The Tampa Bay Rays Erase Wander Franco - My Vague Thoughts & Visit To Tropicana Field For NY Yankees

0:03 welcome everyone Adam the woo here as

0:03 the recording of this it is Friday

0:04 August 25th TGIF

0:07 2023 should probably put these

0:09 sunglasses on I am wearing an

0:11 appropriate hat I am heading to

0:14 Tropicana Field eventually I'm going to

0:17 get over there it is just about 10 20

0:20 minutes call it 20 minutes I'm looking

0:21 at the clock 20 minutes to 1 here on

0:24 this Friday I4 westbound not a

0:27 pleasurable experience during hour so

0:30 I'm trying to leave a little early first

0:32 pitch is not till

0:33 6:40 p.m. going up against the New York

0:36 Yankees and it is Throwback night so I'm

0:38 wearing my Devil Ray cap also this will

0:42 be the last game that I go to last

0:45 baseball game of the season at the trop

0:49 before the postseason rolls in and I'm

0:51 pretty confident that they're going to

0:53 make the postseason however I am going

0:55 to be departing out of Florida very soon

0:58 in the next few days at the end of the

1:00 month and will not be back in

1:03 town until the season is over so this

1:05 will be my last Tropicana Field game of

1:07 the regular season little asri next to

1:09 that is fairly certain they're going to

1:11 make the postseason but last regular

1:13 season game for throwback night I'm

1:15 going to get going join me shall you

1:18 there is the clock about 20 minutes

1:20 until 1 p.m. leaving a little early oh

1:24 it just moved I figure if I get over

1:26 there earlier it's better than sitting

1:28 in that Friday traffic so I'm going to

1:29 get going I walk down to the lakefront

1:31 too see if I can see cool before

1:33 departing not seeing any congregations

1:35 of people looking oh there is somebody

1:37 looking over there you know what I think

1:39 yeah I think the gator is right over

1:41 there oh here's a turtle here too so the

1:44 sign is for those following along the

1:47 sign is staned into the ground there

1:49 sometimes it's there sometimes it's not

1:51 check out this Turtle swimming around

1:54 right there hello turtle come on up come

1:57 on up and say hello to everyone that's

1:59 watching

2:00 come on over here T are you going to

2:01 come right up to the shore coming right

2:03 up to the steps right here no you're

2:08 submerged down in there come on pop up

2:11 pop up the old Noggin nope being shy so

2:14 over there look a lot of people are

2:16 going over there say hello to cool and I

2:17 am also I'm going to go over say hello

2:20 to cool the gator before I make the

2:21 commute to St Petersburg

2:25 Florida I wish you could go with me but

2:27 I don't know if they allow Gators into

2:29 the trop cool probably not and it is

2:31 really toasty out here so I'm glad when

2:33 I get over to St Pete which is shows 104

2:36 miles as the crow FES I think it might

2:38 be a tad bit shorter a tad it's like

2:40 give or take a few miles I think it's

2:42 really about 90 miles to Tropic can of

2:44 field but I am glad that the trop is

2:47 enclosing in a d this is the temperature

2:49 right now 10 minutes to 1 it is a cool

2:53 crisp

2:58 91° no shade I mean I am under a tree

2:58 but there is no cloud formation they

3:00 going to be rolling

3:02 at toasty it is however a really

3:06 beautiful day out very beautiful though

3:10 stopped off at the Art Deco 7eleven got

3:13 a couple beverages for the road got a

3:14 water and I got one of these zero

3:17 calorie replenish zeros there's nothing

3:20 in them no sugar no calories no nothing

3:23 so I'm curious to try that this is why I

3:26 want to leave

3:27 early on a week day to get over just Z

3:30 PT at this time

3:43 far get over there do a few other

3:43 things I mean it first pitch isn't until

3:45 640 I could leave a little later but

3:47 then I'd be stuck in traffic don't want

3:48 to do that

4:06 I had hoped it'd be a little more fluid

4:06 than this and faster than this but

4:07 there's definitely a lot of slow pockets

4:10 on I4

4:12 today it's been slow going so far but

4:15 I'll get

4:16 there I'm getting there all right the

4:18 pace is picked up a little

4:20 now raise

4:23 up traffic's flowing better Tampa

4:27 Skyline still going to St P though

4:30 making a little pit stop here at this

