International Drive Orlando Could Change Dramatically - MLB Stadium Proposal Location Near Sea World
International Drive May 2023
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of This is Wednesday May 10
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2023
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a couple days ago well maybe yesterday
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the day before there was an announcement
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that there is possibly going to be an
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MLB I'm wearing my race cap appropriate
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cap for this conversation
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could be an expansion major league
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baseball team coming to Orlando has some
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affiliation to one of the guys who
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started the Orlando Magic basketball
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team I'll try to figure out a little bit
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more info as the day progresses but I
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would like to head over to where the
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location the proposed location of where
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the stadium will be on International
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Drive kind of close to Sea World
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I'm gonna head over there show what it
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looks like now and hypothetically who
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knows
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what will unfold down the road will be
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interesting kind of to document this for
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posterity if you will
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as time goes on from empty land coming
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to fruition the ideas the thoughts and
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possibly a big Stadium to Orlando
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inviting you to join me could there be a
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third Florida MLB team
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who knows
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nonetheless join me shall you and if the
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stadium is built will there be a third
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team
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will it be the Miami Marlins
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Tampa Bay Rays and yet another team
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or will the race possibly head from
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Tampa
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to Central Florida and to be honest with
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you I would not be opposed to that there
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was talks of
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after the staff of Tropicana Field
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I think it's 2027 or 28th the last year
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the trop is going to be utilized of
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building another Stadium proposed in
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Ybor City or Tampa proper not just oh I
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am really silhouetted out here
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moving from Tampa or Ybor to Tamper Ebor
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from Saint Pete but what if they just
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Sue everyone for a loop
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and moved to Orlando oh heck yeah
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that would be kind of nice for me anyway
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maybe for those in the same P to be a
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little bit of a commute because when I
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go to the the games when I go to
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Tropicana Field it is about two and a
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half hours with traffic two hours on a
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really good day it's about 90 miles but
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about three hours normally if traffic is
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bad that's like a usual time frame two
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and a half three hours if traffic's bad
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so it would be a lot more convenient
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kind of how when they did spring
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training over at Disney Disney this year
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the race for the first time ever Spring
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train at Wide World of Sports Disney
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that was really nice to see that but now
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this regular season got to either go to
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away games which I will be very very
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soon and or go over to Tropicana Field
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but can you just imagine if I grew up
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with a high drive to see the Rays or if
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it is a third team here in Florida
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another MLB expansion team it'd be nice
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when the rays are just playing right up
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the street where they're playing away
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games I'm gonna get some coffee too
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there's the options for coffee around
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here would be Cornerstone Market
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there is the Fortuna Bakery over there
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and then also Starbucks at the end so
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I'm gonna I think I might get a
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Starbucks Pike Place and accomplished
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Pike Place with just a little milk a
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little little cream well I think they
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put two percent milk in there just a
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little bit just a splash
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and I think I got two right Two Sugars
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because it was a large one right there
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need a little little pick me up in the
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form of caffeine yeah I just started
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thinking about waiting in line for
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coffee in there what if the rice big if
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I mean first the stadium has to be gone
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then the expansion team
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and maybe if it's not going to be an
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expansion team what is the raise
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Tampa Bay Rays moved over towards
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Orlando they used to have a farm chain
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they had the Orlando rice
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back in the day over there now their
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Farm teams are down more towards like
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Port Charlotte and of course
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uh Durham well the Port Charlotte is the
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spring training home what last year
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because of the hurricane a couple years
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ago last year the spring training ended
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up at in uh Wide World of Sports Disney
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World
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and then the Durham Bulls which is the
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AAA and then double A is the Montgomery
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Biscuits I think a one day 1A is the
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Charlotte River dogs
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anyway that's they were that's the
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Orlando race tie-in and it would be
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pretty wild but I would just be happy to
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have MLB just right down the road from
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here and just to go with my thoughts the
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record of my thoughts right now is I
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don't think it's gonna have any of it's
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gonna happen a lot of times you get
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these kind of speculations and rumors
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that flow out there seems to be
