Opening Day is Finally Here ! Tampa Bay Rays WIN - My Return To Tropicana Field / HomeRuns & Hotdogs
Opening Day MLB at Tropicana Field 2023
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oh yes it's good to be back as the
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recording of this Thursday
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March 30th 2023 baseball's opening day
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and I am returning to Tropicana Field
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home of the Tampa Bay Rays it is
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currently 12 25 first pitch is at 3 10.
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and there's already quite a few people
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over here tailgating I am excited it is
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good to be back at this Dome a cool
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crisp 72 degrees inside no chance of a
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rain delay I love Tropicana Field a lot
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of people don't like it but I I like it
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I think we're gonna do a little loop
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around the stadium just because it's
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going to be a little while before the
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gates open oh yeah
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welcome to Tropicana field
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oh man
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I mean spring training was fun with your
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spring training game that was cool but
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nothing like regular season baseball
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when it really matters you know spring
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training doesn't doesn't really matter
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this matters welcome everyone out of the
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Wu here wearing an appropriate hat and
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an appropriate
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pin
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with Raymond on there and also I am
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wearing a Hawaiian shirt and I'm doing
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this in honor of Dave Wills who passed
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away who was the voice of the race he
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was always known for wearing Hawaiian
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shirts and kind of in honor of him I'm
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wearing a Hawaiian shirt today because
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obviously he's not with us anymore and
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he always wear Hawaiian shirts
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I'm inviting you to join me on opening
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day there's going to be a group of five
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of us three of us are already here one
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of them being world of Micah who's
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soaking in the Rays raised before race
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raise before raise first time here first
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time a Tropicana Field yeah ever ever
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you never you went to spring training
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with us I did which was the Yankees
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spring training also exploring Ryan is
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also here you have your race cap uh I do
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it's hanging from my from your side
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there my side like a holster
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go who
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died yeah we'll see how that ends for
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you
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I like that guy and also
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Tampa Jay will be arriving and Amos
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Adventures Chris will also be arriving
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very very short there's a lot of tiger
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folk here as well you got ba barakas
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pulling by
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they don't doesn't have the stripe down
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there though
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all right I'm inviting you to join me
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for opening day
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of race baseball shall you all right
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this is definitely a proper tailgate go
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experience going on over here TB Rays
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Toronto Baltimore Red Sox and Yankees
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I love that nicely done oh it looks like
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somebody else is doing some filming out
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here we're gonna walk across the street
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to fergs which is always kind of a
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beehive of activity across the way over
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there and just see who's doing a little
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little pre-pre-gaming pre-partying for
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the first day of the opening you know
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the opening day the 2023 season
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you see what's going on over at first I
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definitely like the fact that so many
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people are over at first it's a cool
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little Vibe over here but I was not
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expecting this many people to be
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pre-gaming it just right across the
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street I mean basically you just run
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across the street from Tropicana Field
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and then once you once you're done over
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there you take either the tunnel in or
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you can just walk across we opted to
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just basically walk across over two
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gate number seven so in in the past
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regular season I don't know about
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opening day or the playoffs but regular
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season 90 minutes
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before that Gator opens over here and
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then two hours before the gate seven
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will open so I think I might actually go
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in there it's now 12 47 13 minutes give
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or take to one it's our first pitch is
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at 310 then these might open at 1 10.
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but I kind of so the gift shop is right
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over here
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the bay Republic store and I feel like
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if you go into the bar section over here
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that opens two hours before you can get
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in the shop first so I'm thinking if
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that's the case we'll go ahead and get
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in the other line not this long wait a
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second who Could It Be The One and Only
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cow bell Max it's been a while doing
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Adam what's up buddy good to see you man
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dude so good to see you I thought I'd
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see you in the other line the the two
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hour before line well I guess we're all
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getting into our uh
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show me this what is this you got down
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here
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um little special helmet we're breaking
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out for opening day today I love it dude
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it's been a while since I've seen it
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this is this is the year 2023 baby Randy
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Randy's on fire
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all right evidently all the gates are
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going to open two hours before so 120
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minutes before so I think we're just
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going to kind of wait here and go in the
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main entrance
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all right I'll see you in there
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going back to my party at the end
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opening day begins and another group of
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the the party has arrived
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opening day 25th anniversary for the
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Tampa Bay that's right it's the 25th
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anniversary I could not miss this no we
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haven't got to be here opening day
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because we love the race how much money
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do you think you're going to spend on
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merchandise this season I'm actually
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going to spend a lot today all right
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there is a 25th race a special cap 2015.
