The City Connect Release Is Finally Here - St Pete Pier Party & Drone Show / Meeting Tampa Bay Rays

0:03 today's adventure brings me to St

0:03 Petersburg Florida the Tampa Bay

0:08 area and it's kind of historic day

0:12 because there is a peer party at the St

0:15 Petersburg Pier this evening from 5: to

0:19 10:00 p.m. right now it's about 2:20 or

0:22 2:30 I have made the commute over from

0:26 Celebration Florida as the recording of

0:28 this it is Thursday

0:30 May 2nd

0:36 2024 this is a great mural here

0:36 accounting for the Tampa Bay Area Tampa

0:39 St Pete

0:46 area you got the area code

0:46 813 right up

0:50 there you got the devil

0:53 ray right up

1:00 there and that is the new city

1:00 connect

1:08 logo welcome everyone Adam the woo here

1:08 wearing an appropriate hat I am very

1:11 excited the rays are the 20 something

1:14 21st 22nd 23rd give or take a number

1:19 team to have the MLB City connect

1:23 jerseys hats socks

1:26 shorts

1:28 t-shirts Etc released and a couple days

1:32 ago they put it on the website and I am

1:36 more than excited to spend quite a bit

1:38 of money

1:41 today going to go by Tropic Canfield

1:43 first there is no game

1:45 today but I'm going to buy some stuff

1:47 and also go to the pier where they are

1:49 going to have a celebration of sorts and

1:53 unveiling of sorts and a street party on

1:57 the water well it's on the pier of sorts

1:59 I'm inviting you to join me also I'm

2:03 really tired of Drive of driving over

2:06 and back in one day it's about 70

2:09 something miles from my house to St

2:11 Petersburg around give or take and it

2:14 takes forever I4 is the worst it's

2:17 getting worse almost every time I make

2:19 the commute so I think from here on out

2:23 if I have the opportunity to I'm going

2:25 to get a hotel so I'm going to check

2:26 into a hotel cuz I'm going to be here

2:28 today and I'm going to be tomorrow doing

2:30 downtown St Pete

2:33 things join

2:36 me City connect time shall you also

2:39 there on his forearm got the 727 area

2:42 code

2:44 represented got the knuckles there with

2:46 love I got a little tattoo action is

2:49 wearing the Tampa bake cap so this is

2:53 one of the Mini City connect

2:56 Styles this is another one

3:00 of the city connect style got the bridge

3:02 right there got a little throwback to

3:05 Devil Ray there got the new school

3:08 Sunburst right

3:11 there man these look these are going to

3:13 be so awesome because there's no game

3:14 today you can just pull right up to the

3:16 Trop

3:18 Park complimentary free parking and also

3:21 I believe the team store is going to be

3:24 open they have the guys up here sporting

3:26 the new city connect jerseys got

3:28 Fairbanks there on the far right there

3:30 you got Randy you got

3:32 yandi you got Josh on the other end one

3:36 of the things I really love about this

3:38 is how it really Embraces the skate

3:41 Community here in town also a little

3:44 punk rock flare little Street Wear

3:47 flare pretty dang

3:50 awesome kind of reminds me of a lot of

3:53 you know skate designs from back in the

3:56 day obviously the skate park at Tampa

3:59 which is right across the way there's

4:00 also a skate park couple blocks away

4:02 from the

4:03 trop all that

4:05 coincides I'm going go inside and take a

4:07 look

4:09 at take a look at what the designs I'm

4:12 going to I'm going to spend a lot of

4:12 money I know and I would imagine down at

4:14 the pier they're probably going to have

4:15 a popup shop they're also going to have

4:17 a drone show later they're going to have

4:19 some live bands and they're going to

4:21 have a whole skate team out

4:24 there shredding it up even right up here

4:26 they've already got the the new logo

4:33 all right so here's like the first

4:33 introduction so take a look at this

4:35 there is a ray on a

4:42 skateboard that's pretty

4:44 great there's a Randy on the back of

4:46 this one I like the Flames across the

4:49 top of the this is also the first time I

4:51 think since 2008 that the jerseys are

4:54 going to have the words Tampa Bay across

4:56 the front of them yeah it's been that

4:58 long here's the Jersey these we got Jose

5:01 Siri on the back of this one with the

5:03 font there let's see who else we got we

5:07 got Zach

5:08 gin here got

5:12 yandi over here got

5:16 Randy okay now definitely going to be

5:18 getting quite a few hats hats are

5:21 probably going to be my

5:22 downfall look at that there's the

5:24 traditional style with the it has the

5:27 the Sun Burst on it but then it has the

5:30 connect there on the front such a great

5:32 design like so much like intricate

5:34 details on there with the bridge going

5:37 across formulating into the the ray

5:47 itself this might be my favorite though

5:47 skate the skate

5:50 ride

5:52 Nike and even got some shorts down there

5:54 this is

5:55 $225 but holy cow this is really nice

5:58 like a fullon jacket here that is

6:03 really nice and warm right there also

6:06 look at the bucket Hab I'm not really a

6:07 big bucket hat guy but that's cute got

6:09 all the decals down here you got the

6:11 little

6:12 Koozies key

