My WILD Experience At Oakland A’s Reverse Boycott - The Coliseum Got Rowdy / Trash & People On Field
Oakland A's Reverse Boycott June 13th 2023
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welcome everyone added the Wu here as a
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recording of this it is Tuesday June the
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13th 2023 wearing an appropriate shirt
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and hat because I am going to see the
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Tampa Bay Rays tonight in Oakland
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California
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355 miles one way from where I am right
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now in the parking structure at my hotel
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in Hollywood
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and the fun fact is I have to go up
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there
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watch the game turn around and come back
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here because I already had this hotel
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booked
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but today is a historic occasion for
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baseball and for the Oakland days even
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though I am rooting for the Rays
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I will be there to document and
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experience
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one of the most interesting games
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dare I say festivities and events that's
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taking place in Oakland in a long time
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I'm inviting you to join me I got to get
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going it's about 8 A.M first pitch is at
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6 40. the tailgating begins around three
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Jordan
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got a long way to go round trip shall
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you hopefully traffic is very kind this
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is a very impulsive last minute trip up
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here just decided two days ago
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when I kind of caught wind to this
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event was going on that I was going to
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head up this direction
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very impulsive
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looks like it's going to be a really
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good drive stopping off at the first
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little stretch of the day I think that's
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for like for ashtrays though any pay
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phones here oh my gosh
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there are actual pay phones here
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three of them
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not expecting
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prepay phones I always like to drink and
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snack machines
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incarcerated over here
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I don't know what they did was probably
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pretty bad just to give a little
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paraphrase calm context on what's going
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to be happening at the Oakland Coliseum
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when I get there so on a Tuesday as a
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recording of This their average
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attendance for their baseball games is
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about three to four thousand people they
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have the worst attendance in baseball
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kind of comparable to Tropicana Field
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and and their turnout even though the
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race are doing really good right now so
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their attendance has gone up but in the
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past people don't really show up for the
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team the difference between the Rays and
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Oakland is most of the fans there have
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not gone to support the team not because
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they do not love baseball but because
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there is discrepancies and they do not
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care for the current owner so they have
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not been going but they are reversing
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that today and proving a point that
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there are fans of the open days and
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they're going to show up in droves they
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want to fill the stadium I don't think
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the stadium will be a sellout but from
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what I was reading online and listening
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to
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they are projecting 20 000 people five
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times the normal amount that you would
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see in the Coliseum
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on a Tuesday now not a lot of time to
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stop because I got a lot of miles to
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cover but I always like this place Bravo
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Farms over here it's just kind of a
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unique spot off of the freeway got a
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windmill there there's a a shack
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up top there water wheel it's got the
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self-pumping gas nozzle and very
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inexpensive gasoline I'm being very
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sarcastic six dollars okay 87. I rest
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assured this is I'll have a coffee now
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I'll go to the game later and I'm sure
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on the way back 335 miles back to
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Hollywood I will need another one so
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cheers to the first coffee of this
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probably a 24-hour Day by the time I
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woke up by time I get back to my hotel
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later cheers so here's some of the info
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again this is just going off what is
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posted
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uh on the web
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so June 13th get your tickets
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join us to voice frustration about the
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A's ownership at MLB supporters of the
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Oakland Athletics are calling on all
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Baseball fans that's me
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support us on an ongoing battle with the
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team's neglectful
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and irresponsible ownership again this
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this is going off of what is stated here
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I hope to get a little more info when I
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get there there's going to be a tailgate
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happening as well and they're going to
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be giving away the t-shirts over here
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and Lot B
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again
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more info when I get there hope to talk
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to people give me some more info about
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what's really going on down the road a
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little bit pulling into one of my
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favorite spots was a little bumpy
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favorite spots when making the commute
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from LA to San Francisco
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Anderson's pea soup
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restaurants now we'll not be dining in
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don't really have the time for that but
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one thing I'll do occasionally when I
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pass through this area is I'll buy a
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small case of the canned Anderson pea
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soup crushed soup keep finding more info
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about this event
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so they're wanting everyone to be as
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loud as possible the last dive bar is a
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nickname given to the Coliseum because
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when you're in there it feels like
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you're in the the last Dive Bar first
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batter at the beginning and top of each
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inning they want everyone to you know
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all the all the A's fans are going to
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are going to be chanting sell the team
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sell the team first batter at the
