The Wild Card Race HEATS UP At Tropicana Field - Tampa Bay Rays vs Baltimore Orioles Craziness
Tampa Bay Rays Win Over Orioles
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here as a recording of the
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saturday august 13 2022 standing here
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market street water street celebration
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florida i will be taking the lengthy
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commute
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a couple hours two two and a half hours
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depending on traffic over to tropicana
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field where wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt the tampa bay rays are going up
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against the baltimore orioles
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be my first time seeing brett phillips
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former ray right fielder
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in an orioles uniform
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he is now playing for that team and the
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wild card chase
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is in full effect between the blue jays
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the orioles and the tampa bay race
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baseball talk
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it's around noon 10 minutes to noon
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first pitch is at 4 10. i got a little
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bit of a hike i'm inviting you to join
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me
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shall you just see how long it takes me
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to get over there hopefully the traffic
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is kind
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you can see the minute hand there about
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10 minutes
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and the hour hand is almost on noon so
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it's 10 minutes to noon about 11 50.
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gotta get going and i need some fuel
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give you some gas too
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i love the architecture of the 7-eleven
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it's the closest 7-eleven to where i
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live and it's pretty stylish art deco
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style all right this is a really good
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sign so far
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you know it's kind of early
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it's 1205 right now not a lot of traffic
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on i-4 westbound
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so i'm heading that way and if i can
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make it in this allotted time frame i
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will be very thankful i know it's going
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to probably get a little wackier the
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closer i get especially we get over to
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the bridges and get through lakeland and
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tampa and into st pete but if it stays
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like this
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i will be a happy camper ah textbook
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florida a little slow down here
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some rain
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still moving but it might not be as
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quick as i originally assumed
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slowed down just a little bit in this
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little area and also some weather and
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then just like that it's clearing up
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again look at that building
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big ball
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slow moving again but at least i have a
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good view
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of the empty boat restaurant off to the
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side
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all right i made it over to saint pete
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random alley
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mural alert
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got a bull and a bear here got a mermaid
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and a pelican
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next to the emerald bar
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just parked
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2 21 pm
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just 10 parking all around the stadium
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if you get closer to the stadium
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i passed a few of these one i usually
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park at
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is over here next to this sunshine
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kitty cafe
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but there are four three or four ten
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dollar parkings around the area now if
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you go up to tropicana field lots
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they're a little more like 20
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25 and then on you know
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premium game days
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sometimes 30 dollars you want to park
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really really close so i like these 10
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lots they're only like a block or so
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away there are so many murals around
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here
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one thing about saint pete
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is there's a lot of murals
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this really is a must win series for the
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rays against the orioles now last night
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they lost the game they kind of they got
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defeated by a pretty large amount the
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orioles won
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but they really need to win this
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to
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etch up their stakes in the wild card
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race now they have a lot of injuries the
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raids have a lot of guys on the il
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but there are three key components
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coming back in the next week or two
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harold ramirez wander franco
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and
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manuel manny margot
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just keep head above water until then
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keeping it on par winning winning series
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is winning a few winning more than
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losing
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should be able to make it to the
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postseason which is what i am health
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what i am hoping i really want this team
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to make it to the postseason and get
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that wild card get that wild card spot
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it's gonna be close i believe there's 51
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50 or 51 games left
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in the season so anything can change you
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know team gets on a roll a winning or
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losing role
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to really change things up and it's
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really kind of close in the al east
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so anything is possible on for both
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directions
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all right here's a little bit of an
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example of what i was talking about only
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walked a few hundred yards
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parking went from ten dollars to thirty
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dollars now granted this is valet it's
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right across from the shop so that's a
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little closer but yeah that's just to
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get the perspective and there's a car
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pulling over here through the
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congregation of folks at gate phi that's
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where i'm headed
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sometimes i'll go in gate six sometimes
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i go around the front but i'm gonna head
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into gate five
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the gates open about ten minutes some
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stadiums open their gates two hours
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before first pitch at some an hour like
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oakland coliseum was only 60 minutes
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tropicana field is 90 minutes because
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it's a 410
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first pitch that would make it
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240
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when the gates open
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and currently at the time
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232 and as of this very moment here are
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the standings what the heck happened to
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the red sox
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but you could just see toronto baltimore
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and tampa bay are all kind of neck and
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neck within a couple games
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the tide could change
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i want the tide to change
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even yankees have lost three have lost
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the last three they're two they're only
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one two of their last ten
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what the heck and they have released the
