An Empty But Incredible Night at Worst Stadium In Baseball - Oakland Coliseum / Ballpark Food & Tour
My First Time at Oakland Coliseum
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today's adventure brings me to Oakland
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California off in The Distance by the
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way as a recording of this Monday May
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2nd
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2022 a Monumental stadium that has been
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around for well over 50
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years the Oakland Coliseum it's gone
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through a series of names a series of
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sports teams has played there but now
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current day 2022 only one
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the Oakland A so I will be seeing going
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up against the Tampa Bay
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Rays my first time in the stadium rooted
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in Oakland since 1968 the sign says
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there on the side take a look at that
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spelled out across the lawn with the A's
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emblem right there on either side it
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says welcome everyone well it says
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welcome welcome everyone at
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the woo
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here my friend
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Alex tagging along as well who lives 20
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30 minutes from here up a little bit
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past Berkeley you are wearing an
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appropriate hat you have the Retro
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looking cap on oh yeah how many
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different games have you been to at this
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Stadium about five or six five or six
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yeah I've been to zero so will be my
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first time what are some of the
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nicknames the stadium has something
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about a dive bar it's B baseball's last
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Dive Bar baseball's last Dive Bar you
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said it's a very interesting place I am
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looking forward to checking out what
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it's going to be like inside oh it's the
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best it's the
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best I I'm excited why do you say it's
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the best oh it's just like you know it's
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your last like you know kind of rundown
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Stadium you know everything seems kind
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of affordable uh the Raiders played here
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we open Raiders for while
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now who else oh I mean a here I mean the
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Warriors just play right uh right next
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door of the Warriors right over there in
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that one over Yonder oh in that big
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circular looking building oh yeah okay
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so as of right now the only sports team
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in Oakland is the A's correct the A's
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and there's a possibility there's rumor
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they may go to Vegas and other places
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what do you want you don't know I I I
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watch on the news all the time and uh I
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hope that uh we're going to keep them
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here but we'll see either way I am here
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and part of the reason I wanted to to
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show up here is because I don't know if
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I will be ever I don't know if the Ray
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will be playing in the stadium for years
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to come so Now's the Time the time and
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we're going to be sitting next to each
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other rooting for different
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teams it'll be fun join me and Alex
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who's wearing a sweet retro hat I have a
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fitted hat and I have a jacket I'm going
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to put on you're wearing a
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flannel you know it's the it's the it's
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it's the bay that's the bay way it's the
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Bay
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Way join me shall you and the entry
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point into parking is located on
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Coliseum Way and
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66th a 2 hours before first pitch is
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when the parking area opens and that
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time is just what time is it now do you
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have your watch on you it's 433 4:33
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first pitch is at
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640 and they have just started letting
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cars in so I guess it'd be 2 hours and 5
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minutes before I'm going to pull my car
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over from across the street where I
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parked it and head through the little
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Archway there that says rooted in
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Oakland since
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68 that old
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stadium and the attendance in there I
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think it holds like 55 60,000
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65,000 there will not be that many in
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there this evening it's also big the
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foot's first time on this
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property not sure how much parking is I
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have to find out $30 is the priz to park
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kind of feel like Clark
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Griswald first ones here first ones here
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I've been hearing that the attendance at
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the A games has actually been less than
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the trop so two teams that do not draw
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huge crowds are playing together today
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so probably will not be a packed house
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ah the wind is kind of scattering around
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it's kind of blowing the jacket around
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so I'm going to put this on it's going
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to get a little crisper as the sun goes
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down also this field has been renamed it
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has a lot of different names but the
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Oakland Alam County Coliseum but also
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Ricky Henderson
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field there's Ricky Henderson right up
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there in the middle of the it's the back
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of the scoreboard I am pretty dang
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excited to be here not just because the
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team I root for is play against the
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but being a baseball follower in general
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for my younger years I know a lot of the
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A's players like Dennis Eckersley right
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here and so many historical moments have
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taken place inside this stadium that
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I'll point out once I'm in there so
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that's going to be pretty cool this says
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welcome to the ballpark as we're going
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around the edge oh yeah who could forget
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Mark Maguire Jose cono the bash Brothers
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I guess that's Cuzo was 33 right either
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way they're doing the bash Brothers
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little arm thing which could be too
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means they bashed a lot of home runs but
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they also bashed their forearms together
