Baseball Is BACK & Pricey For Spring Training- Yankees Can Finally Have Beards / Rays New Home Field
Spring Training Begins 2025
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This TGIF it is Friday
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February
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21st
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2025 I am wearing an appropriate hat
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jacket because it's kind of cool and
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crisp here and appropriate
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t-shirt farm team for the Tampa Bay Rays
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the Bulls Durham Bulls the movie Bull
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Durham referenced across there
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I am going to see some baseball
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today spring training which in the grand
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scheme of things doesn't matter as far
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as who wins or loses but it is the time
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for players who don't usually get
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invited to show their stuff to test out
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players who have been with the team for
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a while the new guys the coaches to get
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familiar getting back into the get back
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into the swing of things
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no pun intended because they swing a bat
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they're going up against the Yankees now
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yesterday some teams played their first
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spring training game yesterday but today
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is the first day the Tampa Bay Rays will
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be playing at Stein brener field which
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five weeks from this very moment I think
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it's five
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weeks they are going to be utilizing the
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new home that they are renting in 2025
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from the New York Yankees for I think
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$15
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million it's not their Stadium yet right
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now it's the Yankee spring training but
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next year it's going to be the Ray
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stadium because Tropicana Field was
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seriously damaged in a hurricane it's
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going to be an interesting year
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nonetheless I'm inviting you to join
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me see some baseball shall you I4
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westbound looking really smooth at this
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moment which makes me very happy it's
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10:21 a.m. I think first pitch is a
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little after 1: p.m.
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I'm going to guess they'll probably take
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me an hour and 20 minutes to get over
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there now of course it all depends on
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how light traffic is going westwardly
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over to Tampa not driving to St
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Pete not going over the St Pete bridge
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but still going pretty far to Tampa was
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going pretty smooth until just getting
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on the outskirts of Lakeland not even
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quite to the lakland exits yet it's
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going to take a little longer than
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expected on I4 today than I originally
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had planned which would pretty much be
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the new motto or the motto for
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Interstate 4 it's going to take a little
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longer than expected yeah I'm deeming
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that the new motto of
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I4 ah there's the
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boat old restaurant
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Boat and someone Leaf blowing down there
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even though I'm not going across the
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bridge over to St Pete even getting to
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Stein br from celebration looks like
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it's going to be about an hour and 45
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minutes when it's all said and done with
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this traffic like this still a ways from
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celebration I'm almost
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there spring training the
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start the national Pastime baseball's
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back kind of I paid $21 in change with
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the tax 20 plus tax and parked over here
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at Raymond James Stadium the football
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stadium and going to take the very short
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commute walk
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over to Stein berer field and I'm still
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seeing I was kind of wondering because
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in 5 weeks from now will be the start of
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the regular season again spring training
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is awesome but really when it boils down
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to it you can lose every spring training
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game as a team and start fresh at the
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beginning of the regular season the
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start of the 162 Game season which
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starts at the end of next
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month and I was kind of
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thinking that they would have already
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taken down the Yankees logos and put the
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raay logos up which I've heard a rumor
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that that will be happening but as of
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right
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now February 21st as I'm standing here
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that hasn't happened yet a yes heading