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beginning at the bottom of each inning
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say stay in Oakland clap five times for
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the first pad at the beginning of the
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top of the fifth inning to honor 55
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years in Oakland
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everyone stand up be completely silent
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for the entire Advent
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feel like I made pretty good time it's 2
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40 right now there's actually a concert
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going on at the other venue here on the
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property but notice how the sign says
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rooted in Oakland since 68. and I don't
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know all the ins and outs and all the
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kind of red tape and the behind the
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scenes on the whole situation but it
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pretty much just proves that any team is
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not always constantly going to be in the
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same spot forever and you have you know
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you have the Die Hard fans have been
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around for a long time and this place
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means a lot to us I could totally get
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where a lot of people are coming from I
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really can't and there's an incredible
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amount of History here you know I think
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back to like the bash Brothers Canseco
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Mark McGuire the Money Ball era all that
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and a lot more but those are the first
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two things that come to my mind as a
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baseball fan when I think of the stadium
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and obviously I'm rooting for the Rays
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but if the Oakland A's were to win
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tonight I wouldn't be too bummed this is
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kind of their last hurray they're not
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making it to the postseason well it's a
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really good chance they're not making it
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to the postseason this year and who
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knows if they're even going to play here
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next year so this might be the biggest
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attended game that this team will have
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until the well probably the last game
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when they finally announced the last
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game in here but in a lot of ways this
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is the Oakland days last hurray
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attendance wise one thing that's nice
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about this is you get the train station
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drops off right here at the stadium
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and you can see where it says rooted
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right down there
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and Roscoe Soul Train is here yeah Daddy
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local resident kind of sort of local
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pretty close you're pretty close you're
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wearing you're wearing full on Oakland
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gear Old School Oakland gear 100
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committed to Xmas so if the A's leave
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it'll be the third team that Oakland has
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lost pro team yeah it's pretty sad it's
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really sad actually I have a lot to say
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about it but as a fan of sports like
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yourself Adam yeah it's uh can you
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imagine if your favorite team just
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decided to just dip out and go to Vegas
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and I would understand to a certain
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extent but being like a hardcore fan of
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a team it's almost like being a part of
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a cult it's a bummer there's a big
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bummer yeah it's a loss for Oakland it's
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a loss of the Bay Area and it's I'm
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pretty buttered about it even though I'm
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not a hardcore baseball fan yeah you're
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a hockey guy hockey guy yeah so I can't
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even imagine I just put myself in the
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shoes of the fans of the Oakland A's and
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I which I know a lot of and uh yeah
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heartbreaking to say the least
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this is pretty wild these are the seats
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from some of the upper decks of the
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Coliseum right there I'm not sure what
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section it was but they're just like
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sitting over here
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rotting away back in
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back here around the back look at that
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whole thing is kind of interesting too
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that I'm excited about the drummers are
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back for one night only the drummers
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have not been here at the Coliseum this
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year and now they have returned and they
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will be out I believe it's in right
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field so I want to like kind of show
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them too so they've been making some
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noise out there
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and right all right I want to introduce
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Dylan from something or other tour I met
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you last time I was out here last year
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we had a good time the Rays came back
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and won they did oh yeah you got some
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good you got some good excitement on my
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end in your video yeah I think that was
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the most exciting I've ever seen you
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all right they got the corn hole out
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here
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I need
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you all right
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and as of right now I think I'm the only
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one for obvious reasons wearing blue and
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raised gear but I hit my shirt sitting
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right behind raise Dugout also got cheer
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car schedule game guys okay cool anyone
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needs one yeah sure card Alex
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there you go grab it Alex is here there
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you go I got the cheer card these shirts
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are going fast you got your shirt yeah I
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got the XL you know nice I need to uh
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hit the treadmill you got your shirt I
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think they only have extra large and
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large all right I want to introduce you
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to Gabe he runs a YouTube channel called
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gamer Athletics right yes and you just
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hit 5 000 subscribers I did 5K yeah on
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this uh well it causes a historic day
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give me a little information about this
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event that's going on uh well as uh many
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of you may know the azer
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planning on believe and today is an
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important day because we're just trying
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to voice our frustrations and prove to
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the world that there are eight minutes
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here and I mean if this doesn't show for
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it I mean I don't know what will right
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we raised over five twenty five thousand
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dollars to raise uh to get uh over 7 000
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shirts here so do our own giveaway and I
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mean I'm a self-team John do the right
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thing I mean what else so basically what
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you're saying you would rather the owner
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sell the team so the team can so another