6:14 Rings some face cow tattoos the perfect

6:18 cut

6:19 decal right down

6:21 there got the pin

6:25 it oh they even have a there a little

6:27 baseball right here get some socks over

6:30 here got some sweet socks you got the

6:33 little cap little Wool Cap Garden flag

6:36 vertical flag this is a totally new new

6:40 logo new merch it's going to be here for

6:43 years to come oh even look up here even

6:45 have it like all around the the inside

6:47 of the team

6:49 store and then the traditional style

6:51 these are non-fitted caps these are your

6:54 regular regular caps I like this I don't

6:57 really wear a lot of snapbacks but there

7:00 this is the it's pretty

7:02 good the hog yeah got the Pelican there

7:05 with the three palm

7:07 trees these are so so good these are the

7:13 snapbacks really great oh my gosh I'm

7:15 just like so happy with with this I mean

7:18 I've seen other teams City connects I

7:20 really like San Diego Padres City

7:22 connect but they're like the only other

7:23 one besides the Rays that I've seen and

7:26 really liked now how many more hats do I

7:28 need that is the real

7:31 question all the different colors and

7:34 Hues like the purple

7:38 there all right this is awesome this is

7:40 kind of like a throwback style in a way

7:43 where it has like the this this type of

7:45 cloth it's like a wool I guess but take

7:47 a look it's like the it is the new logo

7:49 also I really like that kind of has like

7:52 an

7:53 80s style to it even though a lot of the

7:56 new city connectors definitely has that

7:58 '90s

7:59 Vibe almost like Thrasher

8:01 magazine

8:04 style man I don't know I like this I

8:06 think I might end up getting getting one

8:09 of these I got a couple things here I'm

8:11 thinking about getting the yandi regular

8:13 shirt here this hat this hat here's a

8:19 info a little more info here Welcome

8:22 Back to the Future the 2024 M Mo X City

8:26 connect jerseys an Unapologetic

8:28 energetic tribute to the vi Tampa Bay

8:30 communal energy that deres from powerful

8:37 individuals actually says Back to the

8:37 Future on there team necklace logo with

8:39 chain right there so I definitely like

8:42 fitted hats these are not fitted and I'm

8:45 hoping one day that they start to have

8:47 instead of having the Snapback of these

8:49 versions I'd like to have that in fitted

8:51 all right I am now

8:53 officially

9:00 $250 Less in my bank account than I was

9:00 I spent a little bit of money inside the

9:03 team store but definitely no regrets

9:06 about that because man this this stuff

9:08 is good so I found out by talking to

9:11 employee in there that there are going

9:13 to be quite a few players four maybe

9:16 five players that'll to Pier later and

9:19 they're going to have pop-up shop and

9:21 maybe even some other

9:23 merch that they didn't have in the team

9:26 store well maybe not some other merch

9:28 but they are going to have a pop shop

9:29 down at the down at the spot

9:33 so one thing that's great about this

9:36 merchandise look at this there's the the

9:39 kitty cassette inside of here is I've

9:42 kind of been see you know how the

9:42 internet is like it's always kind of

9:45 half and half as far as positivity and

9:47 negativity and all that but these things

9:49 are getting like rave reviews all not

9:52 just not just from Ray fans but Al Just

9:55 across the board in general from just

9:58 Baseball fans

10:00 not a lot of negativity towards towards

10:01 the new designs it's also kind of nice

10:03 too because the team as of right now you

10:05 know it's a long season team's not

10:07 performing really well on the field so

10:09 it's kind of nice to have a distraction

10:11 from that and having everyone get just

10:13 forgetting about the last few games and

10:16 just focusing on you know the task the

10:19 new the new

10:21 swag at hand I'm not going to put it in

10:23 any this on today but soon all right all

10:27 checked into my hotel and show off the

10:28 merch I bought at the team store at Bay

10:32 Republic I ended up getting this Dave

10:35 Wills shirt he passed away last year

10:40 this has been a little over a year now

10:42 yeah a little bit over a year but this

10:44 is one of his quotes when you always say

10:45 the raise win raise win raise win

10:47 announcer for the ray for many many

10:49 years I've been wan to get the shirt for

10:51 a while they had this not in the team

10:54 store but in the store next to the team

10:56 store where they sell a lot of the game

10:58 used stuff so that's where you could

11:00 find that and then I got the

11:02 yandi shirt and then I got the the ray

11:07 riding the

11:08 skateboard and then I got both of

11:11 those so that's my haul also I really

11:14 like this hotel never stayed here before

11:16 but I like it all right I'm looking on

11:18 the site so

11:19 basically the

11:21 promotional for this new merch is called

11:24 grit and glow uniform celebrating the

11:27 independent underground spear of Tampa

11:30 Bay there's Randy voice of the

11:32 underground a tribute to the region to

11:34 call home Tampa Bay adorns of Jersey for

11:36 the first time the words Tampa Bay since

11:38 '

