How I Spent My 47th Birthday at Angels Stadium - Double Header Baseball / Hot Dogs & Helmet Snacks
Angels Stadium on my Birthday for Double Header
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welcome everyone adam wu here as a
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recording of this tuesday
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august 10th 2021
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my
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47th
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birthday and i have decided to spend it
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with a doubleheader
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baseball game at angels stadium it is
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about 1 40 p.m
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the first game
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against the blue jays will happen at a
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little after three the second a little
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after 7 p.m i have tickets
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for both this will be the first time i
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have ever experienced
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a double header anywhere
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should be fun and a nice relaxing way to
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spend
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my birthday inviting you to join me
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shall you and since i dropped off my
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rental car ended up getting dropped off
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here
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at the forefront of the stadium so do
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not need to pay the ten dollars to park
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just gonna walk in gates usually open 90
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minutes prior to first pitch so just
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about time by time i get up to the gates
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you can see
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really no one
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in the parking lot as of yet
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as of 1 42
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p.m highly doubtful there will be any
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batting practice not only because it's a
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day game but also because it's
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incredibly warm out here well warm for
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socal
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now it is my plan is just to enjoy the
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game meander around the stadium and eat
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lots of food hey it's my birthday
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granted i do that every other day too
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but
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now it's justifiable this will also be
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the last angels game i will be attending
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for the month of august because tomorrow
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boarding a plane and heading to central
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florida when i get to my
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east coast home in celebration
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throughout the rest of the month i have
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a couple of tampa bay devil rays games
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well formerly double raised games
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lined up i will be rooting for them i
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have two quote unquote home teams
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anaheim angels los angeles angels of
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anaheim and the tampa bay
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rays if you will kind of confusing but
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since i'm back and forth those are the
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two teams i root for today
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is definitely the ages now if things go
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well when i am back here in september
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into the middle of september
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i might as well go might catch a couple
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of these but just kind of flip flopping
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back and forth if you will well i stand
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corrected there is batting practice
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surprisingly even under the elements and
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the heat southern california heat at 153
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they are doing batting practice which is
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good not a whole heck of a lot of people
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out in right field at all or left field
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for that matter because there's really
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no one here yet at all so be a pretty
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good chance to even try to get a home
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run during batting practice no luck on
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that one and just like that at 2 p.m
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just within a matter of moments of me
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being out in the outfield with no no
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home run balls hit out this direction
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they're starting to pull away the the
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ground crew is out now and they are
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removing
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all of the fencing for batting practice
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that's it to give a general layout of
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the land my seats for the first game
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are in 205 right up here in the shade
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205 on the third base side i believe the
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upper decks for the first game are not
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even available so none of the 500
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none of those are even available that
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way the cleaning crew between games can
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take care of business very quickly my
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second the second game the 7 pm game i'm
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sitting right over in this area right on
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the wall the first seats
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for the first seat i believe it's 2306
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right on that corner right on the wall
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so could get pretty lucky i ended up
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having tickets for the second game the
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first game for some reason on the
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website was not working so i had to call
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and get tickets
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that way and they informed me that they
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are going to have everyone leave their
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seats
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come down in this little
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alcove veranda area they're going to do
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a temporary cleaning between games and
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then you go to your second seat so you
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need tickets
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for both seats although i think a lot of
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people probably will just stay
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and try to find seats but i bought
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tickets for both games not a lot of food
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options
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open at the moment i was overhearing one
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of the workers and they said at first
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pitch a lot of the restaurants and
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walk-up food places will
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start to open oh check this out you can
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customize your own
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jersey i could get my name on the back
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of one of these that's something to
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think about for the future i'm not going
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to do it today but that might be kind of
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a cool idea this is the hat i lost
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yesterday on big thunder mountain
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railroad
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right there
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i also like the blue one though
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i have the blue
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lower case a but i don't have the
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capitalized day so that's maybe
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something to think about at some point i
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gotta get i gotta i gotta restock this
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for myself though yeah
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i have the throwback lord i say but i
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don't have the capital a to be more
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technical i do have the
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i do have the capitalized a but it's
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just