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floating around the news waves and it
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seems to be a pretty legitimate Source
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the guy that's doing it
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but my first thought is it will not
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happen but oh if it did and I want to
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show where the proposed side is get
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going
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cheers
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and this is on the Sports Illustrated
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site Orlando City Baseball dreamers is
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the company and the article pretty much
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does show that the guy was the
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co-founder of the magic really wants to
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lure the Rays over if the MLB I guess
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Salt Lake City is another expansion
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where MLB is looking into but they're
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thinking this is going to maybe take it
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away from SLC so you see right over here
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so down here is Aquatica and SeaWorld in
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the lower portion and then I believe up
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here it was the turnpike I can't
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remember exactly I may like to look it
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up a little more detail
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but this looks the same on satellite
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images so I'm going to find exactly
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where this is
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and head over there
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and this would be a 1.7 billion dollar
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baseball complex
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set to be built if this all goes through
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you'll see a couple other websites
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see if I get some more info okay not the
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turnpike it's actually the beach Line
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Expressway 528 and I drive crosses over
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I drive next to Aquatica water park
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ultimately a pedestrian bridge the
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walkway connected to a SunRail station
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should Commuter Rail Line be extended to
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Orange County Convention Center
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this is the artistic rendering at 45 45
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000 seat domed glass dome stadium
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the chop is a dome I guess it would be a
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retractable Dome
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franchise owner is yet to be determined
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I wonder what stew
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owner of the race has to is what's going
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around in his mind or if he's a part of
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this and some
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unusual uh
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so here's some also some artistic
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renderings of what the inside of it
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would look like this is very very close
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to not only downtown but also to Disney
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to Universal to Sea World celebration
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where I live
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in addition the ballpark would include
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retail shops restaurants office space a
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thousand hotel rooms and parking garages
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for approximately six thousand seven
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hundred vehicles
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the mayor mayor demings asked the task
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force to evaluate where Resort tax
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dollars are spent and Williams had the
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Orlando dreamers team they have to make
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a solid pitch for the county
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and WFLA believe is channel six posted
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this will the raisley Tropicana Field
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Andrew battle hopes to lure the MLB team
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well Major League Baseball's hottest
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team leave Tampa and move to Orlando
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so far the race have the best
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the best record in baseball
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you know this this season is still kind
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of early but
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if it doesn't work out
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it makes great sense it makes wonderful
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sense
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we're here for them if they need us
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man now the more I read about this
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I could really see it maybe happening
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especially with how many people dislike
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Tropicana Field and driving all the way
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over to Saint Pete
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who knows just a quick little jot down
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I-40 eastbound
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depending on traffic all right pulling
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off the exit here Sea World kind of
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makes sense for some some rays to be in
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there
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right to be near Sea World I don't know
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I'm just throwing it out there passing
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by the roller coasters
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Sea World
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Orlando
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this is awesome I just realized this is
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pretty close to the
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the convention center on I drive
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now that I'm getting over here I
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recognize exactly where this is going to
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be hypothetically going to be just past
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this light I am sitting at
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on water play way and International
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Drive
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so just a few feet past the property
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line for Aquatica you can see the
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waterfall here and the signage
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once I go through this light it'll be
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just the the next section of empty land
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once the light changes
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and from this
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that kosher's off in the distance the
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proposed spot
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is right over there at that intersection
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and that little wooded area
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and looking at it firsthand I think man
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a big huge 45
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000 capacity stadium hotels parking
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structure doesn't look like it would fit
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but let me pull up satellite view and
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just see what kind of space
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is over there would definitely generate
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a lot of business for the hotels around
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here I mean the convention center brings
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in a lot this Double Tree by Hilton
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game days and I'm sure they would
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probably use it for other events as well
