Bull Durham (1988) Filming Locations In North Carolina - TB Rays Baseball Streak & Durham Bulls Game
Bull Durham Filming Locations
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today's adventure brings me to Durham
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North Carolina where I am looking at a
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bull major the bull here in downtown as
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a recording of us this Thursday April
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13th 2023 there are the soothing sounds
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of a train going by in the distance I am
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here for two reasons
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to do filming locations of Bull Durham
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1988 Baseball Classic if you will and
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also go to my first
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AAA
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farm team of the Tampa Bay Rays the
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Durham Bulls
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who
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Bull Durham the baseball team
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is based on
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it's kind of complex well it's not that
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really that complex started Kevin
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Costner Tim Robbins
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Susan Sarandon
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I am excited
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to be here and I'm inviting you can't
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even see me there we go inviting you
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and this bull to join me
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shall you
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I don't know if I've ever started a
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video in front of a bowl before I might
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have
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this was placed here back in 2004 so the
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movie came out in 88. the was not around
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Jeff and I'm going to find some stuff
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around town that was and I'm also going
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to venture onto the outskirts of town
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for another spot now there are a few
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other stadiums that are an hour or two
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away that I will not be going to that
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were used in the film I'm not going to
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hit each and every spot
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Oh I thought you were like you're like
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hypnotizing me there bull but I am going
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to hit a few key moments and then go
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enjoy the game
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at the new stadium the nickname for this
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town is Bull City
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it's a little bit of a correlation
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but also was known for its tobacco back
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in the day
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which might ring a bell
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Durham brand
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so you got the Durham Bulls
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but then you got the tobacco Bull Durham
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and you got the film
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full Durham
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used to cost five cents
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I'm gonna head over to Raleigh first
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about 30 minutes away and then come back
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and do all the other spots there's one
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spot I want to get
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on the outskirts of town over in Raleigh
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and then I'll come back to Durham all
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right made it over to Raleigh about a 30
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minute commute from where I just was at
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Mitch's Tavern I believe in the film it
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was called Mitch's Bar and there was a
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little bit of an altercation around back
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we're a nuke through the baseball
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through the window
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evidently I think inside
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well first I'm gonna walk around the
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back if you see
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Mitch's Tavern was established in the
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same year I was born 1974.
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and they filmed the Interiors in there
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as well I mean walking around the back
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and see if I can see where the little
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the almost fight took place it wasn't
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really a fight it was just the baseball
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being thrown through the window so I'm
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walking around the back alley here
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will be the back side of the tavern of
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the bar
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and
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okay definitely it was on a set
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or in a different location
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because in reality the back of the bar
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is back here and this really looks
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nothing it does look like an alley but
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it looks nothing
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like it did in the film in fact there
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would have been completely level here
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and I was reading some stuff online
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that stated the reason they did not use
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this around the back is because it was
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not level enough and enough distance to
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throw
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let's throw the baseball what Tim
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Robbins would have been over there
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launching the baseball at Costner they
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would have gone through the window which
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hypothetically
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would have been right over there
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now you'll see there are some balconies
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up there at Mitch's Tavern of course
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there's a movie called Mitch's Bar to
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get up to the top of the bar you have to
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go up the staircase and once you start
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walking up the staircase
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you get into kind of just an old tiny
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tiny Vibe of you know this place has
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been around for a long time and it
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worked out that the owner Mitch
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was at the bar and he discussed some of
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the stuff with here talk about when he
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was here when they were filming it
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and showed me the you know some of the
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items the booth that Kevin Costner was
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sitting in that walked over to Sarandon
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and the clown that was the baseball
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clown real famous baseball clown in the
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movie that we're sitting at and it kills
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still kind of looks the same obviously
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besides the back alley and they have a
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movie poster a signed jersey and
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the reproduction of the
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of the the window
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that knew through the baseball through
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around the back which or somewhere else
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the great old photo from back in the
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late 80s when they were filming out
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front about all the trucks out front you
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can still see this the same Mitch's
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Tavern sign and balconies and everything
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back then to this day it still looks the
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same I thought and now heading back over
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into Durham where the rest of the spots
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and the game will take place arrive now
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at Mangum Street
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this road is one way