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into the house of the enemy actually the
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Yankees are pretty nice for letting uh
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letting the race end up having to use
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this even though they're getting their
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15 mil but they didn't have to do that
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so that's pretty
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cool this is going to be the Ray's home
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next all this year 2025 regular season
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this is the Tampa Bay Rays H home field
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how weird is that right no umbrellas
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food or beverage are allowed sign George
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M steinbrener
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field I have a feeling we're going to be
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outnumbered today Chris yeah aimless
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Adventures Chris is here I'm guessing
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probably about a 500 to1 ratio we are
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outnumbered raise up you know what this
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is our new this is our home field
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advantage for this year it is we're just
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all we're doing is we're just planting
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seeds today all right you got your
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Orlando Ray hat on OG all
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right all right let's go in there let's
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get in this is Also Chris's first time
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at this Stadium the new Rays home for
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2025 and then after that who knows where
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the heck the rays are going to end up
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but right now this is but and again this
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isn't their home field advantage yet
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right now they're the away team because
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this is not the regular season but it is
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going to be the first crack of the bat
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that I hear in
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2025 from mbb standpoint MLB standpoint
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which is pretty
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exciting it's a few people showing up I
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think the game's going to be sold out
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also ticket prices ticket prices were
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absolutely ridiculous regular seats were
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like a 100 or more I think $91 was the
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cheapest to sit standing room which is
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what we got $80 Standing Room ticket
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plus $20 to park so cool crisp $100 to
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see a spring training day at Stein Breer
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they're shaking your head little too
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much yeah I think it's a bit I think
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it's a little ridiculous I know things
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are a little more expensive these days
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however spring and spring training
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people it's the Yankee that's that's
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exactly why people from the Bronx have
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money because I go to Dun Eden living in
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Newport Rie I go down and I watch the
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Rays in dun Eden at TV Park $17 for
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standing row 17 if you go to five games
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there it still be cheaper than one game
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and I probably will just to make that
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all
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right so also should mention there is a
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minor league team a farm team that plays
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here for the Yankees the tarpons which
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is affiliated with the Yankees when the
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regular season starts the tarpons are
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not going to be playing here this is all
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Tampa Bay Rays
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stadium once during the regular season
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every home game is going to be here this
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out underneath here they have the the
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bullpen practice area right over here
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they even have a couple little little
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players down there in the form of like a
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wooden cutouts this is uh down this
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little staircase leading back up to
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field level where the restrooms
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are I am assuming that these are Yankees
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broadcasters here I'm not familiar with
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the Yankees broadcasters but I guess
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that's who those are and I'm over here
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in the Outfield and I'm noticing these
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Academy buses say Tampa Bay Rays on and
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that was there's the player buses right
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over there first pitch is in like 20
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minutes so game will be starting very
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very soon it's kind of nice getting to
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the game only an hour before you don't
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have to wait too long before first pitch
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starts all right they're making the
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announcement
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now so what we got is called the
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pinstrip
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pass with the fees I said it was $80
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with the fees $94
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each and with the Pinstripe pass you end
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up getting a free alcoholic beverage or
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Pepsi product or Aqua Fe so with the
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$94 you get a bottle of water I'm going