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well possibly Maybe not maybe it'll only
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just be baseball
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this is all hypothetical though
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if it ever happens
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so technical cross streets International
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Drive and Westwood
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Boulevard it appears to be State Road
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528 is over there this is the on-ramp
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and off ramp
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and that wooded section
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this is probably
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cross I drive
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and the convention center is over there
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so there's the Hilton Convention Center
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right over there
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too far away from the convention center
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of course
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SeaWorld Orlando right over that way
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we got the cross signal I have 30
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seconds remaining Myself and My Shadow
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well 26 seconds now to cross over here
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21 seconds 20 seconds 19. I think I got
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it I think I think it's kind of fun to
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think about if it actually did go down
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but all through here this massive wooded
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area would be the new stadium
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for a third
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Florida baseball team and one thing
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Florida is known when it comes to
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baseball are people not really turning
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out in droves to support said teams now
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lately since the rays are doing really
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really well and right now
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you know at this moment one of the best
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teams in the game
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police have the best record and you're
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still a long season so who knows how the
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the rest of the season is going to play
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out but they're pretty hot right now so
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the
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the Trap has been pretty full a little
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at least for Tropicana Field numbers
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but generally pretty empty unless they
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play the Yankees or the Red Sox really
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hardly everyone
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yeah the the locals don't really turn
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out
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and people use the excuse that they wish
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it was in Tampa or Ebor
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than St Pete because they don't want to
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drive over the the big bridge from Tampa
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to Saint Pete which is understandable
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for me I have a little bit more of a
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Freer schedule than someone that says
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gets off work at 6 pm and tries to get
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over to a 705 first pitch from Tampa
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with the congestion and the traffic I
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can see how that'd be a major issue but
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I kind of feel in my own personal
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opinion
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that if the Rays or another baseball
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team for that matter was here in Orlando
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that you would not only get you know the
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Die Hard fans that are of the team but
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you'd also get a lot of Tourism that
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would be in here a lot of tourists that
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would be like you know what we're
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already here for Universal we're here
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for Disneyland for Sea World we're here
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for the conventions
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let's catch a ball game
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which you don't really I'm not really
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gonna have that over in Saint Pete but I
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feel like you'd automatically have a
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built-in
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poor group of people from out of state
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that would go to the games that are not
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specifically rooting for said Team
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they're just there to fill some seats
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make some money
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you know bring uh bring some income into
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the stadiums that's just my own opinion
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and then over time developed quite a
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quite a following and you hopefully get
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some people from Tampa even driving over
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I mean I drive from here
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over to Saint Pete to support the rise
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so I would hope those in Saint Pete
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would occasionally also make that
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commute too even though I kind of feel
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bad for people who are season ticket
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holders out there that might change the
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season ticket holder demographic so it
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pretty much starts here on the corner of
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Splashway so I showed the other one
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Splashway and I drive so this seems to
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be an access road into around the back
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of Aquatica now I'm not going to be able
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to walk into where it is but I can I
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can't jump over that barbed wire fence
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but this is it right here
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so right back in here I mean if I wanted
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to I could walk back in there I could
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walk where the stadium is going to be
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with that signage is in there but yeah
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actually there's a news copter flying by
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over there
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it says no parking so I parked over it
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one of the little strip malls over there
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yeah this is a
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this is it someone's yelling
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some at the bus stop is like yelling I
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don't know if they're yelling at me or
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yelling at someone
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but this would be where the proposed
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spot was I'm gonna I'm not gonna walk
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that way because I think that's actually
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on Aquatica property but all this
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evidently I never even knew this was
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this was up for sale
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has been bought by that developer
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co-founder one of the two guys who
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started the Orlando Magic expansion
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team for basketball has thrown his hat
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into the ring
