A Day In Downtown Pittsburgh - Andy Warhol Museum & Mr Rogers On Riverwalk / Rays WIN At PNC Park
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welcome everyone Adam the Woos
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reflection Peppers ghost effect here as
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the recording of this Sunday June the
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23rd
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2024 I am in
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Pittsburgh
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Pennsylvania and I'm walking over to
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PNC
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Park where the
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Pirates have played for many years a
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stadium have not been to In fact this
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will be my 24th stadium that I have
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attended over the last series of years
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hoping to accomplish all 30 current
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stadiums by the end of this
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season me flip this
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around and I'm inviting
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you to join me I'm wearing an
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appropriate hat I think a feather just
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flew by or a piece of trash either
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or also got to walk around downtown
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Pittsburgh over the bridge the Roberto
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Clemente bridge I believe it is called
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named in honor one of the greatest
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baseball players ever not only for the
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Pirates but also in baseball and just
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see what else I can do today got to go
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to the game it is a 130 I believe first
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pitch little after one first pitch now
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the Rays not doing great but they have
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been doing pretty good the last series
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of games this road trip they're doing
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pretty well
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on but they're going up against
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the Pirates Ace today so it should be
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interesting inviting you to join me
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shall you very impressive mural
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here kind of like new school design
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artwork this is the corner of
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seh Avenue seh
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Avenue you never know what goes down on
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seev Avenue
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yes I know it's 7th but yeah it's a
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crack in the
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sidewalk some sandbags here and they
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were cones they were
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drawn spray painted
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cones I hope that's a cone and not
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something else that I shouldn't be
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showing it's old Marquee here at the
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Harris
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Theater evil does not exist it's such a
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beautiful
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day the weather is nice it has been hot
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this is also the third game the rays are
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playing against the Pirates the end of
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the three- game series did not make the
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first two traveling across country or
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well through some midwest states but it
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is a beautiful day in fact it is
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overcast which I am not complaining
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about a little some clouds in the sky
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I'd rather not have the sun permeating
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down upon myself the
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evil so it's also supposed to rain later
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so that's going to be it's going to
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going to be interesting it might end up
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being a rain delay which will kind of
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add to the experience it's a day game
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it's an early day game this is known as
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the pen Liberty historic district it's
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on the national register of historic
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places you got to watch where you're
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walking though do not step off here
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because this is uh that cannot end well
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for you right there they got the they
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got the stanions and the partitions here
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but yeah that right there would be bad
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if you were just uh if you were looking
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at your
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phone and you weren't paying attention
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as you're were
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walking would not end well right here in
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this spot is a little placard
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designating The Sisters of Mercy they
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founded in
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1843 the sisters began to serve the
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city's poor sick and
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uneducated and then it spread the
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Sisters of Mercy Convent spread across
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the
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us a little pressure washing over there
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at that theater
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there's also a Roosevelt here just like
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there's a
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Roosevelt Hollywood
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Boulevard see see it right there spelled
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down the side of the wall I believe that
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this is an art
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installation I is it's an
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I I think those are eyes these are
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definitely
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eyes right here also very interesting
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that the these are turned into seats so
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you can sit here if you wanted to and
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stare at the
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fountain yeah these are
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eyeballs all right went in on a little
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little Duncan it's interesting some of
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them call are called Dunkin Donuts and
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some of them are just called Duncan but
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it's just I guess now I'm kind of
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starting to call it Duncan not dunking
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but
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Duncan they still have Donuts though but
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they don't really refer to it as much
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with the with the donuts in there it's
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about 10 or 11 minutes after 10:
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Square doing a
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yoga session Market
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Square Up street cleaner street cleaner
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Zamboni coming through
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street street cleaners
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Zamboni coming
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through coming
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through Pittsburgh Public Works coming
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through I recently rewatch Mary Poppins
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and Saving Mr Banks and this has
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definitely given me the Vibes Little
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Sherman Brothers Feed the Birds moment
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here this gentleman over here looks like
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to be the one feeding the
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birds T it's a bag oh that guy squirting
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the water Bott over there
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startled picking a Parks like Triangle
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Park here is a little torn up ripped
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up oh I can see the lights down there
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through that Alleyway of the stadium all
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right over on to 6th Street now where
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the bridge is oh that's interesting the
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six makes up the archway
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almost kind of sort of in the design
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maybe I'm just reading too heavily into
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that but
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yeah
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Pittsburgh this is interesting check out
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the Bley Sports Club it looks like a old
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theater Marquee right there kind of a
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skinny building wedged in next to the
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pizza
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place and these older apartment
