Tropicana Field Tampa Bay Rays Wild WIN - Inside The Park HOME RUN / Foot Long Hot Dog & Much More
Tropicana Field Foot Long Hot Dog & Home Runs
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today's adventure
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brings me to tropicana field
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home of the tampa bay rays
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as a recording of this monday august
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16th
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2021
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good thing it's indoors because it has
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been raining
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there will be no rain delay however it's
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in a dome welcome everyone out of the
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woo here
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tagging along tampa j what's up everyone
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we were back here in june that's right
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baseball buddies it is going to be
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unusual for me not to be at angel
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stadium i've been going to a heck of a
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lot of los angeles angels of anaheim
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but i'm here at the trump tropicana
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field
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i am wearing a wander franco t-shirt
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that i purchased
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the last game i was here with you in
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june saw his first home run his first
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game in the majors coming up from aaa
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he should be in the starting lineup
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tonight hopefully he should be who they
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know who they're playing they're playing
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the orioles baltimore orioles who are in
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last place dead last in american league
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east rays are first i think leading by
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only
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two two maybe three games
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is it weird to have two home teams
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because i have two coasts so we got
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anaheim angels los angeles
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i appreciate when you call this whole i
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do i also appreciate you know baseball
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and fandom same but you're over in
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anaheim i get it right you're supporting
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the angels and now i'm here in florida
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90 miles away yeah so this is your
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florida team and that's that's your uh
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california exactly i live five minutes i
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get it from angel stadium i live two
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hours with traffic from this one so it's
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a little a little more dedicated a
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little more difficult
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to get over here yeah
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we got outfield seats tonight
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20 seats not bad even with the fee came
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to 20 dollars like 18 and 70 cents plus
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tax
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40 bucks we're in there that's actually
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cheaper to park it's actually more
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expensive more expensive to park yeah 25
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bucks to park 20 bucks to park it's
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awesome
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i don't remember how much it was the
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park it was 24 right so if it was 18
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something so this is a long interesting
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okay gates should be opening in about a
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half hour it's 5 p.m game is at 7 10.
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maybe we'll get some batting practice we
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did not bring our gloves
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we failed
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whoops we're sitting in the outfield
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though so maybe we'll get lucky join me
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and jay
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shall you
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still have a little time before the
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gates open so gonna walk past gate seven
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along this bridge around to the back
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side
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and enter through there not the back
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side of water the back side of tropicana
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fields
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even though there has been some
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precipitation so
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i guess it would be well the backside of
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water in some ways still tropical
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it is and here is an angle from gate
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five
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gonna be walking into gate five not
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really a lot of people lined up
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even though it is less than two hours an
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hour and 57 minutes to first pitch and
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if gates open 90 minutes before
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that's only like 20 something minutes
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away not a lot of people here maybe it's
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the inclement weather maybe it's the
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weekday and a squirrel just ran by over
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there over here on the ground they have
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some of the the players that are very
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well known and coaches
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all along a little walk of fame if you
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will and of course
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recognize this name who played for the
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red sox
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for many years but was also here in 91
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with the devil razor not called the
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devil rays anymore now they're just the
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rays but wade boggs right there great
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player would have been cool to see him
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play in the truck went ahead did the
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full loop around the stadium
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we're going to be entering into gate one
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changing am i going in gate one
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it's just about 5 30. imagine pulling up
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in this
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i think this is a season ticket holder
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and probably not it's probably probably
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the stadiums
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about to head in all right at 5 41 gates
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are open that's precisely 90 minutes
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right this isn't first pitch at 7
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11.