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starting lineup it looks pretty solid
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you change doing pretty good
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recent acquisition for the rays he's
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actually been doing pretty good i think
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he's banned over 300 since he's been
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back with the rise
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and then of course diaz randy's been
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doing really well the last couple weeks
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as well
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and i was noticing up here for baltimore
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phillips brett phillips in right field
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is not in it's starting i'm really
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hoping to get to see him hit see what
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kind of ovation he gets or
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you know
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see what kind of cheers he gets when a
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little bit of a welcome home even though
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he's now playing for the opposing team
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and since i got a moment before walking
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in wanted to show wade boggs star in
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hand well not a star but his handprints
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here supposed to look like a plate so
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not really a a star there's an
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assortment of others wade boggs not
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really known in the general populace of
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baseball for playing for the double race
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but he did for a couple of years in fact
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he hit his 3 000th hit into right field
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here at tropicana field and there is a
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seat
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out in right field designated for where
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that ball landed all right gates have
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now opened and heading
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to the trap it's in the dome
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probably is going to rain it's very hot
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and humid out here but it doesn't matter
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always a constant covered 70 degrees
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inside tropic anfield and i'm really
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glad i decided to go to this game
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because shane mcclanahan who is one of
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the best pitchers on the rays arguably
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you know kluber's also another good one
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springs is pretty good
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and obviously rasmussen but i really
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like mcclanahan he's going to be on the
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mound today i'm gonna go ahead get
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myself a drink and then see if batting
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practice is happening get myself one of
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these refillable mugs all right i spoke
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too soon they're actually taking away
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the batting practice equipment time i
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walked down to the field batting
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practice was over bp at into the orioles
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kind of got a few swings in and then
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they started putting the stuff away and
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pretty interesting that they store the
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equipment underneath the raise aquarium
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out in center field that's where all the
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battery pack stuff is stored and ended
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up getting my drink refillable topic
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it's like 15 free refills the whole game
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and then also dj kitty was also here
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giving a little fist bump to dj kitty
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and and always good to see my favorite
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mascot yeah it looks like there's some
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new merchandise in the team store this
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just a t-shirt with a pocket on front
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and this one with like some peanuts look
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there's an open peanut on there seen
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that one now you will not find a brett
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phillips jersey anywhere in here because
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he's not on the team anymore however his
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company baseball is fun they still sell
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that because it does not have a raised
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logo on the side of isn't that
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interesting so that's that's his company
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but
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they can't sell his they can't sell his
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jersey anymore yeah the chase is on for
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one of these
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wild card wild card wild card and i
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really like this little museum that they
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have started to put in here they put
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like a couple different rooms and
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museums and they have some of the stuff
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in the 2020 world series the ray's lost
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it but it's still pretty neat to see
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some of these items and of course they
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still utilize the double raised logo
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even though not technically called the
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double raise to do a lot of throwback
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nights like the hat i'm wearing is a
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throwback devil raycap their inaugural
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season was back in 98. now last time i
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was out in this area this was closed up
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and you couldn't walk in here but i can
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approach up here to the wade box
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sculpture as well as some of the other
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raised greats as they called this room
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the raised greats room mcgriff longoria
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shields and crawford they're a little
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where they are their little dressing
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room over there and it looks like wade
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even signed down there looking like wade
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boggs sign he put hall of fame and there
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he is kind of giving the look he like
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just kind of like really staring down
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the pitcher getting ready to get that
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three-step 3 000th hit that he got in a
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double raised jersey which is a pretty
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big accomplishment so cheers to you
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and my seats are up on the 200 level
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tonight so taking the escalator up to
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208 section two
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zero eight
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up the escalator
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i go
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raise up
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and i am not alone not alone
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you've all right
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we're here raise up fashionably late
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that's right yeah
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got my jersey on
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first pitch just happened these are our
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seats too
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pretty decent seats up here
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i could try something different sit in a
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different area
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it was pretty awesome that mcclanahan
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played in the all-star game started the
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all-star game
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in l.a all right the rays are now up
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looking at the batter batting order here
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chang is leading off i do like this
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angle because you can see into the
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opposing team's dugout over there
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we got the orioles all lined up
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pop-up fly from the andy
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i like this angle up here it's a good
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view yeah this pitcher's throwing a lot
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of balls
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i would imagine that randy will probably
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run
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i could hear cowbell mex out there in
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the outfield
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clanking on the cowbell
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what happened
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wait what happened is he out
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why didn't he go to first
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i went with a little mustard on my
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chicken
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and fries basket and the amount of time
