Baseball Is BACK (Kinda) & Everyone Hates The New MLB Uniforms- Tampa Bay Rays Spring Training Game
Tampa Bay Rays Spring Training 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Saturday
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February 24th
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2024 also known as the first official
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day the first
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game of Tampa Bay Ray's spring training
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wearing appropriate shirt and I ordered
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ahead of time the spring training cap
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now these games are used basically to
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figure out lineups get the players ready
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get the nuances the es and flows of the
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team prepared for the regular season
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none of the games whether you win or
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lose really make a huge difference most
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the players will play at inning or two
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maybe a little more maybe a little less
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nothing is at stake nothing is on the
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line other than just testing and
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training that's why it's called Spring
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training but something I look forward to
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each and every year last year I was
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lucky enough to have the rise half of
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their tenure of training was over at
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Wide World of Sports at Celebration in
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my own backyard well outside celebration
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at Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney
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World due to the hurricane that came
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through the year before the stadium is
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fixed they've got it all ready to roll
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and today they are facing the Braves in
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game one of spring training baseball's
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back baby I'm inviting you to join me
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good to have you here shall you birds
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are
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chirping beautiful and to add some other
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excitement to the day this is my first
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time riding in the all new
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Tampa J mobile welcome to the
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cruiser this is going to be a fun day
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these cops are not pulling me over by
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the way we're both down here not ride
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down here together but we all we met
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down here and I hopped in Jay's car now
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we're heading
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in yeah it's only $15 to park over here
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not
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bad better than Disney truth okay we
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parked it's
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$15 we have burm seats today I believe
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or general admission general admission
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seats Tampa J is here we're in a jersey
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there a a jersey that has no one on the
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back no name on the back I'm playing it
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safe no pun intended but you never know
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what's going to happen so right now
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until the gates open we're just going to
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wander around baseball's backy look all
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these people yes okay so I'm going to
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guess that gates open 90 minutes prior
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cuz the game is at 105 it is 11:17 right
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now so we got a line of people over here
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let me zoom in on the amount of people
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that we got here trees
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here so I was reading some stuff online
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and listening to a few Ray podcasts that
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I listened to and they were saying that
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there is
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nothing extraordinarily new placed at
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the stadium since the hurricane damage
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they did not Spring train here last
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year but there are a few
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noticeable improvements to what was
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already here so maybe maybe we'll see
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some of those but there's nothing there
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was nothing really
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added yeah you're right there are there
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are less trees I think there are yeah
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there's a lot less trees there used to
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be some trees right here you know what
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the big thing everyone is talking about
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what is that the new jerseys everyone
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hates them even the players oh yeah the
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new jerseys no one likes the new stuff
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well it's it's an issue with the the way
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they fit and the seethrough ability of
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them I don't know it's pretty
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interesting I'm curious to see all the
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and it's not just the Rays it's all the
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teams have to check them out in the team
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store yeah well it's the ones they
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wear well I guess that would be the same
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ones they have in the team store yeah
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they should be selling them yeah try one
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on I'm going to buy one because they
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might change change them and I'll have a
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collector item here's the layout of the
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land this is it right here so last year
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we sat right behind H rais Dugout at
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Wide World of Sports this year we're
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going to be roaming we're going to be in
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the burm we're going to be on the
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boardwalk we
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have sitting on the BM and standing room
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all around here now who knows maybe as
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the game progresses some seats will pop
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up you know when people are leaving but
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most of the game we're just going to be
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kind of perusing around seeing the
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sights and sounds and the smells of
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opening day baseball I've been watching
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a lot of baseball movies 11:30 just
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listen to the the worker pronouncing it
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to the crowd he was also saying his
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shentan over here this is the first full
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spring training season they've had here
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in five years you know because of the
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events of
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2020 and the progress after that and
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then the hurricane etc etc you got the
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cheerleaders up here practicing this is
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a
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historic season well grapefruit League
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season because this is the first time
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since 2019 5 years the guy was saying
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that they will play an entire spring
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training season entire season here at
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Port Charlotte or Charlotte Sports Park
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which is pretty exciting it's been a
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weird five years first time they've been
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able to get it all in without any
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extraordinary event happening so
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hopefully nothing happens I don't know
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how many this might be the only game I
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go to here I might go to some other see
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the Rays play at some other spring
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training stadiums around but this might
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be the only one and then obviously I've
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got 12 stadiums to knockof this year to
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knock off the 30 just 12 I've done 18
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already done a lot yeah 12 to go I think
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got a lot of baseball this year I think
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you can do it he will do it what's your
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favorite baseball movie I've been
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watching a lot of baseball every night I
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watch a baseball feel the dreams of
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course man feel the dreams feel the
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dreams of the natural are like this the
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natural's pretty good everything else is
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like okay but those two full Durham's
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all right yeah it's fun I know a lot of
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people love that movie yeah um Sand's
