My First Time At Great American Ballpark In Cincinnati Ohio - Skyline Chili Dog & Front Row Seats
Tampa Bay Rays at Cincinnati Reds
Transcript
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today's adventure begins
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crossing over this bridge i have arrived
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in cincinnati ohio
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as a recording of this saturday
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july 9th
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2022.
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going to do a game johnny bench has
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his own little road here johnny benchway
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and this parking lot is pete roseway
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this is the corner of pete roseway and
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johnny benchway it's about 1 50 p.m
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first pitch today is at 4 10
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stadium opens two hours early
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so about 15 minutes from now give or
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take
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be able to walk inside
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welcome everybody out of the woo here
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cowbell max
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game two of this series we did not make
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last night's which probably a good thing
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we didn't because there was kind of a
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weird ending to it
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nonetheless
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tampa bay rays versus the cincinnati
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reds charlie hustle
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is sliding in right behind you max right
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here pete rose himself not in the hall
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of fame but is documented for posterity
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in front of here sliding into the bag
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you're gonna give him the save for the
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outcome you're gonna you always give
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charlie hustle a safe
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call i've never been here have you ever
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been here first time man i'm freaking
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excited i'm stuck let's do it still in
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there i'm inviting you to join me and
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shall you given the name the great
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american ballpark i have heard nothing
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but good things about this stadium and
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never have i been inside here before we
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arrived into town late last night
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and decide well it was planned ahead of
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time to go to this game
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we're here
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i've also heard they have kind of a
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pretty expansive museum inside here
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which we'll check out before i don't
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think batting practice is going to
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happen today with this weather it's
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pretty rainy and nasty out all right got
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my ticket in hand and about ready to
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line up to head in
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they're just a few minutes from right
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now we are sitting in row or section
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116 row f c5
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410 first pitch
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starting to rain a little bit starting
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to rain a little bit harder still got
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about nine minutes before gates open
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i'm gonna go in the team store before
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now okay found the museum it's called
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the hall of fame and museum cincinnati
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red's hall of fame and museum
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gonna save this for a later date and not
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do it today they also sell a combo where
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you can go in there and you can also do
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a ballpark tour
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as well i think that might be johnny
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bench over there we're going to do that
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at a later time i definitely want to do
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at some point
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do the ballpark tour oh gates are over i
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really do like the
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reds mascot here right there with the
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old
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the old
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sweet mustache i really like that this
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is also the field of dreams quote
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obviously i believe the reds this year
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are playing the field of the dreams game
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up in dyersville all right that's
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probably why they made that show all
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right i was misinformed it's not two
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hours before here it's 90 minutes before
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first pitch so we got a few more minutes
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before i gotta open the game and the
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gates have opened it's kind of
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interesting that the cincinnati reds
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have a very similar logo to the football
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team from chicago the chicago bears the
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sea kind of reminds me of that there it
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is tampa bay rays versus cincinnati reds
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and it's a giveaway they are giving away
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the full team set of baseball cards for
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the red nice little painting over here a
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little mural oh this is made of tile got
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the 1869
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club and then the more modern day the
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great eight and this is made out of tile
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so look right here this is tile work not
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necessarily a painting but
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different tiles making this up and there
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is the current time right there 243
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first pitch at 4 10. no way they have a
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freshest big boy in here
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right there behind home plate
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check this out holding the burger
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there's a lot of different big boys
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obviously the one in burbank is bob's
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big boy but this is a fish's
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big boy holding the ginormous
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burger i always like these
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man that's so cool
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you know who's gonna see one of these in
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here and at this very moment there is no
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batting practice in fact they've taken a
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step further not even having bp even
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though the players are out in the field
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working out a little bit and stretching
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and kind of throwing the ball around
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they have put the tarp over the baseball
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diamond because it is raining i did
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check the weather and it appears as if
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it's going to clear up just a little bit
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the sun is going to come out
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and this will you know looks like most
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likely it will be first pitch will be on
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time one thing that i really do like
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about this ballpark is how unique it is
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like in center field there is a full-on
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fairy steam riverboat out here that you
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can like see from the distance right in
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the middle of center field in fact these
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smoke stacks if you turn around and look
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over it go the other way from the
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smokestacks you could see a bridge and a
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real boat out on the river itself which
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is pretty dang cool i think i've ever
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seen a stadium that has a riverboat now
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there's always quite the debate which
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chili place is better in cincinnati
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skyline versus gold star
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but here at the stadium they have
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skylines i think i'm gonna get some
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skyline chili and a dog maybe they have
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a chili dog not the most ginormous hot
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dog chili dog but they did layer it full
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of a lot of cheese
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i'd say this is
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probably the smallest hot dog i've seen
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but