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it took me to go get this
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and for you to go get this you got some
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relish on the dog
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what'd you get you got popcorn popcorn
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and a souvenir helmet
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the rays have lost the leaves
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the o's have gotten two runs
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i'm also going my mustard on here
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yeah the rays were up one to nothing and
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now
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they're down two to one in the second
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already
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man that's what happens when i go get
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food
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laser back up i'm looking at the line up
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and i'm wondering why
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g-man is not at first so better chord
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usually catcher
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is at first look at this
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and brandon lowe's not in the game
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either
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there it is
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three and two and another one
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that's another one
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all right
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paul's overturned the runner is safe
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they called them out they called it to
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new york and they say oh siri's going to
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third save siri still third
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oh yeah
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sold second and third
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nice job
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second
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steal home but he's gonna get home i'm
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gonna get the rbi on the sac fly
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all right in the middle of the fifth
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they always do the mascot race and today
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evidently is national bowling day the
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announcer said
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they got big bowling balls but it looks
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like raymond really kind of took the
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prize on this one and beat out dj kitty
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in the rowdy's mascot by a long time by
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a long ways all right went got a refill
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and also got a box of peanut
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m ms
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oh yeah that's it
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perfect
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and between innings dj kitty came up
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stood on top of the raised dugout and is
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like showing his like dj skills
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on top of the dugout he is just a master
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you know scratching records and it looks
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like pete fairbanks warming up over in
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the bullpen
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i've not seen fairbanks this has been
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back off the il if the chops up
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pretty high like him in the reliever
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spot
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yep and it is fairbanks
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i love his wind up he does this kind of
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like little
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kind of an unusual line-up
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oh
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wake up
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nice
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that was pretty interesting after those
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three outs
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there was a little
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a little altercation on the field it
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looks like fairbanks kind of muttered
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something to the upper maybe one of the
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other players probably one of the other
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players and both sides cleared the sides
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completely cleared
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i thought it was going to be a full-on
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brawl but there wasn't they kind of
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controlled a couple of the guys were
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kind of scuffling but
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all in all it was like it ended up being
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pretty it didn't being okay
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it's not every day that you can attend a
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game and see a full-on bench clearing
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you know altercation or brawl going on
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on the field
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but yeah completely completely clear
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boat dugouts
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everyone just kind of ran on the field
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started started doing their things and
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you know talking smack and whatnot
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pretty exciting to see in person the
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crowd kind of went crazy too
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have you ever seen a baseball brawl
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before
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not in person that was my first clearing
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of the benches yeah in person that's
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as far as mlb maybe back in the little
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league yeah have you ever seen a
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baseball brawl before i have not
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and that one lived up to
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the height
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did you get did you get excited and like
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jump up and down and i absolutely yeah
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it was almost over you were gonna really
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she was going out there i ran up to the
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front of the railing yeah you didn't i
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ran up to the front of the railing too
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you guys were right behind me i was
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ready to go down there
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hold on hold me back it's all right adam
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go work it out
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all right game's on october two outs
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top of the night
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can't imagine getting hit by a fastball
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it's like in the 90s
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cash is out talking to mejia
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all right the crowd is thinned out but
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there are two strikes
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at the moment while the orioles fans
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have left
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yeah raymond's already over there he's
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ready for the win he's got the flag
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ready to roll out onto the field
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all right raymond this is your
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definitely nice to have a win and makes
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the wild card very very very
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interesting i'm interested to see if any
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other teams
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in the al east
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what they what they ended up doing
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this evening as well
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got pretty good
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a little closer to the alice you know
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not really necessarily a clinch because
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there's still 50 games left but yeah
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pretty nice uh
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to get a win for sure definitely pretty
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cool
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and now heading out
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down the first base food hall and back
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outside yeah i kind of half expected to
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walk out here and be completely pitch
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black
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but i forgot it was a 4 p.m first pitch
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and the sun is now setting
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so a little bit of daylight left that
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was definitely a good time had some good
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enjoyed a good ball game
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i have some good friends
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and all inside a dome shielded from the
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elements
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of the heat
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humidity and rain
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is the road closed off over there i
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think the road might be closed off that
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way
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oh yeah it is because that way people
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can cross here
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nonetheless it's a good time
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that's gonna do it for today i'll see
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