Taking My Mom To Her First Baseball Game & My Camera Broke - Summer Night Florida / First Row Seats
My Moms First MLB Game
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of his TGIF. It is Friday,
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August 1st, 2025. And I'm wearing an
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appropriate cap and jersey cuz I'm
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heading over to see the Rays take on the
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Los Angeles Dodgers Steinbrerfield in
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Tampa. An extra
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special moment for today that I'm even
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more excited about is the fact that I
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get to go with my mom. Going to pick her
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up. She's been following the Rays all
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season. I have a few streaming
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platforms, MLB app, Fubo,
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FanDuel Sports Network out of all those.
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That way I don't have any blackout, you
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know, areas for watching the Rays. And I
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connected it to my parents' TV and they
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have been watching almost every game. My
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mom would call me and go, "Oh, the Rays
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aren't doing too good. The Rays are
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doing really good. Did you see the game
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last night? Did you see this?" So, when
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I asked her if she wanted to go to the
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game today, she was all in. It's going
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to be a good time. I'm inviting you to
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join me, shall you? And they were on a
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hot streak a couple months ago, but
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July, thankfully, July has come and gone
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because it was not the best month for
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the Rays. In fact, also, you'll see it's
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only it's only 10:50 right now. So, I'm
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going to head down to their place about
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40. They're about 45 minutes south of
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me. Well, yeah, about 45 minutes south.
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pick them up, hang out with my mom and
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dad, and then my mom and I
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are going to go on a journey down I4
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westbound.
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But you can see right now, according to
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this, there are been 110 games played.
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There's 162 games in the regular season.
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I think they're three and a half games
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back in the wild card, 10 games back in
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the AL East. So, it's still pretty much
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the AL East is kind of up for grabs as
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far as the wild card spot. So, I'm not
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counting them out. the trade deadline
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yesterday. Just have a little baseball
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talk. The trade deadline ended yesterday
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at 600 p.m. Florida time. And I think
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they really kept some good players. They
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kept Yandi Diaz. They kept Brandon
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Laauo. They kept Pete Fairbanks. They
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weren't really in a selling mood, which
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strikes me as the fact that Eric
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Neander, the GM, and Kevin Cash, the
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manager, are really wanting to make that
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postseason push. All right, enough
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nerdery. I got to get going. All right,
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I stand corrected. They're four games
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back in the wild card, but still 110
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games played. There's still 52 games to
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go.
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So, got some catching up to do. Also,
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it's just my mom and I today only had
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two tickets. My dad's going to be
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watching us on TV. We have pretty good
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seats, so hopefully he'll be able to
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wave wave at us and we can wave at him
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from our from our seats. We're sitting
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right behind Ray's dugout first row. At
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least I think that's the tickets I
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bought.
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All
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right, getting a little gas here at
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7-Eleven,
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294 a gallon currently to Celebration,
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Florida. We're heading to I4 westbound.
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Need to fuel up for the commute.
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Didn't need much. Only needed four
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gallons, but wanted to top it off.
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We've now made the commute. Arrived at
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Steinbrunner Field.
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There's my mom all ready to go.
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>> Yep.
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>> Got your shirt on?
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>> Got my Tampa Ray shirt and put your hat
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on. Yeah, we got to win.
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>> Have you ever been to a major league
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baseball game, a regular season major
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league baseball game before?
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>> No, I have not.
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>> My first time.
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>> We did go to some spring training games,
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I think, once.
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>> Never. Never. MLB
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>> in CMI.
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That's when who used to be train who
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train who trained there?
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>> The Houston Astros used to spring train
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there. I think we went to a I think we
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went to a spring training game in
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Rocklage once too for the
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>> my brother
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>> the national Washington nationals once.
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>> My two brothers and I in my family.
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>> Your first big league game seeing the
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Rays and you know all the players now.
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>> I do since I've been watching the games.
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I know you like them.