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to get a bottle of water but I don't
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think I've ever been to a spring
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training game where the standing room
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was 94 bucks they are announcing the
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raay players and here comes the tpet
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comes a Here Comes one the Tampa tarpons
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rolling through here right here Tampa
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Tarpon trying to get away from the
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fishing pole all right I got my
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complimentary Aquafina well it was $94
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plus standing room also they do not
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allow you they take they twist off the
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Caps so we're not allowed to throw any
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bottle caps on the field and got the old
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grapefruit League shirt on right there
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right there grapefruit League which is
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the spring training League we even have
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this one here it says Tampa Florida
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spring training grapefruit League got
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the Tampa Bay on the back I think
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they're starting to make the
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announcements out I got to find some
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helmet nachos my goal today is to watch
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a little baseball and also get some
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helmet nachos but not every stadium has
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helmet nachos I've learned they do have
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sliders however they have
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sliders all right you got fries you got
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chicken you got Burgers sausages Beer
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soda it looks like the chicken tenders
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comes in a baseball but not a had I want
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helmet nachos in a in a helmet I think
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it's going to be a
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fail I think it's going to be a fail all
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right Chris asked they said no go to the
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helmet nachos they put it in a little
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plastic container love Don maddingly he
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was coaching for the Blue Jays I think
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last year I'm not sure who he's with
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this year but Donnie baseball got to
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respect the Yankees Yankees got a lot of
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lot of great players and it's the same
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division a East even though the the
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raised Rivals so many great players for
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the Yankees quite a quite a
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team they are announcing the Yanks out
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there right now you see all the pin
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stripes out there and you see the light
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blue Ray's got their light blue outfits
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on it's going to be
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Aaron Aaron bu evidently he just got uh
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he just got his contract extended I was
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just reading for two more years Kevin
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cash reports the manager for the Rays
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Aaron Boon the manager for the
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Yanks of course starting in the regular
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season in five weeks this will be the
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ray dug out right down here right now
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the rays are over on the visitor side
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it's all very confusing but yeah
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and in honor of our Armed Forces we like
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to ask all after militarian families and
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retire military
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and all right about to play some ball I
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think we're just going to we're going to
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be want we're supposed to be out in the
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Outfield but it's pretty much standing
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you just walk around as long as you're
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not in anybody's anybody's way just feel
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free to move
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around it could go all in and on some
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popcorn that is a quite the array of
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popcorn here look like some good fresh
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buttery popcorn also got Bavarian
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pretzels right there all right here it
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goes first pitch spring training hey
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Josh
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low is going to be leading
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offen you got the bullpen down here
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boys are
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back oh yeah Junior
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cabanero future Superstar for the Rays
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hopefully they keep him around for a
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good
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while I predict good things from this
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guy that swing good thing I got my
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Durham bullshirt on
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because Durham bull Zone Jonathan oranda
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is bat third spends as much time in
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Durham as he does with the race oh
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coming coming in hot
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oh it
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is that's a dur that's a Durham baseball
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right there fresh from mironda
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will all this stuff stay up once the
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Rays take