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I'm gonna buy a few things as well I
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think Micah might be getting the cap
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today too he's gonna get us today he's
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gonna get us fitted caps
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and Micah wears the same same size cap I
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do seven and five eighths seven and five
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eight you got big brains do you know
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your hat size uh probably larger than
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that
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the seven and five H Crews
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I like this Fairbanks Jersey and just as
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I heard two hours before going in to
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Tropicana Field the truck
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because I like to get a lot I and many
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others like to call it
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oh man look there's Randy up there glass
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Now who's on the IL for the next month
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so you got Randy rookie year a couple
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years ago class now wander and
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McClanahan over in the corner
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who's on the mound for the race starting
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pitcher for opening up it is full on
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party mode when you walk in here in fact
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some of the players are even in here
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taking photos as well and not just the
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players but they have some of the
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cheerleaders out kind of doing their
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thing there's a guy over here juggling
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he's not juggling traditional juggling
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he's juggling off the ground as well and
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then also stuce turnberg's in his
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upfront greeting people and end up
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getting a photo with him as well yeah I
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know that's pretty dang awesome I met
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him once before at the Red Sox series
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last year pretty nice guy I got a photo
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with him then and I got a photo with him
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on opening day and on the way in the
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free giveaway for today was it raised
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2023 schedule I could put it on my
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fridge or something that's I don't
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really have room in my fridge but I
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could put it on you put it on something
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that is magnetic and kind of keep track
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of you know the schedule all throughout
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the course of the year and also they
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have they have put out a lot of the 25th
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anniversary stuff including hats
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t-shirts think keychains things like
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that even little Koozies and different
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items are kind of perusing through some
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of the items and I think maybe at the
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end of the game I might come in here and
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grab a couple a couple pieces of
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merchandise because I don't really want
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to have it on me I've already got a hat
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but I think it's the other thing end up
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grabbing something and recently acquired
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check it out they have the Ethan Jersey
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down here number 24. it's going to be
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one of the starting pitchers now the
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last now ended up getting injured in
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spring training so he's going to be out
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for like a month and they also have the
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throwback Orlando Rays also Chris
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aimless Adventures has arrived did you
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get that today or did you get that
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where'd you get the Hat uh raise
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Republic online
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so you're prepared ahead of time
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as well so our entire crew is now here
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all five of us all merched up all
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merched up and ready to go
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they are also honoring Dave Wills on the
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front of inside pitch here on the uh the
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Bay Front Magazine here as well you can
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see always worthy Hawaiian shirt and I
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kind of tried to find a Hawaiian shirt
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similar to the one he would always wear
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that's why I have the Hawaiian shirt on
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it's as close as I could get to the
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style of Dave Wills on the way up the
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escalator someone had a rather large
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head of Randy or rosarina and this place
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I play Snow All Too Well the not
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necessarily the first place that was the
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first and third base but the food Hall
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over here gonna decide what I want to
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get to eat and I want to get a Coca-Cola
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from the freestyle machine over here I
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don't really think I want to eat too
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much during the game other than possibly
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some peanuts I don't know if I really
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want to leave my seed during the game
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because these new rules the games are
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shortened quite a bit so getting up to
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get food you might miss a couple Innings
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I want to eat before the game all right
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we're starting off well this is four in
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Ryan's meal what are we dealing with
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this is what we're dealing with pretzel
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yeah peanuts I got some of these for the
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seed as well you have to right the hot
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dog can spray the
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yes and everyone online telling me that
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my arteries will clog and me proving
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them wrong for about four years in a row
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oh wow I hope you didn't just throw
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something into the unit well I got you
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beat Ryan I got two hot dogs
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the refillable mug and I got these for
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the seat as well beautiful yeah it's
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officially a game all right I gotta know
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are you a mustard or a ketchup guy
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mustard you're a mustard guy and some
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relish you're doing in some peanuts
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Micah you're doing this baseball thing
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right right off the bat that's it I