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near their elbows hence the bash
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Brothers okay I kind of sort of realized
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why it's so empty at the moment it's :05
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at this moment at
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4540 1 hour before first pitch at 6:40
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they finally opened the gates went up to
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the front they said no they're not open
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till an hour before at 540 I have never
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seen a stadium even Tropic can of field
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was 90 minutes before first pitch before
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being allowed in most stadiums 2 hours
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before Oakland
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Coliseum 1 hour it's just basically
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gives you enough time probably not going
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to even see any batting practice just
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kind of go in do a quick loop around the
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stadium it'll be time for national
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anthem and the first pitch never seen a
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stadium one hour before interesting and
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there are a few people out tailgating
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and more showing up as soon front Gates
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will be open also this is kind of
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becoming a something I've been doing
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recently been going to quite a few
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stadiums going to watch the Rays the
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team
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I root for trying to think this will be
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the fourth one I have been to Guaranteed
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Rate Stadium to watch The Rise Against
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white socks I've been to Wrigley Field
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to watch The Rise Against the Chicago
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Cubs and I also went to the rise 2 a
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team the mcgomery biscuit so this will
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be the fourth Stadium this year for the
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2022
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stadium that I'm going to other than the
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trop obviously viously I'm seeing
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someone over there wearing a wander
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Jersey that's pretty awesome first one
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in line I'm also wearing
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my my wander I underneath my jacket also
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if you ever seen the movie
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Moneyball we filmed parts of that in
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here and it was based on the events 2002
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I
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believe 20 game in a row
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wins for the ace pretty awesome movie
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and a pretty awesome walk-off home
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run at about 2 minutes before gates open
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this is the congregation of folks over
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in the L's next to up they're making an
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announcement making an announcement
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right
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now about to go out all right going
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through the Dennis eesley gate I got my
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tickets on the phone I pull the tickets
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out scan it and go in all right first
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walking in there is a merchandise store
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there then you got the 1992 Sai Young
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Award up here for Dennis look at this
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there is just Dennis stuff
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everywhere all right
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into this classically old stadium and I
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would imagine because getting in here so
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late before the game well an hour before
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not going to see any batting practice
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they probably all pulled all the batting
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practice all right this is Ryan Dalton
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he said hi you're going to tell me
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something about this stadium that I
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should check out give me one good thing
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obviously the left field and right field
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bleachers the bleacher seat so the
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drummers the drummers are out in right
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field right field and we have we don't
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have we have Flags in the in oh you got
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look at you wear Tampa Bay raise up
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yoube videos nice good to see you so
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right field left field it's a family so
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we family family so we're F we F friends
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is that where you're going to be in
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right field I'm going to be in I'm going
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to be I sitting left and right but I'm
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in left field tonight sounds good I'll
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I'll go out there I'll see you out there
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yeah so I appreciate you and I love your
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videos awesome man good to see you thank
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you Adam yeah man
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of you go here got Zunino back here
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warming up pretty freaking
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cool coming out of the pitching machine
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there is no batting practice also met up
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here with gamer Athletics on YouTube
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give me a little tip I should know about
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about the stadium helmet nachos the
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nachos the helmet nachos
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finishing up the national
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anthem out the play ball this is a
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pretty good angle here I it gets to be a
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riveting game all the players are going
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to be right out here and this is pretty
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cool how it's coming from this angle
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getting a pretty good view of all the
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relief pitchers all the bullpen all
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making their way in from from the locker
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rooms and everything coming out it's
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pretty awesome to see
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them alsoo I'm voicing this over
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because first pitch has already begun
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but there was like music over so I'm
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voicing this over oh there's a popup oh
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foul ball someone's got it a lot of
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empty seats but this Stadium this
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stadium is H how much of the seats up
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there I think they're free oh you know
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what I think they're they're they're
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tarped off there that's gone that's
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gone home run already yandi
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Diaz that's how it's done rounding the
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bases look at this angle look at this
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angle right here
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crushed it this is so cool first batter
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up
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yandi Franco giving him the high five
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Randy Ros Arena giving him the high
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five I love
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it I love this
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angle it's so quiet in here just the
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size of this place I do like the fact
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that there's one billboard there and
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then another billboard over here and