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this house here
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was home to Annie the character of Annie
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played by Susan Sarandon it also just
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kind of hit me that you know Kevin
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Costner who is a big baseball fan
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done a lot of baseball movies
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Field of Dreams his wife
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also the the character's name was Annie
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so two love interests and two of Kevin
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Costner's
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baseball movies
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or Annie
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now the house was a different color I
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believe it was like a white or a beige
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and they've really done a lot of work to
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it probably just passed was going really
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fast
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also known as the Manning house I have
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read some stuff online that a lot of
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locals call it the Bull Durham house
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but there's a sign out front saying the
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Manning house
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located at 911 North Mangum Street
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and I don't know if it's a
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Airbnb or if it's a private residence
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I'm just going to assume that is a
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private residence I don't want to go I
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don't oh my gosh there is a porch swing
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up there
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there is a porch swing just like in the
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film
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where Kevin Costner is sitting
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on the porch
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over on the side
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and of course at the beginning
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Susan saranda walks out of the house
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cuts across the lawn she's doing the
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whole voice over
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narrating exactly what the movie's kind
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of going to be about
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house is going to take farm team you
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know take the Bulls farm team and she
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always will pick one player
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also in the movie
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there was a sidewalk here that kind of
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cut across the lawn it was right about
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here that to ran and walked across in
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fact you could see this very tree
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in the frame when she cuts across the
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lawn this way
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and the credits are kind of rolling and
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coming across
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talking about how she likes to get the
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guys in the room and read poetry to him
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you find out later
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how they cannot Escape The Poetry
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session
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now I can feel placard up here on the
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porch but
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couldn't find any info if I was I'm
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allowed to walk up there I don't want to
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walk up on someone's property obviously
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there's a car in the garage over there
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could just be there's a historical name
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of the house out front but
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they're also reading something online
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that the house looks completely
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different the Interiors were filmed in
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there
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the only thing that's left of stream use
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is the tub
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where they had a little they got to know
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each other a little better towards the
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end of the film in the tub
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e supposedly that tub is still somewhere
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in that house so whoever lives here is
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utilizing the Costner Sarandon tub
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on a semi-regular basis
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also I thought it was appropriate to
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wear this t-shirt I am wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt this is a quote from
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the movie I'm going to see the Durham
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Bulls the durables this is a quote from
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the movie the team
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Tampa Bay Rays AAA or you know their
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farm team embrace the film which is
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pretty cool because I love the race
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we're on a pretty good win streak right
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now in fact I'm listening to the game as
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I'm recording this it's in the seventh
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or eighth inning and they are winning at
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the moment if they win today it will be
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13 wins in a row as the recording of
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This raise
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farm team
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Bull Durham I love movies baseball I
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want to raise kind of all works out
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it's just me walking down the sidewalk
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doing a little lollygagging a bunch of
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lollygaggers
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has another train
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goes by in the distance
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faintly hear it corner of West
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Corporation and Morris
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is also a grand reveal facing the
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opposite way
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where Annie was walking down
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this direction on this very sidewalk
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in fact the stairs
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these concrete stairs are still here
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there was a home up here there was a
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house
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that is now gone but she followed this
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route
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walking in the the end of her little
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spiel
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talking about baseball
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kind of ended as she walked into the
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stadium
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which is where
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the now Durham Bulls used to play well
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the Durham Bulls then used to play too
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and it was a grand reveal the stadium
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lights were on the place was full of
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people
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right over there
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the old stadium still stands so here's
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what it looks like in the film is where
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she walks past that staircase
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that I just showed as shown there
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and then probably was on a dolly of some
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sort panning this way and past that
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Shore
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and it was painted green then but you
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can see fire hydrants still there I
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think they replaced the fire hydrant
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repainted it as well
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the windows and door show up as well
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the fire hydrant has a cone next to it
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that's where she said bat says bad
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trades are part of baseball
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walks past that building and then
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the reveal off in the distance of the
