Announcing My 2023 Travel Plans & MLB Baseball is BACK at Disney World / Tampa Bay Rays at WDW !
Travel Plans and The Rays at WDW
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welcome everyone Adam to Wu here has a
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recording of this Tuesday December 20th
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wearing an appropriate jacket you can
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see
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cast of characters there
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spaceship earth other Disney as a tree
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of life
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lots of Disney
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iconic places at Walt Disney World which
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is just right next to where I live here
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in Celebration Florida and wearing an
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appropriate hat Tampa Bay Rays
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favorite baseball team
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favorite theme park
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and now they are co-joined
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Major League Baseball is coming back
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to Disney World I'm inviting you to join
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me
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shall you
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Mr gentlemen on the bike riding by was
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just wearing a Tampa Bay race cap also
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what a weird coincidence
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do not feed the squirrels
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the Atlanta Braves used a spring train
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at Disney's Wide World of Sports which
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is about two or three miles not too far
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five minute commute
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just past the Mickey power pole give or
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take kind of in that general area
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years ago but baseball MLB baseball has
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not been played on Disney World property
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in a heck of a long time and I feel like
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I have somehow in a roundabout way put
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this into the universe
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I've been following very intently Tampa
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Bay Rays
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for two years now last year went full on
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visited nine away stadiums as well as
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Tropicana Field probably 20 home games
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so I went to at least 35 maybe more
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because I went to nine stadiums but I
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went to almost all the entire series at
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said stadiums I'm gonna talk a little
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bit more about that as well and I'm
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gonna go over to why World of Sports and
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show as of this morning well I found out
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today I think it was announced this
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morning I just found out
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the Rays are going to be spring training
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at Disney World what in the name of heck
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is going on in my life
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favorite team favorite theme park
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now connected
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and I feel like this will be the only
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year that that will happen so I've got
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to go go all in
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starting in mid-February until March 1st
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it's only for like two or three weeks
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I'll explain more so basically the way
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it this scenario played out is the
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hurricane that came through here a few
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months ago
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while hurricane Ian I believe it was not
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the not the prior hurricane but the
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hurricane before that went through the
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Fort Myers area which is near Port
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Charlotte this is really really cool old
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classic vehicle
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and really did a lot of damage to where
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the race Spring train so they had to
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find another place and they are going to
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go half and half
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at Tropicana Field which is in Saint
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Pete where they play their home games
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later the second half of spring training
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the first half is going to be at Disney
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World
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which brings me to this subject matter
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and I want to talk a little bit
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about my travel plans
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for 2023 I figured
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I could kind of mention those too I have
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some good some cool ideas that I'm going
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to also be mentioning classic car alert
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okay as I'm reading this four hours ago
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this was posted
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got a news article
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stating
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MLB is coming back to Walt Disney World
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next year Tuesday Disney and Tampa Bay
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Rays announced so it was today they
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agreed a portion of team spring training
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to be at ESPN
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Wide World of Sports that's the
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hurricane Ian damage part of Port
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Charlotte so they're looking forward to
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providing professional facilities world
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famous Hospitality players and coaches
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thankful for Disney's willingness to
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accommodate our unexpected spring
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training needs which to me means that
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once
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Port Charlotte is fixed
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next year the year after next well not
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this upcoming spring training with the
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next everything will be back to normal
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they'll be back in South Florida
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it looks like the Braves left in 2009 so
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it's been three years
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man I am excited about the Rays coming
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to Disney right in my backyard and over
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on the raised MLB page race 2023 spring
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camp to open
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at Disney
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not able to use Port Charlotte
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or Charlotte sports park in Port
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Charlotte
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razor hold the first phase of MLB spring
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training and this is ESPN Wild Water
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Sports Complex and then moving to
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Tropicana Field where they play their
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home gangs which for me I don't know if
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I want to see spring training out there
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at the regular Stadium this is
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definitely more my vibe to see spring
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training over here and it's a lot closer
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goes on to say pitchers and catchers are
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reporting on February 14th early arrival
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slated for February 6th and they go on
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until March 1st there's going to be one
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game played only one game they're going
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to be training so I'll be able to go
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over there talk to players see the
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players document a little bit of that
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and then after