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right which obviously states that wander
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is the second batter up that was also
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the quietest home run I've ever heard
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from crowd
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reaction there how many people you think
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are here total I heard I heard the guy
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say that it was 3500 3500 I think that's
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a gross over exaggeration that's what I
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mean that's what he said that's how many
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tiets were so less than a
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thousand off there in right field that's
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not cowbell Max that is an entire drum
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crew but they have drummers out
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there that's an entire band okay they've
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stopped it's a fullon
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Ensemble oh yeah got it I'm just
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admiring all this foul ball space I just
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want to show what in the name of heck is
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going on behind home plate what is this
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what is the setup for the SE seats
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behind home
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up KK walking off to a drum beat number
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13
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on K crushed at the trop I was there to
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witness it with my
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dad a walk-off home run win in the 10th
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Inn go okay they are putting the louder
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Mak Some Noise icon up on there see how
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much noise
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he
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made I was also noticing the pitcher
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earlier was throwing over to first to
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try to get Manny off who's leading off
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and because there's so much foul ball
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space if it's like a wild
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throw ice ball ice easily could probably
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get a base or two out of
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it like if that went if that went
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wild that's good for the race especially
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if Randy was on first what are we going
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to do for food what's your favorite
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Stadium food here you've been here five
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times the one guy said helmet
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nachos I have not had that here I'm not
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helmet nachos a dog okay got up from our
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seats going to go find those helmet
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nachos asked one of the ushers said it
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was located at section 128 or around
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there he says if they have them they
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will be in 128 and I'm kind of just 128
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right is that what he said
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288 look look at this beautiful thing
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look at the in look at this little sour
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cream on there some cheese some chicken
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and whatnot I've kind of walked over to
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this section just to kind of show like
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the perspective from up here the
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magnitude the Oakland Coliseum you got
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it too you got you went sand sour cream
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no sour cream on yours no sour cream I
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always I want like I think maybe they
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put extra sour cream oh you went with a
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lot more salsa though I think they
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doubled up your
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salsa I want to walk over there to right
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field to hear the
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drummers and then there's this area way
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up here called The
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Treehouse way up
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top this place
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is far from small yeah this is like
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elevated up there look at Randy over
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there all the way in left field it's
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like teeny and Tiny
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the M oh that's a basee hit dropping in
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going home oh got a
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score it's now one to one and the
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stadium got loud and the mascot of the
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A's is an
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elephant except I haven't seen the
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mascot out here today I've Just Seen
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I've seen these elephants but I haven't
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seen he was here dancing around on the
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other side stomper stomper oh stomper is
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the stomper yeah maybe we'll see stomper
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running around never know oh oh what's
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going
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on oh go go go wander just got a triple
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also if you ever seen any of the footage
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from 20 years ago when the
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A's oh hey oh wow another base hit by
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the rise
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hello I was going to go down there you
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thought I could come back no no you're
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Co you can come down now but how do I
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get down there oh you um oh you got to
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go to the stairs right there come down
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those stair it just turn to your left
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okay we'll do that thank you I tried to
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go down there where the drummers were
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but I couldn't fig the drummers not
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really excited right now because the
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rays are winning but back when the A's
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won 20 games in a row it was a walk-off
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win and it landed in those seats right
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over there I know why I'm holding this
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dirty
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napkin but it was right oh there we go
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there we
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go but it landed right in those seats
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over there
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were you at that game all right you just
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said that you were at that game where
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were you sitting sitting in the third
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deck third
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deck near the on the uh Third Base side
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so you were at history that was
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recreated in the movie
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Moneyball that's was also at the famous
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Jeter game where he threw out giomi at
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home plate oh you we a lot how many
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years you been going to games here since
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uh the late '90s since the '90s
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so you witness history so it was not
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Brad Pit Brad Pit played the part of the
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general manager in Moneyball he played
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Billy Bean Billy Bean
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manager that was a good ERA for the A's
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right oh yeah great times the early
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200000 that's awesome and I was right I
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was right the Home Run was over there
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right it didn't land like over
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there I thought maybe they would Mark