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over again it makes sense that it
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wouldn't
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but they are paying a lot of money to
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rent the stadium to make it their home
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home field so who knows definely not
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recognizing a lot of names in the
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bullpen probably a lot of call UPS from
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Durham or double
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a it's a big
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Bullpen you
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can can have a lot of activities down in
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again ah defense for the Rays turn
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sprank trading not off to a good
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start I love the sounds of baseball ball
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hitting the glove the bat hitting the
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ball the cleat on the
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dirt there's guitar right
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here six
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street that Yankees flag will definitely
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not be take a look at this little area
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up here it's like a little
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seating VIP area with couches and things
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maybe it's like a hard rock that I got
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the traffic from Ro I think it's Dy
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all right that is a private party he
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said curious what that will be once the
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over you like this little area out here
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though pretty neat here in right
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somebody post they go guess you're not
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going to get that one one anymore
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huh Razer back up again now two to
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zero those trying to get some home run
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balls can have a Fiel day with this Zach
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cample is going to be going to town here
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look at all the room now to run around
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and catch some
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balls also the right field porch is only
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314 ft I think vast difference than the
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trop so Brandon L's going to
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be having some fun here for sure the
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game is pretty full I would imagine most
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of the ray games in the regular season
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are going to be pretty full the stadium
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only holds like 9,000 people but take a
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look there's really no lines for food so
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getting food shouldn't be too difficult
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during the season Al definitely the
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bullpens you're at the trop you really
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don't get a good view of the bullpen
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because the bullpens are on the
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field this is good this this will be the
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raay Bull Pen the regular
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season Philly captain could have a field
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day with heckling here he can just like
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lean right over whatever
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team I think the rays are playing I
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think the Phillies are going to be here
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playing the Rays
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place your bets on if that wording is
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going to be taken down for the end of
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next
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month maybe I don't know if you heard
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but they just made the announcement the
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Yankees can now have facial hair they
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can have full
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beards they just announced it like today
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or
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yesterday 20125 good job Yankees oh
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heads up holy
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Chris and I were just discussing about
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the Beards with the Yankees but he do he
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doesn't think they'll ever going to put
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names on the back of Yankees jerseys
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Yankees if you don't know the number or
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what the face looks like and then now
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their faces are going to be disguised
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with
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beards so who's going to know who who
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is what if every Yankee grew a beard
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every Yankee grew a beard every Yankee
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grew a beard how would you know them
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aart by height out the Yankees golf cart
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here right here it's like their own
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little mini Marge a lot of signatures on
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here too as well this is pretty uh
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pretty sweet the double seat in the
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front seat in the front and seat in the
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back the Yankees golf glorified golf
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cart oh look at this we got some raay
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merch we got some raay merch got Randy
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over here from the 2020
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postseason oh actually quite a bit you
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got Fred McGriff okay they got a
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combination of Yankees and Ray stuff as
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well over here gosage here for the Yanks
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was the starting lineup of course
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usually after the second third fourth
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inning and spring training they take a