11:39 07 homage to iconic Street Media street

11:42 art and underground culture skate forall

11:46 connected communities neon

11:50 sway the OD to the historic marker of

11:52 Perry senior Park Three Palms logo

11:54 represents the

11:56 subtropical breezus beneath the Florida

11:58 Palms and Perry Harvey senior Park

12:01 skateboard Bowl representing HomeField

12:04 Advantage Pelican hold special

12:06 place baseball history for St Negro

12:09 Leagues St Pete

12:11 Pelicans the Jersey

12:14 texture is emulated black search

12:16 weathered from the floorida

12:19 Sun kind of a nice grip underneath the

12:22 baseball caps gradian

12:24 accents now this is also what's very

12:26 very interesting too so you get

12:30 down here I like that too I like to

12:32 spray painted cap I never thought

12:37 ever that there would be a quote from

12:39 the singer of one of my favorite bands

12:41 ever Minor

12:43 Threat Ian McKay also from fugazi

12:46 skateboarding is not a hobby it's not a

12:48 sport skateboarding is a way of learning

12:50 how to redefine world around

12:52 you they they quoted minor they quoted

12:55 the singer from Minor Threat I never

12:56 thought the Rays would do that so that

12:57 makes it even more awesome and here is

12:58 the flyer for the event that happens

13:01 tonight 5: to 10:00 p.m. St Pete Pier

13:04 drone drone show player appearances live

13:06 music food trucks games merchandise live

13:08 art installation skateboard

13:10 demonstration and mascot

13:12 appearances I'm all about that probably

13:15 tough to see it but it

13:18 says for the event pure event that way

13:23 and probably it's kind of tough to see

13:24 but yeah good about having a hotel down

13:27 here it's like just don't have to worry

13:28 about parking park at the hotel and just

13:30 walk to the pier believe that's supposed

13:32 to be a big Cherry first I thought it

13:33 was an apple from a distance the dirty

13:35 shirle Bar and Kitchen think it's a big

13:38 Cherry all right I finally got myself a

13:40 coffee piping hot caffeinated beverage

13:43 here little Pike Place pik's

13:50 Place walking down to the pier it's

13:50 going to be nice when the Sun finally

13:51 starts to set a little bit and might

13:53 have be probably a couple more hours but

13:54 the event goes from 5: to 10: should be

13:57 kicking off here pretty soon all right I

13:59 definitely know where this is it says

14:01 popup party on the signage right here

14:04 Tampa Bay Ray City connect Jersey popup

14:06 party there's like an arrow which

14:08 probably at night will be all

14:11 illuminated look at

14:13 that I walked out to the very end of the

14:16 pier so this is Tampa Bay the Bay of

14:21 Tampa and St Pete off in the distance

14:23 right over there is downtown Tampa I

14:25 mean downtown St Pete but this is all

14:28 Tampa Bay hence the

14:29 yeah you can see the city skyline over

14:31 there in the

14:33 haze Tampa proper filming it from T

14:37 across Tampa Bay in St Pete also someone

14:41 over here has lost part of their

14:43 sailboat there's a sailboat has sunk

14:45 right there in the water there's a few

14:47 little miniature sailboat right over

14:48 there too little miniature sailboats I

14:51 got the wind in my face got

14:53 Sun my eyes walking back towards the

14:56 skyline of St P you can even see where

14:57 the old Pier used to be you got some of

15:00 the little stanions from the old Pier

15:02 I'm walking down the new pier all right

15:03 we got a spray paint can here the

15:06 graffiti culture right here Nike City

15:10 connect Jersey launch 5 to 10 thank you

15:15 look at this appearances by former