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the seat for the Tropicana of they have
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the Wade bog seat marked in yellow so
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instead of blue the Wade bog seat where
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he hit the Home Run is marked in
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yellow have you seen the Ted Williams SE
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finway I have never I've been to finway
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once for a tour but did not I've never
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been to a game there I don't remember if
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I saw the seat hit the right field they
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Mar the seat so they do it at finway
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they do it at trop but they don't hear
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it do it here they didn't even Mark the
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Kurt Gibson seat in DOD Stadium the big
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home run yeah the famous Kurt Gibson
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home run starting to make our way back
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to our seats but just want to show
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there's no one over here in the cham
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store I want to know what kind of
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fish he's
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trying I was going to say I want to know
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what kind of fish he was trying to catch
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with that but before I could go into
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that not so funny joke he put the pole
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down have the cotton candy on
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it was the same oh no it's a different
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this is a beer vendor just dog catcher
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with the cotton candy
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there it
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everybody is there someone with a horn
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over there oh look at that Mike Zino
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just battered to run
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in oh yeah get
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down and safe at second big
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Z awesome
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this is going good for the Rays and I am
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here for
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it also move from our other seats
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because someone has already taken them
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but the users said we can pretty much
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just kind of sit in this general area I
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don't think anyone's going to complain
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or roll through here and say get out of
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my
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seat we'll be okay we'll be okay and if
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someone says hey you're in seat we'll
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just move over
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to what's going on here here we go
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over to the
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bullpen someone got themselves a little
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souvenir of course this one of the team
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players so they probably don't
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care you ever gotten a foul
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ball might get one tonight you're only
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up against about 37 other people pay pay
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tiet
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a there's some with a horn out there I
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was going to say they're they're full
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band
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now it's a SCA band out in right field
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name a scab ban from the Bay Area oh
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operation nailed it it's interesting cuz
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some stadiums do
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not that one is distracting me oh
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there's someone there's one over
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here horn
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come on wonder oh that's it boom RBI
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franka another one
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boom that is how it's done it's now five
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to one Tampa Bay Zino's in K Meer coming
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out give a little high Fage Brett
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Phillips over
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there all right Brett's going to give me
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a toss up go oh that's you Alex that's
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you oh oh bouncing it back I tried Brad
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tried oh I just realized what the horn
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is it's the sound of the elephant
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trunk that's what that
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is that's he has he's got a he's got
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sinus infection so he's blowing his
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nose up there if you listen you can hear
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the
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B he up there see he's got a little
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little congestion in the in the SNS
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there it is there it is all right Brett
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I'm
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ready oh oh oh oh oh bounce
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it next time
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Bret next
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time okay here we go I'm ready
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now there it is get it Alex get it
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nailed it woo got it
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awesome Brett philis toss up
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there love that
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guy fast you can have it a
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souvenir it's your so I am on the board
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as Zach hample would say and then
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also I met Kevin
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K right there KK and I'm consuming a Dr
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Pepper right down
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here great weather
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great
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seats great
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Stadium great score 5 to
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one this is almost like a battle of the
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bay in in its own way Battle of the bay
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two the bay I mean cuz it's not it's not
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the Giants and the A's it's the A's and
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the Rays but they're both Bay teams got
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the East
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Bay there it
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is
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gone come on in come come on in
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KK woo how's home plate feel feels
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good number sixay
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W I love
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it there Kevin cash right there too
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awesome this is so freaking cool I also
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forgot to
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mention Angels in The Outfield the movie
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was filmed inside the
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stadium and they Ed the exterior of
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Angel Stadium in Anaheim F Tony Danza
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Christoper Lloyd Dan Glover Danny Glover
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played the
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coach I'm guessing you've seen that
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you've seen that film h no you know now
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did you know that you lived in the same
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general area as Where Angels in the
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Outfield was put on on to film I'm just
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not finding that out for the very you
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just finding that out yeah they had a
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lot of scenes right over here cuz this
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was the home Dugout in the game right
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here it was not over there where the
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home Dugout is
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here there's now two outs and Full Count
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three balls two strikes Randy Ros Arena
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at the