4:36 mall check out see what kind of

4:36 merchandise they have in the sporting

4:38 goods and maybe even grab a cup of

4:41 coffee from a Coffee Spot I like in here

4:43 another reason I wanted to stop inside

4:45 here was not only look at the

4:46 merchandise to get the coffee coffee

4:48 place but I wanted to see if there's any

4:50 wander Franco merch anywhere left in the

4:52 Tampa St Pete area I am hearing and I'll

4:54 confirm this when I get to chop can of

4:55 field that they have pulled everything

4:56 off the shelves all signage any indic

4:59 that wander was on the team there's an

5:01 investigation going on by the MLB and I

5:03 do not know what what the outcome will

5:06 be I can only hope that the accusations

5:09 are completely untrue I think everyone

5:11 is kind of leaning towards hoping they

5:12 are not true no matter what ends up

5:15 happening when the Major League Baseball

5:17 makes their

5:18 announcement also there was no wander

5:20 there was no wander merch anywhere there

5:21 was one one wander Franco Banner left in

5:25 the food

5:27 court and then you go down from the food

5:29 court there was a place called The Blind

5:31 Tiger coffee it's closed the Blind Tiger

5:33 coffee is completely closed now so

5:35 there's no it no longer exists here in

5:37 Tampa before you go over the bridge

5:39 which kind of stinks standing here in

5:40 the shade because it's a little little

5:42 bright out there thankfully again like I

5:44 said Tropicana Field is in a dome CU it

5:46 is hot it is humid it is sunny now I am

5:49 not here to say if something as factual

5:52 is what is being thrown around happened

5:54 or did not happen true or false that is

5:57 upon way more people who have more

5:59 information and that are kind of

6:01 surveying the situation MLB is going to

6:03 make their decision as of right now

6:06 wanderer's not on the team and in my

6:07 opinion I do not think that he will end

6:10 up being in a ra playing in a raised

6:12 uniform or I don't maybe even go far

6:15 enough to say playing in the major in

6:17 Major League Baseball here in the US

6:20 again that has has to be determined but

6:22 the interesting thing is I have heard

6:25 and again I will confirm when I get in

6:27 there that nothing is left from Wander

6:30 in the stadium no big posters no big

6:34 murals no merchandise in the team store

6:38 I'm going to check that out also the the

6:41 contract that he had a multi-year

6:43 contract was millions of dollars this

6:46 was going to be their guy this was going

6:47 to be the guy that was the the

6:50 figurehead if you will of the team and

6:52 they still got a lot of other great

6:53 players yand Diaz randier rosarina a

6:56 Cavalcade of other guys that could kind

6:58 of Step Up into that

7:00 platform but an interesting Twist on

7:03 Ray's baseball got to look really

7:06 closely and quick you can see the trop

7:08 way over there across the wall across

7:10 the

7:11 bay and just like that now at the trop

7:16 going over to the main parking

7:18 lot got time I park and get to the front

7:21 be able to get

7:22 inside Trolley going by Trolley going

7:26 by parked over here block away from the

7:28 shot

7:30 $10 pretty good deal there's a couple

7:33 off-site lots that you can park at this

7:35 one and there's a couple others I park

7:36 at today choosing this

7:40 one right here on first half now I had

7:43 to look it up so as this very moment

7:45 before right before first pitch at this

7:47 first of the three game series of the

7:49 Yankees so as this moment wander is

7:52 still being paid and is on

7:54 administrative leave which I'm not sure

7:56 exactly what that means but right now

7:58 still under contract even though

8:02 probably will not be anything in the

8:03 he's probably obviously probably not

8:05 here in the stadium and not going to be

8:07 in the shop so I'm just kind of curious

8:09 and also what's going to happen you know

8:11 if he doesn't make it back on the team

8:13 the exorbitant amount of money the the

8:16 ray have one of the lowest payrolls in

8:18 baseball and most of it goes to wander

8:20 he signed a multi-year contract so I

8:23 guess depending on what MLB's decision

8:25 is the ray might get that back and can

8:28 use that for other players and other