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it is really fascinating how there used
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to be a house up here so when you
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watched that back there was a house
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there and there was like a fence here
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that kind of blocked this little berm
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from going over into that driveway
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and there were two doors
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there were two doors on the side of this
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building that had been now
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Cinder blocked over
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all right may walk over the stadium this
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is just really cool this is like kind of
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etched in my head that whole beginning
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sequence
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also I was noticing too
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haven't pinpointed it yet but it seems
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like this is where also she was walking
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up the side here I think there's even a
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frame later in the film the beginning
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and near the end where the characters
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are walking up this side from that way
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looking up I believe it is it's kind of
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tough to tell though because there's not
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a lot of but there's not a lot of
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buildings that have this brick formation
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and have the really Steep Hill incline
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like this
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and when she walks around this corner
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here
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looks similar to this but I think this
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building back here is completely new too
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that looks nothing like it does in the
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phone if this is even the spot I'm just
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going off of a I'm going off of a guess
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there's the best corresponding angle
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yeah I'm not confident on it but yeah it
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could be
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following her path
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over to the Durham Athletic Park Park in
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fact it has the D there on the side the
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Durham Bulls d
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not sure if I'm gonna be able to get in
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but looks pretty open to kind of zoom in
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and maybe get some of the angles I need
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to get and how cool is if they left that
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up on there like that
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that is awesome
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all right this is awesome she walks
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right past this little winding staircase
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that goes up
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to the top of the tower where the
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the painting is
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and I'm going to shift this way
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he walks right through there the grand
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reveal of the
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of the players and the field
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and the
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crowd
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yeah even though I can't get around and
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walk in there that is the angle
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yeah iconic as shown here so look over
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there's a snack bar there
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there she is walking and there's that
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staircase right there and then she goes
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in
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turns into the field and as I make my
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way closer this direction
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to kind of peek in from this angle of
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the fields about 352 3 53 P.M
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the race just won their 13th game in a
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row four straight sweeps
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in a row that's a I think it's a
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franchise record to start the season 13
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games in a row amazing now mostly
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advertisements are all the
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advertisements on the Outfield are gone
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now but where the hit the ball when a
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steak was was in Far right field
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should have been right over there affect
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the buildings behind them
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look exactly the same but it would have
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been like well one of the farthest
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things over and right right over there
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also kind of peeking through the fence
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here on the third base line there's the
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home dugout
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looks to be about the same including
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the very unique boxes the rectangle
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boxes that are there it's been repainted
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I don't think it was brown then
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but that's the dug out there
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that's where the assistant coach was
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kind of laughing at the baseball clown
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saying how funny he thought he was
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and just you know a lot of action
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happened on the mound at it home plate
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Costner those rectangle boxes in The
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Dugout like I was saying granted it'd be
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a lot easier if I could get in the field
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but this works too
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it's also the
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close-ups of Costner when he's like at
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the plate
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the batboy comes out
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gives them the thing to wipe his bat
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down get a head Crush
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of course she looks at the bat boy it
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says shut up so looking at it a little
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bit closer it'll be the visitors dug out
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over there
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so the players wise would have been
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above the home dugout
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and right where that wheelbarrow is is
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where
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the little cubby holes for the bats and
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the batting helmets was and also where
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the note was passed along the top of the
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dugout
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and I'm just going to kind of go out on
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a limb
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standing under a tree and it's limbs on
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trees
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but I don't think there was a tunnel
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from this leading over to another
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building
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the greatest show on dirt mural
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which I have read some stuff online that
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people have seen that is in one of the
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old factory the old tobacco factories
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but I cannot confirm if it's still there
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and I don't think I'm going to be able
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to get inside the building in fact I
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don't even know exactly what building it
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is but I will go by where it is said is
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rumored to be
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also back then there were a lot more
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bleachers kind of expanded on the first
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and third base line
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but nuke gets called off to the Big Show
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it's kind of right next to the lower