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just on the red the red cap
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and there's the match-up and as stated
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not really a lot of food open yet until
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first pitch i gotta find something up
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gotta get some lunch as more of the
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ground crew prepares for the very first
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game first pitch kind of doing their
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thing out here on the diamond with the
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dirt and you know all the playing fields
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and whatnot i have found one hot dog
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stand that did have the hoffy
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dog very kind of way of standing here in
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this little courtyard but i found the
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hoffy dogs which also known as an angel
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dog a little mustard and a little i'm
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gonna start off with this and then find
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my way to my seats for my first game of
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the double header i've seen this area
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right over here kind of being like a
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full-on party
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party zone if you will for some of the
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night guys but right now
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no one in this little area i was lucky
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to find enough a hot dog because first
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pitch hasn't happened yet but up on the
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the main deck all the way near third
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base they had some hoppy dogs
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celebrating 60 years according to this
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little placard
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and then looking up at what the breeze
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is like with the wind blowing here
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across the the flags
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out in center field one thing i always
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like to do is go over to the bullpen
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and watch the pitchers and catchers warm
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up
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catchers warm up just as much as the
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pitchers do before each game you know
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having one of the coaches throw the ball
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to them just to kind of stretch a little
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bit get warmed up not only just normal
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pitches but also into the dirt throwing
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them into the dirt because not every
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pitch is going to be a strike a lot of
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them are going to kind of go not the way
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the pitcher directs it and into the dirt
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and the catcher has to hone their skills
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to catch it always fascinating to i
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think the most under appreciated
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position in my opinion is probably the
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catcher
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it's a difficult one that's for sure now
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this is very interesting even though
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this is being played at angel stadium it
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is technically a toronto blue jays home
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game it's a makeup game
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so the angels are gonna be batting first
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and even though i paid for a seat on the
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third base line for game one
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so tony's batting second i'm gonna go
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out here to right field as you can see
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not a whole heck of a lot of people over
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in right field and no one up in the
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upper decks the the upper decks are
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completely closed off
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for game one as i said
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a makeup game
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where the angels are the away team
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and that's different right
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and otani what's
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i think everyone's got the same idea
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everyone is
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is ready
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ready to pounce if the ball gets hit out
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i have moved back over into the shade
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you know the night game i'll be sitting
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over there on kind of the railing of
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right field to be a lot more people i'm
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sure i'm not the only one with the same
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idea about
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staying in the shade both teams
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in the bullpen they're all just kind of
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nestled there under the awnings
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there's really hardly anyone
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in game one
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up up up got him got him
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oh face hit base hit
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the third base line
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oh yeah gotta run in
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angels have scored on a side note both
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games including the first will only be
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seven innings
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shouting mvp for vladimir guerrero jr
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kind of interesting the top two home run
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leaders
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are both playing in this game
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vladimir and shohan
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oh
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man
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that was right at his face last game i
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went to was at dodger stadium i was
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noticing they have a
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much less space for the batter's eye
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than they do here
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at angel stadium you can see they have
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the the waterfall they have this little
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monster energy area they have all the
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turf over there and they have the turf
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over there there's a lot more seats in
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left and right field at dodger stadium
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and there is at angel stadium
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i wonder why i wonder why there's so
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much more here
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for the batter's eye area which is set
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up so that the batter has a
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clear shot of the pitch heading to home
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plate for future reference if you're
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here during a day game and the sun is
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not set yet you want to set field level
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stay away from the first base side go
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over to the third base because you can
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see how it's shaded out and after 6 37
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pm
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it won't matter at all because it'll all
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be shaded
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so i'll be sitting out there in the
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outfield okay i ran over here i didn't
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realize otani was up next
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okay
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oh there it is
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there it is
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dang it oh gotta admit it's kind of nice
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when the stadium's
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relatively this empty
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to just kind of move around
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that will to wherever you want
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step out on this little
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walkway
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getting a look at the 5 30 traffic
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going by on the freeway oh something
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just happened