8:30 things and this is going to be a pretty

8:33 good siiz crowd tonight whenever the

8:35 Yankees play cuz the Yankee Spring train

8:37 here in St Pete big turnout probably

8:40 just as many for the Yankees as there be

8:43 those here rooting for the race all

8:45 right looks like the doors are about to

8:46 open I went through the checkpoints look

8:48 like they guy yandi up there now I put

8:51 yandi up on the little on the

8:53 board yeah yandi is like one of the best

8:56 batting average in baseball this season

8:58 which is really awesome

9:03 lead off hitter yandi Diaz first Bas

9:04 last now Randy yandi and mlan up there

9:09 now all right yeah definitely not seeing

9:12 anything over here when it comes to

9:16 wander up here on the wall you got y

9:18 Diaz Taylor walls sees mclanahan

9:21 Siri Maro even got Beth and Court up

9:24 there even got effin down below I do

9:27 like these kind of Throwbacks these are

9:28 kind of almost look like a I want say

9:30 they throwback but it definitely kind of

9:31 has that throwback this is this is like

9:33 a Tops baseball card style right here

9:35 this is just a random catcher it doesn't

9:37 have like a doesn't have a name of a

9:39 player on it specifically and even

9:41 through here with the magnets you

9:43 see the magnets

9:45 either oh this is nice there's a Lukey

9:48 Luke rley has really on no pun int step

9:50 up to the plate he has really been

9:51 really crushing it so far I really like

9:54 luk really a lot and at this very moment

9:56 the this is the American League East

9:58 standing so this is American League East

10:01 match up tonight so Baltimore still in

10:03 first place by two games that can change

10:05 really quickly there's still quite a few

10:06 games to go before the end of the season

10:08 so the Raz are still in the hunt for the

10:09 AL East look at the Yankees they are 18

10:12 games back they're in last place in the

10:15 who would have guessed the Yankees would

10:16 be in last place yeah I'm noticing right

10:17 over here so this big empty wall space

10:20 they have taken down one of the big

10:22 poster banners that was kind of like

10:24 over there as well and it appears as if

10:27 the New York Yankees are doing a little

10:29 BP right now little batting practice for

10:32 the Yankees CA over here in leftfield

10:34 try to get themselves a little souvenir

10:36 I still some point need to try a raise

10:39 up roll sushi roll but it's called a

10:42 raise up roll one of these days I'm

10:44 going to try that I have my go-to I have

10:46 the the chicken rat gr chicken wrap that

10:48 I get down the first Baseline but I

10:50 don't know one of these days I'm going

10:51 to get the the raise up roll and not

10:53 only is it throwback night but every

10:55 Friday if it's a home game it's

10:57 throwback night but also randyland night

10:59 over and left certainly got some new

11:01 artwork here like this one here I

11:03 remember seeing that before with this

11:04 the St Pete Tampa Skyline can't a Tampa

11:07 or St P I would imagine it's St Pete

11:09 because technically the stadium is in St

11:12 Pete called Tampa Bay it's because it's

11:14 on the Bay Tampa that's pie is on the

11:17 the iil got hurt earlier this season

11:20 here's another new one Evan Longoria and

11:22 the Rays that ball is

11:25 gone pretty awesome yeah these are all

11:28 new I've never seen these

11:29 going check out another one of the Ray's

11:31 Bay Republic stores as well see what

11:34 they got here we have a lot of bags

11:37 there there we go we got mclanahan Randy

11:40 of course oh they even have Chu this is

11:42 interesting so you got the

11:45 uh you got the the allstar game ones

11:48 here for the American League you got

11:50 Randy

11:51 mclanahan and

11:55 Diaz is doing really good too let's

11:57 looking at another Randy item here we

11:59 got some of the dirt from the allstar

12:01 game in Seattle and then you look at

12:03 some of the smaller ones

12:06 yandi Josh low ESO Siri Taylor wol some

12:11 caps here I really like these newer

12:12 shirts here the different color shirts I

12:15 like the purple one over there and I

12:17 also like this one it's almost got the

12:19 Purple Ringer and then it's got the

12:20 pinkish red this is from the 08 World