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great the sand lot is money ball awesome
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Money Ball is a great movie out the
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other night oh that's a great I forgot
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that Chris Lloyd's in that oh
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Christopher Lloyd's in that yeah
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anyway we're both F of Dreams guys I
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also like Angels in the Outfield but
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that Chris Lloyd's in that he's in that
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too look at that there it is it looks
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like the line is is starting to move up
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there all right it's
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happening 4 minutes till the gates open
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got quite a few people over here
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tailgating and it looks like some
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autograph
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hounds
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Ray's made some moves during the off
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seon I think I'm pretty excited about
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some of the trades they made it's
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happening I just heard a couple claps
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and shears and one little
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hoay so what's our first move when we
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get inside the team store you want to go
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to the team store yeah I want to go to
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the team store see if they got some good
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stuff because I you got the new hat I
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did I ordered it I ordered two new raise
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cap this is the uh the spring training
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cap this is what is known as a solar
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tree the only reason I know that I see
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the solar pan panel but right there it
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says solar tree that little emblem can
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sit right there I guess get charged up
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also no bags larger than 16x 16 by 8 are
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allowed to exp by the entry F remove
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cell phone keys and prohibited
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items Charlotte County
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represent spring
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training I'm in
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Miranda okay so Siri's back Curtis
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me so this is this is the new Superstar
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here which some say is in the top two or
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three running to possibly get Rookie of
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the Year this year P to's back at
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Catcher And of course this is only this
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is only the starting lineup this changes
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after like an inning so we're going to
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see a lot we got the cheerleaders out
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over here raise
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upo good to be back
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back little Koozie is here bres is back
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ry's back Ean of course come over from
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the
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Phillies what
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you very nice and assortment of hats and
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they have the one I ordered online they
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got it here too and there's spr training
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hats 20 of them 20 different styles too
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I will buy a hat plenty different styles
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how many styles do you see right here
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Jack well how many of these Styles
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different styles do you say when you say
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Styles I think it's styles from
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team which is totally not here they all
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look the same well this is a this one's
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a little different that's okay valid
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point okay true that's what I was
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thinking ooh and a Aloha shirt style the
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rise I got one at a thrift store
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recently that was similar actually it
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might be this one no it's not that one
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but it's similar oh I like these like
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Hawaiian style shirts I thought it was
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that this one's $110 here
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Spooner is the
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name yeah who knows maybe I'll maybe
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I'll get one of those at some
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point look at that there's a dragonfly
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on that one that looks like one of the
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Grateful Dead bears it is Grateful Dead
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bear Grateful Dead bear and there's bogs
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weade
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bogs oh that's the old the classic top
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style top style you got Carl there's a S
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Spring training shirt
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there I like this one I like this
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women's shirt that's
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cool I like that
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$36 and there's last year
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2023 evidently everything over here is
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half off someone was
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saying the logo on the side anything on
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the back of this
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oh it's a Margaritaville Ray shirt
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interesting that's hopping in here they
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are selling some
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swag I'll check it out we could vote for
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Charlotte sports park for being the best
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spring training facility take a look at
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that I'm going to have to do that
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for that's stupid oh man it is
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officially baseball time again again
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it's not the regular season it's just
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the training but still at least the
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wheels are in motion to get this show
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move back on track we are walking around
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the boardwalk around the back which is
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standing room also and little Tiki Bar
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over here and I was talking to some of
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the workers that were here and I asked
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them what they replaced they replaced
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the lights they replaced the roofs all
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the fences I have not confirmed if they
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replaced the boardwalk yet but maybe I
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don't know maybe they backs side of the
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scoreboard here it's also a really nice
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day with the breeze look at the wind
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blowing over there with the
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flags blowing directly inward from the
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outfields to the diamond itself and I do
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not recall that mural being over there
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there you go let's go Ray Charlotte
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Sports Park Baseball Boardwalk oh c me
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still an hour till first pitch I'm going
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to try to find some
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coffee home stand
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concessions so I think later one of
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those popcorn buckets is on my radar you
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got a unsalted pretzel with mustard
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green mustard I got a coffee thank
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you got some cream too thank
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you the whole bad of cream and sugar
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here yeah I think I'm going oh what I
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could get what if they sell that whole
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big bag of popcorn right there probably
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not I have discarded up my trash here
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and the the little stir stick and
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everything and I like what do you know
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they're little footballs except it's a
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batting helmet but I don't know why I
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thought about the little footballs are
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Bas
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CH yeah got the gentleman on the field
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that make it all transpire grounds crew
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out there spraying down the field
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keeping it all wet Jay's rooting them on
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there grounds crew got to appreciate the
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ground screw that's true getting that
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brick dust all wet and nice Braves are
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on the field warming up really could not
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ask for a better day
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weatherwise for a little opening of
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Baseball spring training and got the
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Ray's Bullpen over there so we might be
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able to kind of take a gander your Tampa
