Exploring Downtown San Francisco - The Embarcadero & Eating At Red’s Java House / Oracle ParkTour
San Francisco Summer 2023
Transcript
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of This is Monday August
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14th
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2023. Daphne is here as well we're in
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San Francisco right now
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we got some San Francisco coffee
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there's the trolley car going by we are
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right in front of Union Square
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we were here two years ago in August of
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2021 and we are back you are a former
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local so you know a lot more about this
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area than I do so over the next series
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of days you're going to show me some
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things yeah we're today we're going to
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go to Oracle Park which is where the San
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Francisco Giants play they're going up
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against the race and wearing an
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appropriate hat
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stadium tour you ever been to a game
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there or to that that Park I've been to
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a game but I've only been out
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today's the day stadium tour there's a
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place that Anthony Bourdain went to that
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you want to take me to we'll do that in
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between the tour and the game
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and we're just gonna see where the day
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leads yeah we're fighting you can enjoy
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being adopting Italian I'm looking at
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this building over here I believe
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Hollywood Studios Disney's Hollywood
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Studios only has one building not from
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Hollywood they recreated from San
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Francisco and I think it's that green
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one on the end there's one that looks
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kind of like that I'm not sure why they
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chose one
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from the Bay Area and not just L.A and
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Hollywood but they did also this corner
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was used in Alfred Hitchcock's the birds
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Tippy walked right past here at the
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intro
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it's pretty awesome
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Hitchcock
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would be proud
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one thing that's kind of neat about this
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too
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is we were here
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August of 21. your birthday is the first
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of August my birthday is the 10th of
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August so that was kind of a birthday
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trip so this is almost like a part two
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birthday trip belated birthday fact on
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your birthday in 21 we ate up there on
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top of that Macy's as a restaurant
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Cheesecake Factory
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not cheese steak cheesecake cheesecake
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so we just celebrate our birthday all of
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August
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every couple years we'll come here in
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August Union Square
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in bloom
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very nice
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I was just informed this used to be the
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Disney Store
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did you ever go in there when you lived
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here oh yeah
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not a lot of Disney Stores laughing they
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got the few that are you know
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in airports and things like that you
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don't really see the the kind of old
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school Disney Store stores anymore
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there's a lot of public transit here in
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the city I'll be taking a lot of it over
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the next series of days I mean just look
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at this thing right here
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you're taking the trolleys taking the
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buses
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taking the vintage cars like that
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walking a lot
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a location like this mural right here
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but this hardware store you see the
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Golden Gate Bridge you see downtown
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off in the distance
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see the gentleman up here holding the
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hardware sign
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the sculpture was created by Terry Allen
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in 1993 known as the shaking man
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get closer you notice he has three hands
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he's got three hands over here
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briefcase and three sets of feet
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this is his face here
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I'm not sure the symbolism behind it
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kind of looks like Andy Griffith a
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little bit I know something else like a
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twisted Andy Griffin
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I don't know which hand to shake oh my
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God
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a lot of really good ornate beautiful
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churches here in San Francisco William
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Randolph Hearst founder of the first
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newspapers began as newspaper publishing
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career with the Examiner
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right here at the Hearst building
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I think he showed me this from a
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different angle last time we were in the
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year yeah we were across the street
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because we went to the bank where his
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daughter had that very famous photo take
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it around the corner yeah
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this is neat
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it's like what Epcot like the reverse
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Waters the reverse water yeah
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take a look at this
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does not smell good I wonder if they're
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using like re
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reuse water in there
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so water does not smell good
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yeah there's some fruit down in there
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this is really cool
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be neat if there's some way you could
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like stand in the middle of it and get
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like a cool photo but
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okay it's off it's 360.
