A Cold & Rainy Jackie Robinson Day in Chicago - Behind Home Plate Seats White Sox vs Tampa Bay Rays
Jackie Robinson Day 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here i am
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standing at the home plate
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the spot where the home plate
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of the former comiskey park
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here in chicago illinois
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from 1910 to
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1990 home plate right here
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comiskey park is no longer
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around now
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the chicago white sox
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play at guaranteed rate stadium i am
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt
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an appropriate jacket an appropriate hat
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and i have some appropriate friends
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tampa jay
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has flown in from tampa i love chicago
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cowbell max you already know what time
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it is baby
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are we gonna be the only raised people
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wearing ray's gear
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in chicago we might be time will tell i
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can't believe this is going down it's
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over here we're
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baby i love chicago i'm inviting you to
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join me tampa jay
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you're no longer the cowbell kid your
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cowbell max yes sir cowbell i like it
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max
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shall you
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you think of all the players that stood
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at this very spot
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max you were saying the great bambino
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the great bambino baby yes babe right
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here right here the stomping ground
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frank thomas you were saying frank
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thomas started in 1990 so so possibly
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possibly that's a good that's a good
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question and then of course the
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you know the the
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eight men out
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that's all would have happened right
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here and we can't forget it's jackie
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robinson day guys so today is jackie
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robinson day robin number 42 we've been
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right here right here
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with jackie robinson right or
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left-handed right-handed right here baby
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am i safe
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is my foot on the back safe is my foot
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and as a recording of this it is friday
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april 15th
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2022 here at gate five parked very very
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close
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2 38 p.m first pitch what time was first
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pitch
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6 10 6 6 00 10 pm central time
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central time
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so we're here a little bit early from
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what i'm hearing
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90 minutes minutes prior to first pitch
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so about 4 30 the gates will open for a
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little bp a little batting practice a
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rather interesting name for a ballpark
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guaranteed rate
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field
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over the chicago white sox
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i am really excited
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to be here
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and take a look at that over on that
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tree an old sign
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saying resale tickets at any price is
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prohibited
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that sign's seen some years
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made it around to the front of the
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stadium now
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this is
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gonna be a blast
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very windy
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see the flags up there
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this is gate four the front entrance
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pretty good sized stadium
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this entrance is on the corner of
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shields
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35th street
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the main entrance here
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one of the cool vibes
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about chicago are all the trains that go
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by
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the sox won the world series in 06 2017
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and 2005.
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tampa rays
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2022 maybe i like the sound of that
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possibility
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here we come october this is also known
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as champions plaza
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and i'm seeing somebody else in the
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raised blue over there buying a ticket
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now i ended up getting tickets
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ahead of time online
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this is interesting too i'm not sure if
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they'll have this for the tampa bay rays
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but for the home team the starting
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lineup
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they have it placed over here with
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photos of all the players
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that's a neat idea they do not do this
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at tropicana field
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starting pitcher
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cease
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and the razor just announced their
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starting lineup too
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walked over here to the gate 3 side
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where the schedule is up
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right there apple tv oh that's true it's
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going to be televised we might be uh we
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might be immortalized forever for
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posterity on apple on tv
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i'm not gonna be eating an apple today
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though but i am
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gonna probably be eating
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a hot dog or two now the real question
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is will they have a chicago dog inside
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this stadium which means it has all the
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extra curricular stuff on top of it
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known as the chicago dog but when you're
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in chicago they just call it a hot dog
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but everywhere else in chicago will they
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sell those in there if they do
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i will consume one stepped inside the
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gift shop now the gates are not open yet
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i did step inside the gift shop
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got the baseball stitchings down on the
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ground there
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then over here i do need to get a
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a beanie of some sort
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and possibly even
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some gloves
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see if they have anything like that in
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here
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take a look at this it's a
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it's an oven mitt well here's their
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mascot over here
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this is their mascot i believe southpaw
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yep southpaw
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is their mascot's name no dj kitty or
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raymond here
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just southpaw
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and this look was looking across
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their team store
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from
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the second floor going down
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now this is a chicago dog
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if they have these in there i'm going to
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be
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devouring one of these
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has all the
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i call it extracurricular activities
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because it has everything the tomatoes
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the peppers the
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dog no chicago dog yet i'm getting you
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one tonight what's happening fully
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loaded oh it's always fully loaded
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okay gates are almost open starting to
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rain so we kind of stood over here out
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of the elements i'm looking at the
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opening lineup here
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not the opening lineup with the starting
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pretty good
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a lot of the players i wanted to see
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including kiera air end
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he is
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also anna's catcher
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josh lowe g-man yonder diaz rosarina
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franco gotti's second brandon lyle
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leading off
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pretty happy with this lineup
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looking solid man