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>> Still got about a half hour till the
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gates open. First pitch 7 o'clock,
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7:05ish,
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>> 90 minutes prior I believe is when they
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open the gates. Couple guys over here
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getting a little
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BP in
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>> This is it, Mom. This is the game. What
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do you think?
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>> You're kidding.
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>> No, this is it.
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This is about the game.
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>> Just kidding. I'm just messing with your
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mama.
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>> I've seen the stadium on TV cuz it
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looked like this.
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>> You going to heckle the other team? You
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going to heckle the Dodgers?
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>> No, not that way.
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>> Not a heckler.
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>> I came with dad to a game over two years
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ago.
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>> Tropicana Field. Now it's your turn.
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>> My turn.
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>> Dad's sitting this one out. He's going
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to be watching us on TV.
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>> We told him we would wave.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Of course, we're not know we don't know
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when we're going to be on camera,
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though.
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>> I told him to be be looking for us,
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>> but if you don't, that's okay, too.
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>> That's one way to beat the heat.
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>> Oh, wonderful. I'm spoiled. Air
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conditioning.
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>> Thankfully, it's a night game.
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>> This is what we used when I was growing
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up. We had no air conditioning. We had
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fans.
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>> It's a good size fan,
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>> but not like this. Bible. There was box
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We didn't have ceiling fans today.
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You can always tell when you're getting
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old, but you don't always remember what
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it used to be.
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>> The good old days.
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>> Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
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Marilyn Monroe to Joe Deaggio.
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>> I do know that. Yeah.
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>> You know who Babe Ruth is, right?
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>> Probably the most famous baseball player
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ever. Mickey Manel.
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>> I've seen several movies with him in it.
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>> What was that one that
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>> we played in
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that ball game movie?
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>> The natural. Yeah. Was he in that movie?
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>> No. There was a guy that was supposed to
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like emulate him. He wasn't really
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supposed to be Babe Ruth, but they were
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kind of making it seem like he was Babe
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Ruth, but
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>> he was Babe Ruth had was on this train,
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>> right?
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>> That was the natural, but it was they
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never said it was Babe Ruth, but they
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called him the Whammer,
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>> which they never said it was supposed to
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be Babe Ruth. I think that's who they
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were alluding to. and Mickey Manel. So,
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you used to live in a town where Mickey
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Manel was from. Do you remember that?
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>> Commerce, Oklahoma.
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>> But they don't say nothing about it on
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there.
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Yeah. Before the gates open, got a
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little photo here of me and mama
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both wearing appropriate t-shirts.
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Well, jersey andor t-shirts and hats.
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Going into George M. Steinbrerfield, the
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Yankees facility that the Rays are
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renting this year and maybe next year.
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They say they're not going to rent it
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next year, but I have a feeling feel
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like the Rays are going to be in here
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again next year, but who what do I know?
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All right, a couple more minutes till
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the gates open. It is
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89°
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53.
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Sun sets at 8:19.
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86°.
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Thankfully, there's some cloud cover,
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but it's still humid.
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Classic
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car alert. Look at that.
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>> All right, mom went ahead and went to
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our seats. I ended up getting us some
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water. She wanted some chicken tenders
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and I went with some nacho. She's
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holding down the fort behind the raised
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dugout, but getting some fries, chicken
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tenders, and a little nachos and a
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glove. Heading back down. I also ended
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up getting us a couple bags of peanuts.
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There's Raymond [clears throat] right
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there. We're in a City Connect jersey
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right there. City Connect night on
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Friday nights at the home field of
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Steinbrerfield this evening for the
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race.
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Keep
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>> bats and then a tani
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at Steinbrunner. 11,000 capacity. That's
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it.
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>> Is on first. They walked him or they was
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a full count and they walked him.
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Double Freeman.
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It's pretty cool. Clayton Kershaw on the
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mound too for the Dodgers. See Tonnie
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Kershaw Freeman
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>> and the race.
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>> Here we go.
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>> Thanks.
