Stuck In Shohei Ohtani Hell At Dodger Stadium - Witnessing Baseball History & Walk Off Grand Slam
Dodger Stadium August 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This TGIF it is Friday
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August 23rd
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2024 I am wearing an appropriate t-shirt
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and hat because I am seeing my Tampa Bay
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Rays take on their 29th well put it this
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way the 29th stadium that I have seen
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the Tampa Bay Rays play at this has been
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an ongoing threeyear
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challenge to myself to see the Rays play
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at all the current MLB stadiums this is
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my second to last one by 29th they're
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going up against the Dodgers I'm here in
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Anaheim a buddy's picking me up we're
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heading up to Dodger Stadium meeting up
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with a couple other friends doing a tour
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a 340 pregame tour hopefully see a
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little batting practice and then a 710
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first pitch I'm inviting you to join me
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by 20 Night Stadium see in the race only
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one left after this one join me shall
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you now the Dodgers are in first place
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in the NL West by a good margin both the
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Diamondbacks and the Padres by four four
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and a half games they are definitely
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going to get into the postseason unless
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they just hit like a a train wreck
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happens so in the AL East where my rays
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are things are not going as good now
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granted the Dodgers have three times the
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payroll than the Rays I think the Rays
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have about onethird of the payroll the
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Dodgers have not that that's an excuse
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or anything but
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yeah we are seven games back and if
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these numbers are
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correct 35 games left in the regular
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season for the ray so in order for them
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to get that wild card they really got to
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hit a hot streak on the way up stop for
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a piping hot caffein age pumpkin spice
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latte at the Citadel one thing I like
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about The Citadel it's right on the cusp
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of Orange County and LA County so
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there's two different murals for both
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counties so you got the Orange County
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here you got Long Beach up there in the
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corner you got course Disneyland the
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OC you got I think that's Irvine with
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the two big airport
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bunkers yeah pretty deep and then over
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there is the mural for LA County you got
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the five freeway which traffic is going
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to be a little worse than showing that
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one little classic car alert got Santa
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Monica
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Pier got a Good year blimp up there you
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got Hollywood you got In-N-Out Burger
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thought maybe Dodger Stadium would be on
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there but it's not but they do have the
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LA Coliseum right
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here anyway yeah right here at the
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Citadel all right if you do the tour you
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get to have early entry for parking
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normally parking does not open till 2
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and 1 half hours before first pitch
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looks like the Dodgers have a Hollywood
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star right here you have to show your
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tour ticket to get early entry for
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parking all right
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introduce the first of my buddies that
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are going to be here welcome welcome
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home this is this is K your butt today
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when I think of the Dodgers I think of
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tiki J that's you should I know when I
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think of the Rays I think about those
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two losses we got last year when I went
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and visited you I'm going to need those
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back there's a good chance you're Pro
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that's probably going to come true
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because uh we're not doing so good this
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year but
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310 right now our tour starts at 340
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wonder how many Rays caps and shirts I'm
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going to see today I think just as many
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Otani jerseys I've already seen 87 Otani
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everyone's here with the exception of
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you has a number 17 on our back yeah so
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far I'm the only one wearing any raise
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gear the only one anybody else last a
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whole night long someone else will show
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up you think so I bet you a helmet nacho
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you guys have good helmet nachos here oh
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we' got some good stuff here that's not
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no okay you don't know I know
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is the tour Starts
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Here people love Otani as they should I
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mean the guy's like a super human
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baseball play all right going in my
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purple
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wristbands Dodger
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Stadium Dennis is here welcome upstairs
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I was told there' be no workouts during
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this tour where's the elevator and or
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escalator I got to get this quick before
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I get momed get out of the
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way and uh Yoshi Y
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theoo and this is a great logo right
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here behind you
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right in this area yes Club level if you
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ever going to purchase tickets for Club
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level here 50 cents right yes times have
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changed just a little I think they're a
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little over $10
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now there it is the first yearbook
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baseball club over here this is a new
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addition to the stadium it's called
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sweet sweets It's open to anyone that
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wants to um come and buy some sweets and
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they have fabulous
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escalator yeah that's nice I'm going to
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have to work for a lot of years
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though they're over here almost recent
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is at the very end mookie bets that we
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just received the Dodgers have won a
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gold glove in every position except for
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third base which is interesting we've
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done great at first base West Parker is
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the Dodger that's won we now call that
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football game the Super Bowl they gave
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that shiny trophy to Vince lamardi we
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think Major League Baseball saw that
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shiny Trophy and thought hm bats aren't
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going to work anymore so in 1967 they
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started giving out trophies and bour
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Jewel made the trophies up until the
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year 2000 yeah there's the 2020 World
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Series trophy trophy against the Rays
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last time the Rays were in the World
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Series they lost to the Dodgers in
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2020 sad trouble proud of all of our
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rookies and how we develop our players
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right over on this side you'll see our
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silver bats we have five of those that's
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the only non-bed on
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position and then we're going to walk
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down this hallway here just like the
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players do they come right down path
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you're going to walk just like a player