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over here at the Embarcadero Center
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this very unique
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sculpture slash Fountain
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dumping out water
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it's about what 70 degrees you'd say
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probably 70 degrees it's going to be in
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the low 60s of the game later
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we were here two years ago in August
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it's a little cooler than this but it's
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still really really Pleasant compared to
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Florida humidity not I'm loving it
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stopped off inside the ferry building if
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you saw a sign this building's 125 years
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old the anniversary of the ferry
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building is one with the big clock on it
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sure the bay
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and walk back outside and go see Cupid's
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bow and arrow
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it's an older trolley car there
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love it it's been there with the newer
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traffic going by
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these would be more strong carriages
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also
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clanging of the coming and going
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comprised a contractual Symphony
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of Cosmopolis
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Cosmopolis
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that sounds like a sentence I would say
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just like makeup inside
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there it is
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you said this is called Cupid's bow and
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arrow
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big Arrow there in the ground and you
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got Cupid's bow
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it's also interesting here right at the
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base you get some of the skyline behind
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it
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get the Bay Bridge
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it goes across
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the East Bay
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over to Oakland so Oakland is off in the
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distance
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right over there they don't want any
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skateboarding out here it says no
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skateboards and make sure you don't
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grind along the side of this
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they put this squid and Starfish here
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squid starfish Turtles
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just to obscure
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I'm guessing that's what that's for
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Skyline in the background
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Bay in front of us
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into the era nice we're just walking
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along the shore here
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no longer Candlestick no longer a t
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Parks now called Oracle Park
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kind of sort of see the stadium off in
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the distance see the lights of Oracle so
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a little teaser for later we're gonna
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come back over after the baseball tour
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in between
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tour ending and first pitch they go to
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Red's Java house I'm so excited I'm so
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excited to take you here so it's
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basically a burger hot dog place and I
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guess Java do they have coffee also
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there's a famous Anthony bornet episode
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where he eats here
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all right we'll come back
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the tallest building in San Francisco
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yeah it changed it used to be I think
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the TransAmerica building was the
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tallest and then there was a bunch of
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like City guidelines
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to build it to change the skyline of the
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city he get out there above the bridge
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hello pigeons
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good to see it octopus here the squid at
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Frankie's
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there it is Oracle Park
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this will be my 17th stadium that I've
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been to
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watching the race boy once the game
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begins it'll officially knock off the
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17th Stadium
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for the Rays of play that I've attempted
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going for all 30 it'll take me to the
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end of next year but I'm gonna do it
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right here at Pier 40 the California
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spirit boat over there
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nice little breeze coming across the bay
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right here at the Docks
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I love this weather
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I don't feel like I'm in the bowels of
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Hades
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like Florida feels right now
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not every baseball stadium does Stadium
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tours there's a few that know including
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Tropicana Field with the raised play but
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Oracle Park is one of them and I always
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try it when I visit knock off new
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stadiums off my list I try to do a tour
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earlier in the day
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something you don't see too often in
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front of a lot of stadiums
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are big palm trees
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and a couple dozen palm trees here
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and you got Willie Mays
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right in the front Courtyard this is
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interesting there's like a whole area
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over here I got like a little
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like a Walk of Fame Barry Bonds has his
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hand prints down in there so you've
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watched games from right outside here
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huh yep so you just people just come out
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here and congregate and they just look
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through this little
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section
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out through the Outfield
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look at this
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yeah you never you get a foul ball or a
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home run ball
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instead of the first base lines this is
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out in right field
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so they open up these Gates and they let
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you get right up again that is amazing
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each viewing area has limited capacity
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of 24 viewers guests will be asked to
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vacant to third Sixth and Ninth innings
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so you can stand right up against there
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and watch the game you don't need a
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ticket
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or at least you used to not need to take
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it out of them
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yeah listen it's been like a decade yeah
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it's been 10 years so 2013 was the last
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time you were at this field yep it was
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like standing like
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I think we have opened here
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on April 11 2000 called Pacific Bell
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Park and it became ATT and now Oracle
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yeah
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Candlestick was at a completely
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different location
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Lefty o'doul Third Street Bridge City
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Landmark 194 built in 1933. the reason
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we're back over here at left field three
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Third Street Bridge because this is the
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entrance where the tour
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begins and we're not going to be the
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only one on the tour about to head up 1
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30 p.m tour it's time
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so we have people from Tampa Bay yep
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came in from Florida from Florida
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all right we've got giant fans where's
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everybody coming from we have five
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levels
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and uh we are only on 14 acres so we
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have to accommodate over 41 000 people
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on 13 acres
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it's a replica of the fun of a glove
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that the father of one of our councils
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had in his house
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get out there don't worry about me uh
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Tony Bennett Street and why do we have
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the Tony Bennett's sweet it was a big
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Giants fan no
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he's saying that this is it's not Tony
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Bennett
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she does a theme this year the theme is
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very interesting it's called small
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details giant stories please as you as
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you walk through take as many pictures
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as you like