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about 20 minutes so like 30 minutes of
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the gates open
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we're here early
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then again what else do we have to do
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we're not even we're out from out of
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town
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we're for baseball
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let's see
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rain there
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dryness here all right some of the
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employees here where the gates are now
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they're using these chairs
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it is now time
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for the gates to open two minutes till
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not really sure where i'm going but
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going up the escalator well i know where
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i'm going up an escalator at the moment
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okay it appears as if there is no
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batting practice today for obvious
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reason the precipitation from the
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heavens is definitely very prevalent
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they have the tarp across the diamond as
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well and there's not really a whole lot
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of people here yet still you know 80
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minutes 90 minutes before game play
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before the very first pitch i am hoping
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that it ends up kicking off and ends up
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happening at the appropriate little
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after 6 p.m first pitch but who knows it
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all depends on
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the weather and at first
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it appears as if they are pulling back
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the tarp to completely remove it from
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the diamond
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and as they're kind of pulling back they
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have the shadow to the ground crew but
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as they're pulling it back
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noticing this little sculpture here of
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frank thomas also known as the big hurt
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when i think of the white sox probably
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the player that when i used to collect
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baseball cards was a very highly sought
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after baseball card and i used to have
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frank a lot of frank thomas cards back
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in the day back in my younger years but
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i'm noticing that they are now reversing
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the tarp and pulling it back
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over onto the diamond just to remove the
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water but still so still no not sure if
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it's going to be delayed or not with the
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right one and as i'm walking over here
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to this car that they apparently are
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giving away if you enter a contest you
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can get this card that has chicago white
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sox logo on the side of it there is
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showing this i can see over here and i
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go past the sculpture here of mr
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kaminsky
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and out onto the field i see that they
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are now official i was incorrect i stand
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corrected they are removing the tarp
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completely there is going to be some
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gameplay and quite possibly the first
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pitch could even happen at the proper
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time so that is
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pretty dang exciting baseball is about
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to begin here in chicago all right over
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here at the bullpen now got a few raised
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folks out here we're starting to warm up
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over in the bullpen they've also removed
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the tarps over here walking out of the
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center field is it a guy that's got the
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little
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diagram that they put the chalk around
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home plate and over here is warming up
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is drew rasmussen is going to be the
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starting pitcher for the day
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national anthem played on a violin that
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was pretty
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pretty cool
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yeah these seats are pretty legit
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there's wander
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it's kind of neat to see them all decked
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out for the cold
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i know i've never seen it before
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jackie robinson they all wear number 42.
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pretty good view of the dugout too kevin
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cash over there
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yeah g-man's swinging this like weighted
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path here on deck circle
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yeah we're definitely not in the trap
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right now
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g-man is probably as of right now
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just on a streak
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a big two-run t-money home yandy diaz
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over here
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warming up
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no names on the back of any of the
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jerseys today everyone just has the
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dodger blue 42.
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that's how it's done g-man
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throw him off
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g money
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um
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i think it's safe to say yeah
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safe to say
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it doesn't get much better than this
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guys
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okay i got myself a hot dog jaywen got a
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assortment of hot dogs i put mustard on
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mine now this is not that this is not
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t-man's got it
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but this is not what i thought a chicago
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dog would be this is just a regular
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holiday
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it looks like g-man just got got hurt
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there man
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twisted his ankle
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the first base
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just came out in the trainer
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doing
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there's a pretty neat little area down
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here and i believe there's a buffet
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that's included
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and also looks back in here that there
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you can't take your stuff back to your
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seat but they do have an entire buffet
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full of food items as well
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i kind of rather just watch the game out
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of the field but yeah nice to know this
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is all back in here and from here gonna
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head back out onto the field through
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this little
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corridor this is very interesting
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the wind trust scout seats kind of along
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this little corridor
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going past southpaw here i would have
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never known all this was back in here
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pretty interesting
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went ahead and got myself a icy cold
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coca-cola
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got some popcorn here
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and a couple pretzels
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and some mustard
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boy
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thank you brandon
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there we go
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randy randy
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so close
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did you get it yeah i got it you got it
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you got it
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what's up
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yeah we're good thanks randy thanks
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randy oh there goes one
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let's go
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i think randy's look at this i think
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it's his moment oh
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that's a foul
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just a little to the right
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oh man g-man didn't want to throw it up
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over that net double
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g-man's still in the game after twisting
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his ankle on first
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james
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g man
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g man joy
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g man troy g man troy where to go um way
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to go
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everyone's cheering they want this
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everyone's written for the white sox
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brought by some chips and dip this is
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like a dill flavored
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tampa jay says it's like a french onion
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dip he's already polished his off it's
