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Tampa Bay Rays Shutout White Sox at Tropicana Field
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today's adventure brings me to st
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petersburg florida
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as a recording of this august 22nd
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sunday
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2021.
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tropicana field current time 11 33
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first pitch is at 110
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gates usually open 90 minutes prior so
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just
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in time
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about seven minutes by my watch before
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doors open and there's a pretty
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decent sized crowd here more than i've
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seen
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in recent games welcome everyone adam
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the woo here tampa j
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you are
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt that you
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just purchased today it's very
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appropriate it's a kind of a little bit
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of uh the movie the natural
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homage in a way and wonder frank out
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as well
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the slugger wonder franco man right we
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saw his first game here and saw the
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first home run i always have to like to
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reiterate that
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this is the third game the last of the
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series against the white sox it's all
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tied up
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chicago white sox and the rays
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it could be good i think it's going to
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be great and i think well i can't say
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that but i'm hoping that ray's win
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tonight i'm feeling very confident we
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have outfield seats yeah 20
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which is the same price as parking not
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too bad i had 14 seats the other night
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you were not able to attend but you're
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back i'm back you're back back
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and ready to
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watch oh you guys i got my glove yeah i
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need to bring my glove i got it for both
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of us okay you catch you catch one and
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just give the ball to me okay that
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sounds fair i'm inviting you to join me
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in tampa check
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shall you and i am pretty dang excited
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there's a there's a nice little
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congregation of people here waiting for
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the gates to open this might be the day
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i finally get to see the wave a
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tropicana field yeah that could happen
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and to be completely truthfully honest i
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am glad this is inside because it is
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kind of teetering on 90 degrees here in
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the tampa bay saint pete area and very
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sunny not many clouds in the sky so be
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nice to be in the ac
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now not every stadium is the same of
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what you can bring in
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here at the tropicana field there are no
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bags allowed of any type no bags you
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can't bring cameras in
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just no tripods they told me last time
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no tripods now the last game i attended
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here i witnessed the sweep of the
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orioles out of four games this is the
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third game against the white sox so
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could be a could be a good luck sign for
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me to be here hopefully hopefully i help
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a little bit by being out in the
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outfield and being greeted on the way in
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of course always always good to enter
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tropicana field and every time i do i
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like to say hello to dj kitty if he's
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out front walking in and give dj dj
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kitty a fist bump and over here got the
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mural of raymond and over there there's
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dj kitty as well and there's tampa jay
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over there next to dj kitty you're
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saying hi to dj kitty yeah he's right
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here that's dj kitty all in his mural
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form he's dropping the mic over here
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nice dropping the mic and walking on
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stage because rays are gonna make the
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white socks yeah
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it is now 1203 an hour and seven minutes
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until the first pitch there is no
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batting practice at all whatsoever
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there are some players out here in the
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outfield even throwing the football
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around which is kind of interesting out
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of football out here and a couple other
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players just kind of tossing the
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baseball around preparing an hour before
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game time
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and as far as i can recollect this is
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the first coffee i've ever purchased at
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a baseball game a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage has been acquired since there's
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no batting practice got a little time to
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just kind of meander around and
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scope out the landscape and walking back
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out onto a field level noticing the
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ground crew out taking care of business
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i always like to give a shout out to the
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grand ground crew they were pretty they
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were pretty hard the players get get all
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the glory with the grounds crew without
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them
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there wouldn't be a game so notice how
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the guy out there on the dirt he's got a
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riding lawnmower style while the guy
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here in the on the on the
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on the hit the straight in field he's
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got to kind of do the pulling mechanisms
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up he has a little tougher now i know
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i'll never be able to be a baseball
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player especially at my age nor did i
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have the talent when i was younger to
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play pro ball in the mlb but it would be
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pretty neat to drive one of those around
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on the field now i did work for the
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houston astros in kissimmee florida when
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they spring train there i worked in the
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little hot dog stand a little food stamp
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but i could see at some point maybe
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being an usher or something i think yeah
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i think i make a pretty good option
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there's raymond hello raymond
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how's it going oh i like your shoes down
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here very nice very nice i gotta put the
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camera in this hand give you the
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secret handshake
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that way
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that way and then boom boom fist bump it
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nailed it thanks for teaching me that
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raymond
