I Am NOT Ready For Summer In Florida - Love Bugs Are Already BACK / Memorial Day & Baseball Talk
Celebration Florida May 2025
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Welcome
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everyone. Adam the Woo here as a
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recording of this. It is Monday, May 26,
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2025, Memorial Day, a little later in
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the afternoon, almost stretching into
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early evening. It is
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extremely toasty here in Central Florida
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the last few days. Today also, Memorial
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Day is the unofficial start of summer.
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It's not the technical start, but most
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people, if you ask them when summer
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starts, it's today. The unofficial start
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of summer has kicked
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off. And I'm going to go get myself a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage. It is
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5:22. Go get a coffee, start the day.
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Well, start the afternoon. I've been
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doing some stuff at home.
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And I'm going to spend most of the
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evening. I'm going to also go to Publix,
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get myself some food, get a meal. Was
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thinking about driving out to Tampa to
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Stein Burner Field to watch The
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Rays, but I just decided I'd stay home
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and watch it on TV. So, I'm going to do
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that. It might even get rain delayed.
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That was another thing that kind of
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popped into the equation. It's like, do
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I want to drive all the way out there?
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And then the rain and then it's an
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outdoor stadium they're playing at this
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year. And what happens if the the game
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doesn't happen? So, I'm just going to
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have a celebration day, relaxing
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celebration day. Join me, shall we? For
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each and every holiday, this house
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always decorates. And Memorial Day today
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is no exception. They have the patriotic
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outfits on Mickey, Minnie, Donald right
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there. God Bless America and the US
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flag. I can hear the thunder. It's going
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to start raining. Got Uncle Sam over
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here also holding a God Bless America
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banner. I love this house. I always I
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always do it up for every
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holiday. Current temperature. Oo, look
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at that lightning going across the
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weather app
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there again. 5:25 p.m.
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91°. Isolated thunderstorms.
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Yeah. And uh there's going to be some
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precipitation happening. I'm going to
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mobile order a little
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Starbucks and grab a coffee and then see
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some rain and go over to Publix and get
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get some food for the house. I don't
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really keep food at the house. I just
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buy what I'm going to buy for the day
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and eat it. Wired a parking spot. This
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is where I park I don't know, seven out
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of 10 times when I'm down here. And
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there's plenty of parking today.
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Probably because of the weather and
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because of the holiday, people are
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probably out doing other stuff. Got all
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the flags up. Starbucks is open. Mobile
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ordered time I walk up
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here. My vinty hot sugar-free vanilla
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latte should be
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ready. Mobile order for the win. There's
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a turtle right there in Lake Reinhardt.
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And caffeine accomplished. I wrote enjoy
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on the side of it. And the turtle, like
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myself, is basking in the wonderfulness
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of the allnew fountain that just was
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turned on late last night. I wasn't here
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for the countdown of it, but I saw
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yesterday when I was out here for the
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Farmer Art flea market that the little
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mechanism was there, and now it is fully
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operational. There you go. Update to
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Lake Ryanhard, named after Richard Ryan
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Hard for friendship, caring, kindness,
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and dedication to community back in
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2005.
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Also, do not feed or mess with the
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gators. You can look at them. They never
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feed wild gators. But this I'm hoping
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that this fountain not only is easy on
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the eyes and kind of peaceful with the
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sound and all that, but maybe it helps
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with the the buildup of the the little
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congregation of like I don't know what
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algae or whatever you call it right over
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here. Maybe that'll it'll get the the
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flow of the water a little bit better
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and it'll help with that a little bit.
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Or maybe it's just for complete
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decoration. But I would imagine there's
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probably more than just a decorative
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purpose for the fountain. But that's
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neat, right? Yeah. That's the first time
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here at this lake that I can recall that
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there's been any sort of fountain like
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this. There's another turtle right there
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kind of poking its head up right there.
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Little turtle head turtle head coming
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out of the water right there. Right next
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to the the brand new fountain. Look at
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it in all all its glory. Love it.
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Fountain over there is also on. No sign
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of cool. I've seen a couple turtles, but
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I haven't seen cool the gator. Got the
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fountain over there. People are taking
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photos of it and running through it. A
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lot of people will run through the
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fountain, kind of cool down. Today, not
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too bad weatherwise. It's not too warm
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right now because the storm's about to
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roll in. You got the clouds up top.
