Inside the Parker - MLB Season Recap with Sportico senior MLB writer Barry Bloom
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob is joined by Sportico senior MLB writer Barry Bloom as the guys put a bow on the 2025 Major League Baseball season. During the conversation, Parker and Bloom tell us what went wrong for the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series, if the Los Angeles Dodgers should be viewed as a dynasty, how guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens can sneak into the Hall of Fame 'through the backdoor', and much more! Finally, Rob hits us with his latest appearance on MLB Network.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | From the Berkshires to the sound. |
| 0:08.2 | From wherever you live in MLB America, this is Inside the Parker. |
| 0:13.2 | You give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the scoop on Major League Baseball. |
| 0:17.2 | Now, here's Baseball Hall of Fame voter number 57. |
| 0:22.4 | Rob Parker. Come on. I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost 40 years now. |
| 0:29.4 | In New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit, in L.A. I love this game. Let's go. Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and what a show |
| 0:44.2 | we have for you today. Barry Bloom, the senior writer for Sportico.com. And we will have a deep |
| 0:53.4 | dive on the World Series. Also, Hall of Fame talk, |
| 0:58.0 | as that's going to approach how the health of Major League Baseball, where it is in 2025, |
| 1:04.3 | that and much more. Let's go. |
| 1:08.9 | When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto. |
| 1:13.2 | If I'm writing, I'm ripping. |
| 1:15.5 | Let's bring in a writer or broadcaster, old or new. |
| 1:19.1 | Now let's welcome into the podcast, Barry Bloom, senior writer for Sportico, better than that. |
| 1:25.8 | One of my longtime friends, brother in from the baseball writers. |
| 1:30.0 | Barry, how are you, my man? |
| 1:32.3 | I'm doing great, kind of like trying to recover from covering the World Series, |
| 1:37.4 | but I've been busy every day. |
| 1:39.5 | So, you know, baseball off-season goes into the baseball season. |
| 1:44.7 | No doubt. |
| 1:54.0 | And we should say with the closure of this World 25 World Series, that's 50-50 years in the books covering Major League Baseball, man, next year will be my 40th, but my God, 50 years covering the national pastime. |
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