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only two outs needed for this game to be
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over
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because it's only seven innings even
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though the scoreboard says nine innings
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it's only seven innings
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in fact
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already got the ground screw down there
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waiting to open up those doors in the
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outfield so they could go do their jobs
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in between the two games they're just
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waiting
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waiting for that last out
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there it is that's it that's the game
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game one of the double header in the
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books
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angels win and now basically what they
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do is empty out the stadium and you
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either have to go outside and get in
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line with everyone else to get back in
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or go in this little corral area and
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after you're corralled in here a couple
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minutes later quick cleaning now heading
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back in over to my outfield seats quick
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and easy and before heading over back
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out to the outfield i'm gonna hit the
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spuds fry stand up oh yeah this is so
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good little miniature potatoes like with
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the sour cream the cheat the cheese on
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top of there a little pulled pork i'm
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gonna show a little bit of the potatoes
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there
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perfect mix of everything
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pulled pork potatoes
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cheese sour cream and for the second
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game the upper deck is open
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and the sun is
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kind of setting behind
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the stadium so pretty nice to have shade
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all through
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people really don't like this guy
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go go go
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go hurry
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who's gonna
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just going to kind of shift around a
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little bit the seats i was sitting in
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were pretty good but there were people
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sitting next to me and behind me
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not a lot of elbow room
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close quarters and since there are a lot
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of open seats i'm just going to
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kind of meander
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maybe pick a few others out in the
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outfield but first i'm going to get some
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ice cream oh yeah this
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is what we're dealing with a little
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vanilla saucer with some sprinkles
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inside the helmet the collectible angels
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helmet it's a little bit smaller than
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the helmet was that had the potatoes in
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it but man this is a this is a this is
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some nice delicious tasty treat now my
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seats were over there on that far corner
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right on the front
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but yeah it was a little congested and i
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realized like probably during the
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playoff seasons and
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you know it's postseason i could
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understand being crammed in with others
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but in all honesty i really prefer
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this type of environment a lot more or
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up there or just kind of yeah i just
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decided i'm just going to enjoy my soft
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serve
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soft serve here
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with a little bit more space some of the
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open the open seats that are through
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looks like a little bit of a wave going
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on
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starting anyway
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the wave is starting
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i'm gonna grab a seat over here in left
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field now also had a little craving for
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another angel dog
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so went ahead and got another one
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another hoffy with mustard and
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onions i don't think there's anything
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wrong with having
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two hot dogs
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for my birthday
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right
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got an oversized water to wash
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everything down
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you got the one liters here
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which are kind of nice
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don't have to buy two or three of them
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just buy one big one it's so healthy
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just one more out needed the game is
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over angel's still down four to zero
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oh oh base hit nice hit
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two outs though two outs
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two men on base
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we need a base head here and then
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ohtani's up this could be good or it
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could all end right here
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walked him
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going over it
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this is it
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could happen right here
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holy cow i just sprinted from over there
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base is loaded
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this is it man
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oh up
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oh yeah the hype is real
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cool man i ran so fast
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come on
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oh what was that
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oh come on
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two strikes
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come on struck him out
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struck him out game's over dang that
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could have been so
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awesome besides the ending
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up to bat the
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best home run hitter in the game this
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year
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bases loaded could have tied it up i was
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in the right place in right field
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where he had hit them before
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i thought maybe it'd be a birthday
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miracle
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to get my hands on a home run ball did
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not happen
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at least i got to see a double header
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and a relaxing fun day to spend your
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47th birthday
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enjoy your nice baseball game some
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delicious stadium food
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besides the sounds and the ambiance of
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angel stadium and a nice cool breeze in
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the southern california air i'll see the
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next video the vlog
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it's over oh yeah one last thing should
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add in the time that i am departing
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9 40.
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a lengthy day
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anaheim angel stadium
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the los angeles angels
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i'm just going to call them of anaheim