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B Ray
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yeah the R thank you for attending
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today's
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day making some announcements about the
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hurricane damage like Kyle Snider has
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returned also as the pitching coach
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right over
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here we we got the nice backdrop behind
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us there
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Bree very nice I don't remember this
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mural being here before did you no
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that's new the new mural wasn't here two
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years ago a a little Sunburst behind you
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there it's a ray Man Ray is up this Bree
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is great beautiful weather okay it's
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flowing in hard towards the
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nfield I got the color guard coming out
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here to center field as
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well Kevin right there direct just
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signed his
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contract for another five or six
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looks like Rodney lire is there Kevin
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cash Josh
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love first Bas number
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20 and now the starting lineup for your
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Tampa Bay
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Ray I got all the bullpen getting ready
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to kick it off doing the hand shaking
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all right it's happening now first
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pitch of baseball
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me already going really well for the
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race oh my gosh that was a b it's
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continuation of the postseason right now
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I think I'm going to be washing this
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jersey a lot earlier than I did last
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year oh think good about spring training
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games nothing nothing matters yeah
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that's right I'll get this musard stain
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out
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somehow oh it's a little bouncer he got
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it oh no he dropped
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it we to get some foul balls over here
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CU that wind is
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gusting gusting our Direction I knew
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should have brought my glove here comes
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another
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B look for some
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lemonade poing over here kacor line is
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like one
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person but anything that's hot dog or
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sausage related busy people still
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flooding in all the concession lines are
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really long we were going to get some
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hand pressed lemonade but the line was
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like really really long so we're going
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to go Sand's lemonade on this most we
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can find something out in left
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field
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lemonade line was really long there's
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only one person at the stand so going a
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meander out here so on the other front
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side of the scoreboard if we were
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looking at it from the front side it' be
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showing that it's now 4 to zero the
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Braves are up over the
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race already down by four the new guy
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Junior
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caban High Hopes for this
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right
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there oh good
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play give them tips from
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here give them some tips they they
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probably I think they probably know what
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they're doing more than I
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do D enough better right
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again was craving some concessions but
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there's only two lemonade stands so
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we're going to go over here to the
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regular homestown CU think it'd be
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quicker probably to go over here wait in
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this longer line or maybe not cuz look
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at this it stretches from here oh my
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gosh that's the concession line okay no
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I don't think it sounds good look at
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this line oh my God sh it goes all the
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way up here never mind I'm not as
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thirsty as I thought I was I'm thirsty
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for baseball we gave in and got in a
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line this is the best line cuz it's a
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little shorter because it's for it's for
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Booze but I notice over here they do
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have standard Coca-Cola thing where they
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do have some lemonade bottle lemonades
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power AIDS and Waters so I might get a
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lemonade and a Power Aid and we're
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underneath little awning here so we're
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not in the sun got have Florida Sun even
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when the weather's nice it's pretty
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pretty brutal it's not as good as fresh
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squeeze but it's still still good and we
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didn't want wait like 10 minutes in that
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line but every other line here is
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probably like an hour waight doubling up
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on the minute may cheersing it up
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although it only took a minute to make
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it took several to
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take just made good made with real
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lemons so for standing behind this line
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you can stand but if you want to be on
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burm you have to be sitting
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s 51 brings their blankets
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again 5 to
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zero Braves are
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winning
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all right on the
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board4 a little
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delay here
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we it looks like Siri and Aranda are
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done for the day that's
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gone deep left who is that oh that's
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Mangum mang he was the one that missed
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the missed the popup over here I think
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he just I think he just totally redeemed
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himself toally redeemed himself from
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that first one it is windy look at this
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it's very Gusty over here this tequila
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stand there're having to hold it down
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hold it down hold it down
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still waiting for I really was want some
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popcorn still these lines are pretty
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long for food okay this is a shortest
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line I've seen all day over here at Hot
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Dog
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corner I'm going to get
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a tub of
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popcorn okay looking from here popcorn
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is $8 nachos are 525 they also have
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theater size candy I don't know how
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big I mean is is the candy the size of a
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full
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theater all right I got the popcorn Jay
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you got the popcorn thank you kind of
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see it there buttery also went with some
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nachos not the most plentiful amount of
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nachos but it's still nachos nonetheless
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it'll do all I wanted was popcorn and
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something else and I got popcorn El know
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no theater side
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C that's got to be the Rays doing
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something I think be scor let's go sit
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up
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there all right got another run it's now
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six to three in the bottom of the sixth
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with only one
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out got some seats up here a lot of
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people have left or not didn't show up
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so now grab some seats over here down
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the Third Base
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Line it's already the seventh inning
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stretch time with my