15:17 players and more okay maybe they're not

15:18 going to have any active players was

15:20 going to be active players but I guess

15:22 former players here some stuff skate for

15:23 all neon sway home of the Berg gradient

15:27 access get a grip Sun worship

15:30 voice of the underground all right

15:31 standing under the shake cuz it's still

15:33 really hot outside so they're going to

15:34 have a few players two of the ones I'm

15:36 really interested in one was Zack effin

15:39 former Philly I got a photo with him

15:41 over there and in a little while Pete

15:43 Fairbanks Crazy Eyes himself is going to

15:44 be out here but I got a really good

15:46 photo with with Zack eelin he was really

15:49 nice there's the photo right there me

15:51 and Zach how freaking cool is that I

15:54 just like walk by a booth and he was

15:55 nobody was even in line I'm like that's

15:57 freaking Zack effin just standing there

16:00 very friendly guy I also told him that

16:02 the Philly Captain said hi he's a former

16:04 Philly and he goes there's a lot of

16:06 crazy people in Philly I go I know I'm

16:09 buddies with one of them that's Raymond

16:11 he's got a little skateboard right there

16:12 too how you doing good oh you got the

16:15 you got the New Jersey on right there

16:16 too and they got the here to stay shirts

16:18 as well go Tampa is going to be around

16:20 for a while they're building a new

16:22 stadium I have one of these shirts but

16:24 this is what the supposed new stadium is

16:27 going to look like 2028

16:30 right

16:30 there and got some skateboarding taking

16:33 place out here I'm sure this will

16:34 probably as the night goes on we'll get

16:36 a little more people on it head on it

16:39 have a couple trophies over here

16:40 including the 2020 American League

16:42 Champions Trophy I also just got a photo

16:45 with Pete Fairbanks who was like

16:46 standing over here

16:48 also love Pete

16:50 Fairbanks all right I met a couple

16:52 players that was

17:02 all love baseball I see DJ Kitty over

17:02 there Raymond is here Mr Fairbanks I see

17:05 you brother great to see you here shout

17:07 out to all of our skateboarders our

17:09 Thrashers all of our locals and even our

17:11 Out of Towners I'm DJ Fresh you're

17:14 official DJ for your we're going to kick

17:16 things off with it was kind of neat

17:18 seeing Raymond and DJ Kitty the band up

17:21 there playing were he were just rocking

17:23 out dancing around full one just

17:25 crashing it up I thought DJ Kitty was

17:28 going to start a

17:29 Raymond was playing the skatebo like it

17:31 was a guitar but DJ keny was about to go

17:33 next level open this pit up take a look

17:36 at

17:42 this

17:42 that also this says caution manity area

17:46 I don't want to get too close CU I like

17:47 step off there but yeah I almost forgot

17:49 that this was here this plain little

17:52 structure right here skaters going by so

17:56 Tampa J's here also he said that this

17:58 bathroom room is haunted the women's

18:02 room is allegedly haunted allegedly

18:05 haunted really it's alender the Comfort

18:07 station yeah that's what they called him

18:09 back in the day this is part of one of

18:11 the original peers of what's left of it

18:13 really just this bathroom right here not

18:15 a lot of places have public restrooms

18:18 that look like that I don't want to use

18:19 that one if it's haunted well it's just

18:20 the women's though so yeah we're okay in

18:22 the men's room you bought a little swag

18:25 also I got the skyray Hat love it I like

18:27 that you have the uh spot shirt on the

18:30 skate park of Tampa you went by there