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Probably going to be getting some
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lightning and rain here in the some
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precipitation here in the next next few
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minutes. Wind I hear thunder. I hear
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thunder. Wind is starting to get a
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little gusty. Should probably go ahead
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get back on the golf cart and get over
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to get over to Publix before it gets too
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nasty. The parking lot at the 192 side
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of Celebration Publix. Water Tower
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Plaza. Not too full. Lot of lot of
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spots. A lot of
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spots. Usually this whole parking lot's
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uh pretty pretty filled up on a regular
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day because the holiday people aren't
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out and about, but the shop but Publix
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is open. I just felt the first sprinkle.
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Biggest creature of habit when I'm home.
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When I travel, I do different food items
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and stuff, but whenever I'm going,
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whenever I go to Publix, I almost get
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the same stuff all the time. I get
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hummus. This Sabra classic hummus. Get
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these Crunch Masters. And then I usually
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get like a salad, cottage cheese. It's
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like the pre-made salads over here.
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Sometimes after like a day or so old,
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sometimes the lettuce on each of them
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start to get not as crisp. So, I always
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have to sometimes I like that particular
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one or maybe this one, but sometimes
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I'll just choose whichever one has the
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kind of the freshest looking salad or
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the the freshest looking lettuce. So,
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that's my choice today. I also got a a
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green tea for later, too, when I'm
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watching the hopefully the ball game
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happens. But also, the one the Publix I
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usually go to on World Drive when I'm in
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my car, I can't drive the golf cart over
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there. It's the one road I cannot drive
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on in celebration. And I go everywhere
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else at that one road and I'm more used
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to the layout of that Publix than I am
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this one. And I get over to this one on
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the 192 side and I'm like, where is
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everything? It's just a totally
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different setup. I'm not going to get
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these. But I love a good kettle
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cooked kettle chips. That's I don't
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know. Kettle chips. That's what I'm
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thinking of. I've never tried the Publix
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brand, but look at these baby back rib
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kettle chips. That's interesting. I've
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never That would be interesting, right?
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It was like barbecue flavor, but
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actually has more of a baby back rib
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barbecue flavor. I'm good. I'm good on
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them, but I just It's always interesting
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to see different things that that
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grocery stores come out with. We're in
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the deli counter now getting the our
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dairy count dairy dairy cooler, I should
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say. Getting some Brickstone cottage
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cheese and I also got some chickpeas.
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Yeah, I'm a creature habit. I get the
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same thing every time I'm here. Got to
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say, I definitely like the other
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Publix, World Drive Publix better.
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than the 192 Publix. I don't know. It
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just I like it
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better. I think at some point I'm just
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going to start driving my golf cart over
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there. I don't really know if it makes a
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difference cuz I see people driving
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theirs all the time and I'm like, well,
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I thought I thought you weren't supposed
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to, but I see other people doing it.
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About a year ago, Arby's closed, which
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was right here. Arby's was right here.
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It closed about a year ago. And then a
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few months after that, they started
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putting sign up say signs up saying it
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was going to be a sandwich shop called
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Daddy's. But Daddy's Chicken Shack.
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Okay. Chicken Place. Daddy's Chicken
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Shack. Says coming soon. Daddy's Chicken
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Shack.
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But I don't know. I don't really know if
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it's coming soon. This thing has been
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like this for 9 months, maybe. Maybe
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more with the sign saying coming
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soon. The old Arby's
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drive-thru still
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here. I've been through this drive-thru
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quite a few times getting a roast beef
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sandwiches pulled up right here in my
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car before I had the golf cart or I
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would have driven them through the golf
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cart.
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When the chicken place opens, I'll have
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to come back through
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here. Check it
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out. If and when that ever happens, they
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could hand me my food right here at this
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window. There's a lizard over to
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Walgreens now. I guess they're open.
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There's cars here. I always remember
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this Walgreens. This is where I got my
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passport photo taken, which has come in
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very, very
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beneficial for me cuz I've been doing so
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much world traveling. Yep. It all
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started here. We're getting my passport
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photo taken. I'm going to go inside and
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see what they got. Oh no, love bugs.
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This is the first love bug pair I've
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seen so far this year on the first
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unofficial
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day of
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summer.
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No, I'm not ready for love bug season.
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as beautiful as those love bugs are.
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Also, they did not have what I was
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looking for. I was going to pop in there
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and get maybe another corkboard for some
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Disney pens. Sometimes I've run out of
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room. They didn't have it. So, I got
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some wild berry gold bears, some
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sugar-free Worthers, some gum. I always
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get these for traveling. I take gum,
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have them with me, but also have packs
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of gum for traveling on flights and I'm
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always flying. So, I got a a uh
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Gatorade. Yeah, love bugs.