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uh they're very very commemorative Roger
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Craig who you saw at the in the video
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he passed away back in the Candlestick
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Park days known as the home baby man
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those are the faces
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you know we have three new rules this
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year folks you know rather than
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15. so it's a bigger base therefore more
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Steel
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stolen bases are done a lot more now
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yes rhemsky we played the Boston Red Sox
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a couple of weekends ago it was very
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exciting
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because Mike usrevsky's grandson and
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he's our player
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you're certainly welcome to do the duty
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nuts sure is why do we have them uh
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Schultz was the peanut character artist
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and he followed the Giants even from the
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East Coast from Minnesota
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Amazon
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this is a really great picture of our
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last World Series achievement against
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the Royals and the only one of the
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things I wanted to let you know about
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our world series at that time was in
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2014 they started replay
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and there was on in game five Joe Panic
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flipped a ball to a second a second base
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person basement and we thought that the
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gentleman was out
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like they said the gentleman was saved
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safe
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and so because of 2014
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Replay that started we were often able
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to overturn that call I love it these
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are those big these are the trophies the
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trophies just finished the tour it was
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awesome
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the guide was amazing
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she was definitely full of energy
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so the game starts I think it's 6 30 or
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6 40. it's about 3 15 right now
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walking back over to the Java bar
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that's what's called Java bar Red's Java
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House red Java house and we're gonna get
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some food
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almost back over to Red's Java house
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there's also event parking for the game
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over here for fifty dollars
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probably about half a mile from the
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stadium I'm guessing
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quick little walk
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patio around back so we're gonna grab
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the food and go out to the patio
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Red's Java House
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double cheeseburgers hot dogs and sodas
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it's kind of interesting
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just talking to the cashier worker here
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she was saying that it's called Java
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house because it started off as a coffee
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house and over the years just got more
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popular for hot dogs
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and
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hamburgers and their other items but
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that it is called Jabba house because of
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coffee they do have black coffee but
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very rarely does anyone get us not known
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for its coffee
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and we're gonna we're ending up around
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the back we're sitting around the back
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over here we put the umbrellas up
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get a little saw it's actually warmed up
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quite a bit it's going to cool down
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because the Sun starts to set a little
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bit
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a little later before first pitch
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and there's only two Java houses there
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is the one we passed earlier in front of
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the stadium
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and I guess originally they were they
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were co-joined they were Affiliated and
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they kind of split ownership years and
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years ago and this is what we're dealing
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with
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food for the table got a little
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Cornucopia of goodness here
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now I know they're known for their
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burgers and their hot dogs but I opted
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for a sandwich they have a tuna fish
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sandwich but I'm thinking that's
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probably that's probably your burger
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there
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I also went with the chili and they said
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you want cheese and onion sausage put
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the onions on it said you want pickles
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on it I said yeah give me some pickles
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they put pickles in the chili and then
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they asked what kind of bread I want I
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said
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what do you recommend they said
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sourdough which is like San Francisco
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thing so got some sourdough bread
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I don't know what is about tuna fish
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sandwiches always kind of makes me happy
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reminds me of being young my mom making
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tuna fish sandwiches for me
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did you get the double burger or the
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regular burger
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that's what Bourdain got right the
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double Patty I think that's what he got
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he got it's pretty dang good it's pretty
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dang good
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how's the burger
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of course with sourdough bread
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dip it in the chili
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all right walking back to the stadium
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now this is kind of this residential
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Warehouse area half residential half old
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warehouses and look at the sign that's
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wedged used to be an old advertisement
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painted on the brick there but it's
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covered up by this newer building
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the old paint
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is still up there
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all right I have officially started my
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17th stadium watching the race play and
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there's the ongoing list of course
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Tropicana Field the number one because
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that's the race home field and then 16
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other so 17 total all right Giants are
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up now this is Wade mechler making his
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MLB debut welcome to the show Wade
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mechler
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razor back up
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got a guy on first and third two outs
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he's talking to radius at the plate
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but that's a double
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two were already scored now another one
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is now three to nothing now did the uh
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with a double
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one thing I like about this stadium is
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you can just from the seats we're
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sitting in you just kind of walk down
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here get a snack use the facilities
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got a guy in first and third and there
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you go
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four to nothing
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lead over to Third
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new to the race just called up from AAA
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two days ago
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I sure just need like a week or two ago
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from the farm teams
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oh yeah there's another one five to zero
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Curtis May trotting across the plate
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Giants have scored five to one now you
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got your Giant's finger going
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Hometown finger it's now dark enough for
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the coke bottle is now illuminated green
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next to the big glove
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count
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four count Bases Loaded
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oh struck them out with Bases Loaded so
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I just left three on
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is pretty cool to see
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seagulls look at this the seagulls I
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think I've been to a game where I've
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seen seagulls
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Ray's got 18 hits Giants only got six
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hits the race win the Rays win all right
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that's gonna do it for today