18:32 there in your video too to talk give a

18:34 little nod yeah a little nod to the

18:36 underground skate Community oh there's

18:37 another arrow here popup party though I

18:40 thought maybe the lights would be oh you

18:41 know what they're not lights they're

18:43 they're spray paint cans they're not

18:45 lights they're spray paint cans it's

18:47 pretty clever though right there that's

18:49 pretty clever oh yeah I forgot to show

18:50 here is my picture with Pete Fairbanks

18:53 there as well I show the one with effin

18:55 earlier also I thought I was tall I'm

18:57 6'3 like Pete must be like 64 or

19:01 65 pretty cool to meet him though

19:03 there's something called the sanitary

19:04 sew I didn't realize that sewers could

19:06 be sanitary but evidently in St Pete

19:09 anything that has a pelican on it is

19:10 sanitary including a sewer do you know

19:13 that Jay that's that sewers can be

19:14 sanitary I had no idea no no you know

19:18 there's alligators down there right yeah

19:20 well yeah and shuds oh we got the little

19:22 boat dock over here you can kind of see

19:24 the sun setting glimmering off the

19:26 clouds also you can tell that summer is

19:28 is approaching and it's spring you know

19:31 was it like halfway through spring or

19:33 quarter of the way through spring it's

19:34 getting into spring cuz you can see the

19:36 accumula nimbus clouds which you really

19:38 didn't start to see till recently so you

19:41 know summer is closely approaching and

19:43 the humidity starting to build up and

19:46 those clouds are starting to I'm not I'm

19:47 not a meteorologist but yeah wow there's

19:49 a lot of motorcycles going through there

19:53 even some

19:56 Segways BM Well not BM they're all

19:59 electric bikes there goes a little one

20:01 wheel going by it's like a whole

20:03 cavalcade so far it's

20:09 endless well everything so far is

20:09 endless you can apply that to so far

20:12 it's endless that's going to be a new

20:13 t-shir I'm going to start saying that

20:14 every time I around you I went back to

20:16 my hotel for just a few and then after

20:19 that started to think I wonder what it's

20:21 like after dark down there when they're

20:23 going to do the Drone show so I returned

20:26 watched a little skateboarding

20:28 saw the city skyline a little well a

20:30 little bit of the hotel

20:34 Skyline after dark and I'm glad I did

20:38 because the Drone show ended up being

20:40 really really good and it was wasn't

20:42 promoted this way but I just assumed

20:44 that it was going to be all Tampa Bay

20:46 race themed and baseball themed and it

20:54 was it's amazing what they can do with

20:54 drone projections now how much how far

20:56 they have advanced in just the last few

20:59 years the first time I saw any sort of

21:02 decent drone show was blown away and now

21:05 they're just popping up everywhere

21:07 included here in the Tampa Bay

21:13 Area really enjoyed

21:13 it that's going to do it for

21:15 today got some new

21:17 merch saw some

21:20 skateboarding met a couple players

21:23 couple my favorite players that are

21:24 currently on the

21:25 race pretty awesome

21:28 Zack

21:30 effin starting pitcher and you could say

21:33 the closer Pete

21:35 Fairbanks got to meet him he's really

21:38 awesome I think I've said that a number

21:40 of times well that's going to do it for

21:42 today I'll see you in the next

21:46 video thanks for watching I appreciate

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The City Connect Release Is Finally Here - St Pete Pier Party & Drone Show / Meeting Tampa Bay Rays

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