Fenway Park Stadium Tour In Boston - Cheers TV Show Location / Site Of First World Series & MORE
Boston Fenway Park Tour
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there is a parade of duck boats
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cruising down this thoroughfare in
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chicago boston no chicago why did i say
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chicago
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boston
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this is where everyone this is where
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everyone knows they don't know my name
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but they know a lot of people's names
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the inspiration for the tv series why
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did i say chicago cheers and clearly
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sometimes i do not remember where i am
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going or where i have been but
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cheers also drinking starbucks not
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dunkin donuts this is a this is dunkin
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donuts threshold and area
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also tampa j is here cliff and norm
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you're cliff your norm cowbell max's
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norm i'm cliff he's normal you're norm
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i'm the cowbell max i'm the bar know it
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also welcome everyone adam the woo here
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as a recording of this sunday july 3rd
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2022
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and we have a full day planned
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we are going to do a tour of fenway
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park
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how do you say it pack fenway park
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there's no to the pack there is no game
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today but for 25 a person you can do a
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guided tour
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around one of the most historical
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stadiums in baseball we're all wearing a
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pretty
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appropriate hat this is a big deal
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we were all at wrigley field in chicago
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a couple months ago and now we're about
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to knock off another one
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bucket list america's cheers cheers
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cheers
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america's what amer america two of
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america's most beloved ballparks yeah
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well the third one's the trop
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this was not used the interiors were not
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used in the tv show but it was just the
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inspiration
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for the hit sitcom which a lot of people
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from that went on to be superstars
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including ted danson
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and and woody hair that's right woody
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was in that and i'm also going to cover
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a lot of other spots
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not just not just specifically the
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baseball stadium but i'll you know
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pepper that in as well so it's going to
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be a wide variety a full day
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on this excursion hello there squirrel
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this squirrel's got a little
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little snack in the mouth there
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there's a lot of squirrels there's a
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squirrel there
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another squirrel over there
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another squirrel over there hello
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squirrel how's it going
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look at that hello
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there hello there
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hi squirrel i've never gotten this clear
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this squirrel is very very friendly
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look at this look the other one's coming
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for you is it look
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look at that i didn't mean to start of
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you squirrel
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got the nice skyline over there i just
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realized what park i meant i was here i
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don't know three or four or five days
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ago i am in the same park where the
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robin williams bench is from goodwill
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hunting in fact you can see this over
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robin's head in the movie covered those
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locations but i just i'm walking through
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this park and just realized it's the
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same park that the bench is located in
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i'm kind of noticing with these swan
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boats out here there is one person one
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employee from the swan boat company
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peddling about a dozen people that are
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on said boats at first i thought maybe
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everyone would be help peddling but
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these bigger swan boats it's just one
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person
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peddling the entire that's a good leg
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exercise i don't know if i'd want to be
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doing it but yeah that's that's
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something all right the one i was
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specifically looking for is not in the
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park it's right here look at this this
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raven this oversized metal raven is
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perching on the handbag of the one and
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only edgar allan poe
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himself
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very distinctive poe face
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given the look there
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yeah we have a suitcase
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once upon a midnight look at that that's
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freaking sick
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and that cool look at the size of this
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crow you're a raven knocking at my
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chamber the crow's almost as big as him
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i don't know now that i've seen all the
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harry potter movies in great detail i
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know i'm a ravenclaw you're a ravenclaw
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and this right here
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that's a ravens claw way before
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that franchise i still haven't seen that
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it's all right i like it and this place
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is closed today probably got this you
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know weekend sunday
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but a tobaccoist
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right there holding a stogie that's
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right come on here
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this guy's name is punch
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okay it says do not sit or climb on the
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sculpture
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wait a second max isn't that your hat
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he's now sporting your hat right there
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he took it he took it from me he took it
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from you right there check this out
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wicked smock
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only 10 that's pretty good this is
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pretty neat too
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boston was founded in ad-1630
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right there and here's
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this little inscription here with the
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the ship
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and some of the
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the
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settlers shaking hands a little
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gentleman's handshake there pilgrim
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shakes a little pilgrim shake
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hello sir
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and how are we doing today excellent
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we're looking for the jfk sculpture
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yes any idea where it might be i do
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it's hidden over there this is
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interesting too here stood the residence
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of john hancock prominent and patriotic