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buildings right there see the Marquee
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that's interesting you get it actually
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yeah it does look like it was an old
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small
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theater and the Renaissance Hotel kind
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of looks theater esque also it's
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supposed to be the Theater District
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there's the Byam the biome Marquee
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also okay this is interesting on game
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days CU today is a game
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day they block off the bridge itself to
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traffic you can't drive over it only
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bicycles or
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walking so I can walk right down the
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middle of the road
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war on the
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sidewalk this is the alagan
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river yesterday one of the Pirates
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players hit it into the river I was
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listening to the radio driving yesterday
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listening to the game it's only the
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sixth time pirates player has knocked
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one out of the ballpark without a bounce
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and landed in the
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river pir's doing pretty good this year
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I guess also was talking to a guy that
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was working at one of the restaurants
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setting up tables he was wearing a
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skiing shirt we're talking about the
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pitcher for the Pirates today he's
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pretty legendary
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already even being as young as he is and
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he said good luck today you're in your
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team is in for a rude awakening against
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SK so it' be interesting to to watch him
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up close and personal again this will be
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Stadium number 94 that I been to while
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rooting for the Tampa Bay Rays only
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counting stadiums that the rays are
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playing in that I attend and I've heard
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from many people that this is their
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favorite ballpark but I've also heard
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that the ballpark is not the best
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ballpark but the view is the best either
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way I am looking forward to it so first
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pitch when first pitch happens before
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that I'm going to go to the very very
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top and get a get a view and then after
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that sit behind raise Dugout even from
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down here on the bridge even not high up
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there in the stadium The View already
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looks pretty freaking awesome look at
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that over there the
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skyline AC cross the
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river yeah I can definitely see the
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appeal of a nice Skyline when you're
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watching a
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game I'm already feeling I'm already
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feeling those Pittsburgh
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Vibes got I got plenty of time though so
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I'm going to walk around on this side of
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the river
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also happy to be here erected in 27 and
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28
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beautiful all the bridges through here
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are
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yellow I also looked into doing a tour
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there are no tours today of the stadium
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so sat Trum boat on that one there's the
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man himself at the base of the bridge
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named after him originally the Bridge
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was before he took the namesake of it
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the first time I ever heard of Roberto
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CL got really into baseball in the mid
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80s he had all the baseball cards I had
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the 1987 wood grain tops I had the 1988
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I had the 89 Ken Griffey Jr Upper Deck
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when Upper Deck came out at 89 so I
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would say mid to late 80s I got really
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into baseball but at 85 we started
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renting movies from the video store we
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got our first VCR as a family I was 11
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years old and I got my first first
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sports VHS video that had highlights on
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it and they highlighted Roberto Clemente
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they talked about Roberto Clemente in
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that I've remember thinking who the heck
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is this guy he's pretty dang good and I
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always since then that was my first
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introduction to the great one it even
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says it right there it also shows that
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in 72 that was 2 years prior to I was
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even born he passed away in a plane
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crash off the coast of Puerto Rico then
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the next year in 73 three again a year
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before I was born he was inducted in the
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Baseball Hall of Fame the series is all
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tied up one and one again this is game
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three so whoever wins this one wins the
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series and it'd be kind of nice if the
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Rays pulled out a win against the
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Pirates top Ace here's a sculpture of
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the guys building the
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bridges obscured by the tree in that
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pole and that explains why they blocked
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off the bridge in this road because they
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do a big Street party for the games over
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here at least today the name of this
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street well the name of this alley right
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here also before I show that interesting
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artwork over here well not artwork but
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sculpture over
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there there's two figures hugging here
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on the corner of Vulcan
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way my favorite Star Trek quotes are you
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out of your Vulcan
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mind all right that is the Andy Warhol
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Museum right
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there I have never been in there before
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I think I might go in I got a little
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time before the
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game all right the price of AD mission
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was
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$25 I didn't realize there are seven
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stories to this building well I went up
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to the seventh floor to begin seventh
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floor work your way down starts with the
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beginning of his life
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Andrew
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warhola ah interesting it's actually
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warhola he must have morphed it to
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Warhol this is a window decoration he
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did in the late 50s in New York City
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it's a it's a recreation
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but pretty interesting here some of his
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early
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work it was in the window of a shopping
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of a shopping
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it's also interesting how we took normal
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products and just turned them into
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artwork like
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Listerine
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65 the
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Elvis the progression of
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Elvis there's Elizabeth young Elizabeth
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Taylor and
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rbe all right this stool and trunk were
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from Andy's silver
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Factory right little glass cases now