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Tonnie is back up. I want to grab a
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pizza. Small personal pan.
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>> Oh, it feels good out now. It was like
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super humid earlier.
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I
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>> think Otani's bat went farther than the
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ball did. Did you see that?
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>> I did.
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>> Hit the ball and both the ball and the
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bat went right towards Diaz.
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>> Both of them were going flying through
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the air.
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>> I think it's finally starting to cool
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down now.
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>> Peanut time.
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>> Peanuts. Peanuts at the Walgreens.
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>> America's number one peanut in a shell.
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>> Yep. Going to make a mess in the floor.
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>> There's nowhere else to put them.
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>> I know.
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>> Unless you want to spit them onto the
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field.
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>> No.
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>> There you go. There you go. Taste it.
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My camera is acting up big time.
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>> How's your peanuts?
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>> Salty.
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>> Not going well for the Rays right now.
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Dodgers are up four to zero.
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And last night, Jonathan Aronda, first
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baseman, placed on the IIEL for next 10
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days.
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He's watching the game, but he's not
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playing tonight.
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Freddy Freeman home run
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right field. Crushed it.
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Solo home run.
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There's Raymond. Seventh inning stretch
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time. Raymond's [music] pointing over
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here.
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You did it. [laughter]
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>> [music]
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>> Yes.
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>> That's hilarious.
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>> Mom just had a moment with seventh
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inning stretch with Raymond. Raymond
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called her up on the told us my mom's
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first game and Raymond called her up on
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the dugout during seventh inning
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stretch. It was breaking. Raymond was
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breaking it down and my mom was dancing
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it up on the the dugout. It was amazing.
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It's the best seventh inning stretch
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ever. I mean, the Rays are down five to
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zero, but that was a moment I'll never
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thought of you were humid and hot
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before. Now you worked up a sweat.
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Good thing about hats, you can use them
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as fans.
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>> It's pretty warm out here.
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>> The humidity level is out there.
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>> I don't know.
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Pretty bad.
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>> Well, you were dancing up a storm, so
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yeah, you're sweating.
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>> Yeah. Yeah.
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I don't usually do that.
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>> What?
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>> I don't usually do that.
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>> You don't You usually go dancing on off
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of a dugout. No, I love special about
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something like that.
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>> You mean the mascot?
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>> It's Raven.
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>> DJ Hidd is not here tonight, though.
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>> Usually there's two mascots. See, when
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you watch TV, you hardly ever see the
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mascots.
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>> Yes, I do.
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>> You see them? Okay. So, you see the cat?
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>> Yeah, I've seen them. And they're on
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commercials, too. The furniture company.
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They go jump on a bed and they go slide
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down.
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>> think my camera is officially messed up.
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So,
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the heat has gotten to it. Or maybe the
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race not pulling it together tonight has
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gotten to it.
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>> We go to Dairy Queen.
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>> Oh.
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>> Oh. Oh, that's it. Game's over. Yeah, I
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remember. Dairy Queen ice cream.
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>> Small. It was small.
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>> Making the exit now.
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And now
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>> mass accident.
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>> All right. Out of that. Now drive back.
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Celebration.
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I don't know what that is.
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>> That thing.
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>> What'd you think of your first game?
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>> I loved it.
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>> Had a good time.
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>> It was good. A
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>> little bit different than watching on
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TV, right?
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>> Yeah, it is. Yep.
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Well, the next time we go to a game,
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they'll win.
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>> I hope so.
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>> Can't win them all. All right, that's
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going to do it for today. Thanks for
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watching. Oh, it's weird. My camera's
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not doing that now. Maybe it was, you
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know, it's weird.
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My camera was like being all weird and
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screwy in the Oh, there it goes. Now
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it's doing Okay, get still messed up.
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I'll work on that tomorrow. Thanks for
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watching. I'll see you in the next
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video. The vlog.
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Raise loose again. What can you do? I'm
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used to it. The vlog. is over.