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merchant of boston
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there's just so
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much history here now i can't walk back
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in here
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however
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the gentleman dressed as benjamin
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franklin i believe
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pointed out that they moved this
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jfk john f kennedy
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that's pretty cool
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pretty good view here of even more of
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the skyline over to the way over down
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the way
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supposedly just down this section behind
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those buildings is where
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mother goose
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is laid to rest all right this says mary
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goose i'm thinking this is
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mother goose right here
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it's the best i can tell and according
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to the map
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kind of standing in the right spot
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of course it's very faded and very
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difficult to read but
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there's the information
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okay reading a little information that
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was in this book
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evidently this is not the headstone of
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mother goose it is
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one of her son's wives who took the name
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of mary
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very very interesting so i'm kind of
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looking at
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looking at it says right here it says
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unfortunately elizabeth's
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headstone disappeared long time ago but
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you could see a marker for isaac's first
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wife
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mary it appears as if paul revere is
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drawing quite a crowd over there where
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he is
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where he has laid directly revolution
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and turned him into a folk hero problem
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is he didn't quite tell the truth
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but we'll get to that
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so it's april 18
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1775 and had been learned through a spy
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network here in the colonies called the
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sons of liberty first thing that comes
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to mind is that he was a signer of the
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declaration of independence and he had a
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very large huge
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very flowing signature that was on the
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declaration so it was so prominent and
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so well known that when people wanted
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your signature on a document they would
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say give me your john hancock
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okay give me your time
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now let's talk a little bit about john
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hancock john hancock was born a very
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poor boy now when sam
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and i met as friends we became very
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close friends
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now i funded if it wasn't for my money
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and his brains you'd all be
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because
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i funded the sons of liberty
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i was a son
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i funded sam all right those red sox
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could only mean one thing
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america's most
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beloved ballpark says the banner
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fenway park here on the corner of jersey
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street
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got about a half hour before we got to
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go and i think it's currently about 11
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30. it's 11 33 our tour starts at noon
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so we'll walk around lansdowne and all
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the other areas
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after we do the tour oh there it is
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nope 1912. built in 1912 the same year
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nice
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the same year as what the titans are
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saying i don't know why i went there
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that's exactly what i think oh that was
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the same year
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titanic
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it was reconstructed back in 34.
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that's a nice little footnote you added
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in there i wouldn't have caught that
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yeah
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you know you're leonardo dicaprio
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history no my cat not really sure which
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which gate you're supposed to go
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is that a bottle crunch
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did you just bottle crunch it and not
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get undocumented
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uh it was kind of a spur of the moment
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type deal
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go jay go go go oh you still got
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something
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hold on are you always here
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oh if a bottle is crunched if a tree
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falls in the surface does it make a
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sound and if a bottle is crunched not on
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camera is it really crunched
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re-crunch it
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i i think i just sorted some adjacent
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water the store is pretty neat look it
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has a lot of the teams here you got a.l
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east
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that's the division right there ales new
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york boston toronto tampa bay the
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orioles
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they at least not for long yeah there
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are a few people doing this tour look at
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this the line stretches all the way
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gotta love the holidays
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oh yeah
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and the rays are doing a three-game
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series here
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you don't say oh yeah
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hmm the stinky socks about to get swept
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up boy
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that's a bold statement
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such a historic stadium
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feel the dreams took place in here i
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mean a lot of movies but
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i feel the dreams is definitely one i
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remember yeah i gotta say these seats
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not the most comfortable
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seats oh no
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we are the smallest playing surface in
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all of major league baseball we are not
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the smallest in terms of capacity that
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goes to a progressive field in uh in
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cleveland but we are the smallest
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playing service fair and foul territory
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depending on who you talk to what day it
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is and what phase of the boom we're in
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uh 87 to 90 000 square feet if you think
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about uh coors field out of denver
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yankee stadium
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well over 110 120 000 square feet we are
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a tiny little nugget oh
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great
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city advertisement
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now alds last year the kier
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april 20th now it's over 12. we were not
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going to use that
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installed in 1934.