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and you know in the future might see one
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of these hats or another MLB team
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45 000 people
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on the at this spot I'll walk around the
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other side and this is in Orange County
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now celebration is in Osceola County and
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pretty much right on the Orange County
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Osceola County Line it is funny to look
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at Orange County because we think Orange
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County you think in California you think
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the OC
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Orange County California you don't
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really hear people refer to the county
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here as much as you do
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SoCal but if you were to run this red
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light if you're 262 dollar fine
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here's some of the directional arrows
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528 West 528
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East I-4 in close proximity and not too
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far
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from the International Airport this will
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take you the beach lock all the beach
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lines takes you over to Cocoa Melbourne
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to that Coast over on the West Coast
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West Coast of Florida that is I have
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really been into going to Rays games
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supporting the race originally I was
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going to a lot of Angels games when I
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lived in Anaheim and I also had the
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place in celebration so I was going to
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half angels half the year and then half
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Tampa Bays we raise half a year gave up
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the place in Anaheim just moved out here
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even though I used to go to a lot of
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Angels game for some reason nothing
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really kind of Drew me into the effect I
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love going to the games but once I
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started going to raise games I really
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kind of fell in love with the team and
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the atmosphere floating bags are
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beautiful
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but I do have a you know I have a little
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bit of a soft spot for going to Angel
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Stadium but I never really latched on to
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the the team obviously when trout was
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there he was on the IL so I didn't get
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to see him play I See Otani that was
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kind of cool Brandon Marshall now with
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the Phillies those are really the only
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players I kind of remembered I just
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would kind of go I'd eat a bunch of hot
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dogs I kind of soak in the Ambiance but
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I really fell in love with the Rays when
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I started going to a lot more teams to a
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lot of games over in Saint Pete and I'm
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just really into that organization
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now the spring training well at least
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you asked here hopefully again this year
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was over at Wide World of Sports and
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going to try to gonna try to over the
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next couple of years go to Every away
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Stadium if the rays are playing at and I
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think I'm going to be able to do it in
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fact I'm going to be going no spoilers
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we'll be going to some games pretty soon
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in the very very very very near future
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that the rays are flying so the property
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line is going to be stretching along
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here and then it's going to turn this
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way and go up around the corner to the
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on off ramp
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528
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and people do ask what would happen if
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the rags there was a rumor that they
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were going to go to Canada to Toronto I
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think I don't remember where it was but
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they were our Montreal which I think
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that fell through I think Stu Sternberg
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said that's not going to happen
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well what would happen if for some
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reason the raise did relocate to
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somewhere not in Florida I would still
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support the team I would still go to
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away games
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I would still go to home games I travel
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a lot it's not like I'm stuck in one
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place and it'd be kind of fun if they
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did move elsewhere I would still just go
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I'd fly to the home games wherever those
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are drive to the home games whatever
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state they are in hopefully they are
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here in this end you know either on the
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coast here in St Pete Tampa Bay area if
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they stay out there or if they move to
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evil or if they move to Orlando
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and even better if they moved here
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to this spot
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but if they move to another state
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I'll still go to the gangs like I think
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I'd probably go to just as many away
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games
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in other states as I do
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to home game so it's not it's not really
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going to affect me in any way shape or
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form and yes if another team moves here
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that's not
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the race if another third floor to team
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an expansion team as well as Salt Lake
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let's say two more teams are out to the
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roster MLB
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I would go to some home games here too
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just to kind of enjoy the Ambiance but
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yeah I'm really into the race I don't
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see I don't see that really changing
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ever because it's really really invested
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in that team it's just fun it's fun
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getting to know
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the players the stats the coaches
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organization
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anyways we're going to put that out
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is that a news helicopter up top there
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or a tourist copter
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I'm not going to walk any farther up but