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7 10. okay yeah so it took us a minute
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to get through the little checkpoint
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so exactly 90 minutes prior tropic
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handle field we'll let
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guests in made it in get a little burst
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down here a little red thank you so much
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right up there
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tropicana field not technically in tampa
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well tampa bay but in the city of saint
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pete and look down here there is a
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baseball diamond got first base you got
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second base it looks like someone has
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slid in over here and looks as if dj
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kitty is out strutting his stuff
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always good to see dj kitty
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i like dj kitty is one he's one of the
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two mascots here inside the team store
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quite an assortment of t-shirts
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a long sleeve as well
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all through here
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yeah even uh oh even the throwback style
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which i have a hat like this
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and they were called the devil rays oh
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even dj kitty has one of the little foam
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finger
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items right here as well it's not like
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the number one foam finger but it's a dj
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kitty
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foam paw it is kind of neat that they do
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embrace the old name
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as well
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you wouldn't think they would because
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the name completely changed but they
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definitely
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they definitely do
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there's another one of the little little
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bursts up top what would you would you
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call that a ray or would you call that a
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sunburst
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it's a
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it's a sunburst it's a sunburst but it's
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also a red it's a ray of sun it's a ray
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of sun i do love the nice assortment of
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headwear through here oh here's another
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one here with a little
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burst on the front of it
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able to catch a little orioles batting
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practice well i say catch i didn't get a
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i did not get any balls out to the
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outfield didn't really really try too
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much kind of wandering around the
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stadium it's very very empty
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even for this time
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i expected a few more people to be here
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but as stated it is a weekday maybe it
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has something to do with it but pretty
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good view of batting practice for the
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orioles taking a few swings
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over here at the first base food hall
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there really is
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plenty of options and really no one in
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line
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there is i'm definitely going to get a
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hot dog i've had plenty of angel dogs
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what they call the dogs here they call
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them woah doggies what do they call the
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hot dogs here at the trop
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doggies they're called woah doggies so
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they're not angel dogs they're not
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dodger dogs
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they're radoc they're dogs full of rays
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i just inquired if they had nachos in a
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tampa
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helmet they do not have nachos the only
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thing they have in a helmet is popcorn
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just not in the mood for popcorn not
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even cracker jacks
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you're not good for cracker jacks no i
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mean i'm sorry they don't have cracker
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jacks in the popcorn helmet could you
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imagine a porn could you imagine a full
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sized batting helmet full of cracker
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jacks the first snack of the evening is
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at a place called pig and potato and it
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is what they call a foot long
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what's it called a foot long tater tot
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foot long tater tot
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tater tot that is a foot long and real
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quick like stepped outside onto this
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little outdoor veranda this little
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outdoor
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outdoor patio
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if you will what'd you end up getting
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jay i got the beer battered uh french
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fries beer battered french fries with a
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little bit of is that honey mustard yeah
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i believe so some sort of mustard on
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there and you got a little decorations
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maybe cilantro and this is
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what we're dealing with well what we are
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going to say weird there's two of us
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what we're dealing with got some
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jalapenos on this as well
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tater tot action going on
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i should also add them that it's very
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wet out here it rained earlier
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now a whole i've eaten half of this i'm
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gonna devour this whole thing
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the more i eat of it the more i like it
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you got it buddy how are your fries
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they're delicious
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not as not as good as yours i would say
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but i don't know how do you know though
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i don't know this one's about to fall
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over i'm like look at the little
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cardboard tray there i'm about to try
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it's about the fall in my hand i am
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pretty surprised on how filling that was
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and i will def definitely develop an
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appetite as the game progresses and time
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goes on i'm going to start making my way
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to the sea just kind of going to wander
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around a little bit it's got the grounds
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crew out on the field taking care of
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business as well it's about 22 23
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minutes until first pitch and the good
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thing about really an empty stadium is
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not only we have seats in the outfield
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but we'll be able to kind of just move
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around and shift around at leisure just
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kind of find some of the the best spots
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and always pretty cool to get a view
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from the bullpen over here on the third
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base side we got the orioles warming up
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just before the gameplay about to begin
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not too much long i'll start making my
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way over to the first season state i'm
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going to move around quite a bit
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once i get started off in the outfield
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and just kind of shift around throughout
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the course of the game get a pretty good
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close-up of the catcher here
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and the pitcher starting pitcher most
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likely the starting pitcher who will be
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taking them out at first pitch and
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speaking of first pitch the ceremonial
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first pitch is being thrown thrown out
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and raymond trying to go for it kind of
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slipped up ball got past him you're not
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a k you're not you're not a great
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catcher raymond you're a great mascot
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but definitely not a great catcher and
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the mascots are up doing their thing
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game is about to begin first pitch is
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about to start
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7 10.