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going yours is already all gone
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i still have quite a bit
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left in mine but yeah there's like
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chips here
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over the odd deck circle he always
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stands way over here
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do you feel weird not having the cowbell
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with you today
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um it honestly feels like a piece of me
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is missing yeah and i definitely feel
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somewhat out of my element but
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it's nice being somewhere different man
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i mean
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you see me i don't usually get to
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wear a jacket or a hoodie so it gives me
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a reason too
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you feel naked without the cowbell yeah
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you do don't you yeah come on here
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fellas
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go oh there you go
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going home
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let's go rbi g-man
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monday
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oh
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all right though got two runs in that
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one that's a three to two ball got some
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ice cream
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chocolate
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hit a home run last night
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yes he did
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you were at the tr you were at the trop
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yesterday at the top yesterday and
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inside town today baby
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with the woo
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and
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tampa jay man we're traveling oh
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i should also point this out again i'm
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reiterating myself that look where randy
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is standing behind almost directly
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behind home plate
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instead of on the on deck circle way
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over here like 20 feet away
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man third
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randy really eyeballing this picture
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all right ninth inning brett phillips
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will be battling second phyllis is in
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the game
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this is the time to shine taller now or
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nothing right now
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max brett's right there
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brett's right there criminal kids for
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life 727 baby
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oh he wanted it he wanted it
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he was swinging for the fences
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getting nervous
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dang it
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maybe the wind would mess with it
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in
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there it is
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still a pretty pretty awesome freaking
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experience though these seats
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amazing fireworks here i was kind of
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hoping the rays would win but they
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didn't white sox pulled it out played a
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better game it was really close though
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three to two
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pretty neat seeing this now under the
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shroud of nightfall walked back into the
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tunnel
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and kind of walked around
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and then wouldn't let us walk back up
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through the ramp
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down here we were sitting over here so i
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had to walk back up to the top and then
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exit through off exit through all the
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people that were exiting or walk back
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upstream all the people that were
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exiting but now back out here
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on field level
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look at this pretty wild
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it was a good time
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honestly i wish the rays would have won
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it was close
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very very close
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but nonetheless uh
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pretty premium time my first time
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ever at guaranty rate field here in
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chicago the sox win it says right across
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the top there sox wins the
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sox win we did it
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it happened game one complete game not
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the result we wanted but
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we're going to be back tomorrow
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spoiler alert that's right that's right
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that's it
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that's right
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go race all
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right i haven't decided how much if i'm
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gonna film
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other stuff tomorrow before we go to the
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game or after the game
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maybe i will maybe i won't mix it up a
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little bit maybe different seats
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tomorrow though
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if i even film it all should i film
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i think you should shall you
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maybe i will
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shall you and this mural here back when
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it was called kaminsky park or comiskey
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park
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this is from great ballpark moments 1991
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to present
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now is this the same this is the same
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one this is the same this isn't the old
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one we started off at with the home
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plate outside
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because this park
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which is now
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guaranteed rate field was once kaminsky
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at 1.2
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and then it became another stadium what
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was the other stadium called u.s
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cellular u.s cellular and now
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guaranteed
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rate stadium
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but once comiskey and then they have
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these up here these little like candy
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twirling looking things let's shoot out
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fireworks and there's they're right over
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there on top of the
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top of the board
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beautiful field
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dream come true did you get anybody to
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sign your jersey you got yandee today
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got yonda d then get shut out but we'll
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be back tomorrow
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oh yeah
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i'm gonna say we can't go this way they
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seem to have like a little bit of a wall
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set up there i think we gotta go out
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we gotta go
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i think we gotta go out this way
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oh there's a really large baseball over
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here in the corner look at this there's
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a really large baseball over here in the
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corner people getting a folk getting
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photos off
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oh there's even a backdrop look at this
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oh it's a perfect game ball from july
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23rd
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2009
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when he pitched a perfect game guess who
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against
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no way
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that is not good i swear
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it turned out to be a very beautiful
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weather-wise evening it rained earlier
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it's very overcast but you can take take
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a look over in the distance there what
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used to be called the sears tower now
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called willis tower
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it is like over in the distance and the
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soothing sounds of a siren going by
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as well
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turned out to be a great evening
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close game a very very
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close game that could have been anyone's
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game anyone's game
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i know we lost the game but i mean as a
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sports fan you gotta love a good close
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game man it was good we won because we
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had a good time
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yes sir positivity is key remember that
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i like that i like that a lot positivity
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is key and that's gonna do it for today
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from chicago illinois
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guaranteed rate stadium
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