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lot of the original players out and put
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a lot of guys that don't get the chance
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to play in just to see how they do we
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got Josh here junior aronda Morel rvet
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Catcher from last year Trey
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Morgan Xavier Isaac c montis not
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familiar with him Cameron Meisner and
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Joey Kil not familiar with him either
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and then here's the
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Yanks
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strowman goldi I think didn't gold schmi
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used to play for Cardinals might be
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incorrect with that but I think maybe I
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don't don't hold me to that 94 to 96
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the road in New York runs through Tampa
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the tarpons I saw some tarpons when I
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was in Biz they leapt out of the water
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to get my food I mean they were really
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aggressive there's Mr October Reggie
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Jackson you hit home runs not by chance
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but by being prepared Roger Maris
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of course him and Manel went for their
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battle for all the the Home Run
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championship of 61 home runs it's a
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great movie too 61 if You' never seen
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it in honor of Thurman mson
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there Reggie Jackson speaking about
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teammate Jim Catfish
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Hunter oh I was talking about the Philly
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Captain I wonder if he ends up here this
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year what he will think about a Florida
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cheese steak they have a regular dog for
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$6.99 or you can get the extra large dog
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for
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959 all right thank you so I got the
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extra large dog and I got a Gatorade
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interesting they don't make you take the
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top off the Gatorade though if you buy a
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water aren't you supposed to take the
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tops off not here oh just
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Waters okay
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mustard mustard time so I guess only the
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waters or at least depends on what Booth
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you get it but they I can leave so if I
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want to throw that on the
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field like a Yankees
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fan all right
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have layered some mustard on
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it I might get some popcorn too but yeah
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this is definitely a different kind of
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dog different brand dog I think hofe dog
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is the one they have at chop I can't
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remember what they had last year I think
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it's Hof these are called saetes or Sab
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s a b r e t
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t free refills on the
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popcorn not a bad deal actually they
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have free refal on hot
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dogs Mickey behind me there look how
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many hot dogs Mickey consumed back in
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the
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day all right it's still 2 to zero got
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my
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dog right here
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all right you know what that these might
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be better than the trop dogs this might
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be better than the one they have at the
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trop I'd agree got a better
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flavor sa
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bretts what do they have the TR H Hy
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dogs yeah
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think I'm more of a Nathan's guy but
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these are good
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too extra large wieners cop get popcorn
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got free refills on your popcorn all
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game long come and get it come and get
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it we get some popcorn free refill all
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game popcorn freshly pop I'll take one
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yes sir no problem not a bad deal
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$1.99 with the
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receipt free
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refills I don't know if he gave me a
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receipt though
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nonetheless all right we have found a
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couple seats here also I got to say
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$1.99 for this if this is going to
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happen during the regular season free
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refills with the receipt that's a game
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changer 12 bucks for unlimited popcorn
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for nine
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innings it's into the fifth now fifth
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inning now and the Double Js the JJs are
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up Josh and then Junior on
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Deck still two to Z oh no it's four to
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zero Yankees gosh why I went to get
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popcorn hot dog they doubled their score
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they probably be more comfortable in
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this cool weather to sit in the Sun but
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we're in the shade found a couple seats