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to raise MLB leaves the minor league
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Camp will be based there all the way
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through the entirety of spring training
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which is pretty awesome see if it says
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anything about the actual date of the
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game
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Braves use the facility for 22 years so
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it is baseball ready
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yeah this is pretty cool
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I believe it is the 28th February 28th I
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believe is the game that they're going
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to play see if I can find some more info
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okay here we go
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Major League spring training workouts
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plus a February 28th home game will take
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place Lake Buena Vista Florida at the
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Disney complex okay February 28th is the
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one game that's happening here's an
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example of the traffic on I-4 Westbound
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many many times I've taken this to
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Tropicana Field
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two-hour commute
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if I'm lucky
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for regular season baseball games and
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I'll still do that next year as well a
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few times
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I kind of feel like this is a nice
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little
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just handed to me the fact that I'll be
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able to go see the race within a few
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miles from my Homestead
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won't have to get on I-4
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to go to spring training and then down
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to Port Charlotte for spring training
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got Donald right there saying hello
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I don't do a very good Donald
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but then take a look this is how close
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it is
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Hollywood Studios or ESPN wild Wilder
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Sports
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Don't Mind If I Do
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oh dang
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currently closed
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I don't know how far I can drive up here
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evidently not going to be able to get in
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and see the stadium but you probably get
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pretty close all right that didn't work
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out
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it's all closed off so I'm not gonna
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head over towards my parents house my
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sister and her husband are in town have
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a little family time but I'm gonna pull
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off and just discuss a little bit about
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those travel plans and race stuff and
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all that momentarily I made the commute
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over here to Osceola Heritage Park
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Osceola Stadium here in Kissimmee
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Florida where back in the day Houston
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Astros spring trained here for a long
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time Wildwood to sports Brave Spring
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train there but the Astros back in the
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90s
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Spring train here and I would show up
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quite a bit got quite a few autographs
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met a few players from back in those
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days Craig bijio Jeff Bagwell even Yogi
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Bear a coach for a short short while
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for the Astros and met Yogi Berra as
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well the sorta was here with the Dodgers
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for a spring training game
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it was a long time ago and then after
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that
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I ended up working here
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part-time during spring training at one
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of these concession booths selling hot
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dogs and
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beverages things like that peanuts I
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never worked in the aisles
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I never went out in the stadium itself a
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small stadium
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but I worked
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in that little very one right there well
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I would just kind of Shuffle around and
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work in there working there this is the
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a few decades ago
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I always loved baseball really started
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getting back into it in the last couple
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of two years or so
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really went down the Rays rabbit hole
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obviously I rooted for both teams I
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lived on both coasts the angels I lived
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one mile from Anaheim Angel Stadium
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Angel Stadium Los Angeles Angels of
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Anaheim now called
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but when I moved out here permanently
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even though I travel a lot up at
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Celebration about you know 9 80 90 mile
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commute
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over to Saint Pete's Tropicana Field I
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really
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started getting into the Rays and
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I'm fully on board with the race
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but since I cannot get up to where
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they're going to be spring training this
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year
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why World of Sports for the next best
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thing was just kind of discuss
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my baseball plans for next year look at
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this is a big baseball
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here at Osceola County Stadium
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just kind of makes sense now even though
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the rays are only going to be playing as
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from what I've heard one technical game
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at the stadium up at Disney World
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they will have a couple weeks there
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where you'll be able to go up talk to
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the players beat the players get
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autographs if you so choose photographs
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it's kind of an intimate experience just
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like it was here in the Houston Astros
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used to Spring train here spring
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training is quite the vibe
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and as I said because it's going to be
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in my backyard makes it really really
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cool
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now what I'm going to do for the regular
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season
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just like I did last year I went to a
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lot of away games I'm going to continue
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that tradition this year and next year
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well this year I did it but also next
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year next year's within a couple weeks
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in 2023 and in 2024 I'm gonna be hitting
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the away games pretty dang hard rooting
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for the race here are all the stadiums I
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went to last year while rooting for the
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Tampa Bay Rays
