Last Day of My Baseball Stadium Trip - On Field & Tour of Great American Ballpark / Cincinnati HOF
Tour of Great American Ballpark
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today's video brings me back
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for a second day at great american
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ballpark
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early morning as the recording of this
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sunday
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july 10 2022
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and this will be the last ballpark
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that i'll go to for quite a while
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to watch the race play their away games
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are you excited happy
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sad there's there's a wave of emotions i
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was just about to say i'm a wave of
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emotions right now for sure you've been
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on a roller coaster freaking ride man
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like what can i say we've been on this
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road trip well i've been on the road for
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76 days max
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76 days think about that 10 days for me
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was a long time it's like
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it's like that company 10 days for you
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76 for me
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can you go 66 more days
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to make it 76
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are you gonna do like 140 something then
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you never know with me
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you're flying home
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after the game today yeah i fly home at
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7 30 so we'll probably end up being back
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around like
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12-ish at night so you'll be home this
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evening and i hopefully at some point
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will return back to florida that's my
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plan anyway
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i should probably do the intro just
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looking at the skyline here
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going across this bridge the walkway up
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downtown
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and noticing you know cincinnati reds
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used to be called the red stockings
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back in the day a lot of teams were
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named after
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pairs of socks
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here and
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book jump his name is puck chop right
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here look
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puck chop
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is looking over
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this historic stadium i really love
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their mascot i really love this mascot
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this is probably next to dj kitty
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probably my favorite baseball mascot mr
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red's pretty cool mr
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mr red cowbell max
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and myself
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are not only going to go to a game i'm
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not really going to feature the game so
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much in this episode but i am going to
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feature the tour we're about to do
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of the stadium i get some special access
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yes hopefully on the field into the
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dugout and did not do this yesterday but
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they have a hall of fame dedicated
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specifically to the red stockings
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nothing probably in the museum about
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puck chop here
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this is awesome though
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look at old puck chop
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all right i'm inviting you to join me
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puck chop and cowbell max on his last
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day of the road trip you did 10 days
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i've done this day 76 for me i keep
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stating that because i can't even
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believe it myself
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and one day i'll get back to florida max
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and i will see you there
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possibly at the truck
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join me
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shall you
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nailed it and before heading over to
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where we're supposed to meet up for the
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tour
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gonna get a little view here of the
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river itself the river walk
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the truck up there on the pedestal
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and pieces of riverboats steamboats
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and
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full boats over there and that bridge
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and that across the water there is
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kentucky
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ohio is where we're standing
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wait am i looking the right way yeah
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is over there we're supposed to meet
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over at the team store or
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at the cincinnati hall of fame
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at 9 00 a.m on the dots game is at 140
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first pitch on day games they only do
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the tour one tour of morning
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at 9 00 a.m so we had about 10 minutes
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to get over there
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night games i think there's different
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time frames i think there's a couple
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tours per day but today there's a 130
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140 first pitch
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hello birdies
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we're gonna do the chore
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and then go into the game
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going back over here seeing
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pete rose sliding in face first charlie
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hustle
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the courtyard here already a few people
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out here got the sprinklers on
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got these sculptures here got the
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pitcher down there on the mound the
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batter
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and the catcher all in place now at this
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year's field the dreams
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game the reds are going to be there
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which happens to be one day after my
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birthday my birthday is august 10th
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i almost went last year
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didn't go i
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waited till the last minute to plan it
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out
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and i'm not really sure if i'm gonna go
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this you're probably not gonna go this
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year but i have been to field of dreams
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i actually had a catch with my dad
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at the field of dreams field which is
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pretty awesome but they're promoting it
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they have the corn
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corn stalks out here and the hay
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and everything
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boy is so peaceful this morning all
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right it's just about time i'm gonna see
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if we can check in
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got johnny bench right down here
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baseball's greatest catcher
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67 to 83. i don't want to embarrass any
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other catchers by comparing him to
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johnny bench
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sparky anderson
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quote there
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right over here
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i think we check in here all right i am
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good
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to go
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you ask anybody who is a cincinnati reds
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fan in that era
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who they thought the mvp of the team was
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they're going to say this guy right here
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tony perez he loved driving people in he
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loved getting base hits that scored ball
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hanging over the edge there
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yeah
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that's supposed to represent tony
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perez's ball going over the fence in
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fenway park for the home run
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all right let's go this way
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yeah there's a baseball right up there
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and it represents tony perez home run at
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fenway which i was just at fenway
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recently
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and the ball's up there going over that
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apartment complex that's pretty
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interesting
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all right go on now
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got the ground screw out there lawn
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maintenance mostly they're mowing the
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field
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in my opinion
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could beat it or out rank
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here's why
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they have three hall of famers
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tony perez only the back
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johnny bench balancing the goal
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and joe moore
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first base catcher second base
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there are two guys that should be in the
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hall of fame
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but are not
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dave concepcion
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the shortstop
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and he throws
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number 14.