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as it get gets closer to game time
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just kind of noticing it always makes me
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happy when you see players who interact
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with those in the stands whether it be
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signing autographs it's just kind of
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good it kind of makes makes someone's
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day when a player acknowledges them
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and a little wetting down of the field
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here the grounds cruise out or even a
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white sox player over here
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playing catch with
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co people in the stands
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it's kind of
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definitely
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definitely leave a memory for someone
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and about 20 minutes till first pitch it
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is 12 50 as of this moment and the
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ceremonial
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first pitch is about to happen the
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ceremonial first pitch with raymond
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behind home plate
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someone out there on the mound throwing
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out the ceremonial first pitch
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if this is any indication compared to
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some of the other games i've been here
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the food court area right before the
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game starts is a lot busier i got a
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little warm from drinking that coffee so
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i'm going to get myself a got myself a
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little water here a little little dasani
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a little salt water
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just did the national anthem
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time to play ball
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gotta start making my way over to my
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seat
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out in the outfield i'm looking over
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here at the bullpen as the catcher is
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getting the
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oh that went by him though luckily
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there's a there's a chain-link fence
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behind i'm also noticing the seats that
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i that i got are already filled up
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someone's already commandeered them so
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i'm gonna end up just uh just kind of
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seeing how it goes and and grabbing
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maybe some seats down here all right
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razor taking the field right now there's
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some real hype out here i got brett
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phillips throwing a toss up oh right
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over there
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the way i kind of see it when it comes
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to 20 outfield
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someone's got our seats that's totally
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fine it's okay because we're gonna move
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around a lot that's for sure yeah
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there's a lot of uh places to stand and
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sit there's the stadiums this is the
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most people i've seen that was first
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bitcoin that was first fish yeah most
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people i've been to a game here i
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dropped a cattlefield
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i'm really loving the excitement
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oh that should have been a strike
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crowd does not like that
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all right now rays are up white sox
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taking the field
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ray's about to have their first at-mat
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now got some power hitters up now
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g-man up to back
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oh yeah no that's a pop-up
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oh there we go kind of double
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oh yeah
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just to kind of show the perspective i
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was here a few nights ago and i sat up
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there in that upper deck section and i
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was pretty much the only one that was up
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there i was like maybe one of
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half a dozen
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it's pretty
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pretty full up there
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this afternoon
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yeah definitely a decent attendance well
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decent for tropicana field that
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there we go scored a run
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scored a run and chicago's back up i
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think i'm gonna get myself some chicken
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tenders oh
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that looks pretty good too
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cotton candy
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yeah i'm gonna get one of the
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the chicken tender baskets oh that's not
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good that is
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got it that was a catch at center field
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great catch
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right here at bird and batter
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oh you know what i was thinking like
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batter like
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yeah it's bad or like a like a baseball
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bat it's like clever like play on words
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maybe or
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maybe i'm just really confused by it
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i am going to get the
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chicken tenders and fries 15
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okay i have acquired mine i went ahead
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and got a ice cold coca-cola there this
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is the souvenir
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little tray the little bowl that has the
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chicken tenders and the fries you got
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some honey mustard the interesting thing
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about oh i didn't get a straw you got
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the straw you need to get a straw man i
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need to go get a straw because what do
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they do with a straw you put the straw
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inside the soda and then you set the
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basket on top and the straw feeds right
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up through the center okay i need to go
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get a straw yeah i gotta i gotta do this
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right took a little time to get the food
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now making the way down the third
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baseline okay
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this should go down as either the most
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amazing thing i've ever seen or the most
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ridiculous
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this could
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are you gonna hold strong to the idea
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look at that another
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on to the fourth inning now we got the
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grounds crew out there taking care of
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business
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yeah games moving along quickly three to
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nothing raise up
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raise up
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i can hear a helicopter
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flying over the dome
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oh oh bouncing up bouncing up oh yeah
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phillips foul ball
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that's a souvenir right there that's a
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keeper for sure i would like to have a
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brett phillips foul ball one day or even
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a home run ball that'd be that'd be cool
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also a little warming up in the bullpen
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for the white sox though got a pitcher
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warming up number 45.