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didn't get the commercial oh I dropped
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my cup I didn't get the cup but five
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seconds five seconds but I did get the
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raise uh you got to have the peanuts the
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peanuts the real game until you've
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tracked salt all over everything all
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right so you just dropped 100 you just
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dropped 100 bucks
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you got the Hat there Micah got the hack
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of a spring training 23 hat got the DJ
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Kitty commodity at the 25th anniversary
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cap you got the cap I got I haven't
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bought any merch at yes yes on the way
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out possible oh an opening day ball dude
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I had to get back that's cool I'm gonna
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get one of those on the way out remind
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me as Zach hampel would say you're on
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the board on the board baby
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doubling down it's it's been too long
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since I've had a hot dog of this caliber
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how's your hot dog growth
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it's awesome oh you're going full of
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mustard
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you're making the Philly Captain proud
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right now I did yeah
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and I are both
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captain and I are both fire stats
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oh all right what are you doing today
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you're raw dogging it I'm Raw dogging it
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just pop the camera I oh did you you're
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gonna put you're gonna put some mustard
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on that right no I'm Raw dogging it
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really the thing that's good about these
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is there are free refills throughout the
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course of the day so I'm gonna go ahead
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and fill up here a little ice is coming
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out just a little bit slow
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oh it's not McDonald's Coca-Cola which
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was something extra special in their
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Coke Classic but it is chop Coke which
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is pretty good too I will be getting up
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for my seat to use the facilities and
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then also to get a refill on beverages
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but I do not want to get back in line
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for food because yeah with the rule
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changes we're losing about 20 minutes
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per game now with the faster pitch count
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no time for food and into the little
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hallway here here's the opening day
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pitcher Shane McClanahan who also hits
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the All-Star game last year he had one
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heck of a first season of 2022. not as
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good of a second half and then he got a
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little injured towards the end yeah
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Sugar Shane also they're starting to set
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up the Stadium's starting to fill up
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just a little bit we're gonna be sitting
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out in extreme left field we're gonna be
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sitting over by by Randy or rosarina
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okay we have found our seats it's
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interesting there's no there's nowhere
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to put the drinks out here there's no
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one just put the drinks out here but
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this is going to be the view and
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obviously they only open the top section
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I think the rest of it's gonna be pretty
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full it's gonna be pretty full that's
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the Detroit Bullpen over here this guy's
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kind of warming up and
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I'm not sure who that is over there it's
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kind of hard to tell down the first
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phase line a lot of the media and stuff
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is over there as well that's where sugar
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Shane's gonna take them out for the
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first game of the season you were saying
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this is
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same game
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fifth anniversary
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and they're playing Detroit again
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25 years in the making and they're
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getting the flag ready over here for the
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national anthem they're bringing that
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out they got the the flag over there as
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well
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starting lineup first oh they got the
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smoke and everything over there look at
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coming out to a full-on arsenal of smoke
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there's DJ Kenny up there and dance
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Banner has been unveiled American League
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2022 Wild Card Banner as shown on the
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screen over there it's kind of hard to
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see it from here but it's right next to
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the American flag it's up there it's up
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there trust me
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out the first ceremonial first pitch to
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Raymond behind home play there he's
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getting up on the mound with the tickets
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I'll be doing the wind up
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in his stance
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there it is
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oh Raymond called it a strike
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Raymond called it a strike
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rhema's like sprinting off now
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Raymond is just like going to first
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Arena side left all right first pitch of
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the 2023 season
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yeah
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let's try it fell off you definitely see
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the pitchfucker here just went off
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because strike three same first that
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matter and strikeout one up one down a
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good way to start it off
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the real question is I think we'll get a
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wave going out here today there's enough
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people for the wave
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I think I've ever sat in left field
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the Randy's out
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raise up oh now left field here Austin
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Meadows former Ray getting a little
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standing out
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it was last year he got traded right
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yeah I think so awesome