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oh there we go foul ball oh
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that stated there is plenty of elbow
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elbow room out here
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in our right field seats
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we even have a little separation between
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us here why not which i like i like that
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i like that
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this is nice yeah and as stated i'm
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gonna we're gonna kind of meander around
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the entire
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the entire stadium all game
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anthony
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phillips just made a catch
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people like phillips
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he's one of the happier players on this
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team he's always in a good mood
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he's the one with the famous photo
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running in the outfield with his arm
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stretching like this
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oh broken back
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there we go
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looking at the scoreboard and lineup
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behind me here it doesn't appear as if
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juan de franco is going to be playing
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tonight he's not in the starting lineup
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anyway
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hopefully he gets in the game later be
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cool to see him hit and the ale
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standings
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rays are three games ahead of the red
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sox and
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five and a half of the yankees at this
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point as of today
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now the bottom of the second inning
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already got a little action in the
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bullpen over here
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foul ball
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third baseline
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someone got him a souvenir
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cut all the banners up top from
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2008 champions a leased
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2010
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2011 wild card 2013 wild card 2019 wild
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card
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in 2020
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american league champions i'm also
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noticing that
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left field here is considerably
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considerably more seats than angel
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stadium
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also the dugout is
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kind of tucked away in there
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i think the first baseline here was
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extended over the years just stretched
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out but it's kind of like it's a little
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cubby hole over there
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as well as on the third base line too
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a little different it's not doesn't run
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parallel with with the seats see how it
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kind of
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kind of indented there at least the
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seats are protruding out a little bit
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more
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if that makes sense just little things
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i'm noticing and notice how phillips
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there has the lineup card he's got he's
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looking at it perfect
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kind of surveying who it is and he's
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moving around the outfield
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shifting more to the right puts it back
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in his back pocket some of the other
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batters he'll move closer to center
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but with that one whoever's up to bat
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he's shifted over to
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over the right field a little bit more
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all the outfielders keep the the player
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cards in their back pocket so they know
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who's up to that they don't just rely on
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the announcer
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saying who's
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up
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fun fact
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and it's good to know that the cotton
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candy is making the rounds
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around through here as well maybe
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they'll maybe they'll be a hot dog
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vendor
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maybe they'll be a hot dog vendor at
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some point
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strike
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get it oh
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you dropped it and they did not rule
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that in air it was ruled a hit
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that's a good arm though
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that's a good r
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everyone out here loves phillips there
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is an incredible amount of thunder
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outside did you hear that thunder i
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heard the thunder it was a there was a
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lot a lot of thunder
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it is it is
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well there is a tropical storm out there
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off the coast that's right i think it
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was uh fred tropical storm tropical
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storm way out there i think it's gone by
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it's quite significantly yeah yeah it's
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significant but there's definitely some
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weather bans oh yeah the man just still
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comes hardly anybody behind me
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at all good thing
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we're inside under this dome we will not
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have to worry about the elements at all
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take that tropical storm
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all i could think of was matt and max
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beyond thunder dome at that moment yeah
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yeah that's all i can think of
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under the joe
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oh they got a hit
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already heading into the fourth inning
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got the ground crew on the ground well
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ground crew is on the ground and just
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gonna kind of
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meander around and
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and just see what the rest of the
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stadium's like and maybe find some other
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seats
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got the cowbell kid over there
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getting everyone riled up
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oh i think it worked gonna get him out
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at first now there was a time when there
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was no netting
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over the little pool here with uh
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with the rays down in the bottom
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but so many home run balls were hit into
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probably endangering the
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them swimming around that they put this
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netting over it
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years ago
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he has a written on the back of his
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jersey says cowbell kid on the back of
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his jersey
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he's here a lot
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i remember back in june at that game we
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were sitting on the first bay side and
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the cowbell kid could be heard even from
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the first bayside
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even back in june so here a lot
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oh fouling it off oh that's up in the
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upper deck
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that is way up there
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i call those the seats that are going to
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be filled up during postseason that's
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probably the next time that they will
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see
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it'll happen the postseason is
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definitely happening went ahead and
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grabbed some seats here
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on this side of the outfield left field
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i'm noticing there's nowhere to put your
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drinks
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right so you know angel stadium you put
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your
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soda down in a little holder there are
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no holders here it's going go go
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in
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they also do a thing here called a 50-50
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raffle
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where you put money in and then they
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match it or you put they put money in
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and then you win half
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of what the complete pot is so
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let's say they get ten thousand dollars
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your number gets called you get five
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thousand and the other five 5000 would
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go to the charity and to help
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to help run the organization i'm
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guessing so if it gets to a hundred
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thousand you could technically win fifty
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thousand dollars
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so there are a few other workers kind of
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walking around trying to promote
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that as well
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at the moment though
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it's going good for the rice oh look at
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that let's pop that up
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hard to read oh almost dropped it it is
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now time
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for a hot dog
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all these places even papa john's
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central burger
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bird and batter they all sell hot dogs
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every place here sells the hot dogs
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oh my goodness there is a half pound
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grand slam foot long
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for 12.50
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that's what i'm doing
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i am doing the footlong tampa j went and
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got himself an orange juice he was
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looking for one because you want to get
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a tropicana you want to drink orange
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juice in the trough
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tropicana orange you have to yeah so you
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got that and you also went with the
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regular non-foot long
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i went with
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this is what
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are these nathan hot dogs too
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so it's not a nathan footlong
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so that's a nathan
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that's got to be a nathan too right i'm
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going to pretend that it's a nathan
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the foot long is it nathan also
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affirmation look at the difference that
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is a big difference that is
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okay i'm gonna go there also fun fact
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that you don't have sauerkraut nor
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onions anywhere in tropicana field i'm a
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little disappointed with that they do
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have mayonnaise however and they have
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mustard
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and they have relish i'm just going to
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go with you'll notice some of the upper
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decks the 300 level
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is closed off
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because
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not you know there's not enough people
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to fill up the upper decks also there
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was a home run
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by the rays happened
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while i was
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decorating this with mustard
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oh yeah let's go sit on
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the corner of left field and
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third base line yeah i'm gonna grab some
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seats right over in here
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oh check it out
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nice
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right down here 135 133
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this works
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that's a home run
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that
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is a home run there it is
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got the siren happening also
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now this is a hot dog
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oh okay it happened
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oh we might
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another hit
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all right he got first base
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i got to be completely honest
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did not really care for the football it
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was good
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and even though it was the same
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hot dog company
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as the regular non foot long yeah
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the consistency of it was a little odd
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and different does that make any sense
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yeah it makes full sense you like you
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like the taste but not the consistency i
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get that i would have rather had two
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hot dog regular hot dogs
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than the one it was just
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different
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it was good
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but i would not get that again i would
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go with
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i had a hankering
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for that much hot dog oh there we go
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based out
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they said going around scoring scoring
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scoring
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oh
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okay got another run in
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now the cowbell kid's over in right
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but there is someone with a cowbell over
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here in left field
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do not see a name on the back of their
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jersey or shirt though so i do not know
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what to refer to them as
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but the cowbell kid
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is standing up there
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it has the deeper sound in cowbell where
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this is the more tinny
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sounding cowbell of left field pop up
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and that's it
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oh he dropped it he dropped ooh
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the umpire saw nothing scratch that
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footage from your memory that never
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happened he did not drop the ball never
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happened i don't think anybody but me
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saw that you know what he it might have
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been an actual out
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i don't know what just happened
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he was out
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he's out
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he didn't drop
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did not drop
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oh we got a home run here phillips oh
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off the wall up oh getting a double oh
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he's going for a triple he's got an
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input inside the park go go oh my god
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yes
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get out inside the park
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holy crap that was good
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phillips right fielder that's how it's
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done
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that was freaking amazing i've never
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seen an inside the park home run have
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you ever seen an inside the park home
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run before i first saw it i've never
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seen that that was incredible we were
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just over we had to go back over to
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right field and congratulate him on the
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next inning we gotta go over there when
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that when the rays are back out on the
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oh that's a home run oh you get it oh
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it's a home run
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and the horns going off here in the
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truck
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all right everyone give it a round of
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applause to phillip
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coming in
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one of my favorite players on the race i
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think
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and that could be a home run that's way
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out they got it
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i don't know if i've seen too many
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players in the outfield acknowledge
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those in the stands as much as this guy
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yeah
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a little action in the bullpen ray's
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it's almost time for the seventh inning
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stretch
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that's it seventh inning stretch time
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and there's the siren going on
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oh yeah
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oh what just happened another hit okay
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that's a good recreation right there
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that's pretty good very accurate now i
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just learned after the eighth inning mr
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mr softy is the name of this ice cream
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place after the eighth inning they close
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but she was kind enough to sell me
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some ice cream a little swirl with
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sprinkles
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this was like seven or eight dollars i
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believe 650. 6.50
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but
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technically i should not have been
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allowed to get this but i said i really
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want a stadium cap full of ice cream
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and she was still still
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cleaning up so she dish me some out now
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i'm heading back out oh i can hear i can
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hear the cowbell all the way from over
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here
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oh baltimore is round then baltimore's
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going to score baltimore's going to
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score
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this is melting so quickly so fast
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it's not that humid in here but
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it is melting
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i sit right here
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i got it
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back over on the third base line
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a little lower down than before
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we'll pop up oh
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where is it right over there bam
25:44
shifted over a bit once again closer to
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an angle where he can get
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good look down into the raised dugout
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just kind of been all over the stadium
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all night
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it's a complete pop-up there
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gonna head back out to where we started
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right field it is now the ninth inning
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game's almost over just three outs
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going back to right field
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cowbell kid over there doing his thing
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for life
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there it is double play
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there it is
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only one more out needed
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nine to two rays over the orioles
27:03
one more out and that's the game okay
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two strikes two outs
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this is it
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that's it
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struck about game's over
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pretty dang good game all in all a
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pretty entertaining game even as much of
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the
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even though the score was a little bit
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distance 92 the game was pretty dang
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exciting i've never seen an inside the
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park going on before so that was a first
27:30
for me now i've seen them on tv
27:32
obviously watching baseball over the
27:33
years on television but never never seen
27:36
on the mlb level inside the park home
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run that was freaking cool i'm
27:39
definitely picking up a theme here the
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cowbell
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is
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real
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tampa bay rays and the cowbell certainly
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a thing
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in tampa bay saint pete
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everyone exiting down
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and on the way out from the team store i
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went ahead and got a couple of t-shirts
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for future games oh i will be back
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i will definitely
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definitely be back to quite a few
28:26
a few games through here
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tropicana fields
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this was good
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as the season progresses especially
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as well as they're doing
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especially as well as they're doing oh
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look over here on second base is a trash
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can
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like post season is in the cards
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for them that's for sure
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you gonna slide in
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knock it out of the park
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go go
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safe
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that's going to do it for today
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the vlog