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actually there was like a a pocket of
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like 13 or 14 empty seats right here in
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this section so grabbing the shade cool
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Christmas of the Florida shade can't say
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that too often you say it like twice a
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year all right we have
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moved thought it was going to drop but
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it didn't we have moved over here down
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the first Bas lot lots of empty seats
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over here
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over was sitting here this whole group
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is left so we've shifted down the left
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field line still four to zero in the
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sixth inning now razor
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Up Down by four Ray's got a guy on first
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and third it's three and two with one
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out Magnum actually pretty much the
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whoever's in the lineup now I don't
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really recognize
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but struck him out magnet was in the
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lineup last year a couple times though
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but I don't recognize the other guy also
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the scoreboard here is definitely a
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little smaller than the one at the trop
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also I would imagine the one at the trop
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since the roof got ripped off the
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scoreboard is probably completely
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demolished that's a little smaller yeah
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Magnum is the only one I recognize of
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the nine guys that are in the lineup
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right here in the in the seventh it's
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mostly just probably Triple A doublea
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guys that are getting a getting their
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chance that's the way spring training
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Works gets some guys who don't usually
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get the opportunity oh is he going to
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steal safe swipe the bag swipe the
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bag and Ray left a couple guys on base
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just like old
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times all right we're going to get a
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little lemonade W she still has part of
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the lemonade I got a Bonus where's your
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lemon oh it's down there oh yours is in
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there yeah it's nestled in there it's
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nestled down in there mine's a
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floater thank
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you Flair is enter theck that is Uncle
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Vic Flair that's what the guy over there
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his the name of his jersey says he's
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wearing judges number
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99 but Uncle Vic
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Flair Yankees
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guy oh and the one thing the one thing
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you would expects to see down the line
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at a baseball stadium that's right a
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tennis ball right over
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there has expecting a baseball all right
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this is it final three outs is now top
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of the ninth inning razor down by
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four see what happens it could be a
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rally you never
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know also let's Savor the flavor the
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fact that we are wearing jackets at a
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baseball game in Florida might be the
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only time we got your hoodie on Remember
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come July August you will not be wearing
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that no it'll be a R Co all right one
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out Ray's got a guy on first and
26:02
second right
26:09
now Chandler Simpson is up not familiar
26:09
with Chandler again there's a lot of
26:10
guys
26:12
that from last year newer guys and also
26:16
guys the farm system oh a little bunt
26:18
that's a foul
26:19
ball oh Bas is loaded Magnum oh double
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down that's it it's over
26:28
Ray left three guys on base just like
26:31
old times Ray so that's it first
26:34
baseball of the Season little spring
26:37
training
26:38
action Ray head bases loaded had a kind
26:41
of a weird play to the second baseman
26:43
who caught it through it to first got
26:45
the two
26:46
outs so we were just discussing again
26:49
will they take this down the night of
26:51
the last spring training game which is
26:53
March 26th they'll have that night all
26:55
day the next day and then the next
26:56
morning before a late afternoon early
26:59
evening opening day on March
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28th and there definitely will be some
27:06
stuff not changed there's no way they
27:09
could remove these seats and that emblem
27:11
will definitely be there so even if they
27:13
do change some stuff some stuff will
27:18
remain guessing they'll probably paint
27:20
over that right
27:23
there but who knows I don't know what
27:25
the what the deal what the contract is
27:27
but I know $15 million that the Ray are
27:30
providing to the Yankees will buy an
27:32
awful lot of paint to repaint that
27:34
afterwards and once again this will
27:36
probably be the one and only time I
27:39
watch a baseball game in Florida this
27:42
year wearing a jacket even got a leaf
27:45
blower out
27:47
there even got a leaf
27:50
blower oh yeah give it to me leaf blower
27:53
give it to
27:59
me and just it's a rare occasion to wear
27:59
a jacket in Florida watching baseball
28:03
I have thrown the hood
28:07
on just so I can look back later in the
28:10
season when it's toasty and warm and
28:14
remember man I wish it was
28:18
chil say hello to the
28:22
Rays
28:24
HomeField 2025 after spring training
28:28
after spring training
28:34
anyway of course this will not be their
28:35
Dugout their Dugout will be over
28:37
there it's a pretty good seat right here
28:50
here lot of people want Yankees
28:50
autographs over
28:52
here big throng of people waiting for
28:55
some of the Yankees to come out ins sign
28:56
it looks like they are now dispersing in
29:03
crowd no Yankees are coming out the
29:03
side workers are saying time to hight