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no the body build then you also have
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Jesus in
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this is a mounted great day called
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Cecil by Andy so it wasn't Andy's Dog
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but he got it at an antique shop and he
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had it for many years he named it Cecil
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cuz it
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evidently rumor was was
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owned by Cecil B deell famous
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director it's a little bizarre have yeah
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stuffed dog he's also a collector of
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unusual dish wear and paper weights and
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items like that this is some of his
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personal collection
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so all of these pop figures here were
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all down in
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81 can't imagine what the Mickey would
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go for an
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original done by
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War all right that was pretty awesome
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it's a place I've wanted to go for a
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while street cleaning
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Zamboni don't have a lot of room
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obviously they grab a lot of stuff CU
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I'm going to the game but I get get a
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magnet here that I put in my
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pocket self-portrait known as also over
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at the parking area notice the little
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Brillo pad over in the parking section
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over there
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also nice little ghost side up there the
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wording Bleeding Through the the old
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paint side of the
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brick and there is hanis Wagner if I
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remember correct hanis Wagner has the
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most valuable base baseball card or at
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least it used to be remember the old
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Haus Wagner car was like one of the most
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valuable baseball cards at least back
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when I used to collect them heavily in
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the late ' 80s early 90s all right there
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is a fountain area right here there are
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a bunch of geese there's the skyline
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have a riverbat going down the river
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over there got some people out in some
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canoes well I guess they'd be kayaks
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also didn't realize they have an inclin
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railroad over there as well so just a
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lot of lot of beehive of activity if you
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will or a goose fill day of activity out
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here along the river right there great
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cruises great memories that going by off
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in the distance that's the bridge I
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walked across right over there people
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riding their bikes down the river it's
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just a nice overcast day with some
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precipitation in the forecast wa that is
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a freaking geyser over
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there is that
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a busted fire hydrant they just turned
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on that is a some serious geyser action
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also at the base of
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the a little
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vertical elevator whatever you want to
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call that thing reminds me of Angel's
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flight in La there's also one in debuk
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Iowa that I went on
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recently inclin railroad if you will
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train going
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by there goes the
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riverbat they're probably all Amazed by
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that geyser of water just going up in
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the air what the heck's going on over
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there you know when I think of this area
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when I think of Pittsburgh I think of a
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few different things that come to my
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mind George Romero films obviously all
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those classic horror was based out of
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this area and then the Andy Warhol
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Museum which I had never been to I
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finally got to do that and then also of
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course Mr Rogers which I have
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extensively covered a few five six years
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ago but I wanted to go back over here
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and take a look at the at the sculpture
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over here of Mr Rogers up on this little
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little balcony now he's located right
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over there kind of through the the
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keyhole if you will or the eye hole the
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view of the bridge off in the distance
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and this was here I think when I was
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here five or six years ago I think they
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had just placed it here a few years
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prior so it's been here for a while but
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it has it it's kind of a unique design
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of it of the design that is on his body
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it's kind of it's not like a smooth
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texture or anything like that it's very
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nons smooth and kind of lumpy fact I
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think that's kind of the nickname that
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people have given it the lumpy Mr Rogers
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but he just overlooking the the river
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here overlooking the bridge got to love
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some Mr
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Rogers he's one of the few people you
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think about few people that are out
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there that really has
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a 100% positive by everyone who mentions
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him I'm sure there's one or two people
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who have something negative to say but
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there are few and far between you will
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not hear anybody say a negative word
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about this man and I I can't think of
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anything just a just a legend just a
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true legend got some other Hall of
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Famers right here along the river I'm
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going to start heading into the stadium
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momentarily yeah again yesterday someone
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launched someone from the Pirates launch
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one over the Outfield wall and into the
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river with no bounce boom right in the
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river all right made it over to the base
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of these stairs with all the different
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Pirates numbers going to walk up the
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staircase up by the Clemente sculpture
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and head into the stadium all right I've
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gone through the checkpoint scan my
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ticket and now I think I'm going to go
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up to the top there so I can get that
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view again I am sitting down behind raay
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Dugout so the view will be better way up
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high but since is the only game I'm
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going to and I traveled so far
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definitely want to sit close to the
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players and get close to the action but
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you want to get that view uh you can see
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a lot of people either walking in or
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driving in trying to find parking you
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can see the freeway or the thare going
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by as well and I ended up going up to
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the top deck and looked at a couple
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different perspectives over toward down
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the first Bas line center field he went
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down the third Baseline to the far left
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field foul pole area it kind of got a
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view from the upper deck I didn't go all