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While they are amazing looking insects,
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they do quite a bit of damage to your
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windshield and front of your car. Stain
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them up bad. Stains them up bad. And all
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seeing one pair
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means that more are on the way. Now, if
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you've never been to Florida, you're not
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familiar. Soon, probably in the next few
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weeks to a month, there will be hundreds
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of thousands of those floating through
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the sky all over people's windshields.
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The entire front grill of every car will
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be covered in ones that have
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perished. And from what I heard, I've
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never fact checked this. Evidently,
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there one of
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the colleges in Florida, could have been
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Tallahassee, could have been
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Gainesville. I'm just going off I'm kind
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of riffing off the top of my head, is to
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fault for the love
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bugs. At least that's that's what I've
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always heard. That's the urban legend
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that they created this like science
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experiment and now we have love bugs
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that lay dormant and hibernate or can't
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survive in the cooler months even though
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there's not many cooler months in
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Florida. And then once it starts to get
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warm, the unofficial start of spring or
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unofficial start which is today
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unofficial of summer, I saw my first
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love bug. I hate to break it to you,
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Flidians, if you're watching and you're
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from
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Florida. It's love bug
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time. Not good. I thought I was going to
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get down on lightning dawn, but I think
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it kind of passed. It's just like a
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slight
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sprinkle as I'm heading back to my
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homestead. Hopefully over, you know, in
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Tampa it's not raining, so the game
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happens. We'll see.
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This is the Veterans Memorial at
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Founders Founders Park. It's pretty
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close to
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downtown. They got the big US
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flag right up there.
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honoring all the different branches of
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the military.
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Memorial Day is to honor those who have
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passed away
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serving the Coast
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Guard. the Air
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Navy,
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and another Department of The
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Navy. They have two emblems for the
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Navy. Oh, the Marines. The
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Marine. The Marines there. So, the US
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Navy and the Marines.
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This is for Simon Sharp who
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organized and initiated raising $15,000
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to coordinate the initial
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design of the of the park itself of the
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memorial in the
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park. a lot of men and women who gave up
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their lives so
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that all of us, but speaking
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specifically for
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myself, can have the freedoms I have, be
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able to spend the day driving
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around, doing some shopping, watching
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some
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baseball. Some places don't have that
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freedom.
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I watch a little America's pastime on my
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TV at
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home on Memorial
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Day. Grateful to be here. Yeah, the
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comfort of my own home watching a little
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baseball. Rays are on a
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fivegame win streak right now. Hopefully
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they can make it six. has started moving
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up the ranks in the AL
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East. Since moving back to Florida, I've
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been on the I've been on the Tampa Bay
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Rays train pretty hard. I've been to all
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30 current MLB stadiums, seeing the Rays
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play. So, I've been to every current MLB
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stadium, seeing the team I root for.
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Love the
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Rays. Back in the day when I was very
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young, probably 87 and on, I collected a
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lot of baseball cards, followed a lot of
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teams, lived out in California, went to
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some Angels games, but really never
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latched on to any team quite like I have
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with the Tampa Bay Rays. It be kind of
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nice if the Rays moved to Orlando.
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There's some
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speculation. Who knows what's the future
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holds, but if they move to Orlando, that
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would be like a blessing for me to have
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them so close. We'll see what happens
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instead of driving two hours to Tampa
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St. Pete. The other day I was at the
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Lakeland Antique Mall and I picked up
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the 1988 complete set score. Well, I'm
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assuming it's they're all in there. I
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haven't opened it up yet, but I'm going
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to look through a couple of them. I was
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so into baseball cards from like 87 to
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91. 87 tops, the wood grain to 91 92.
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Really was into baseball cards and I got
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my license in ' 91. He moved to Florida
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in ' 91 and was going to spring training
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games. Worked at the spring training
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stadium of the Astros in CMI, Florida.
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Didn't really start collect many
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baseball cards past probably 92 93. But
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87 to 91 had tons of baseball cards,
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which who knows even know what happened
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to them. So, I'm just trying to buy some
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again. But when I was really young,
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always loved baseball. Took a long time
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off of my fandom of baseball. too long.
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In fact, and when I moved
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to California, I lived a mile from Angel
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Stadium and I thought, you know, my
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whole life growing
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up, I would have just adored the fact if
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we had lived close to a baseball
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stadium, which we never did. I thought I
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should start going to Angels games. So,
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went to Angel's games for a year or two
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before moving here and uh kind of
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getting on board with the Rays for the
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last four years.