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snack bar on the first Baseline his car
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would have been parked right over there
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kind of where that trailer and that
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lawnmower is I think it's a lawnmower
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right about there
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and then the extended bleachers
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right in front of that and the camera
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would have been
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pretty much where that road is looking
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back at this
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how they call it a snack bar but I think
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it was a snack bar in the movie now it's
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just a building
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I also brought along a little buddy with
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with me nuke
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is right here
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picked this up I got into town late last
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night went into the gift shop got the
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got this went to the
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the Durham Bulls shop
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even though I'm going to the game
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tonight had to stop in get an
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appropriate t-shirt and
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get myself
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a little mascot there look at that
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how cool is that
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right here at the stadium
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oh I left this little little thing on
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top of his head
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I could work
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that could be good for posterity or
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maybe with the side there with the
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also got a couple spots to show down
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here I think that's cool
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look at that
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they didn't have they didn't have
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Costner's character crash
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they didn't have his but they had
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they had the Tim Robbins one
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yeah you're reminiscing a little bit
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you're reminiscing about your times on
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the mound there for making to The Bigs
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you are aren't you
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yeah
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you got a wild arm
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good thing they reeled that in
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good thing good thing they reeled that
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in all right move on to the next spot
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I thought so all right you lead the way
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oh wait you can't you try to go up the
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fence
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no no you can't you're not you can't go
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over there you can't
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you can't go over there new
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you can't you can't now come back down
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come back down
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no
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you got to come back down
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if you want to come back down
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no you gotta come back down though
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are you gonna listen to me just pretend
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I'm Kostner I'm like
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I'm like your Yoda
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come on back down climb back down
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climb back down it's frowned upon you're
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not allowed in there you're not supposed
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to be in there you're not supposed to be
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in there
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come on back down climb on back down get
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back down here get on back down pay no
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attention to my hands that are holding
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your torso come on back down all right
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you're safe let's get going now it said
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that this is the building
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that had the locker rooms in it and I'm
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kind of looking at it and when Tim
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Robbins is with
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the one girl and he's late for his start
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coach comes in and yells at him those
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windows over there kind of look like
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the windows that are behind them
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these kind of look like the same kind of
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windows I don't really know for sure
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but could locker room could be in here
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it's an old tobacco plant
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all the Imperial check out the sign here
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it says the bullpen on the side of it I
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don't know what that relates to
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you just see him
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see how kind of old school this is
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this really cool staircase leading up to
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the banister entrance there if you look
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at these windows they are very similar
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to the type of Windows that were in the
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locker room so
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I'm just making an assumption
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confirmed that is the building in fact I
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went in and talked to the receptionists
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and I asked if this was the building and
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she said 100 it is except the company
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that is running it is really adamant
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about not letting anyone down to see it
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but she said the greatest show on dirt
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painting and mural is still down there
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in a corporate office
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and it does not connect should confirmed
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it does not connect with the baseball
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stadium which is you know a series of
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blocks that way kind of stinks I can't
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get down in there but at least at least
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it's put out into there that it is still
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exists now this could also be the
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incline building that Sarandon walked up
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but it looks a little bit different I'm
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kind of leaning towards it being the
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other one some would say that this was
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it but I don't know this when you watch
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it it didn't have all these windows
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I really wish I could have got in there
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and seen that it's just so so classic
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gosh it could have been down in the
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basement okay there are basement doors
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down there or basement windows
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I hope someone could come out here one
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day
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and can get in there and document it I
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think it feels like it needs to be out
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there it needs to be shown 100 that it
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still exists
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the old classic buildings whole tobacco
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building they used they filmed the
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Interiors of
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side of the locker room
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gosh it might have just been the room I
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just passed
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okay this would be the only other thing
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that looks like that she walked up the
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side of the incline I don't think this
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is it
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this doesn't look as if