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we're going to head back up the stairs
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where you'll see their entrance to their
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Clubhouse the right side is the silver
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Sluggers right and the left side is all
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the retired num players come here we're
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going to go right up the stairs over
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here series see these these jerseys up
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here they have this S Series patch on
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the arm those are new right what are the
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of the coach's C course used to play for
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the Angels $300
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7,400 for
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aut they went to Vince so over here this
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is the the banner that Vince Gully put
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up when he
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retired right it's a little biter but
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just so you know every 10 to 14y old kid
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tells that's their organization can wear
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any of these numbers and I hope
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everybody knows number 42 up there who's
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number 42 Jackie Robinson Jackie
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Robinson Jackie Robinson's number is the
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only number that's retired in all major
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league baseball no one pitcher to the
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mail pitcher got out and tipped his
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driver yes is pretty C these are the
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original lockers we use these Rock
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lockers up until the year 2012
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nothing fancy about them this is Dodgers
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private decades sleeping eating and um
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uh playing cars because those modes of
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transportation took a lot longer and up
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here on the left there's a picture of
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Jackie Robinson that's one of his last
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days as a Dodger he retired in 1956 and
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never got to play out here in Los
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Angeles which was unfortunate cuz I'm
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not sure our nickname in the early 1900s
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superbas then we were called the robin
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and it wasn't until 1932 when we
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officially became the Dodgers does
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anybody know why they call us the
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Dodgers trolley Dodgers trolley Dodgers
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exactly we opened in
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193 oh look at that mural pretty neat
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got the Vince scab right there La player
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little graffiti style classic car alert
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Etc all right the tour is over now so
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got a little bit of time before the
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gates open but you do get early entry
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with the pregame tour do not batting
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practice you can stand out in the
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Outfield seats left field seats but you
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cannot get behind there's a VIP tour
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$600 to stand behind home plate for
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batting practice so we just decided
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we're just going to not do that oh this
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is a source subject the 20120 World
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Series champion R course against the the
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rays look at Woody Woodpecker Woody
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Woodpecker is out here promoting the
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Universal Studios tour yeah I like this
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Dodger Stadium fire truck he has a
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number 62 on the side of it here I guess
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this is an active firet truck one time
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now it's like a little food stand and a
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Tommy Lort of bobblehead right here
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here's the 65 world champion ring as
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well and the nickname of this place is
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Blue Heaven H I walked over to the
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raised Bullpen there's love lady right
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there Richard love lady there's Kevin
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Kelly throwing the little uh little sack
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against the wall right over
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there and we're going to walk to our
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seat soon I believe we're sitting on the
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second row up kind of right around there
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got a couple rows of seats on the first
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and second row second level up right in
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the sun that's true we don't have to sit
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there yet first pitch isn't until 7
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that's true all right starting off with
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the scraping noise of the this is the
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only time I've seen a table shorter than
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the actual benches that they where we're
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starting off with the uh the the chili
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helmet right there and I went with the
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jalapenos you guys did not want the
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jalapenos jalap but the other helmet is
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going to be the Dodger blue helmet which
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is going to have the carada in it right
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so we're going to double down we're
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going to double down on some uh we going
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to have to double down on that these
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were only $15 too the $15 for these but
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this is not a fulls size helmet that's
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more of like a 3/4 size helmet cheers it
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up cheers it up Cheers Cheers it
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up and we're in there nacho time these
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are nacho chips those are nachos you do
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nacho jalapenos all right I'm going to
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say I don't love these nachos the
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consistency of the chips are kind of
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like the consistency of Doritos which
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are okay but I prefer more of the
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standard nacho chip they're not Doritos
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but they have the consistency of it now
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I'm still eating them they do have
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cheese and chili on them but Den also
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got some uh peanuts America's number one
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in shell
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peanuts right there also these drinks
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unlike Tropicana Field where you get
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free refills all game no refills here
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when I asked the sales associate I go
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you give refills it was a very abrupt no
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to buy another
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one so no refills on that that's okay
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though oh in fact it is Universal
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Studios theme night can I show you Byron
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look at this Byron sin is here you got
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to show me universal theme night got to
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show me your shirt Byron wait hold on
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let me show you my dad first okay here
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he
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is it's my dad you guys are related I
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knew there was a res yeah look at them
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we have the same nose similar hairstyle
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was back him in the 80s that's was 81
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actually do you have season tickets
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because of that no unfortun I do not I
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wish I did though they kind of they just
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put them in the Spanish Booth bosscast
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table okay so they just have him there
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for now but yeah check out my shirt you
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going to eat some hot dogs some Dodger
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Dogs dude they call me the Gizzy God for
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no reason dude what is it they don't
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call me the Gizzy God for no reason you
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know okay I'm a Dodger Dog sler I like
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this this will not end well for you
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Dodger Dog I might try a DOD dog let's
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do it I had some nachos you persuaded me
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I'm going to dodge your dog it up yes
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let's go they're going they're going to
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interview you they're going to interview
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you they missed you he's right
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here he's right