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Tropicana Field of course their home
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stadium that's one I went to Wrigley it
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was snowing at Wrigley Field I went to
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the White Sox also a while in Chicago
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guaranteed Ray I went to Angel Stadium
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it's all the Rays versus the angels and
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went to Oakland Coliseum for like a four
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game series I went to quite a few games
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up in Oakland the Bay Area I went to
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Seattle Mariners
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went to the Red Sox I went to
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three or four Gay I can't remember which
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I think which is three three games
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at Fenway Park sat behind
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the raised dugout on the third base line
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also another game sat up in the green
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monster a little bucket list I also with
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the Cincinnati Reds Great American Park
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and went to the
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ALDS they didn't make it to the
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championship series
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but I went to a couple get two games a
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Progressive Field
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against the Cleveland Guardians so I've
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got nine knocked off my list so far and
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to continue that I believe I have to
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check the schedule I'll show the
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schedule the race schedule next year for
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23. regular season not not spring
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training I got a little fall in a spring
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training tangent but the regular season
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when that kicks off really going to go
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hard on that
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13 I believe are 13 more stadiums which
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means by the end of next season you know
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unless something happens obviously you
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know never know what travel plans or
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life things get in the way things like
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but barring anything anything emergency
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wise I should be able to go to 13
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stadiums next year which means I would
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have done 22 stadiums
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in two years
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which means in 2024
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I should be able to knock off every
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stadium in MLB
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with the Rays playing there I know a lot
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of people have probably visited all the
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stadiums like there's 30 stadiums I have
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to look that up I think there's 30
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stadiums a lot of people have done the
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30 stadium tour over the tenure of a few
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seasons or maybe their lifetime I'm not
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sure how many it's probably less
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percentage-wise of people who are
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rooting for their team at all those
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stadiums
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I know they're probably people who have
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done it
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but I am going to document it I did nine
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last year
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hopefully it can do at least a dozen I
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mean if I can do all 13 that'd be wild
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don't know don't hold me to that but in
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the next series of years
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maybe possibly the next two years if I
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can hit every Stadium oh wow
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that would be cool later in life to be
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sitting on the porch in a rocking chair
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talking about baseball with the youngins
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and bring up that little little fact I
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think that'd be pretty cool now this
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ticket booth has closed closed
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but I want to show
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the schedule that the Rays have starting
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next year this does not include spring
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training opening day is against Detroit
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Tigers at home at Tropicana Field on
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March the last day of March I believe it
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is let me just kind of pin this in here
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the 30th of March so disregard anything
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that's in blue because blue are home
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games yeah I'll probably go to a couple
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home games here and there you know
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certain ones I'll go to some home games
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but all in all
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because Tropicana Field really is a
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chore for me to get out there you know
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it's about two hours on a good day two
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and a half on a bad day with traffic
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I would rather just go to away games
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knock off a bunch of away stadiums so
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example if I stick to this plan
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means I could do one or more of a
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three-game series in Washington that's
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one I got to get my passport I could go
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to Toronto over here on the 14th
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Cincinnati I've already done so we've
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already got two in there then you go
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over I have not done Baltimore haven't
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done Orioles haven't done the Yankees I
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haven't gone to a Mets game anything
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that's in the white there are away games
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so you knock those out
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boss and I already did Chicago I already
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did last year
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Oakland I already did but look at this
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the pot they're playing the Padres they
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hardly ever play the Padres Arizona
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they're a play
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Seattle Mariners I already did
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let's go over here to July before the
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All-Star breaks so Seattle have already
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been to I've already been to bears but I
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have not been to the Kansas City Stadium
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I haven't been to the Royals haven't
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been to Rangers
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since I was a kid I went to a Texas
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Rangers games when I was a kid I think
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that's in Arlington but I haven't been
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one where the razor playing anytime in
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the last couple decades I haven't seen
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the Rangers
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and then Detroit Tigers over here
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San Francisco Giants they never play San
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Francisco Giants
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in San Francisco I want to be there for
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that angels I went to last year Miami
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have not been to that Stadium yet
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Cleveland I just went to will not be
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going back to Cleveland anytime soon
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Minneapolis would be kind of cool
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and that's it I think that's 13.