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yeah it doesn't look the same different
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different type of
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you know protrusions on the brick it's
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very difficult to see but take a look up
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Little Ghost sign up there downtown that
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is awesome
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tough to see it but it's there
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the trading was the theme in this video
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too I've wanted to go to a game here for
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a while
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I went to Montgomery Biscuits which I
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think is their 2A team last year and now
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I'm here for their 3A
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farm team setup is a little bit
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different than it used to be it's not
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like 1a2 a3a anymore it's called
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something different it's kind of
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confusing but
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either way this is the this is the team
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where a lot of the players for the Rays
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go up come down up and down you know if
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there's an injury or they need to call
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someone up they always call them up from
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Durham so I want to know a lot of people
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on this lineup in fact look up here
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Wanda Franco
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over in the corner and glass now right
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and out front they kind of have like a
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Walk of Fame so check it out over here
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the mascot for the woolly Bulls throw it
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at the bowl throw it at the mascot use a
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movie rapper
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wool e bull the mascot for the Durham
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Bulls but they also have an
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acknowledgment should adapt the Durham
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Athletic Park official home in the
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Durham Bulls from 1939 to 1994. that's
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where I just was this guy's got a may I
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help you check out wool a bull here
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throw it at the mascot oh he's got a
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ring
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is it going out in traffic I hope not
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all right here's a hit the bull bobble
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head right here take a look if you get
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to hit the hit the hit the bull oh hit
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the ball win a stake if you hit the
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grass win a salad
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oh
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holy poles coming across on a full-on
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electric car
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kind of making an attempt not to have a
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couple hot dogs tonight so it's like
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coffee to help kind of curb that desire
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I talk to the people who own this place
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they are local to the area so it's not a
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nationwide thing Derby Coffee
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Roasters
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also I really like this ballpark
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that hole you probably don't get a stake
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but
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players get to that
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it's interesting how that's on left here
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in the movie it was in right field
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oh it looks like it's two-sided from
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here as well this is looking down the
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foul pole
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on the Third Base Line great Stadium
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it was a really great turnout too they
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had more movie references quote
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candlesticks always make a nice gift
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they embrace the film here big time
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as they should
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this is not a bad way to end the day I
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gotta be honest
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bought myself a little souvenir I got my
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stuff a cup here got some cheer wine in
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it and I'm noticing on
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where's this have has a little reference
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here Bull Durham
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Bull Durham down there and one thing
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that's kind of interesting
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about Farm teams
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the second baseman number two beam
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every one of these players including the
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one they just mentioned
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playing for the Iron Pigs
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that's the opposing team against
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I guess the Bulls he's trying to make it
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to the Big Show try to make it to the
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show trying to make it to the MLB
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that is the goal
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of everyone out here there might be one
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or two that are content they're all
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trying to get up there
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just like in the film Bull Durham
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was whatever that was the goal
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Austin made it at one point crashed it
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came back
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to the farm team
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just like these guys are they're all
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working their way up we're trying to
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also another You Know Field of Dreams
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another good baseball great baseball
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movie cost her baseball movie Rayleigh
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out his character
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talks about how he just loved the game
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you can play for food money a lot of the
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guys that are playing out here tonight
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that's what they're doing they're just
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playing for food money I'm just
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wandering around a little bit look at
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this little photo off here
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like he has stolen home well he just
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crossed the plate
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nice nicely done just one more out in
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Durham has won this game it was four to
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three in the ninth inning with two outs
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oh that's a pop-up man it would be
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pretty cool if the farm team won the
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same day
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oh they're getting rowdy in here farm
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team won the same day as the Rays won
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there it is
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it's over and as the sign States as a
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scoreboard States that's another Bull
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City
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Victory the mascot wave in the flag out
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in the Outfield
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all the way back to the parking parking
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area
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I found this little wall cut through
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area that had something about bouldering
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tobacco
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which is pretty interesting
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kind of reading up on reading up on that
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watch tobacco around here there's a
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water tower
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here above me way up there
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and that's gonna do it for today
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I'll see you the next video the Vlog
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