was embarrassing,

23:53

and now he's trying to juggle a star studed

23:55

team of egos while dealing with

23:58

the distraction of a gambling scalnd

24:00

with prize Japanese Sluggers show Hey

24:02

Otani's interpreter. Everyone

24:05

already has the Dodgers penciled in

24:07

for the World Series after getting

24:09

swept three to Zho in the first round

24:12

of the playoffs last season, the

24:14

fans are restless and the heat is off

24:16

for Robbers to manage all of that talent

24:18

and get them to the Promised Land, or

24:21

he might be gone no

24:23

matter how much Magic Johnson

24:26

loves him.

24:29

It's time for the pocket Protector Centro.

24:32

The analytic numbers you need to know?

24:34

Well, maybe Anthony Masterson

24:37

is his name, BS

24:39

analytics is his game.

24:40

What do you got for me, Anthony?

24:42

The promise of another MLB season is

24:44

upon us, and with it some very interesting storylines

24:47

to look for in the upcoming campaign. The

24:49

biggest story coming out of LA at least

24:51

on the field at this point is Shoho

24:53

Tani's record seven hundred million dollars deal

24:56

with the Dodgers, making him the face of LA

24:59

last year's ale run, King is looking to become

25:01

just the second player to win MVP in both leagues,

25:03

joining Frank Robinson. That Dodgers

25:06

lineup post three former MVPs at the

25:08

top of the order, becoming the first team to claim

25:10

that since the nineteen eighty three Phillies

25:12

with Rose, Morgan and Schmidt.

25:15

The Yankees missed the playoffs for the first time since

25:17

twenty sixteen, suffering through their worst

25:19

season since nineteen ninety two. They

25:22

acquired three time All Star Juan Soto to help

25:24

an offense that only had a better team

25:26

average than Oakland in the AL.

25:29

Soto is the first player to ever make three All

25:31

Star teams and get traded twice

25:34

before turning twenty six. Now

25:36

with the rule changes last year, stolen

25:38

bases were up in a big way, with a league

25:40

cracking a thirty five hundred stolen base

25:42

benchmark for the first time since nineteen

25:44

eighty seven and only the fourth time

25:46

in the modern era. While the average time

25:48

of game of two forty two was the lowest

25:50

for a season since nineteen eighty four. Now

25:53

can the Rangers become the first team to repeat

25:55

since the ninety eight two thousand Yankees. Twenty

25:58

twenty four has a lot to tell us.

26:00

Really turn money into more

26:03

money. Now it's time for betting on the

26:05

basis with Dave Gascott.

26:07

Love that money, Love that money.

26:08

Rob, what's up man? And I'm happy to return

26:11

a new season of Major League Baseballs

26:13

upon us. And we got all kinds

26:15

of drama, especially out

26:17

west in Los Angeles with the Dodgers and

26:19

Showhyo Tani. So that'll start

26:21

the festivities off. Shoho Tani, Bobby

26:24

Millary versus Zach Thompson the St. Louis Cardinals.

26:26

This game is gonna be on Apple TVA ten ten

26:29

Eastern, seven to ten Pacific

26:31

in La So I think the Dodgers in game number

26:33

one. Joe Muskrove had a strong

26:36

couple seasons with San Diego. No

26:38

more Blake Snell, so it could be musk

26:41

Grove's show to own Padres

26:43

and Giants from San Diego. I'm gonna

26:45

take the Friars in that contest as

26:47

well Astros and Yankees.

26:50

This should be a lot of fun, especially given

26:52

the dynamics of these two teams of the last

26:54

handful of seasons, Yankee is trying

26:56

to get over the top of the American League East this year.

26:59

Christian Javier would be going for the Astros.

27:01

I'm gonna take Houston. So it's all three

27:03

home teams to open things up.

27:06

Now, bring in the closer.

27:10

Here's why MLB is better than the NFL

27:13

or NBA, and it isn't even

27:15

close.

27:18

Reason number one thousand and fifty

27:20

five why Major League Baseball is better than

27:22

the NBA the NFL.

27:23

It's Opening Day.

27:25

Nobody celebrates Opening Day better

27:28

than baseball. And you know what it

27:31

brings back memories of opening

27:34

days growing up as a kid in New York, going

27:37

to Shape Stadium and Opening

27:39

Day meant the world to me. So

27:44

much of my love

27:46

for baseball started

27:48

at an early age, and

27:50

my family knew how much I loved baseball,

27:53

even my mom, who was a stickler for

27:55

school and about getting your

27:57

work done. But I

28:00

was in junior high school. My mom used to write a

28:02

fake doctor's note for me so

28:04

that I could leave school early so

28:07

that I could get home to watch the Mets on

28:10

Opening Day. I had to see the first

28:12

pitch of the season on TV. I

28:14

couldn't come home in the third or

28:16

fourth inning. I had to see it

28:18

from the beginning. And back

28:21

then I was a Mets fan.

28:23

I wasn't a reporter.

28:26

I was a fan.

28:28

Opening Day that

28:30

stands out to me the most dates

28:33

back to college nineteen

28:35

eighty three. I was

28:37

a student at Southern Connecticut State University.

28:40

Me and my three buddies. We hopped in the car.

28:42

We barely had money for tickets,

28:45

but we had to see Tom sever return

28:47

to the Mets.

28:49

We drove from New Haven, Connecticut,

28:52

and I can remember standing up in our

28:54

seats in the bleachers

28:57

and watching Tom sever walk

28:59

from the bull pen and

29:01

to the mound.

29:02

What a moment it was.

29:07

Step right up.

29:17

In the words of New York TV legend

29:20

the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you

29:22

for your time this time until next time.

29:24

Rob Parker out, he can't

29:26

give it. This could be an inside of Parker.

29:29

See you next week, same bat time, same

29:31

Matt's station.