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this is the cincinnati reds clubhouse
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the main entrance of the clubhouse
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now most of the players if not all the
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players
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don't usually enter here because if you
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look down here at the place where
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there's a slow sign on the right hand
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side
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on the other side of that is the
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planer's parking lot so what most
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players do
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is they go straight over to another
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entrance and they're in the locker room
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so hardly anywhere correct hardly any of
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the reds actually come through these
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doors correct yeah so uh if you're
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looking at an autograph
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this is not the place to be
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but
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it is the place where the press comes in
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they have their three-day meetings and
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whatnot
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thrown out of the baseball game this is
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where it comes again
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the all-star game was played here and we
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renovated both locker rooms
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very nice job in this
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regionals are
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both the players and the mount fires are
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part of the union and they have
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some very very strange rules on what
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they
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need to have before honging and what
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they need to have after them
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and this is the
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press room it is also set up
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to be
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our um
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religious
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room it's sunday so
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they have services here a couple times
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during the morning they usually have a
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catholic service and they also have a a
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protestant or a a change in management a
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change in the uh the manager a big
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whopping
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unexpected trade
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big time news is upstairs most of the
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other stuff is done here
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any questions
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who's coming to the religion is this for
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players this is for players okay correct
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so either team would just know it's for
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both teams
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the average cost for this area for one
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ticket is 350
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that's expensive not many people either
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can't afford it or simply aren't going
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to pay back
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so i understand that but 350
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that's an average cost
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because if we are playing the chicago
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cubs
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or the cardinals or the yankees or the
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red sox a team that brings in
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massive fans
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that price is gonna probably go up to
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five or six hundred dollars on the first
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row
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you are 55 feet away from the from the
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battery
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that's closer to the pitching it's going
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pitchers 16 feet six inches you are six
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feet or at least five feet away
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closer than the fish
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all right
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once you come out
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the waiter or waitress is going to take
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your drink order
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once again it's like inside all you can
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drink
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plus alcohol
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that's great
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what about you what are you gonna do
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you have a hot dog you got pretty good
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seeds
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we're not sitting here during the game
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though it's just part of the tour
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at least we got to be here for a sec
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oh leaf blowers are out yes
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it's essentially a mile away from here
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for six hours this opens up an hour and
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a half before the game
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open an hour after the game
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and roughly a three-hour baseball game
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that's almost six hours
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ranking
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and socializing
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getting permission to walk out
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under the warning track
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and the bat rack
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we label the reds
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why do we label the reds and why do we
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not label the opponent
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opponent changes all the time yeah
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essentially three days they're here
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sometimes four sometimes two
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leaf blowers and log mowers follow me
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everywhere
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a lot less people on this tour than it
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was at fenway
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anyway there was a lot of people only
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maybe
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seven or eight or nine
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a
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put it into the universe
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cowbell max first pitch at the trop
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one day
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not away games unfortunately no most
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stadiums won't let me in with it they'll
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let you in at home though oh yeah yeah
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me and kareem
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the press box area
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everybody take a seat
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this is cool
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there's three different levels here got
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one
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we also got a soda machine back there
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level two
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this is the press box
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now this is not the original press box
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the original press box is over here
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where it says boone county bourbon press
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club
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that's where the original press box
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used to be
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um
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we moved it
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beginning last year
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and i thought sure
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that's somebody who's really going to
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work
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announcers are right behind home plate
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where it says cincinnati reds
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and you got the microphones there
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uh and red's on radio
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and move to the wall
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in left field where it says 328 feet
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that is not by accident
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because that was the distance to get a
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home run out of crosley feel they're
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going to be on the road tomorrow for
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about a week it is mowed every other day
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so yes every day
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during a home stand and you're on the
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road it's every other day
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that is a rather large gold glove over
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there
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he said it has nothing to do with people
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look proud
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aesthetically
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better to him
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to have seven bats on top of one smoke
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stack and seven bats on top of the
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others
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now i don't know about you but i don't i
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can't think of anything where an odd
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number
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looks aesthetically pleasing to me i
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think if it's eight that might he might
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have a
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an argument
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i i think that's
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he's the architect he should know i'm
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going with him
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but i think that's a question
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where's the best bats
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here's a rumor that the 14 bats are
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supposed to represent
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pete rose's number
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so we have seven bats on top of one
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and seven bats on top of the other seven
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plus seven is 14
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seven bats on each one times two
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fourteen
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pete rose's number is fourteen but the
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guide is saying the architect denied
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that it was supposed to be for
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pete rose but
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most people that
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go here think it's that's representing
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pete rose's number 14.