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But I wanted to show some of the the
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school years here. My mom gave me this
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last time I was over her place. Well, a
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couple times ago, she was like, "Oh, you
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should take this home with you." It's a
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kind of a neat thing. Here's me in
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kindergarten in Leroy, Illinois. 5 years
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old. Right
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there. I got my all the information on
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it. But look at this. This is five years
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old,
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me written on
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there. I don't know when I wrote Adam on
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there, but if you look here where I
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checked what I wanted to be when I grew
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up in
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kindergarten, baseball player, first
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grade, age
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six, I wanted to be an astronaut. So, my
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thoughts
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changed. Age seven, there's me at age
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seven. These are great. These are great
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photos. Look at me. Young me with the
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the Jim Carrey Dumb and Dumber haircut
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there. Age
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seven. No more. No longer wanted to be
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an astronaut. I wanted to be a baseball
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player. Third grade. I have no photo for
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third grade. I wanted to be a an officer
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of the law. I wanted to be a policeman.
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Fourth
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grade. Back to being baseball. Oh,
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actually that's fifth grade. That's
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fifth grade. Okay. Fourth grade right
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there.
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baseball player. Rocky Bayou. Fifth
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grade.
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Baseball. Rocky Bayou. Sixth grade.
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Baseball. Seventh
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grade. No, now it doesn't say what I
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want to be when I grow up. They It ended
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out of that. But yeah, I was
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always always into baseball. And I took
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so long off of my punk rock years. I
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kind of fell out of the baseball thing.
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But I'm back on board. But I I love
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watching baseball. I watch if I'm not
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watching the
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Rays at the games, then I'm watching it
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on any kind of streaming platform to
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watch them or I'm listening to it on the
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radio on the the radio apps or I'm
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watching I'm checking the score every
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couple innings. So, I follow all the
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games. I have for the last few years.
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Now, I have not cracked open these.
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This is not the set I had got in 1988
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for my birthday cuz I don't know what
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even happened to those. But I haven't
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even seen these cards. And I am really
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curious what kind of memories are
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bought. Oh my gosh. You know, I totally
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forgot about these. These were like the
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ones.
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Yes. Oh, that's
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cool. I forgot about these. The ones
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that were like the the type that you
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could Great moments in baseball and you
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could like spin it. Oh man, that I
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forgot about the small cards there. I
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wonder if these are in order from 1 to
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666. Let's see what the last card
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is. The number on it. Yep. 600. No,
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they're not in order. They're not in
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order. Oh, wow. That brings back some
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memories. That style of the card. I'm
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going to scroll through these now.
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Obviously, there were no Tampa Bay Rays
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in 1988. They did not start for 10 years
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after that. in 98. 1998 is when they
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started. So you had all the rookie
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prospects. Does that start with number
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one? Nope, it does not start with number
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one. So at some point I should probably
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put these in some kind of order. I still
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have the the the way you would hold the
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the cards and you would kind of flip
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through the card when you would open the
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wax packs and you would kind of scroll
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through them.
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Steve Crawford, Ed Romero, Spike
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Owen, Dennis Boyd, Dwight Evans, Jim
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Rice, Alfredo Griffin,
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Eckersley, Steve Henderson, athletics,
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Mickey
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Tattlet, Dennis Lamp, Dave Stewart,
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there's
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Reggie. There's another Reggie. These
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are great. This is like 20 bucks for
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this whole set.
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Mattingley. Love Mattingly. So, I didn't
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really have like a team. I never really
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had like a team. I just like certain
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players. Love Mattingley. Love Clemens
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when he was on the Red Sox around that
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time. Maguire, of course, Bash Brothers,
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him and
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Conco on the A's. There's Traml, Ripken
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Jr., the Iron
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Man, Willie
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Randolph. And the main reason for that
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is never really went to games because we
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didn't live Dave Winfield played for a
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bunch of teams. Henderson when he was on
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the
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Yankees. These are I don't think these
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are in order. 170. No, they're all out
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of order. So it would take some time to
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put these in order. Oh, that's that's a
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Dris that's a Dris 88. That's not even
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right Wally Joiner. Oh, wow. These names
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are coming back to me. I do want to get
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the 87 tops wood grain set and maybe
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even the 86 DR. There were some good
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rookies in 86 Dris. This one Dres here
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kind of equates to getting a onion ring
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when you order fries at like a fast food
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place and you get the one onion ring.
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Got a few here that really I mean just
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these just resonate incredibly like John
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Krook who's now an announcer for the
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Phillies. Cona who I mentioned Bash
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Brothers of course Barry Bond George
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Brett Bonito Santiago nicknamed Benny
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but a lot of cards would have him as
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Bonito Kirby Pucket Tony Gwyn Schmidt.