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they're made of oak and iron
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most recently they have a spring
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these are the oldest seats in all the
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major baseball the only remaining wooden
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seats of all major league baseball
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frankly the most uncomfortable seats in
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all of major league baseball
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normal sized women with hips in 2022
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feeling a [\h__\h] yes
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that is a ladder
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mazel tov a movie you have found the
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most useless ladder in professional
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sports
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the bottom rung of that ladder is 14
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feet off the ground
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not even if these long monkey arms can
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reach it seriously i have a weak span of
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76 foot
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that with the aid of a 14 foot extension
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ladder is how the hardest working ground
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score in major league baseball
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used to retrieve the balls from the nets
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to use for batting practice the next day
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you guys remember manny ramirez right
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our excellent left fielder right-handed
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hitter the phrase was manny being danny
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one day when the net was still up there
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manny was being manny and decided to
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steal the extension ladder and strain
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the ground screw up on top of it some of
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these bleacher seats are pretty
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fascinating how if you're sitting in
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this seat all you're getting is a view
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of the 32 pole
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and that kind of stretches all along the
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way you get in the bleacher seats you
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might have a view
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an obstructed view of a hole plenty of
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seats in sections one and two we also
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have the standing room section four up
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there row four up there
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can you guys believe that when these
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seats went on sale in 2003 the red sox
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weren't sure anybody anybody would want
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to sit up here suffice to say friends
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these tickets are no longer 50 each and
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they do not [\h__\h] the entire season on
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sale at once
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monster tickets are not season tickets
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they go on sale in two month blocks
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dynamics do you ever think you'd be
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sitting at the top of the green monster
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the least expensive time to get your
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money you know what else early so i
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guess everyone up here
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in the hills yet to be established it's
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not the monster it's cold
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for real though
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this is freaking awesome
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look at that
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this roof before 2015 used to look like
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the one exactly one directly across the
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street from us black tar paper hvac she
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saw the potential
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this is a 2400 square foot organic
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garden dang never knew about this
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fenway farms which means
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it's used in media dining it's used in
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concession stands it's used in the
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previous dining restaurants
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so uh what i'm saying is uh if you're
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here for a game and you're not feeling a
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fenway frank and a sam adams
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you are in luck you could treat yourself
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to a kale salad at a time you got a
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place you could like charge your phone
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up here oh you charge your phone
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this is this is legit
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you see the whole field down there
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yes it wasn't the hazardous yeah
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that red seat no we didn't run out of
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green
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that red seat marks the landing spot and
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the longest home run hit inside of
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fenway park in our history
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that right how many feet 502
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feet from home plate and that home run
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was hit june 9th 1946.
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not really sure exactly what they're
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looking at maybe
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they've lost something perhaps a contact
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lens or something
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up he found it he got it
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he got it just think about it ted
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williams at the plate just crushes one
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all the way out here past 500 feet
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and there is
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the red sea the red sea and really get
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an idea of how far 506 feet is
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now in the press box up on the fifth
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level we're not gonna get that same kind
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of wind to give the ball that sort of
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lift and push david ortiz would take
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batting practice with an aluminum bat
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and could still the blue flags of the
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years we let somebody else win the world
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series
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with the exception
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of the second flag from the left
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1904
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now that is the blue flag because the
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boston americans won the american league
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championship series that year but there
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was no world series in 1904
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is
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some serious baseball history
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right here
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yeah that's a great photo that's kind of
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where
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that's kind of where where costner and
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james earl jones was sitting in there up
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there
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yeah he's like oh i got the 15 pole this
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is like a little museum they have in
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here from 2013 this signed jersey here's
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a postseason
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base
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bat as well in 2007
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from the world series and o7 right there
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one of the bass
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there we go 2004 i love pedro from
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cleats i love pedro martinez's signature
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he's got one of the best
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2004. oh yeah look at that it's clean
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dude you can fully read his whole name
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catcher's mask all of them silent got a
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ticket stub down here from the 46 world
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glove here look at the way the gloves
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were back then
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and his seat is marked at the trop
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tropicana field like here they have the
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red seat they have a seated tropicana
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field for wade boggs three thousandth
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hits out in right field look at this
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tampa bay devil rays back when they were
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the double race yeah imagine sitting in
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one of these no arm wrasse just a
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standard like kitchen table chair
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right there this is kind of the
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just closely that's like the progress of
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the the different seats look like the
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ones we said and here it is in miniature
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right there
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this is a neat little kind of addition
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onto the little museum that they have
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oh look at this grouping of the fellas
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all right and then we exit out here
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one of the archives
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gate
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okay
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all right you got
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carly shrimsky here
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tip in his cap
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and then of course ted williams
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okay we've walked around now to the side
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street lands down here's the lounge down
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garage here's house of blues pretty neat