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the way to the top of the upper deck but
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I got to the first few rows of the upper
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deck so I pretty much got that scenic
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view and I definitely can see where
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people say that this is one of the best
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views in baseball I don't know if it's
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the best stadium in baseball definitely
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not modernized by any stretch of
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imagination and there's there just a few
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little quirks to it that make it
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definitely unique and its own but I
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would say the view is probably the best
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view at a MLB Major League Baseball Park
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that I've ever seen just incredible
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across the water and the bridge and the
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the the downtown Skyline and all that
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just just freaking awesome it's going to
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be it's going to be a good day walking
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back down now down this little circular
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pattern you got to kind of hold on to
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your hats because there's a little
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circular wind in here a breezeway
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best remove them you have to like grab
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on grab onto your hat because if not it
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might go tumbling over might go tumbling
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over the side got to watch your hat in
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the wind I'm going to be sitting over on
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that direction on the first base side
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starting to fill up quite a bit so it's
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basically a sea of yellow in here I have
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seen a few a few raised hats in jerseys
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though not many maybe a couple dozen
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total there's definitely a sea of yellow
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will be in here over this little Bridge
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you can look in where people are walking
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in but there's also some memorabilia in
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here the memorabilia
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experience inside here as well this must
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be there is that Terry
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Bradshaw that that's Terry Bradshaw
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right there football great now a
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commentator football commentator oh here
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we go Forbes field lockers Three River
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stadiums lockers former there's
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PNC Park Locker right here as well
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opening day
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2001 base down there this is pretty cool
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I always like these this style of the
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Pirates cap that retro looking one right
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here and this is evidently Bob Prince
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Sports Caster's uh coat right here
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sports coat right there look how far
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baseball gloves and mitts have
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progressed since the olden days even the
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cleats here and there's a bat from 1915
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Fred Clark's bat made between 1900 and
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1915
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that's when it was made all right here
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it goes first pitch will be by 24
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Stadium CM the Rays up against one of
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the hotest pitches in baseball right now
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my
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goodness
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oh oh your first freaking pitch first
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pitch
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yandi you got to be kidding me
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that let's go
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y heck
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yeah first pitch of the
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game against
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this dang it get out get
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out oh he dropped it oh man
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W oh here we
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go here we go
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again least is not a weird bear with
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small hand small human hands it's a
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parent get a
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hit also noticing they haven't referred
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to the team as the Pirates once to
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they keep saying the bucks or the
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buckos
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yes all right there's a random bag on
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field random bag floating across the D
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that was a home run by the Pirates
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that's now one to one I mean the jerseys
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say the Pirates but every time they
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referred to speaking
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wise announcer wise are on the big
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screen they call in the
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bux yeah was able to witness a perogi
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race seen a lot of races at games but
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I've never seen perogi race around the
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warning
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track pretty cool not something you get
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to see too often and I got to see it
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today here at PNC Park
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the announcer even said it was the best
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ballpark in
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America it's a great
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view definitely a great and you got
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perogi
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up the clouds are kind
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of made the sun peek out a little bit
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and it is Toasty in these suits
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it's into the eighth
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now oh oh go go
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go over to third Siri throwing some
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water on the
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field how it's done no outs R in scoring
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position guys on the corners for the r
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this is good this is real good all right
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still got the RBI still got the
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RBI sack fly
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Randy let the race take this one it'll
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be pretty
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awesome
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safe all right there's another race R
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boom Josh crosses the PL now three to
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one
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laio with the
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RBI here it is strike three coming in
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hot keep Fairbanks closing the game
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down everyone said it couldn't be done
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against their their
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Ace Ray's about to take
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this and the
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series he Ray win the ray win and the
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series oh yeah always good to get a
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raised win when I'm on the road watching
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the team play and I believe that puts
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them on a winning record on this three
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game or this three team away series not
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series but the this away when they have
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hit on the road the road trip that's the
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word I'm looking for and this is the
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last Stadium on this uh this road trip
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that I have been on this the last one
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nice to walk away with it now I still
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got a couple days before I get home but
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this is the last one of the three state
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like three more stadiums off my list
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being the 24 stadiums of the current 30
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stadiums watching my R play oh man I
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love a raise we
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all
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right that's going to do it for today
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from downtown Pittsburgh
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Pennsylvania head back to my
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hotel leaving early in the
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morning heading
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Southward I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog