The Sad & Complex Ending Of Tropicana Field - Tampa Bay Rays Temporary Home / Baseball Uncertainty
Tropicana Field Saga
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Thursday December
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26th 2024 it's beginning to look a lot
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like post Christmas a hawk just flew off
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right there I missed
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it here on the back side of 7-Eleven it
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was like right up there in the
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tree and it flew off that way and I
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completely completely missed it flying
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off kind of startled me I didn't know
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what to think of it because I wasn't
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expecting a hawk to fly fly by there so
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I want to make my way over to St Pete
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today my first time going to St Pete in
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a while in
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fact over the last series of years I
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have gone to downtown St Pete a
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multitude of times 100
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times probably pretty close Tampa Bay
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Rays wearing an appropriate
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hat
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here are in a little bit of a discom
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ulation
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confusion right now 2 months ago
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Tropicana Field was destroyed in a
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hurricane rip the roof off and the
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reason that they cannot quickly repair
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the roof is because it's going to be
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millions of dollars that someone doesn't
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want to pay for whether it be owner of
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the ray the owners of the Rays the city
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the county it's also confusing it's hard
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to even keep up every day there's a new
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development they're going to be playing
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next next year the 2025 season at
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steinbrener field Spring training
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facility for the New York
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Yankees and possibly for the next few
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years who knows I may have seen my last
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game unbeknownst to me at Tropic anfield
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and since the news broke I have not been
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over there and seen it with my own eyes
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I think about a month or so ago my good
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buddy Tampa J who's also a big Ray
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follower Advocate fan went by
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kind of paid his respects to the Trop
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now it's my turn I'm going to go by see
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what it looks like now and also stop by
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Stein Brer field on the way there and
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then also do some downtown St Pete and
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stuff long intro I know but it's good to
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have you here I'm inviting you to join
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me shall you now next year I don't know
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how many games I'm going to be going to
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cuz I am going to be doing a little more
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traveling than normal and I've completed
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my 30 all 30 current MLB stadiums even
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though I'm going to have two more to add
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on seeing the Rays play in the Major
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League Baseball season non-spring
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training which would be Stein Brer field
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and then Sacramento where the former
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Oakland A will be
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playing traffic looks like about an hour
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and 40
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minutes to go the 85 miles to the former
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well still shopic can field yes slow
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going here on the exit but I think it's
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going to smooth out a little bit traffic
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shouldn't be too too bad because it is
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the day after Christmas
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so a lot of people are
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still still at the destination that they
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arrived at and they haven't started
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traveling back yet so I imagine it'll be
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a little smoother than normal ah
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hopefully cross on my fingers H maybe
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incorrect in my assumption on how I4 is
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going to be I4 eastbound looking pretty
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nutty westbound's backed up a little bit
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but still showing a little smoother than
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it usually is also Ste field 20 M
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closer to me from
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celebration than the Trap so next year
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if I do go to any home games which are
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kind of in a weird home stadium 20 mi
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closer Drive commute for me which is
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going to be nice and now westbound is
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pretty backed up look like it's getting
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worse as the day progresses it's all
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part of the experience there's Santa
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Claus waving goodbye to Christmas from a
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toilet
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I also wonder how long this empty boat
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used to be a restaurant of some sort now
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it's just a boat sitting here by
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dinosaur world like how long is that
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empty thing going to sit there it's been
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there for like 20
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years right there off the side of the
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road ah the Tampa Skyline there you are
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there you
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are all right there it is Stein brener
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field where the Yankees spring train and
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also
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our minor league
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tarpons also play in
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here now from what I the rumor mill the
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rays are going to be paying the Yankees
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15
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million that's what I was hearing to
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rent this facility for one
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season which not
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exactly you know it's not a rivals in
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the AL East you really don't want to be
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giving your AL East Rivals $15 million
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but at least they're helping out they're
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doing some construction in here I don't
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know if it has anything to do with the
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Rays being in here but
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yeah I can get through here and the
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tarpons who are
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their farm team they usually play here
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but from what I was hearing again all
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rumor mill stuff has probably been
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confirmed but they are going to beov
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moving and playing elsewhere so the farm
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team for the Yankees will not be in here
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and I'm also wondering if the Razer
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they're paying that many millions of
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dollars to rent this facility are they
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going to put all the Tampa Bay Ray stuff
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up or is it all going to be full Yankees
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obviously you know the Yankees Hall of
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Fame here Babe Ruth Mickey man that'll
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all remain but will they
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remove you know all the logos and stuff
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and make it make it race
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time will
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tell there's Mr steinbruner right there
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a sculpture of
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himself so this will be the home of the
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Tampa Bay Rays for 2025 possibly 26 and
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27 it's so up in the air it is such a
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confusing historically irritating
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scenario that has not been decided on
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again every day every few days every
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week There's a new
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development this is where they're going
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to be playing right inside there
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originally I had hoped when there was a
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little small inkling of hope that they
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could possibly go to Wide World of
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Sports at Disney that would be right
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down the road for me in celebration
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which would be nice I will not be going
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to as many baseball games in 25 as I did
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in 24 23 and 22 those three years were
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very intense I have now knocked off all
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30 current mob stadiums seeing the Tampa
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Bay Rays which is quite a challenge I
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didn't just go to all 30 stadiums to
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just see random games I went to see my
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team and root for my team and I'm glad I
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accomplished that also this year I
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knocked off my 50th estate so I've been
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to all 50 states and all current 30 MLB
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stadium now like I was saying 25 when
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the Rays play
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here I will be able to knock off my 31st
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Stadium seeing the Rays play a regular
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season MLB game I'm not counting spring
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training stadiums even this is even
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though this is a spring or spring
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training games not counting those but if
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they're playing a regular season game
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one of their 162 games in a spring
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trading Stadium then I'm counting that
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so this will be my 31st and at some
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point we'll see the Rays play in
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Sacramento where the California A's or
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the Sacramento A's whatever the heck
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they're going to be called before they
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move to Vegas are going to be playing
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here's the interesting thing what if the
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Rays make it to the postseason go deep
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in the postseason and this is their home
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field what if they won the world series
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I mean this is like a huge huge crossing
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the fingers what if they P what if they
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won the world this this is always holds
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10,000 people what would MLB do they'd
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have to move it the series to a
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different Stadium a bigger Stadium
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they don't want to they don't want to
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only have 10,000 tickets sold for a
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World Series and then Oakland what about
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Oakland Sacramento what if they go deep
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in the playoffs next year next year's
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going to be a weird wacky year for
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baseball all right heading over to chop
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again I think maybe there was a little
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hurricane damage here that they are
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fixing I think that's what they're doing
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so will the big Yankees gear be up
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there this is a nice Stadium too I went
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and saw the ray Spring train against the
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spring training game last year against
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the the Yankees ear before the regular
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season of 24 it was my first time
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attending a game and sitting in the good
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seats like up behind home plate I've
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been to one other game that I kind of
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had like in the Outfield and it's a nice
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setup it's a nice setup so going to
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games there is going to be nice however
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it's not in a dome it's not going to be
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72° it's going to be in the sun and the
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elements in the heat all right I pulled
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over right here off the side kind of
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looking this is my first view of the
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trop since it's been destroyed with my
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own eyes I've seen it on pictures and
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things like that but yeah that is
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wild so part of the roof still remained
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3/4 of the roof was kind of
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disintegrated and ripped to shreds by
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the hurricane a couple months ago but
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they have since pulled off the remaining
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portion and now it's just the shell it's
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like the skeleton a Tropicana Field over
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there which is just seeing this I was
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pulling in here to the St Pete Skyline
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wow I'm getting closer all right going
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through the tunnel from fer I parked
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over at fergs here is the reveal of
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Tropicana Field without its roof now I
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know the first thing a lot of people
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when they think they saw the field first
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instinct or the first thing you would
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think of is well why don't they just
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tear the rest of the roof off and just
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play in an open air Stadium like a lot
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of other teams do and that would make
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sense except except for the fact that
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this stadium was not originally built as
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a baseball stadium it's a multi-purpose
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hockey esque Stadium I think it was
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originally built for hockey and then
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when the Rays took it over they
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converted it into a mostly Baseball
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Facility even though they do other
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events here as well but it is not set up
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for drainage so you would not be able to
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just start playing in there it would
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take a complete renovation probably be
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easier to tear it down which they were
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going to do
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anyway originally so the Rays made this
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whole statement last year before I
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bought my house I bought my house a year
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ago and before that couple month few
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months before that the Rays put this
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whole campaign out here to stay here to
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stay they did a whole press conference
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they did it inside Tropic cani talking
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about how in January of
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2025 they were going to break
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ground in one of the areas around
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here this section probably the parking
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lot General vicinity they were going to
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put shovels in the ground in January
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coming up next what would have been next
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month and then in 3 years the new
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stadium was going to open somewhere over
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in here then after that after a season
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of that of playing in the new stadium
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starting in 2028 I believe it was they
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would start tearing and ploting
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destroying the old Tropicana Field
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whatever the new stadium would be called
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be the new home that all
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changed when the hurricane came through
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I don't know the ins and outs the red
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tape
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the all I don't know any I don't really
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know what the heck happened all I know
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is the rays are not playing in here next
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year and I have a pretty good feeling
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the Rays will never play baseball in
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here
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again I have attended most likely have
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attended my last Tampa Bay Ray game in
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tropic field if I had known last seon
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was going to be the last one I probably
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would have gone to the last ever game I
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went to the game a couple weeks before
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at the end of the season so I was doing
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finishing up all the other stadiums but
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man what a what a mess and you know
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Mother Nature you cannot Act of God you
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cannot you have no handle on that cannot
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change any of that now you would just
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look at this and think oh just you know
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clean the inside out take that top
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portion off it would be really cool to
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see the trop as an open air Stadium I'd
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be for it I mean it is nice to be
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sitting in 72° air conditioned all the
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time but I would be off of sitting in
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there however any rain from that
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hurricane a few months ago till now has
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all culminated and puddled up inside
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there lots of damage inside there
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because it has nowhere to drain meaning
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if they just ripped the roof off cleaned
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it up fixed everything that needed to be
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fixed still every time it rains it's
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going to be immense Mass
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flooding which does not work so they
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have solved a temporary solution they
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have solved next year and they're
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playing steinbrener field where the
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Yankees farm team
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plays but this is just eerily weird so
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many times for 3 years
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went to tons of home games tons of them
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the security checkpoint was right there
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to go into
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the ballpark and wreck you could get in
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2 hours before or you can line up over
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here an hour and a half before and go
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through the main gate also the team
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store most likely water log destroyed so
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that is not open the bay Republic
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store I did honestly I did not think
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that I was going to be able to walk this
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close I am kind of surprised
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now when the storm came through they had
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a hurricane Disaster Response set up
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inside there and evidently everyone got
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out of there in time before anyone was
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hurt being in there they had cots all
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set up plenty of photos
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online of all that that
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happened but this is just Eerie Eerie
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peeling out the parking lot over there
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yeah this is was a little either a
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newscopter or an officer over there
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there why maybe not a newscopter maybe a
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police
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helicopter yeah really just seeing this
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with my own eyes it just hit me I mean
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the night of the hurricane I was
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watching online the news cast showing it
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from a distance with that roof just
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swaying in the breeze being destroyed I
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thought oh my
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gosh I mean this is my this is my home
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field
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so many memories
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here and now it's
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just
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this so there's been a lot of different
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votes with the county with the city with
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the owners with the I don't again it is
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a mess but
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evidently it's an issue of money who
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wants to spend do the raise the raise
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ownership the city the
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county I don't know if the state's
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involved but it's all who wants to spend
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what kind of dough and their percentage
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for the new stadium there's also very
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heavy Rumblings of the team moving now I
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will
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say a percentage of the reason I
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purchased a house in celebration not all
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of it my parents do live in Central
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Florida to be close to them I love Walt
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Disney World have a lot of ties to
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Central
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Florida but if the team left if they
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went to Salt Lake City if they went went
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to Nashville if they move somewhere else
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I don't think they will I don't think
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MLB wants the Rays to leave
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Florida not Central Florida but the
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coast of Florida Florida in general I
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don't think that the MLB wants them to
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do do that because I believe the places
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that I mentioned that there are
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Rumblings that possibly the Rays could
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go
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to I think Major League Baseball wants
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those to be expansion teams down the
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road I think they want to add more than
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the current amount of teams that are out
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there but
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if if the Rays leave St Pete let's not
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say St Pete Tampa Bay area if they don't
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go to eore if they don't go to Orlando
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if they don't go to Tampa proper if they
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don't stay in St
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Pete in my
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lifetime there will never be another
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major league baseball team in Central
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Florida and that's going to kind of
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weigh heavy on me because when I'm older
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I whole whole thing I thought of when
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I'm
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older you know in my relaxed years it
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would just be nice to cruise over go to
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a game keep supporting the
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Rays and I won't be able to do that if
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they're elsewhere so I might come into
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change of plans you know you know who
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knows not saying I'm going to up and up
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and move if the rise leave
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but I I want baseball I like baseball I
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like the race I want to watch baseball
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my golden years assuming I live that
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long so yeah
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many many times I waited right here to
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go through
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security walked up here was greeted by
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Raymond and DJ
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Kitty oh
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wow know usually there's some of the
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players Yi would be up there Pete
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Fairbanks this big poster right up there
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all that's gone ripped down taken off
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you also think of the damage that's in
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there when it comes to all the inner
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workings and electronics so right here
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is a digital screen which is usually on
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during game
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day and that's probably broken or at
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least the one inside the massive screen
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that's inside look at
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this you just think high winds and high
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rain on things that are were not
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expected to be weatherproofed because
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you didn't need to be weatherproof where
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other stadiums that are have things
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outdoors where this everything was
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always
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indoors that right there is a very
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telling
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image Tropic Ana
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wow it's going to cost them a lot of
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money to play at Stein Brunner not just
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the 15 or so million they got to play
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the Yankees but there's less ticket
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sales
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granted no more than 10 10 to 15 ,000
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again came here the the Rays had a have
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a
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lackluster support support from the
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area so they never really sell out games
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however it will be a smaller venue and
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you think of advertisements that are
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placed all around the inside of trout
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there's less space for those
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advertisements over at Stein brener
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probably a limited amount of you know
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contracts they have to make money or
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companies of things it'll all just go
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out the window so it's going it's a big
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hit to the wallet for the race and they
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have money all owners have
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money it's just interesting to see how
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much they're going to dish out make this
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work Florida's love affair with baseball
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began in St Pete in
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1914 there's also Al Lang Stadium which
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I think is where the soccer team plays
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there was rumors about maybe converting
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that into the baseball but that's not
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going to
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happen or at least they have unannounced
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it here's the store here's the bay
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Republic store these hours obviously are
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not correct you know honestly it looks
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like it's in really good shape in there
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maybe they have
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opened you know maybe the store has been
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open that's interesting cuz the store
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does not the inside of the store does
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not look too damaged and some of the
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clothing items look pretty pretty good
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shape yeah I don't know interesting not
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open today obviously because it's the
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day after Christmas they normally closed
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on Sundays I cannot imagine that it's
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open but you know what what do I know
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many memories in here over the last few
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years I saw W
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bogs he was brought into the Rays
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Baseball Hall of Fame and here's one of
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his he hit his 3,000th hit in here they
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got the yellow seat amongst the blue
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seats inside
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what a weird way to end the season raay
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did not make the postseason last year
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which is the first time in like 5 years
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or
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so and right you know it's interesting
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my mom and dad came over to stay with me
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during the hurricane just because I felt
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like we should all kind of be together
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and I felt my place was a little safer
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than their home so they decided to come
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over and before the news broke before
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the W the roof blown blew off of this my
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dad and I were having a conversation I
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thought what if this is when the
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baseball postseason was happening I
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remember my dad and I were talking and I
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brought up the point what if the Rays
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went deep in the post postseason and
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there was a hurricane coming through and
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the whole Coast of Florida was shut down
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for the hurricane during the playoffs
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where would the Rays and their opponent
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play at if they couldn't play at
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Tropicana Field now they did not make
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the postseason so it didn't really
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matter but what if they had and what if
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they were kneed deep in the postseason
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and this
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happened right just what a wacky turn of
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events the ray
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Garden I think the best scenario if they
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decide to stay in St Pete if they decide
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to stay in this area so they were going
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to obviously be playing in here for
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three more years while they built a new
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stadium but they're never going to play
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in here again I mean it would take so
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much money to fix it fix the drainage
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problem they I mean I don't even know if
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even fixing the drainage problem would
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be a thing because you'd have to have
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the drainage problem come out and dump
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into here I don't know the ins and outs
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of construction of a stadium but then it
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would be just a temporary fix or the
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multi-millions of dollars to fix the
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roof they could do that but then the
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stadium is only going to be here for a
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couple years they were going to tear the
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stadium down anyway so really deciding
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on where the new stadium is going to be
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whether it's here or in this parking lot
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or in ebore or in Orlando or wherever or
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in St Pete
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Fairgrounds I think makes the most sense
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it's you know kind of like a good
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central location to the coast and
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Orlando and Tampa and St Pete but really
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Expediting the tearing down of this
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would probably make the most
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sense again just thinking out
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loud that was just so Eerie so Eerie I
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don't know how many more times I'm going
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to be right here in this area they never
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play here again let's say they don't
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don't build a new stadium how many more
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times are we going to come I mean
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obviously if they start imploding this
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and if I'm in town I'll come document
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that but also even if they never play in
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here again it'd be kind of nice if they
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just let people go in one last time to
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pay their respects inside ah there's
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yandi yandi Diaz right
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there I don't even know if he's coming
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back he signed a two-year contract with
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the Rays they got rid of a lot of
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players last
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year about 3/4 of the way they kind of
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gave up on the postseason dumped a lot
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of players at the TR de trade deadline
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that was a disappointing year last year
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even
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before the turn of
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events and also what what will happen to
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fergs fergs is kind of like the rais bar
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I mean obviously it's got It's a local
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bar also but on game days it's pretty
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busy so if it loses all that business
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fergs is going to take a hit to the
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wallet
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also it's gracious so there's the ab and
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c ring you know how many times I've seen
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popups hit
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that very rare a couple times they even
25:04
got balls got stuck up in the
25:06
rafters and now just seeing it open air
25:09
like that is just very weird and Eerie
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very very
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eerie to me anyway CU many times I've
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been in I mean I've probably been in
25:17
that Stadium a 100
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times and now just seeing it knowing I
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can't go in right now like normally I'd
25:25
be here getting ready to wait for the
25:26
gates to open to go in and even driving
25:29
across the bridge there's a big bridge
25:31
going from Tampa to St Pete seeing
25:33
before you'd be able to drive and look
25:35
over to the left as you're going towards
25:36
out of Tampa into St Pete and you could
25:38
see the skyline would would have the
25:40
trop and I couldn't figure out where the
25:42
trop was anymore from across the bay
25:46
because the roof was gone it was weird I
25:48
couldn't pinpoint the skyline changed so
25:51
has the Rays up up there I mean I know
25:53
they're hoping for all this to be
25:57
rectified I am also definitely just
25:59
going to roll with the punches on what
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the situation is
26:02
and if they move it's meant to be if
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they don't move if they stay here I'll
26:07
be supporting the team and I mean even
26:09
if they move to another place still be
26:11
I'll still follow the organization and
26:14
just an very interesting scenario here
26:17
standing thinking with one with my
26:18
thought and one with my thoughts here at
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the world's famous fergs and no clue
26:22
what Big Boy's thought process is on
26:25
this what do you think of all this big
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boy
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no no thoughts just seeing this knowing
26:31
that there there's no designated team
26:33
going to be here is bizarre now that is
26:39
something I saw some images of this
26:40
online where the
26:43
storm took that pole and bent it
26:45
sideways that is that is a telling image
26:49
right there look at
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that that staning pole on the ground
26:54
that says home of the Rays Tropicana
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Field
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all up in the air now that is not
27:01
guaranteed they are not here to stay at
27:04
least for now
27:31
well Christmas was yesterday it's over
27:33
Santa's leaving
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town back to the North
27:38
Pole classic
27:43
car just look how beautiful this Sunset
27:43
is going to like just sit here for a
27:45
moment and bask in it before going down
27:47
to the end of I do want to walk down to
27:49
the end of the pier but yeah this is uh
27:50
this is downtown St Pete the sky line
27:53
right here at the dock and the boats and
27:55
everything beautiful very beautiful
27:58
hope the ray stay in this area I really
28:00
do it's a little Tiki
28:02
boat right there going across
28:04
the across the
28:12
sunset distance there it's nice take a
28:12
look at this mural here interesting I
28:15
can't tell what he's holding he's
28:17
holding something there's his head up
28:20
there at the top of the
28:27
building pretty cool some really good
28:27
murals in St
28:38
Pete back home now and I was looking at
28:38
the ray schedule for spring training and
28:41
then going into the regular season so it
28:43
looks like opening day is going to be
28:44
March 28th so everything in
28:47
blue they're going up against the
28:49
Rockies on opening day starting the 20
28:52
uh 28th is the regular season blue is
28:55
starting the regular season everything
28:56
else is spring training
29:01
but pretty much the first two or three
29:01
months of the Season they're playing
29:04
everything in Florida the reason they're
29:06
doing that is because once it gets past
29:09
the first there's only like a week or
29:12
two of away games in the first few
29:15
months and then once it starts getting
29:17
into July there's more away games
29:18
because in Florida in July there will be
29:20
so many rain delays or playing Outdoors
29:23
beauty of Tropicana Field was it was
29:25
closed so you don't have those rain Del
29:29
there's going to be a lot of double
29:31
headers rain
29:33
delays
29:34
Etc in the
29:37
summertime last game is at the end of
29:39
September against Toronto that's an away
29:41
away game but everything in blue is
29:45
going to be played at Stein Brer field
29:46
in fact some teams MLB had to completely
29:49
change the
29:51
scheduling to be able to
29:54
have so many home games at the the
29:58
Yankee spring training Stein Brunner for
30:00
the Rays in order to to be able to to
30:03
play there they had to
30:05
readjust some of the other team schedule
30:08
as well so it's definitely a weird going
30:10
to be a weird year well that's going to
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do it for today thanks for watching I'll
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see you the next video the
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Vlog is over oh yeah one last thing
30:18
bonus footage noticing here atth that's
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the Athletics just the Athletics not the
30:24
California Athletics not the Oakland
30:25
Athletics not the Vegas Athletics just
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atth the
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Athletics the Athletics will be playing
30:33
away from their farm team
30:36
stadium in Sacramento and they're be
30:38
playing at a farm team stadium in
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Florida weird