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yeah it would it would go all the way
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down there you can just see how far that
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stretches I mean it's a big chunk of
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land here it's more than it looks like
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from the road over that way I drive
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right there so if you look at it here
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here's Aquatica Sea World over here
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then you've got that Sea Harbor Drive as
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the first road I showed here's where the
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fence is so I am standing right here
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next to the off ramp on off ramp from
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528 Convention Center up top here just
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to kind of give some bearings I parked
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my card over here at the strip mall
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walked across the street park is kind of
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hard to find around this area because
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they haven't built a big parking garage
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yet which would probably help out the
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convention center but look at this big
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chunk of land you can see these water
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tanks all the way around the back of the
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property so this is a good chunk now
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I'll match this up
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to the
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to what was shown on the projected
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artists renderings of where that would
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be in correlation this was reposted by
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the Fox 35 website so we're this big
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tower over here for the hotel is that is
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the on-ramp that I'm standing right next
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to it
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there's 528
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big stadium so looking at this the
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stadium would be at the far end away
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from iDrive I drive would be over here
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and it would be up here pretty much next
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to that housing development that still
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exists over there with I drive right
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there that housing development
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is on the back side of those trees so
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the stadium itself would be seen from
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this on-ramp on to 528 there'll be a
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massive uh
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see-through Dome
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would imagine possibly retractable
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kind of like the Mariner stadium is in
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Seattle there's a few other stadiums
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that are like that that you could kind
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of open it up like the ash not the
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astronaut but where the Houston Astros
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play now whatever the heck the name of
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that stadium is also a retractable Dome
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I believe
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because the biggest complaint about the
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chop is you're playing basically in a
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dome that is not retractable
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I mean I like it it's you know it's
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where my home team is but I can see
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where people would have kind of
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complaint because some people say oh
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baseball should be played Outdoors or
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should ever be played in a locked in 100
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of the type indoor building
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so just picture if you will
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hypothetically a big dome right down
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there and all of this parking garages
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hotels shopping center
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Etc
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I mean it could happen years off but you
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never know
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it's well well it might they might keep
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some of these shrubs here but downfall
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down very down very doubtful and I would
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imagine
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crossing over I drive if that happens
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will be very hectic they might have to
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build a bridge over this
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to get to the other side or maybe not
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maybe they just want to keep everyone in
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the one complex
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again convention center right down there
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this is I drive
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that's our wings bus now I got 30
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seconds to cross this I always think of
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hypotheticals are always like kind of
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Daydream what the future holds like what
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if five years from now what if I settle
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down in Florida which I probably won't
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I'll probably go elsewhere but if I
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ended up here and the baseball stadium
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was so close to where I mean it was
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really close in Anaheim it's like a mile
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from my place but no longer in Anaheim I
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don't really see myself moving back to
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Orange County SoCal I mean who knows
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maybe I'll be back to LA one day
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but what if in 10 years from now
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just working at a working for a team in
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MLB in Central Florida
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life is weird sometimes you never I mean
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that's
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that's a big what if big what if but
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I always thought it'd be kind of fun to
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work for a baseball team yeah Tampa's
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just so far very far
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to go there on a daily basis
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the only time I ever went
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to this hotel this DoubleTree was for a
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convention I think it was FX
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gosh I don't know 10 years ago maybe
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nine years ago
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fx2000 was in the convention center
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which is a big big convention but then
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they tried to redo it
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five or six years later man I don't know
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four years after that
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and it was in here they had the cast of
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the Christmas of A Christmas Story
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and they had Steve Urkel take a look at
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this
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it's a trolley with a smiley on it
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Jaleel White was in there the turnout
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was horrendous there was like 25 people
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yeah probably more like 100 people