12:24 Series that the Rays went to did not win

12:25 the Rays have never won the World Series

12:27 hoping that this be great if this was

12:30 the CWA coffee roters which they have

12:33 like kind of your first Walking In by

12:34 the bay Republic and I thought I'd try

12:35 another check another store the bay

12:37 Republic Authentics which sells game

12:39 used items and also signed items and

12:42 baseball cards that are signed from all

12:44 the different players but there is

12:46 someone missing from that as stated I

12:48 just thought maybe this would be the

12:49 kind of the last resort to find

12:51 something from him in the stadium but

12:53 there really is no mention and no

12:55 showing of anything throughout the the

12:57 course of the of the the entire

12:59 Tropicana Field all over the trop it's

13:01 going to be interesting to see if the if

13:03 it completely gets rectify the situation

13:05 and it wasn't true looking at some of

13:06 the 20020 World Series and

13:15 ALCS game used stuff here but it kind of

13:15 makes me wonder like what's going to

13:16 happen if for some reason the situation

13:20 isn't

13:21 true is it is everything going to be

13:23 placed back like how what is the what is

13:25 the contingency plan which kind of makes

13:28 me think I mean I don't I don't know for

13:30 certain but I kind of feel like the

13:32 wheels might already be in motion I mean

13:34 it's all just it's it's just all in my

13:36 own mind but yeah one of these games if

13:39 I'm here on a Friday I do want to sit in

13:41 randyland it's like a whole designated

13:43 area out here in left field it gets

13:45 pretty wild out here and if for some

13:47 reason a lot of money gets back into the

13:50 gets dumped back into the payroll I hope

13:51 Randy gets extended for like a linky

13:54 extension I really want to have Randy on

13:55 the team for a long time just heard the

13:57 best comment from one of the yane people

13:59 we're here walking around talking to his

14:00 buddy goes you're right this does look

14:03 like a circus

14:05 tent there's the matchup New York

14:07 Yankees versus throwback night Tampa Bay

14:11 Devil R and on my way over there going

14:13 to say hello to Mickey I wearing an

14:15 appropriate t-shirt it's got Mickey on

14:17 it as well yeah I really hope Raymond is

14:19 waving that flag against the Yanks at

14:21 the end it's only one out into the top

14:24 of the fifth and effin has already got

14:27 nine strikeouts about to get 10

14:29 strikeouts in the fifth

15:00 do oh oh 10 and

15:12 five oh

15:12 y

15:19 y also Ste sternberg's right there the

15:19 owner of the race cheer yand

15:35 all right going to grab a bite of eight

15:35 it's on the top of the seventh I do not

15:37 have any taliano today but the one I

15:39 always get is the grilled chicken which

15:43 I think is pretty good on Lower calories

15:44 I've been trying not to eat hot dogs or

15:45 anything too horrible so I get the

15:47 grilled chicken here on the first Bas

15:50 side impasto Italian inspired wraps

15:53 right here and there wasn't much of a

15:54 line that's grilled chicken roasted red

15:57 pepper arugula red onion and icy ale

16:00 1639 and I still got a little bit of

16:03 little bit of water left so I think I'm

16:05 good and while I'm waiting was so cool

16:07 seeing Sternberg steu

16:10 Sternberg owner of the Rays over here on

16:13 the first base side sitting really close

16:15 to where I was cheering yand on oh

16:19 there's DJ Kitty DJ Kitty DJ Kitty right

16:22 here DJ Kitty how good to see you

16:25 buddy I like you do we your throwback

16:27 jersey today oh yeah I like

16:31 it are you doing the Randy I like that

16:34 too oh you doing

16:37 Raymond where is oh Raymond's down there

16:39 Raymond's down there from how could

16:42 Raymond's down here and you're holding

16:43 it down up here all right there you go

16:47 all right I'm going to go back to my

16:48 seat good to see you see you DJ

16:51 Kitty the

16:53 beard oh the weight I'm losing some

16:56 weight I'm getting grilled chicken

16:58 instead of a hot dog that's the hack you

17:02 got to eat better yeah you got to think

17:04 that

17:05 way see you DJ kitty man DJ Kitty was

17:10 commenting on my weight loss was pretty

17:12 dang