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plate oh that's a look at that look how
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big wait what just happened why is he
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leaving the field oh he's going another
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bat he broke the bat
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50 okay he's going all the way back over
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long
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walk back over to the Dugout to get a
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bat oh one's rolling the Bat
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Out look at the UMP over here is like
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can we move the game along please could
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you get could you get y's like all right
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let's pick it up pick up the pace a
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little bit but that just shows how far
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it is to walk over to the dug house
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like get winded just walking over here
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it's like the Denver airport the Denver
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Airport okay I'm looking all this is
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called the mountain up there someone's
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Mountain the top level oh where the
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numbers are there's a word for it it's
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something
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Mountain the Raiders P name it oh the
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Raider okay guess the Raiders used to
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play here but I'm looking over here at
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some of the numbers that are up here so
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number nine I'm guessing is Reggie
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Jackson of course Ricky Henderson that's
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an easy one jnis acle that's an easy one
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and then number 34 okay catfish Hunters
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27 and then 34 would be is it Raleigh or
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Ry I always call them rly fingers righ
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fingers he had the little handlebar
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mustache he had the twisty curly
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mustache you don't
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remember our friend temp tracker he used
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to have the same kind of Rolly fingers
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mustache you ever see the
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old the old TV shows where a villain
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would tie someone to the railroad tracks
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and
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go all right we got a review going over
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first Kevin cashwalk
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out they they're on the horn trying to
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watch the
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review Kevin cash out
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talk he's got a guy on first set he was
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safe they're challenging it call on the
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field stand
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W okay is this the hot dog guy we got to
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get a hot dog from I think it might
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be right
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here he's one with the dogs right the
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fresh dogs
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heyy going get a hot dog
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here give me an
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a let's
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go let's
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go let's goland
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let's eat hot
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dogs all
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right you were highly recommended
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earlier by someone absolutely they can't
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they can't stop talking about my
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wieners it's the word around the
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Coliseum the word around the Ural
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troughs
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oh my first time here never been here
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before I like it I like the stadium how
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long you been around decades
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right kind of you lost
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count all right see you later good to
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see you
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two outs ninth inning two strikes one
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more strike in the ray of
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one here in
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Oakland right field going little
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wild that's it game's over Rays win the
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Rays win and just like this that they
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have turned off a lot of the lights the
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scoreboard all the ground crew still out
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there taking care of business the lights
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have been dimmed on this side
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scoreboards have been turned off now
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these lights are still on these lights
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are still on but I guess the scoreboard
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just being turned off kind of kind of
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put a damper on
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the on the
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light what' you
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think great time it was a great time
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always always you got yourself a towel a
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rally towel now the A's did not get the
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the A's did not get a rally going but
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you do have a rally towel I got it you
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got the you got the rally towel going
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it's all good and I can say that I have
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been to a baseball stadium that has a
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worse turnout on a weekday than
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Tropicana
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Field but it just so happens that the
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team that plays at tropican field was
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here so that probably didn't help boost
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the attendance much but I was happy with
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the outcome good to see Razer back to
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getting a win
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making up I'm being I'm being called to
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ah had to
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leave don't have to go home but we can't
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stay
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here being told to go up the ramp
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Stadium Dive Bar Stadium the Dive Bar
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Stadium baseball's last dive bar
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maybe last season
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too oh yeah Catfish Hunter did P pitch a
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perfect game here back in' 68 that was
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the first year oh yeah 25 games into
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their inaugural
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season how cool
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that just to let you know down to the
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bottom of the other ramp of 120 awesome
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okay okay follow it around to the bottom
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of the ramp all the way so if you go up
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here follow it then there's a little
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hallway that's got Ricky Henderson Dave
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Stewart okay awesome and that's going to
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do it for today from the Oakland
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Athletic
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Stadium they have been here since
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68 and they are rooted in
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Oakland for
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now you said it I didn't I mean look at
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all those bugs up top there holy
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sh we don't have a lot of bugs in
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California this part of California at
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least that's a
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lot I'll see you in the next video the
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