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popcorn get it I almost missed it I
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fired up the camera a little late sorry
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about that thing I noticed about this is
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The rais Dugout here at Port Charlotte
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is
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considerably bigger thick wise than the
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one at the drop is that
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gone that's
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gone
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H that was Greg
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Joe six to four no relation to chipper
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bottom of the the
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seventh comeback is happening I was
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talking about the jerseys earlier so
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take a look at the lettering on the back
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of the new
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jerseys names are not as big as they
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once were in previous Seasons I think
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that's going to be kind of across the
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board with MLB this year all right guy
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on third six to four one out three balls
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no
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strikes oh hello drive there it is it's
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a one-run game here we go right there
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it's a one run
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game H coming in coming in hot back here
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somewhere going up and over over to the
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popcorn
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ooh
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two outs two strikes down by War guy on
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third come
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on
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Wow we got the tomahawk chop happening
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of
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forl this might be the first time I've
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seen this in they popped it up and got
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it out there's a possibility of a rais
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walk-off win here there's one out and
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they are down
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by one in the night all they need is two
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to win one to
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tie there is no usually there's not a
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10th inning no not screen training all
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they need is to get a guy on and then a
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bomb now I'm going to lose my
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crap going to cheer don't lose it on me
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no I didn't have enough popcorn a lot of
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people have left well at least people in
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our area look they got a lemonade they
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got a fresh sque there's still some in
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there
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I'm not going to drink
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that three and
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two three and two count oo pop that's a
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big pop up someone's getting themselves
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little almost got a souvenir but it went
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over out oh
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man oh man let this guy hit Braves are
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one out away from winning this first
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game run I doubt
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it got the tomaha chop kind of starting
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up here with the Braves
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fans that strike two they only need one
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more strike two
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strikes right two strikes out nice
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Hing down
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one strike three the Rays lose Braves
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win it's a one-run game that was fun
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again a win or a loss the column means
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absolutely nothing in Spring trading
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but it's a nice when you win but no
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matter what it is good that baseball is
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back the aaph hounds are still out over
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here someone
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signed also we're just being patient
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before we leave because the line is
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pretty lengthy to get out of here Mass
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Exodus this really is kind of a mess
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getting out of here very very slow going
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you can see big backup big back big
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backup big
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back because they have to stop the
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traffic over there on that Parkway
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whatever road that is to let everyone
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out oh real quick like let's take a look
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at the schedule over here the schedule
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for
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2024 this is the regular season here
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opening day it's
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Thursday March 28th against the Toronto
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Blue Jays we play
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Tas that's when it really kicks off
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today was just a precursor to the
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kickoff just kind of nice to get the
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Vibes
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again yeah that's going to be most my
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travels is going to be
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starting in April my heavy traveling and
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it's going to go through
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September and hopefully into
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October it's going to be a year 13 more
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to go man 12 more 12 more stadiums oh
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that's right I've done 18 yeah see a
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couple potential like see some
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potentials for you on there for you oh
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yeah and me yeah I've got to go 12 of
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them there I've got so many stadi to go
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to I haven't even done a stadi on the
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west coast yet let's give this another
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try go back to the car try to head out
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of here let's piece it out second time's
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the charm right no way that's the third
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time gave up the first go back and come
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back cuz it's still
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along that's not too bad it's flowing
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it's flowing kind of sort of but
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baseball's officially
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here I'm ready for I'm already it's
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began baby train is great I'm already
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ready for the regular season I am uh I'm
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ready to have these games count I'm
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ready to go to the Trop yes and not sit
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in the sun although this is nice nice
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weather we stood through most we stood
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through six innings I'm not complaining
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this is great weather in the last few we
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sat up in the stands I love baseball
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outside but it's when it's August and
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it's
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hot I just saying we're in the trop yeah
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we really appreciate the Home Sweet Dome
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Home Sweet Dome
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recommendation you're going to go to a
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game here do not park in this lot park
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across the street or down the road a bit
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there's other Lots we've learned our
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lesson this is
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uh this is not the best area to be
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parking I mean we went this is like
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probably a good 45
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minutes they got their lawn chairs out
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over here 45 minutes to an hour after
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the game's over and this is all just
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barely moving making our way out
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slowly slowly not sure
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slowly the good thing is the hardest
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part was just getting on the pavement
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and then going straight because now
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we're moving so the key is to wait you
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know 45 minutes to an hour
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but I got to say the parking situation
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not two lanes two lanes pay
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attention we are we're in the second
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lane aren't
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we all right that's going to do it for
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today made it back to my
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hotel got a hotel for the night last
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night and
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tonight we'll see you the next video the
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Vlog it's