17:13 awesome DJ Kitty knows that I've been

17:16 losing weight oh man Raymond is not

17:18 happy with that call right here look at

17:21 this Raymond not happy with that

17:57 the open it

17:57 up open it up

18:05 the gator hter

18:30 let's not your swing happy all right

19:02 take that hat

19:11 R good to see you DJ

19:11 oh DJ Kitty the head honcho is sitting

19:15 right over there right over there the

19:18 head

19:19 honcho be on your best behavior DJ Kenny

19:22 be on

19:24 your make yourself look good

19:43 is just crushing it

19:46 time

19:49 also dick fight tal is

19:52 here sitting in the blue shirt by the

19:54 Yankees Dugout right

19:57 there big fight to right over there

19:59 sitting next to the Yankees dug out in

20:01 the blue

20:03 shirt oh hit

20:09 him charge the mound

20:09 yandi charge the charge the charge

20:22 the oh yeah go

20:22 go let's go bring it around

20:32 way to

20:32 pull come

20:42 on oh throw on the bat back at the

20:42 Fisher scoreboards Broken

20:46 Field ESPN has you better than your

21:04 one out all right Yankees are one strike

21:04 away from winning this

21:26 one that's going to do it Yankees won

21:26 this one dang it

21:32 well that's was a bummer leave it up to

21:32 the raised Bullpen to blow the

21:35 game efin was doing really good and his

21:39 pitch count got up really high to like

21:41 90 cash had to pull him Bullpen came in

21:45 and then the Yankees just

21:47 dominated I mean they only won by four

21:50 but kind of went off the rails a

21:55 left and this will be my last time in

21:58 the can of field till the

22:03 postseason this will be my last regular

22:06 season game if the Rays go to the

22:08 postseason which they're still doing

22:10 pretty good still a little bit of a ways

22:12 to go still in second place behind the

22:15 Orioles Yankees the way they're playing

22:17 even though they won tonight will not be

22:19 making it the postseason unless a

22:20 miracle happens for

22:23 them so crossing my fingers I'll be back

22:26 here for the ALDS and ALCS and hopefully

22:30 the World Series so as far as the

22:32 postseason goes they've already released

22:34 tentative dates for all of MLB when the

22:37 postseason will start whether it be wild

22:39 card Division Series championship series

22:40 and World Series and I am going to be I

22:43 have other plans when the wild card is

22:46 happening so I am

22:48 hoping again fingers crossed for the

22:50 90th time that the Rays take the AL East

22:53 that way they do not have to play in a

22:55 wild card cuz I do not want to miss any

22:57 of the postseason games or at least go

22:59 to one from each of the different

23:02 serieses cuz I wouldn't I don't want

23:04 that to what happened last year cuz they

23:06 ended up losing the Cleveland and the

23:07 wild card I went to that up in Cleveland

23:09 so I'd rather than just clinch the

23:10 division and then go right into the

23:13 division series which I would be

23:16 available for side note and if for some

23:20 reason I don't want to put it in the

23:21 universe but if they don't make the

23:23 postseason then this would be my last

23:26 time at choana field this year but I am

23:29 not even going to put I don't even want

23:31 to put that out there into the into the

23:37 fluidness CU I going to make the post

23:37 season let's be honest and that's going

23:38 to do it for today kind of glad I parked

23:42 across the way cuz getting out of here

23:45 really is something else I just got to

23:46 walk over that

23:47 way over to the area that I

23:51 parked was end up being a good day wish

23:53 the Rays would have

23:55 won you can't win them all I'll see you

23:58 in the next video the

24:01 Vlog is over parking enforcement out in

24:05 full force kind to give everyone in this

24:08 whole traffic line of

24:18 ticket just waiting for them to stop if

24:18 they stop idling and moving forward once

24:21 the cars in park it could be

24:24 enforced I don't know I think it's just

24:26 in tra I think it's which just

24:28 interesting seeing that in the traffic

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The Tampa Bay Rays Erase Wander Franco - My Vague Thoughts & Visit To Tropicana Field For NY Yankees

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