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they got the
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the chili on there the size of the cup
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though
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pretty good size
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of the cup and an overload of cheese
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this is going to be a serious mess
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while i was consuming that person in
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front of me trying to get napkins and
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they knocked over
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the napkin stand that's what that noise
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was
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it's like an oversized paper up there
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it says sweet
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cincinnati and choir back when they were
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world champs dangling from the ceiling
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and there's a better view of it there
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also
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take a look at that fan right there
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that's the same fans they have at the
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indiana jones stunt show
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disney's hollywood studios oh this is a
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good sign they are pulling the tarp off
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the field out there oh look there's like
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a little congregation of mascots man the
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mascots are making their way kind of
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getting out of the way of the grounds
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crew they need to get away from that
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target and this is the visitors bullpen
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you can see it's even tarped over there
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too pitching coach
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kind of getting everything ready and you
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got down here you got
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opportunity for two
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bullpen pitchers to warm up back in here
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yeah i'm loving how this mascot is
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really kind of being a supervisor and
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instructing the ground crew on how to
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roll up the tarp also starting pitcher
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for the raise is rasmussen oh there's a
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little photo up here too of the mascot
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with the mustache right next to this
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bench and the bat in the shoes
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looks like a little zamboni going
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through here
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i'm also starting to realize that most
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people here arrive right before the game
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begins it's starting to become a beehive
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of activity first pitch
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these are the seats i'm here right next
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to the 1939
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banner
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the rain seems to have stopped but man
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the humidity
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is really starting to rear its head now
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all right cash has switched the lineup a
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little bit on defense and a newly
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acquired ray
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chang is at second his first
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game as array in a ray uniform he's over
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there at second
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see what he can do today
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you can see we're starting to come down
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a little harder now it's not pouring but
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it definitely is
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a very prominent amount of rain coming
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down
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in fact over here
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like quite the puddle starting to
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accumulate
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right here this is actually where i'm
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supposed to be sitting but there's no
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one sitting in the seat next to me so i
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just kind of moved over this is this
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massive congregation of water puddling
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up
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off the wall
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give
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all right the sun is now
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starting to rear its head starting to
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warm up and
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the rain has subsided
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also it's interesting that
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wander franco
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after he was that bad so hopefully he's
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not injured
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g-man
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oh yeah go g-man
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safe
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so now the people next to us
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showed up so we had to move over into my
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seat so now i'm standing
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in this pond right here like your shorts
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outside the pond
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well we still do the throwback jerseys
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like four times a year so
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i mean we'll still
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yeah we'll still wear it like
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but i don't know
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i just realized one thing cincinnati
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needs as a team
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on their scoreboard
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is a few more advertisements sponsored
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there's just not enough up there
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just not enough up on that on top of
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that board
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like come on
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three
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got out of that one
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all right i'm gonna document this this
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is chang's very first admin as array
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now i was at wanda franco's very first
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at the race
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back at tropicana field last year and
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wander hit a home run
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and chang is in for wander today
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it's a stretch but i'm gonna
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they sure do look up there
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and they just changed it
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just like that
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how warm is it out here
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i'm just gonna say this anybody that has
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anything bad to say about tropicana
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fields
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you haven't experienced this right now
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so you're saying it's toasty
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out here
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it's toasty and roasty and in the exact
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middle of the fourth inning they ended
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up bringing out this golf cart that was
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like steam powering emitting steam up
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into the air like with great a great
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amount of steam just going down the
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third base line going around behind home
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plate then up the first base line just
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the steam-powered
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golf cart and then out to the outfield
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through right field and then the center
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and then back out through the left field
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i thought maybe something was going to
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be thrown out of it and no it was just
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emitting
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oh yeah there we go
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there it is there it is
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ready to get one now
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the radius scores
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taylor wallace is on third taking the
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lead
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that was a lucky bounce
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lucky bounce i had to go back to the
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snack bar and get another beverage it is
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a little toasty out here and the time it
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took me to get the soda
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the reds have already gone up and down
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and the rays are back up that was really
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a lucky bounce hitting taylor walls out
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i thought he'd be able to have that
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from third really a lucky bounce off the
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the backstop normally that wouldn't have
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bounced straight back to home plate that
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catcher wouldn't have got him and got
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him in that little a little run-down