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beginning of last year the first Ray
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batter of the Year Yandy Diaz oh he said
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has like some of the best plate
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discipline of any of the roads oh it's
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popping it up over into right
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foreign
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it's kind of interesting so there's a 15
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second Pitch clock but it's 22nd pitch
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clock when there's a runner on base
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I don't think for sure you see the
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scoreboard really well from Left Field
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I really do okay you guys went to get
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some refill on your beverages we came
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back with some little souvenirs free too
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man
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you just had to sign up thanks to
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Chevrolet yeah I gave him your name my
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name yep yeah we signed you up and get
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one of those in the mail
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or maybe I'll get a free Chevy here we
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go
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for Syrian Man of the Year baby
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boom double play it double play it
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boom
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okay ran down to get a refill but I
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wanted to show the 25th anniversary of
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the inaugural season some of the stuff
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that is over in here they got some of
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the they're starting to bring a lot of
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the double raised stuff back in fact
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they said they're going to start doing
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every home game on a Friday they're
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going to weigh the where the Devil Rays
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stop so they have a lot of the I know a
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lot of the artifacts and things in here
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over the last 25 years there's a lot of
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these different uh different sections
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that you can go through down the lower
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level including a inaugural pad and even
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shows even Brett Phillips there in the
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World Series in 2000 2020 there's Randy
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and he won the
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Rookie of the Year from worst to First
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is what that said right there I think
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they can do that again this year in 23.
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oh I just heard the strikeout uh
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maneuver I think Shane just struck
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another one out
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together we're kind of cutting through
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this little area to get a refill over
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here DJ Kitty
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I end up getting some uh popcorn here
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too I think this is the 25th anniversary
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cap show it more when I get to my oh
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look one of those the Rowdy's mascot
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here too hello how's it going and now
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walking back up to our seat
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myself a little souvenir a little
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souvenir where's the 25th oh there it is
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25 around the back there couldn't pass
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up on this we'll pop come on that's it
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these innings are going by very very
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good maybe they ran out of butter I
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forgot to put the butter on here
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not a lot of salt or butter on that
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maybe I missed it maybe it was by the
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smelled butter I just wanted to get back
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to my seat because this endings go by so
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quick now these games are like shaved
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down
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got it Siri
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three in one
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Bailey I'm thinking maybe it's the
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buffalo
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okay I'm about to tap into the Salted
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roasted peanuts here the race they are
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up three to zero right now
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there it goes and a little wave coming
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around
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first wave
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2023
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it's not bad
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give me that way bring it bring it
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away
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Taylor Road
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open it up
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bring it in bring it in
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all three nothing they have brought one
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of my favorite relievers on Jason Adam
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there's one I'm gonna predict Jason Adam
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and the eighth and Fairbanks in the
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ninth
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two out two strikes Jason amount I'm
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about to get this third strike and get
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out of the edge all right going popping
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it up
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boom easy to Short
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a couple guys warming up over the Rose
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Bowl Tim one more out and we're going to
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get to the last three outs kind of
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hoping it's going to be Fairbanks I like
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to see Fairbanks up there about to find
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out shortly though three ounces
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I feel like I almost kind of flip it
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into the image
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Fairbanks is here to close out the ninth
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I'm gonna bring it home
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first game of the season the rays are
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going to win 4-0 unless something goes
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wrong which I don't think it will with
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their bikes
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that was that was in the dirt I was in
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New Jersey maybe I spoke too soon
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a wild pitch and maybe Beth and Gore got
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hurt the catcher the cash came out and
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they're walking out to the mound maybe
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oh maybe they're just having a little
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discussion just like pass bethancourt
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and Pete Fairbanks is on the mound and
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Randy's over here just kind of waving to
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everyone he's got his like uh he's just
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like kind of fraternizing with the crowd
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Randy
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Randy current time 522 two hours and 12
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minutes this game has been going on it's