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owner can keep them in Oakland versus
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them going to Vegas that's what the
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that's what the cell means correct
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that's what the cell means okay gotcha
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you know whether they do leave whether
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this you know whether they leave or stay
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our Ace bands here we do care and we're
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gonna prove that tonight gotcha good to
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see you man there you go I got the clown
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nose on there
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thanks man
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there you go yeah watch out for the wind
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all right right over here
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getting off of the subway area
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's belonging to Oakland for our city for
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our team forever
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and the 68s that's when the team started
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that's the organization that's kind of
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putting a lot of this on too
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they even got a little stanchions and
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everything over here too
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look at that look at how many people
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are in here C green cell shirts they
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even got some old Raider Flags there as
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well and the athletic Flags wave it in
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the breeze very nice weather out here
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too
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thank you
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we're good
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so you got married here when Oakland was
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playing the race how many years ago
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that's 25 years ago this year 25 years
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ago to the ace game in the
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unless they're out of town and
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everywhere you know a lot you have a lot
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of memories here a lot of memories all
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right well nice to meet you
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it is
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yeah
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that is awesome
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man I was hoping there'd be some uh some
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bass brother references out here this
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guy's got the bass brother arms Canseco
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Maguire late 80s
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you know
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you don't want to sell there like save
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yourself and say whatever you got going
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on
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everybody's normal
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I want everybody to be happy here but
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you can't
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all right I believe that now the gates
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are about to open so you can see how
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people are still down there want to head
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in and get the get the vibe in the
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stadium now there's a lot of people over
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at the tailgate all right I have
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purchased my meal of the day I'm going
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with the A's helmet nachos uh they had
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pulled pork but I opted for the shredded
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chicken I believe it'd be grilled
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chicken shredded grilled chicken yeah
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this is uh this would be my meal here
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and a couple bottles of water as well a
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little uh Dasani here your cheese run it
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over right there very nice
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helmet nachos
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for the winter Cheers Cheers all right
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we're not with Alex what about I wonder
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if he got nachos did you get nachos too
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oh yeah we're gonna have a three-way
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oh yeah there we go
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together I shouldn't be talking let's
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get a three-way uh little uh little tag
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is here pump it up please
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all right it's definitely not sold out
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but there's definitely a lot more people
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than there usually is
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all right first batter at the beginning
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one thing I love about this stadium is
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How Low Down The Dugout is you could
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just see Kevin cash right there
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it's the Bottom now our bottom excuse me
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I got excited about a pop-up the center
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yeah we were noticing that everyone was
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doing the chance
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music up louder
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didn't work though yeah
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investment s
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without their Channing stay in Oakland
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but is that hair right there a piece of
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Harold Ramirez's blue hair
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foreign
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obviously the Tropicana field has their
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Upper Deck tarped off too because whole
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section up here
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Raleigh fingers Stewart Hunter kind of
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accuracy Ricky Henderson
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Janet Jackson I guess Jack White's out
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there I guess Seven Nation Army
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they did show Billy Joe from Green Day
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he's here can't figure out where he's
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sitting though they shut him on the
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jungle
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right it's down top of the fifth you
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know everyone's supposed to stand oh
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they are standing stand up you're
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supposed to stand up
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everybody's standing up
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that's a base hit that's a double for
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Siri
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I don't think the pitcher can hear I
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don't think he can hear himself
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he'll think that pitcher can hear
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anything
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miles
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so evidently the owner John Fisher his
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face is on the juveniles in the bathroom
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the guy just told me
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that's right he's into it
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he's into it
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this is insane this makes sense yeah
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absolutely
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and the Rays coming in
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one to nothing
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during that channel I was looking all
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the guys in the in the Dugout and all of
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them were looking at each other like
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what in the name of heck is going on
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it was so loud in here but the up called
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time and went out and talked to the
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pitcher
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the banjo yeah the banjo guy who knows
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that guy's name he was always at the
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Niner games back in the day at
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candlesticks they always had the A's
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games as well I always thought I don't
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understand
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all right
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and you told me the wave started here 81
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1981. oh yeah
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hi crazy George who has returned yeah
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the wave started in Oakland I never knew
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that in 1981.