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that was recognized
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now there is a hall of fame shop here
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i'm still going to go inside
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the hall of fame which is over there i
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believe the chores over
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so we're being let out
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well once again i appreciate you coming
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i hope everybody have tickets for
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today's game anybody going to the game
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yes i hope whoever's rooting for the
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reds
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you you
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you and you i hope you guys have a great
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day you guys have a good day
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you just go home with a loss
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we've already got two we did give us one
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yeah yeah reds give something away
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all right and now into cincinnati red's
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hall of fame and museum this is pretty
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neat through here we got all the great
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eight all the little sculptures of all
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of them
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going around we got pete rose right over
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here and over here in the corner is
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right here
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number five johnny bench they have the
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numbers on the back as well the big red
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machine got perez right here i love that
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they're kind of piping in the
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crowd noise
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as well with all the names across the
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the backs and everything these guys look
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amped and also included in the tour it
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was i think it was like 25 26 dollars
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you get into the hall of fame and they
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give you a free bobble head
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that's pretty good right heat and going
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up the stairs is a wall of baseballs
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just hundreds if not thousands
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of baseballs leading up to the crowd
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cheering ah there's 4 256 baseballs
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which represent the major league records
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set by rose of three in 3 562 games in
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over 24 seasons that's so many hits and
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they have the dugout bench
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from crossley field here as well
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leading into on the first level
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you go and they have a little bit of
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history
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of the team of course riverfront stadium
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also showing the history of the game and
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how baseballs used to look a lemon peel
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baseball is the one right there on the
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top dated back to 18
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40 different bats the wooden bats the
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history of the bat the evolution of the
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bats and
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gloves how gloves have changed
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since the olden days and the jerseys
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have even morphed quite a bit
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since those days you know this is how
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they looked
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back then and this is more of the of the
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modern day jersey the red stockings were
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the team that made baseball famous
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it's like they're one of the first teams
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and they had such a
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crazy win streak just countless wins in
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a row before they were defeated look at
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this perfect
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57-0 record back in 1869 yeah this place
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is awesome look at the size of this room
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there is a johnny bench game worn mask
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and game use cap there have been 11
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retired numbers for the cincinnati reds
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over the years 11. and there's johnny
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right there standing with all his
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catcher gear on they even have a section
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for bally sports
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over here and they can kind of make it
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look as if you are the commentator you
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can sit here behind the desk itself i am
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now on air giving it a thumbs up and
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saying hello hello i'm on air coming at
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you and over here past these rather
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large baseballs is the 1869 red
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stockings pavilion and they have the
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whole team over here in this little
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gazebo and from this angle you can just
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see how big the building is the museum
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is not the big skyscraper in the
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distance but the one right behind this
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little gazebo here three stories and it
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sits adjacent to the spinning baseball
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just spinning around like hypnotizing
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kind of going around here at the team
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shop
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spinning around
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don't stare too intently
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you'll be hypnotized
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hypnotizing
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i'm just gonna keep going on this it's
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like hypnotizing
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i've never seen this double raised cap
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before it's only 10 bucks
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also a couple other ones here
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you're going to be here after the game
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if you're going to be here afterwards i
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don't know if i want to carry it around
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i like this one too i'm with pete give
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me 200 on the roads there's a fly
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there's a fly right there
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on the e
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hey you don't really see like a lot of
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vendors having a weight team oh there's
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even a visor
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i'm not much of a visor guy i'm not much
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of a visor guy either
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and you can even get some peanuts out
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here
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cincinnati red peanuts and hot nuts
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there are still quite a few people
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congregated down there in the sun
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my seats were right behind first row
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behind raised dug out but after
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yesterday being in the sun changed my
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mind not to sit down there and this just
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shows how close downtown is with the
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skyscrapers
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behind it looking towards home down the
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third base line oh hello there
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hello miguel selfie here
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good to see you
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have a good day oh there is a milkshake
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mascot right there united dairy farmers
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milkshake
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just standing there
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looking around the river here now the
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reds just had a seven run
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inning in the third in fact mustac has
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hit his
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200th career home run
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which is pretty exciting but the rays
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are now down seven to zero there's not
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rays aren't having a good series
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against the road which is kind of
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surprising at this moment the only
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heavily shaded area are right over there
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and then kind of the
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under the undercarriage of left field
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randy's getting a home run
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randy
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nice
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rose arena
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all right it's now seventh inning
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stretch and we gotta leave
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rays are losing pretty badly and max has
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to go catch a flight
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back to florida and for me this will
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most likely
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be the last away stadium that i go to to
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see the race this year unless
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playoffs you know with the playoffs you
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know
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division series championship series
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possibly wild card not in that order
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wild card division series championship
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series i might go do it away stadium but
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the rest of the games the rest of the
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year at the trop until postseason
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have no plans to go anymore i
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i did a lot of away games
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a lot all right just dropped max off at
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the airport
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baseball
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road trip completed
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well i've done a couple of road trips
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this year but this current road trip
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ray's baseball road trip completed but
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that does not mean i am going to be home
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tonight or tomorrow i still have a ways
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before i get to florida probably another
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week or so
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and that's going to do it for today
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from cincinnati ohio
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tomorrow morning bright and early i will
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depart
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start heading kind of sort of southbound
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no real
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complete game plan of where i'm heading
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but i am making my descent
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back to central florida
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it has been a while