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pickle
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face was loaded for harold ramirez
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this could be really good it'd be really
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really good
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oh
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that's how it's done excellent
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let's go
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right there right there so close not
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i hit available
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i hit him
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and with three balls if this next one is
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not a strike
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it's going to be a walk in
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walked in a run
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walk in a freaking run
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all right it's now tied up in the ninth
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inning razorback up three to three
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oh this is very stressful
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yeah it looks like
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brett phillips is coming into pinch run
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for kier meyer who just got on first
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but phillips
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he's on first no outs
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all right a kind of sort of wave has
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started
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and he is at the plate
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as the wave goes by
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one out two strikes
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it is now bottom of the knife tied up
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three to three reds are back up and of
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course on the mound
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whistler who last night made the mistake
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he called it a ball
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her first walk
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walk-off home run i've probably ever
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seen i felt pretty bad for whistler last
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night without
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that call so hopefully he can redeem
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himself get out of this and get us into
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the tent
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into the tenth
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josh is on second because of the second
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base rule
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but no outs and of course if i had to
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pick someone to come and clutch at the
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plate it'd probably be andy diaz
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that's a buck
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that's
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that's the guy that called the ball
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classmate this is why i love this game
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intense oh that's a pop-up
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tag up is he gonna tag
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you gonna try to do it
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you got to go go josh go get out
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that was close i thought he was going to
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report it
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it's okay though another sac fly brings
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in the run
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out to see what's going to happen troy
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is on deck
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then a rose arena ramirez at the plate
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just need a sac fly
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to get josh in
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okay ray's put foshay in
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and
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got a base hit off of him and then a
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wild pitch
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and now the score is tied
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no outs
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and with the race having a lot of their
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relief pitchers and closures on the il
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kind of feared this would happen in
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extra innings
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i can add another stadium onto my list
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of away games that i've gone
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rooting for the rays this year
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started off my first one was going to
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chicago saw the cubs and white sox at
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both their stadiums
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wrigley and guaranteed rate
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then i ended up in oakland
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oakland coliseum and i went to seattle
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to see the mariners play the race
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after that
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went back to oakland got my car and flew
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or drove down to anaheim went to the
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anaheim series
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i also went to a montgomery biscuits
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game the 1a
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division of the race
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i'm starting to almost lose track of all
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the different games i've been to
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oh yeah add in boston fenway park
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and now
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great american ballpark cincinnati reds
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the season's not over yet
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this probably will be
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the last stadium that would be the last
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game so i might go to another one
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this will be the last stadium i go to on
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this
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this road trip before heading back to
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florida and that's going to do it for
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today not really sure
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about to approach until someone was
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yelling at me about to approach the
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halfway point of the season 162 games in
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the season i believe it's past the
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halfway point all-star game coming up i
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think the only raise
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player that might be in the all-star
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game will be shane mcclanahan no
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notification yet
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he'll be starting
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or not i did contemplate going to the
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all-star game getting on a plane flying
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out to la going to the home run derby
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but i don't think i'm going to do that i
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think i
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need to within the next week or so
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get back down to my homestead
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celebration board and decompress
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not quite yet but i am starting the
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soon
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we'll be going back down there and there
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is still a chance that the rays could
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make it in the playoffs they are still
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up there
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in the al east division they could get
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the wild card
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right as of right now red sox and i
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believe toronto are just a step below
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them like a half a game below them i
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don't think anyone's catching up to the
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yankees but it doesn't matter how if you
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win the division it all depends on if
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you get into the playoffs which right
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now
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the race if the season ended out would
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be in the playoffs they could win the
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wild card they go to the alds the alc
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asking who knows
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maybe even the series
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the way they're playing now
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gives me a little bit of a heart
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palpitation but that's part of the
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enjoyment of the game i love the
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excitement of it i love the slow pace to
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the peak the fast pace the stress level
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because when it pays off
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oh yeah it's good
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but when your team loses that you're
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rooting for it's not fun
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this was this this wasn't fun to watch
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well it was fun to watch until the very
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ending for the very last moment and then
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when they put palshei in at the end i
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was kind of like oh
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i think max and i both are thinking this
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might not go well
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and it didn't
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nonetheless i'll see you in the next
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video the vlog