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This was my all-time
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favorite. Bo Jackson played for the
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Royals. also went played for the Auburn
23:13
Tigers in football and also played for
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the Raiders. But I loved Bo Jackson
23:19
around this time frame. He was like my
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sports hero
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Bo. So dang cool. Bessemer, Alabama.
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I've been to Bessemer. In fact, I've
23:30
been to the street he grew up on in
23:38
Bessemer. The 1987 wood grain tops. So
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he was the future star. Bonia, Wade
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Bogs, love Bogs, Will Clark, of course,
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Clemens. Love Clemens. Clemens and Ryan
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probably my two favorite. Nolan Ryan, my
23:47
two favorite pitchers. Then there's like
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people who weren't really stars, but for
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some reason I latched on to them. I
23:52
liked Dave DKI a lot. Strawberry, Dwight
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Gooden, Dave Maggan was another one.
23:58
Kind of like DKI that I really like, but
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he wasn't like a big star with the Mets.
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Carter, Hershiser, of course, Fernando
24:04
Valenuela just passed away. Aussie
24:06
Smith, one of the greatest shorts stops
24:08
ever, you know, arguably one of the
24:12
greatest defensive sports uh defensive
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shorts stops of all time. Ken Griffy
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Senior, not Junior, of course. Nolan
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Ryan, a man Sandberg, Andre Dawson, and
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Dale Murphy, Braves legend. Yeah, cool
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to go through all these. Glad I got
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these. Back around that time also, I was
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really into
24:31
Nintendo. Got some have rebought some
24:34
Nintendo games.
24:35
But baseball Stars is one I like to play
24:38
quite a
24:39
bit. Yeah, I was just really into really
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into baseball back then. I kind of wish
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I wouldn't have taken as long of a
24:46
break, but did like again didn't really
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have a team. Didn't live anywhere near
24:52
near a team. So the cards were like my
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only only really kind of gateway into
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into the sport. I knew all the players,
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but rarely would ever go to games cuz I
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wasn't near stadium. 84 to 88 was
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Niceville, Florida. There's really
25:11
nothing nothing near there. The closest
25:13
one probably would have been Atlanta
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Braves, which was a hike. We never never
25:17
went any of those. Most of my family, my
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aunts and uncles, aunts and uncles on my
25:22
mom's side, all all into the Braves, I
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think, just because they were always on
25:28
TV. These are some of the the raise
25:30
cards I've collected.
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Don't have a whole lot, but been
25:33
collecting some of the Brandon's still
25:35
on the team. Still doing good. Got
25:37
Brandon
25:38
here. Got a few of
25:41
those. Randy, he's now with the
25:43
Mariners. Lost
25:45
him.
25:46
Yandi Wander. Who knows what the heck's
25:49
going on with that guy? That's a whole
25:51
weird subject matter. Not on the Rays
25:53
anymore. He's never coming back. He uh
25:55
that guy's just kind of been erased from
25:56
existence. And then 89 to 91 I lived in
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Eupfalla,
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Oklahoma. Not an MLB team anywhere
26:05
anywhere within there for someone of my
26:08
age to be able to get over to game. So I
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would just play baseball with my
26:12
friends, collect the
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cards, that was about it.
26:16
Maybe occasionally dream of going to a
26:19
game one day. In fact, up until I
26:22
started going to spring training games
26:24
in CMI in ' 91, when I moved to St.
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Cloud, Florida, and CMI, Florida, they
26:29
Astros used to spring train. I had only
26:31
been to like maybe one or two baseball
26:33
games in person. My uncle took me to see
26:36
the Braves. We were visiting them in
26:39
Atlanta. Other than that, it was pretty
26:41
much until 91 when I was 17 and went to
26:44
a lot of Astro Spring Training games and
26:46
a lot of the a lot of the Florida spring
26:49
training league games. But anyway, just
26:52
want to talk about that a little bit.
26:53
All right, dinner. Got my cottage
26:55
cheese, my chickpeas. Again, I'm a
26:57
creature of habit when it comes to
26:59
eating at home. This is usually my
27:01
go-to. Also, speaking of, for some
27:03
reason, if the Rays did move over to
27:06
Orlando, you know, I have a I have a
27:08
house here in Celebration. I'm in
27:10
Central Florida, right down the road
27:11
from Orlando. You know, if they signed a
27:14
30-year stadium deal in
27:16
Orlando, probably when I'm older, I
27:19
would probably work for the Rays in some
27:20
in some facet. I would be tempted to get
27:22
a job at the stadium years from now. You
27:25
know, who knows what the future holds,
27:27
but I don't know if I drive all the way
27:28
over to St. Pete for that. But that's
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going to do it for today. Thanks for
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watching. I'll see you in the next
27:32
video.