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about to end there's two outs two hours
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two hours and 12 minutes that's it
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that's all the lady in front of us just
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said why isn't everyone on their feet so
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we all stood up
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go one more
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time
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about to close this out with the shutout
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stay on your feet
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for Fairbank
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on the victory give us the victory
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here it is
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and there's Raymond over there waving
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the flag in right field the first of
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many
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it's going to be a good season I can
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feel it it'll be a really good season I
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can finish
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it
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there you go that's for Chris the girl
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right chef's kiss stop it thank you all
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right I put it off at the beginning but
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now I am getting in this very lengthy
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line and gotta go over back to the razor
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public Shore and get some merchandise
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it's an opening day merchandise or
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perhaps other stuff and now back in the
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shop after a little bit of a wait I
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think I'm gonna get this 25 uh Tervis
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Tumbler here the double razor oh man how
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do I get my hands on one of these look
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at this jacket here this is pretty
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pretty sweet that looks really warm too
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I don't know how you get one of those I
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don't know if they're for sale in here
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or not
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I will say a lot of the stuff is gone a
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lot of the 25th anniversary paths well
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the hats are still around but the shirts
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and the baseball is gone
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but a lot of the regular hats and new
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designs and stuff are still here for
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quite a few of the new ones
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a lot of different designs with a
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butterfly and here's the state with
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Tampa Bay on the side there these are
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different they didn't have these last
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years last year
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like I do oh here's a 25 shirt
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that's pretty nice
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I've already got quite a few of these
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these style I don't know if I want to
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get one just because I got the 25 on it
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there are still some Randy shirts left
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I'm gonna go ahead and get this light
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blue rosarina shirt here as well I need
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to get a jersey at some point but man
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over in the old spy area when you're
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heading over check it out for the DJ
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Kitty there's a Raymond little bag right
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here here is an opening premium quality
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pin it I don't really want to pin it
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though it is kind of cool they're also
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engraving baths for opening day which I
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don't really need a full bath nice they
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do have some of the opening day
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baseballs left up they're pretty even
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more in there all right cool perfect
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timing perfect I'm glad I could be able
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to say yeah thank you
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now it was a 3-10 first pitch game but
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it is interesting to see walking out of
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the trop where the sun is just about to
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set over it
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that's right
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it was a win first game of the year is a
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win four to nothing raise over Detroit
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Tigers
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will not be my last visit back to the
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Tropic doing a lot of away stadiums this
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year as well thanks for watching I'll
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see you in the next video the Vlog is
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raise up
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the Vlog is it oh I got a couple things
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too in the bag here I'll show you I'll
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show you what I got I got the Randy
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shirt I got the I got the race cup and I
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also got a opening day pen 13 I got the
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Baseball opening day baseball right
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there 2023 and it has Detroit versus
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Tampa Bay this is for posterity and an
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opening day pin Stadium exclusive
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opening day March 30th
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I almost said the third it's March 30th
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2023.
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Good Times
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raise
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up
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raise win raise win raise win the race
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F1 the Vlog is over bonus footage well
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the Micah found me this how much was
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this two bucks what yeah dude what'd you
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think of your first experience so
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awesome you loved it yeah it was quick
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though but it was fun it was quick and
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fun yeah that's what she said but the
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Rays have won they did opening what are
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you laughing at
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we did it guys
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Rays win two years in a row two years in
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a row
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s
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that's it
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done
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this is cool I'm glad you got me this
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Micah yeah man
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they had a this uh store in there that
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had like a physical ticket yeah it had
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like autographed hats oh it must be dirt
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oh salt shakers
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yeah it is cool man
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it's a little myself a little souvenir
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has leaving the trop check out there's
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uh El Patron up there Wanda Franco on
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the billboard he's got his own billboard
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here at exiting the truck