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though this a little little side hack we
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learned that the bleacher bar over here
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if you go inside the bleacher bar you
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can look into right field completely
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in
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into center field not center field but
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you can look into out the gate through
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center field look over to the left
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and there is right field look over to
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the right and there is the green monster
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you can get a perfect view you don't
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need a ticket you don't need to pay for
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the tour nothing all you have to do is
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walk into the bleacher bar and you get
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this epic view
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of fenway outfield from center field
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looking in both directions or directly
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towards home plate doesn't get much
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better than that it's pretty dang all
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right gonna grab a bite to eat now over
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here at the best
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the best sausage company
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but they also have pizza i think we're
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gonna get a slice of pie yeah sausage
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they do have hot dogs
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steak and cheese which is good but they
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also have pizza
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i think i'm going to get a couple slices
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of pie
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i don't know that sounds well that
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smells pretty good
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look at this this is the best sausage
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company world famous
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in boston mass congratulations all right
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two slices
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a little cheese greasy cheese and
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pepperoni if you've already started
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devouring it
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i like how we all got the same thing we
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went with the salt water
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look at this we got six slices a pie a
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little
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pepperoni
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cheese
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a little grease
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someone just asked to be in my video
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then they ran and they ran off
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i really want to know is this the best
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pizza now is it just best pizza in
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boston or best pizza at fenway outside
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we're not in fenway anymore or is it
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best pizza anywhere
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this is our view from the little picnic
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table we're sitting on
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fenway park 1912. and just kind of
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looking at this
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you would just think that this was like
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an office building you wouldn't even
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like well you wouldn't look at this or
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maybe like apartments you wouldn't think
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that that was a baseball field on the
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other side you know with the exception
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of the light sticking up there
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so neat so we were on the tour
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the guide was saying that the old
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stadium used to be
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a mile or so away from where fenway is
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now up until 1911 fenway built in 1912
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and the first world series ever
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took place down this way so we're trying
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to find see if there's any kind of
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marker or anything all right here's the
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sign says world series way
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there's a bank of america here which is
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kind of interesting because back then
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it was not the boston red sox it was the
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americans
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the old stadium's long gone but here's
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kind of a bird's-eye perspective of it
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look at how many people are in the
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outfield making up their own
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kind of makeshift wall of the outfield
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and then also
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congregated around
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the diamond that's interesting tucked
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away back in here
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oh there it is we got something over
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here
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it's like they found something okay this
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says cy young right here
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so this is the side of the first ever
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world series in 1903. look at this cy
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young at this site october 2000 or 1903
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baseball's winning his pitcher led
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boston to victory
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in the first world series this happened
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right here look at this cy young himself
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and i think we all are probably on the
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same page which who is going to win the
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a.l cy young this this year
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shane mcclanahan from the race i'm going
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to put it into the universe now
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shane mclennan yeah fist bump it boom i
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gotta kind of wonder though was this
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where the pitcher's mound was yeah is
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this where the pitcher's rubber was was
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it like was home plate
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60 feet six inches that way
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oh here we go look
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boom
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dude
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glad we walked over here it's about a
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mile from fenway look at this the first
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modern world series between the american
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league champions
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pilgrims later known as the red sox
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okay that's interesting this says boston
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pilgrims
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not the boston americans they had so
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many a's
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versus the pittsburgh pirates at one
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time they were the boston braves too
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that is so freaking cool look at that
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are you marking off to 60 feet six all
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right the home plate marks the spot adam
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found it over here
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you're getting technical man
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you're stepping it off this is the best
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seat in the house right here i've sat in
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some okay seats watching games
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but this is the best seat in the house
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look at this
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if someone steals home
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i got the angle right here look at that
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just like randy last year you got it
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i always wanted to know what it was like
24:00
to stare down cy young
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look at this i'm staring him down
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it's pretty intimidating it's very
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intimidating
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also since we're on mcclanahan for the
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raise pitcher for the race probably the
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best pitcher the race have yep kluber
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probably a close second
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will mcclanahan start the all-star game
24:23
yes coming up you're saying yes and cy
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young yes
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man we're putting a lot out there in the
24:28
universe
24:30
he's proven he's proven it though man
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day in and day out
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there we go
24:37
looks like there's been signs of a
24:38
struggle out here look at this i thought
24:40
maybe i could film a little bit more
24:42
just other stuff on top of what we've
24:44
already done we've done a lot but i'm
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going to end the video here because it
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does not get much better than this
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moment
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right here at home plate the first world
24:52
series in 1903 nice tie into the fenway
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tour
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i think the rays are going to be in town
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for a few days the rays are going to be
25:00
in town coming up oh yeah
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who knows what the future holds fellas
25:05
holds a sweep
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you're
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okay that's that's
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hey i think there's much ahead
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there's much ahead
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i'll see you in the next video give me a
25:17
cowbell stay tuned
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boom boom boom
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