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one to one place is coming alive
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of course poche's on the mouth
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parade is a third missed it foreign
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I got him
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he's going through the exit door
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this is like Bedlam in here Bedlam in
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Oakland
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on more strike in Oakland has done this
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they've made history I'm here for it
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you got this one that's it
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Oakland just wins the busiest game
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they've had in years
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after the game even though the open days
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one
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everyone here that's rooting for the ace
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is like throwing stuff on the field just
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throwing trash out into the left and
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right field full beer bottles water
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bottles
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toilet paper trash I feel sorry for the
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ground Street that's a clean all that up
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they're working on the diamond but the
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Outfield is completely trash just
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throwing all kinds of trash out all on
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the field which is kind of weird
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considering they won but you know
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obviously a lot of unhappy people the
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whole the whole event itself center
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around not being happy with you're the
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owner and the team and they want them to
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sell the team that way they don't move
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to Vegas stay here so you can see people
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definitely people are definitely showing
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their emotions
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for understandable reasons
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to be honest I'm kind of I mean I wanted
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to raise to 100 but I think if any night
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the open days who are in last place in
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the division
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could get a win on this night this is I
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think it's good for everyone that was
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here to have a to have a good night so I
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think it worked out pretty good
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all right that's going to do it for
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today now I gotta drive all the way back
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to Hollywood
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but it was fun
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my friend Alex had to leave he had to go
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to work so I hit Alex up and I hit
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Roscoe up two days ago to give you guys
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notice I'm glad you guys made it out
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yeah man thanks for inviting me you
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witnessed history and that was one of
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the best baseball games I've ever seen
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in my entire life and what a crazy
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atmosphere and it sucks for Oakland I
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mean I've seen other cities rebound from
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weirdness like Detroit for instance and
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you know think about that City there's
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there's four teams that all play in
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Detroit and Detroit had
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hundreds of thousands of people that
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left Oakland San Francisco hundreds of
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thousands of people that have left and
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they're still there's still people here
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and it's not this town isn't dead but it
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sucks to see these companies just taking
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their the teams away from these cities
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when there's plenty of there's plenty of
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people here that'll support us oh yeah
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as shown tonight there's probably twenty
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three twenty four thousand people here
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and I just think that people just don't
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want to come to the Coliseum if you make
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this place cool then it will it will
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draw the people well not to have a
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comparison a Tropicana Field Tampa Bay
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we have the same issue there so yeah I
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get it people just like to people like
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to make excuses and whatnot but
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obviously tonight they showed up because
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it was the reverse boycott yeah all
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right I gotta get to driving I got a 360
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mile commute home I'll see you the next
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video
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good hanging thanks man appreciate you
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A's up it's usually it's raised up buddy
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give it to the A's tonight
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the Vlog is over oh nailed it
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in all honesty
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720 miles or 730 miles
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trip back and forth
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impulse to go to a game
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sometimes it happens
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after a very long drive
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returning back to my hotel
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what a commute
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but I did it