Inside the Parker - Author Ken Davidoff on '101 Lessons from the Dugout', MLB's Looming Lockout, Baseball in New York & More!
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s offseason edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob is joined by longtime MLB writer and author Ken Davidoff for a lengthy baseball conversation. During the interview, Davidoff discusses his new book (101 Lessons From The Dugout), the likelihood that we see work stoppage at the end of the upcoming season, why so MLB owners seem hell-bent on instituting a salary cap, what it's going to take for the New York Mets to turn their high-priced roster into actual winners, why the New York Yankees had such a quiet offseason, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | From the Berkshires to the sound. |
| 0:08.1 | From wherever you live in MLB, America, this is Inside the Parker. |
| 0:13.1 | You give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the scoop on Major League Baseball. |
| 0:17.1 | Now, here's Baseball Hall of Fame voter number 57. |
| 0:22.3 | Rob Parker. |
| 0:24.3 | Come on. |
| 0:25.4 | I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost 40 years now. |
| 0:29.3 | In New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit, in L.A. |
| 0:34.4 | I love this game. |
| 0:36.5 | Let's go.A. I love this game. Let's go. Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, |
| 0:43.7 | and yes, we have a spring training edition of Inside the Parker. And, man, Ken Davidoff, |
| 0:51.8 | the former New York Post Newsday baseball columnist and author has a new book. |
| 0:59.4 | And he's going to talk all about his new book. |
| 1:02.3 | We'll also talk about the pending CBA situation in Major League Baseball. |
| 1:08.7 | He's based in New York, of course. |
| 1:10.6 | We'll talk about the Mets and the |
| 1:12.2 | Yankees. What are expectations for both of those teams? So we'll do that and much more. |
| 1:18.1 | Let's go. When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto. If I'm writing, I'm ripping. |
| 1:25.9 | Let's bring in a writer or broadcaster, old or new. |
| 1:29.7 | Now let's welcome it to the podcast, one of my favorite baseball writers, friend of mine, of course, Ken Davidoff. |
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