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here we'll catch up later guys we got
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him later that is a seriously bobbling
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bobblehead right there that is shaking
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it his head back and forth to and fro
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very very quickly what does your sign
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say I was an angels fan until
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now why
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why I don't know I like the dodg because
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of Otani what because of Otani no they
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have they have one World Series gotcha
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thanks
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man yeah in fact it is Universal Studios
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Hollywood night the minions are down
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there as well as Woody Woodpecker and
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Mrs Woody Woodpecker I'm not sure what
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her name is but I getting a refill on
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the lemonade I think I decided I'm not
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going to have any more
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nachos really nachos were're okay I
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thinking may be getting a Dodger Dog
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later oh yeah so uh we G we've given Jay
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a new name Jay Gizzy wow because a Gizzy
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is a hot dog right yes it is Gizzy is
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definitely a hot dog and this guy is the
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biggest hot
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dog he doesn't like the new Dodger Dogs
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he's old school Dodger Dog old wieners
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okay the new ones just ain't it yeah
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we'll get you an old wiener this is the
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Dodger it's got to be a bunch of old
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rolling around here I look for
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him yeah look at that he's got the dogs
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right there he was holding it up in the
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air but then he's he's coming your way
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you know what that means Jake Gizzy oh
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it's like a switch it's like I'm in
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business now you going to do one no no
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we're not right now you going to wait
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you got to
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wait sty I almost said styrofoam around
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the gzy but it's like it's a tin foil
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but have like a switch sometimes in the
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they Fe it to you like no hands Gizzy
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that's what I'm living
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for just like that one to
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nothing they threw the ball
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back
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yeah
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get man Junior cabanero coming in
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hot back in
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the one you happy about this jck you
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stop it every time ra score you got to
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eat a
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all right Mondo's here too what's up
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this not a good start for us yes when
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was the last time you were at a Dodger
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game there was no pitch count the whole
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timing that's crazy yeah crazy to see
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that that did you know in Japanese show
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he means handsome man doesn't no but it
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would have been cool if it
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did oh right to yandi
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helicopter flying over
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there cool cool 71 degrees out
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here that helicopter's really close to
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the stadium it's like really
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right bat he's like he's waiting for
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he's waiting for he's coming back
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wow something must be happening in the
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parking
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lot just like that Junior cabanero hits
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another home run
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what's going on why is it happening to
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me he got
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it 40th stolen base of the
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Year
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40 40
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40
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4039 oh D let's go
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he's
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going it's that arm not good
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enough you guys got a guy at the corners
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two guys at the corners y both corners
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and our catchers up who's been known to
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hit them
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out everybody
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got we B to the gozy king what do you
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got there o couple glizzies a couple
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guys dude boom one Gizzy for you lizy
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pzy for
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you you getzy you getzy here go you
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touch you want to touch your tips want
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to touch tips
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hereo I always like to wrap my I always
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like to wrap my wiener up protction
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first my guy protection see first hold
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on here we
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go you know how to do going with
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mus keep it inass
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must that was it the taste that your
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first Billard dog it's not
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bad yeah they're not like the old farmer
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joh you know looks like there's a wave
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going we got it we going to do it go
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here we
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go count three and two the wave of
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kicking the wave
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no he's right there he's right there
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Gizzy Gus Dudez Lizzy
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Gus G isn't that a dis dozy Gus can I
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I'm Sor you want five dogs dogs to go
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please my nose lizy Gus came through man
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look at those wieners touch and tips oh
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just a tip though Lizzy how'd you know
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that guy's name was Gus oh look at that
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SC how'd you know his name was is a name
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tag of Gus G Lizzy Gus dude he's big on
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Tik tokz
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guys Dodger Dogs for the win cuz do dog
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for the win dude this is better than the
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seventh inning
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D all right not good bottom of the night
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tied
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up tied up bottom of the
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knif is OG any predictions yeah it's
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over
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and a few more pitches okay all right
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two two
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pitches oh yeah kind of a sensing a
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Dodger walkoff here no outs they got a
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guy on
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first that's a ball it that's a ball
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Dodgers about to walk it off no outs
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Dodgers guy guy on first and second
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doing a little
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butttt dang it guy on second third now
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one out what you got all you guys need
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is a sack F or a
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single I'm down with the sack's going to
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walk we go here we
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go oh my God what going what
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happened
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back all right two outs guy on second
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and third need a pop up
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oh Wild Pit
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good Lord PO is on the M
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now another wild pitch why is poe
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in not a fan of p po three wild pitches
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in a
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row I told you when they brought him in
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dude I'm like why and of course now base
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is loaded show OT
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brokenly really happy but most
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importantly really happy that we were
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able to win today so I'm just extremely
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honored that I've been part of this
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history your is saw that coming a mile
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away Pi it up put it over your head what
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was your reaction to it and how is that
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for you