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I think it's 13. let me recount yeah
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just recounted up the ones I mentioned
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the ones I had not to bought to last
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year the ones that are away games I
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could technically go to
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you know if like I said if something
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might come up but if I have the ability
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to go and fly or drive to those places I
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could go to 13 cities 13 new stadiums I
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have not been to where'd my gear sitting
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up close rooting for the boys
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be pretty awesome and if I don't do 30
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if I can't do all 13. if they do a
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Baker's Dozen I could get pretty close
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to that and what I will also do is while
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I'm in those cities
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places I don't normally go will be able
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to do other videos you know let's say
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document one of the games
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maybe not go to the entire series while
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I'm in those places but at least go to
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one game just to like check the old
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check the check mark off
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and then I can explore and do things
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around each of those places throughout
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the course of the year I think it's a
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good idea pretty excited about this
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I wasn't going to announce this until
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you know after New Year's or New Year's
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making like a New Year's announcement
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but with the new fangled announcement
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with the Tampa Bay Ray there's people
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probably in those campers right there
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wondering why I'm yelling they probably
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are
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I don't know why those ranked campers
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are there but
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I'm putting it into the world now I feel
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like in a roundabout way
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Disney
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and Tampa Bay Rays as much as I heavily
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I have been going
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to raise games and to Disney the fact
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that both those are now going to be
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connected
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it's a sign I think I feel like in a
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weird way me putting the thoughts out
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there made the universe make it happen
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not really but in my mind it did since
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I'm already on the subject talking about
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the Tampa Bay Rays it's going to be
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interesting next year not seeing some
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familiar faces
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that I have gotten used to seeing for
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the Rays first baseman G-Man Choi is
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gone moved on to another team
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Mike Zunino catcher has moved on to
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another team Brett Phillips who they let
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go three quarters of the way through the
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season last year one of my favorite
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players for the Rays
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off of the race and Kevin Kiermaier who
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I got to see hit a walk-off home run
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with my dad my dad went to a game we
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were sitting right there on the first
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Baseline right behind the raise Dugout
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saw Kiermaier hit that home run believe
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was into right field winning the game I
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documented a lot of race guys it's going
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to be very interesting to see a lot of
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those key players who had kind of big
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pay payroll contracts
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are gone now and the rays are getting
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new players
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just an always a cycle a lot of players
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are coming back a lot of players are
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moving on
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I'm excited about next season though I
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feel
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I feel good about next season
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anyway I digress just wanted to kind of
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talk about that
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no more G-Man
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no more KK no more G-Man
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it's a new era no pun intended because
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the headwear continuing the baseball
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talk this might bore bore a lot of
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people but continuing the baseball talk
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next year next season after spring
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training going into the regular season
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2023 a lot of things are changing across
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the game of baseball a lot of new rules
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in place one of the changes is the fact
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that teams are going to play teams they
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don't normally play more often out of
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division teams and whatnot from what I
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am hearing every team has to play every
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other team at least one time in the
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regular season for example now you have
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the Rays versus the Padres the Rays
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versus The Dodgers
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teams like that that don't normally play
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as much are not going to be playing each
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other every year in the way it works now
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is
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those said teams
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will play one series at home for the
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other team like for example the Dodgers
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next year 2023 are playing at Tropicana
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Field
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2024 the Rays should be going to LA to
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play the Dodgers in LA
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that'd be pretty cool to be at Dodger
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Stadium in 2024 seeing the Rays play so
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that's kind of how it's going to work so
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that gives me the opportunity it's like
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a sign
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be able to accomplish this goal going to
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all 30 stadiums seeing the Tampa Bay
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Rays against their opponent at those
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stadiums and knock out every MLB
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baseball stadium
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seeing the team I like in that Stadium
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within a span of three years last year I
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did nine
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might do 12 or 13 next year and then 24.
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polish off the rest
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man why am I talking so why so excitedly
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anyway that's what's gonna happen I will
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do road trips next year I will travel
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I'll still do some theme park stuff I
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will also do some movie locations just
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basically business as usual but I will
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be going to places I don't normally go
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which is going to be nice
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kind of a you know it's kind of a nice
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mix doing this baseball thing really
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helps me go to other places and as
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stated last year I think I filmed a
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little too much baseball so if I went to
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a stadium that I hadn't been to I would
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film more than one game I think this
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year I just do one game and then
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document other things around the town
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and kind of mix it up a little bit more
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or maybe not
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who knows of me thanks for listening
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it's raining I'm gonna go do some family
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time for the holidays
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and I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog
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raise up
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oh I'm so excited they're gonna be at
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have I mentioned that
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it's only one game but two at least two
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solid weeks of them being in my backyard
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being able to go there
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meet the players talk to the players
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talk to the coaches
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get the vibe
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and as stated this will be the only time
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that'll happen because once their spring
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training stadium is fixed in Port
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Charlotte they probably won't be back at
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so you gotta you gotta utilize it while
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you can
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the blog
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it's over oh yeah I forgot to mention
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even after the Rays MLB go back to Saint
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Pete Tropicana Field for their spring
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training after their spring training
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duration at Disney
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the minor league teams are taking over
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and will be there through the entire
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duration of their spring training
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Montgomery Biscuits for example Durham
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Bulls it says the Durham Bulls have a
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lot of raised players they call up and
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down throughout the course of the year
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although a lot of players on that team
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as well so even after the rays are gone
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or the second half of spring training
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I'll be able to go see the the affiliate
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Farm teams what a2a and 3A it's kind of
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confusing now how many Farm teams are
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but yeah they'll be there
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through all of March