29:06
tail
29:07
it the crowd is being
29:29
dispersed breathing first winning
29:29
next winning is the most important thing
29:33
in my life after
29:35
breathing
29:36
paraphrased breathing first winning next
29:39
actually no it's all the same
29:48
quote into the team
29:51
store this will be the Ray's team
29:53
store at least I think so kind of like a
29:56
'90s era
29:58
kind like a 90s style right kind
30:06
of get this this one right here is a
30:06
custom one you can get your name not not
30:09
your real last name but just your name
30:11
on the back your a zero it's going to be
30:14
interesting to see these shelves and
30:16
Hangers with Tampa Bay stuff
30:20
soon all the stuff will be
30:23
removed and uh Tampa Bay Ray stuff will
30:26
be all adorned through here at least I'm
30:28
guessing that will be the case at least
30:30
I'm just I'm just assuming but I I would
30:33
figure so oh yeah so what what are they
30:35
going to what we got a little Sunburst
30:36
what are they going to do with this I'd
30:40
really like to see I don't know if
30:42
they'll ever release the contractual
30:45
details of the contract that they have
30:48
to renting the stadium for this year
30:51
starting the end of next month through
30:53
the regular
30:54
season 162 games so half of them will be
30:58
played here as their as the Rays home
31:00
field obviously it's still going to be
31:02
Stein Bruner field as it should be
31:09
but nothing was really changed today
31:09
though I I thought maybe they'd have
31:11
some stuff taken down and change but
31:12
nothing nothing yet there a practice
31:15
field over here as
31:23
well we got the football field over
31:23
there the distance just try and Survey
31:26
the landscape
31:28
of the
31:29
new temporary Ray
31:32
Stadium
31:41
25 all the numbers number nine Roger
31:41
Maris Thurman mson over here
31:44
15 someone that I remember my dad always
31:46
talking about when I was young my dad
31:49
always loved Mickey Manel and Yogi and
31:53
you'd always bring this guy up quite a
31:55
bit Whitey Ford
32:01
my dad and I shared a moment a few years
32:01
ago we went to the Field of Dreams in
32:02
Dyersville Iowa and threw the ball
32:05
around but even before that we went to
32:07
Commerce Oklahoma where I used to live
32:11
when I was really really young and he
32:12
used to preach in a church there that's
32:14
where Mickey Manel lived we threw the
32:16
ball around in the empty house where
32:18
Mickey Manel used to
32:20
live my dad and I also met Yogi be when
32:23
I used to work spring training for the
32:25
Astros in cumi when the Astros used
32:27
spring training semi Yogi Bara was a
32:29
coach for them for a little while just
32:30
like brought them on for like opinions
32:33
and things like
32:35
that as a I'm trying to think of what
32:38
the word would have been but I got to
32:40
meet Yogi be and my dad was there with
32:42
me so that was kind of a neat thing
32:43
there's Babe Ruth over there number
32:45
three
32:46
dagio number five the famous quote
32:48
October 1st
32:50
1949 I want to thank God I want to thank
32:52
the good Lord for making me a
32:55
Yankee Micky man right there
33:03
one of the best allaround players and
33:03
one of the greatest Switch Hitters in
33:04
history of baseball from 51 to
33:26
four ah greatest closer probably in the
33:26
history of baseball at least arguably
33:28
number 42 mariana
33:30
rivera got Jeter number
33:33
two right
33:35
there lot of famous players for the
33:38
Yankees there he is castan's
33:52
Boss how long before someone throws a
33:52
raise cap on
33:54
them probably wouldn't be probably
33:56
wouldn't in well if I did that right now
33:59
28th 2 of
34:01
March ra count going on George M yeah
34:06
maybe cash and neander will come out
34:08
throw a raay cap on
34:11
them probably not though they they don't
34:13
seem like problem starters they seem
34:14
like they would uh they don't want to
34:16
push any buttons cash and theander all
34:19
right here's Raymond
34:20
James well the stadium home of the crew
34:24
I've never been in that
34:26
Stadium also look at how
34:29
massive that pirate flag is over there I
34:32
mean it's kind of hard to tell
34:33
perspective from here but it's Gargantua
34:35
I mean that's the normal Pirate Flag
34:37
right there waving in the breeze and
34:38
there's one that's like seven times the
34:39
size right there and I guess this is
34:42
where the parking the regular season is
34:44
going to begin or be as
34:48
well right across the little walkway
34:51
bridge heading into Ste Runner a pirates
34:54
take a look you can see the PIR part of
34:57
the Pirates ship right there between the
34:58
two
35:04
poles pretty fun all right now for the
35:04
2hour and 15 minutes if I'm lucky ride
35:08
home to Celebration it's 500 p.m. on the
35:12
dot hung around a little bit while the
35:14
traffic was kind of subsiding but just
35:18
checked the GPS it's going to take a
35:19
while to get home I'm in it to win it ah
35:23
the joys of I4 Rush
35:37
Friday it's all part of the
35:55
experience well I was zipping along
35:55
pretty good for a brief while there but
35:58
now back
35:59
to Bumper to Bumper or at least slow
36:03
going grid
36:04
luck taking a while to get home taking a
36:14
while getting there though it's moving
36:14
slowly very slowly back over in
36:16
celebration now it's
36:18
7:25 2 hours 25 minutes to get back from
36:21
Tampa to here granted it is was rush
36:24
hour left at 5: got here about 7 30 took
36:29
a little while to get over there took a
36:30
little longer to get back there's the
36:33
Mickey power pole there's the I4
36:41
traffic I did it spring training
36:41
game and I will go to at least I don't
36:44
know about how many spring training
36:45
games I'm going to go to that probably
36:48
most likely will be the only one just
36:49
with me traveling and all that 5 weeks
36:52
till opening
36:53
day don't know how many regular season
36:56
games I'm going to go to
36:58
so last year I finished up a three-year
37:01
challenge where I went to all 30 current
37:03
MLB stadiums
37:06
seeing the team I rot for the Champa Bay
37:08
Rays play at all of them including
37:11
Tropicana Field and 29 others now this
37:15
year if I go to a regular season game
37:18
I'm not counting spring training gam
37:20
seeing the ray
37:21
only regular season or postseason games
37:24
seeing official games because as stated
37:28
spring training games do not really
37:30
count but this year if I go to a
37:34
game after March 28th one of the 162
37:39
games or postseason game at Stein bfield
37:43
that will be my 31st stadium that I've
37:45
seen the Tampa Bay Ray at
37:48
and next year this year the Sacramento
37:51
A's or the California A's the former
37:54
Oakland A's and soon to be
37:58
Vegas a the Ray will be playing there in
38:01
2026 so next year I will knock off my
38:05
32nd stadium and whatever the heck
38:08
happens and where the Rays end up in
38:11
2028 and
38:13
onward will be my 33rd Stadium seeing
38:18
the rise
38:20
assuming I'm around that long who knows
38:23
where the future
38:25
goes but yeah definitely not going to go
38:28
as heavy on the baseball videos and
38:31
Vlogs this year as I did in the last 3
38:33
years got a lot of international travel
38:36
going to be doing a lot of other
38:39
things but I love baseball love the race
38:43
and I'll be keeping
38:45
up watching the games listening to the
38:48
games keeping up with the games or being
38:50
at the games but not as
38:53
much being at the games as I was the
38:56
last 3 years I set out to do my goal and
38:59
now my goal is international travel but
39:02
when I'm around I might go to some all
39:04
right that's going to do it for today
39:06
thanks for listening thanks for watching
39:07
raise up it's going to be a good year I
39:10
have I have a good feeling I think the
39:12
team this year is going to be better
39:15
than the team last year just just my
39:17
opinion but what do I
39:20
know pitching rotation is going to be
39:22
good we got a pretty good pitching
39:23
rotation fingers crossed that no one
39:26
gets injured before the season starts
39:27
still you know over a month pitching
39:30
rotation good Bullpen better this year
39:32
than it was last year and we got some
39:34
bats see what happens thanks for
39:37
watching I'll see you in the next video
39:38
the Vlog is over