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that paid to get in there's like no one
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in there
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oh gosh that's been probably
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eight years ago something like that
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and looking back at it from this angle
23:22
so this viewpoint
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this Horizon if you will
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if it all happened
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hey you know
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I learned with a lot lot of these
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announcements and I've learned with a
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lot of projections on anything that's
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built you figure down I drive where
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that's that big McDonald's or the
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world's largest former former the
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world's largest McDonald's used to be
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over by Chewie's and Sand Lake and I
23:46
drive they were going to build the
23:48
world's tallest and world's longest one
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of those roller coaster and that never
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happened so
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don't really know if this is gonna
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happen I would say it's probably if I
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had to put a percentage on it a 20
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chance that it will happen
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but once it does and they if if it
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happens you flip a coin
24:09
five times is that one out of 20. maybe
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one of the times it'll land our heads or
24:13
tails whichever you're choosing that's a
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bad analogy but if it happens
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then I say maybe possibly
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a 20 chance on top of that
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the race and student consider maybe
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moving the team over here which I would
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be all for granted I would feel bad for
24:30
those who are season ticket holders in
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St Pete everything would change
24:34
but I feel like the capacity of the
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games and the crowds at the games would
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double
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just my opinion
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and it'd be closer to it'd be like a
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20-minute commute for me instead of you
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know two and a half hours over two and a
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half hours back
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put moth on my hand
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moth
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right on my hand
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look at that
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be free boss
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be free
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be free moth there you go there you go
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all right so just gonna put it out of
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the universe just like I kind of was
25:09
like wow what if spring training
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happened over at wide world and that
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happened
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bring the rice here I'm all for it
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another site called ballpark digest says
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Longshot Orlando MLB ball ballpark long
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shot Orlando MLB Ballpark plan unveiled
25:29
so this is a showing about Pat Williams
25:36
some of the technicalities I've already
25:36
kind of mentioned talks between the Rays
25:38
in both Pinellas County and Hillsborough
25:40
would be to would be would need to
25:43
completely collapse
25:45
fleeing the freeing the race will be the
25:47
Tampa Bay market and seek a new home
25:48
even Orlando or some other desirable
25:51
Market
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like Nashville again you know if they
25:54
move to Nashville I'd be totally fine
25:55
with going to see the race in Nashville
25:56
I would have no issue with that because
25:58
I do travel all the time MLB expansion
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is inevitable most likely the East and
26:02
West Las Vegas and Nashville the
26:03
obviously contenders to add two more
26:05
teams if an existing team doesn't move
26:07
there but there's no way Orlando lands
26:10
an expansion team but Tampa Bay still in
26:11
Major League Baseball we're told okay
26:13
that's interesting but there's no way
26:15
Orlando lands an expansion team with
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Tampa Bay oh still in MLB which means
26:20
they're not going to have a third floor
26:23
to team so it wouldn't make sense
26:24
because you know Miami's the Marlins
26:26
aren't going to come up here now before
26:28
everyone gets excited about New Orleans
26:29
MLB Bark Park keep in mind it's just a
26:31
proposal with a slew of contingencies
26:34
first there's no funding yet and a tdt
26:36
task for it would be presented with the
26:37
plan on Friday then spend the summer
26:39
deliberating second the plan is also
26:41
contingent on deep pocketing ownership
26:43
groups committed to the red tape a lot
26:45
of red tape and Thurs also contingent on
26:48
a team moving to Orlando and as we know
26:50
there's not an abundance of there'll be
26:52
teams looking to move outside the
26:54
looking to move outside the A's of the
26:57
Rays or MLB awarding an expansion team
26:59
to Orlando and the A's
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are going to Vegas they're building a
27:04
stay and that's already been announced
27:05
so let's announce the race moving to
27:07
Orlando all right that's gonna put it
27:09
out there I'm putting it out there again
27:12
huge hypothetical that this happens but
27:15
if it does
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be able to see The Stadium from the top
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of some of the Sea World coasters
27:21
that I'm passing back by heading over to
27:23
sell it back over to Celebration
27:25
be at the top Pinnacle of those drops
27:27
and go oh there's a baseball game going
27:29
on over there
27:31
the flowers really have grown up here
27:34
these plants here in one Water Street
27:36
this is the tallest I think I've ever
27:37
seen these
27:45
I grew up pretty fast too from the last
27:45
time they
27:46
they mowed them down
27:49
very quick growth
27:52
over here on the corner of Longmeadow
27:54
and mulberry
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I think it might be one of my favorite
27:57
well it's hard pressed to say what my
27:59
favorite
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spots are in celebration but I think
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this is one of them
28:03
I knew I'd do a lot of intros and outros
28:11
at Market square
28:11
and the lakefront
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I really love this little area over here
28:16
with the trees reminds me a lot of
28:18
Savannah Georgia
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stretching through this area
28:23
in fact the name of this is Savannah
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Square
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and I've never confirmed it I don't
28:28
think it's ever been stated
28:31
that it is based on Savannah Georgia but
28:34
I'm just going to say it is because it
28:35
looks like the forest gum Square
28:37
with the trees and everything it even
28:40
says Savannah Square right here
28:42
so I'm just going to assume
28:44
that this is based on the squares in
28:47
with the beautiful trees
28:49
all stretching through here
28:55
fountain
28:55
right there in the middle you could just
28:57
picture Forrest Gump right here on the
28:59
bench
29:00
talk about how life is like a box of
29:02
chocolates
29:03
you never know what you're gonna get
29:06
kind of like the MLB possibly coming to
29:10
again it's all speculation it's all
29:12
hearsay it has not been confirmed and
29:14
I'm just going to say there's a one in
29:15
five chance that it even happens and
29:17
there's even less of a chance if the
29:19
rays are going to to make it but be
29:21
pretty dang cool and weirder thing
29:22
stranger things most more unusual things
29:25
have happened that's going to do it for
29:26
today
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video
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the Vlog
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is
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over bonus footage
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look how beautiful this is this is long
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meadow park
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I love living in Celebration
29:50
could live here I might live might live
29:52
here a little while longer it might live
29:54
here a lot longer I might not live here
29:55
at all in the future
29:57
but for now I'm enjoying it
29:59
I don't know
30:00
I never know what I'm gonna do in my
30:01
life to be honest
30:04
but for now I'm pretty content with
30:05
where I'm at
30:07
that can change literally tomorrow or
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three years from now or never