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that's up in the
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rafters it almost got lost in the wrap
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okay it's a mascot race they're gonna
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pass the baton now
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passing the baton dj kitty it's dj
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kidding go go go go go
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oh the it's a chicken one or the what
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dang dj kitty
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moved over to the first baseline now
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they got ray's got someone in the
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bullpen i believe they're gonna take
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this picture out and put in a new a new
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pitcher umpire going out to the mound
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tell them to speed up the process and
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get this game moving
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oh there are some let's go white sox
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chance going from over there met with
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some booze
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okay now some let's go rays
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kind of back and forth
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kind of back and forth right now
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most the white white sox chanting is
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going over there from the
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third base line that's the visitors dug
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out oh yeah some excitement here three
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and two
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three and two everyone's cheering
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oh yeah some even some stomping going on
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get a little strikeout
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there it is
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there's now bottom of the sixth
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the guy that you're wearing a shirt for
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wonder franco took me a home run
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no
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it's off the wall off the wall
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it's all right okay guys you're wearing
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the shirt oh this is good i can see the
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wave kind of starting to formulate over
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there
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look at that the wave
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well it was kind of going
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looks like someone over there is
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attempting to to get it go there goes
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okay now which way is it going
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it's just kind of stopping there though
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it's just only that one section
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yeah see it didn't go to either side
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okay get it going again over there get
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it going over there again
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count it down
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get the wave going
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get it going right here
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okay gotta mail them first and second
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two outs brett phillips up to bat
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that's a
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ball full count now
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three and two
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up walked him
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walked him in
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face is loaded
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go time
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some runs or even possible possible
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grand slam
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moving back over to moved over to right
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field just in case
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that's just where we were
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there it is there it is come on
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it is now six to zero
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six to zero
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dad
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bottom of the sixth
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oh something something just happened out
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here
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went ahead and got some ice cream from
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mr
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what'd you call mr softy
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mr softy ice cream here
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in a helmet all right
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seventh inning stretch just happened and
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my ice cream is extremely
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melting quickly even inside the dome
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thank you mr softkey there are zero outs
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two men on base first and second and
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wonder frank goes up to that
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they walk the last two batters
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there we go
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is it
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cowboys
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got another pitcher warming up over in
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the bullpen the white sox side
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oh yeah i got him out of seconds
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heading out to right field now oh
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there was oh oh got another
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no okay man on first and third now
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dang heading out to right field this
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might be the last at-bat for the race
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let me rephrase that not last at-bat but
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last series
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of at-bats because if they go on to the
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next inning
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and strike the white sox out after this
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after this one they win the game so
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going over to right field
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all right
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bottom of the eighth
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top of the ninth now
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white sox are down zero to nine
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three outs remaining game's over all
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right that's it one out remaining
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white sox down zero to nine
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two ounces
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and that's a win for the tampa bay rays
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against the chicago white sox it's over
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9-0 the final score and the cowbells are
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out in full effect everyone going into
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the store over there you can always
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count on the cowbell
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yeah nine to zero
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winning the series against the white sox
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two games to one white sox won the the
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first one raised one the second and
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third
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got a great team pretty dang exciting
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it's very echoey here right here on home
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plate in this little i think this little
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veranda as you call it and go up to
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first go over to second over there
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here's the pictures now
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third base
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right up in here and saint petersburg
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yeah the excitement is strong
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see the postseason
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within grasp for this team
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this is probably the the most people
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i've seen in the game since i've been
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coming to a lot of the games out here
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awesome
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pretty cool and emerging into the
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sunlight at 4 30 p.m is really
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an odd feeling after being inside
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and being used to night games and i have
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been to a day game
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during the day before but it is kind of
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an interesting feeling
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thinking you're gonna walk out into
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into the shroud of nightfall when it's
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daytime
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yeah pretty good definitely a good game
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i'm glad the game came to game three
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of this series here tropicana field
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st petersburg that's gonna do it for
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today i'll see in the next video the
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vlog
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is
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over