The LAST Oakland A’s Game At Oakland Coliseum -Goodbye To Athletics Ballpark Forever / Final Moments
Last Oakland Coliseum A's Game
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Thursday September
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26th 2024 it's early it's about 8:00
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a.m. parking lot for the Oakland
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Athletics the very last Oakland A game
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ever the Oakland Coliseum is happening
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today Coliseum right over here I've been
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here two other times two years ago saw
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the Rays here there was no one here at
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all maybe 100 people in the entire
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Stadium it was almost like being in the
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Twilight
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last year was here for the reverse
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boycott which was really packed did a
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whole video on that also the Philly
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Captain is here here we are representing
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Philly always representing Tampa Bay who
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got eliminated from the postseason last
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night sorry Phillies clinch the
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NL n you guys are NL West right NL East
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NL West where are we at I don't know I
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know all I know is ala AL east teams
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nonetheless last game at the colise
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we're here to support baseball we're
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here to support the A's fans who not
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John fer we're not here to support John
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fer he stinks I just give a little
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disclaimer there might be uh some Choice
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words by others here maybe yourself
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inside the stadium you never know what's
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going to happen in there this is going
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to be a moment to remember this is going
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to be a a historic day of baseball
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history so what do you think they should
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do what what do you mean they what I
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think they should you think they should
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join us shall you I did it again last
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Dive Bar they do have a lot of other
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merchandise over there as well I wanted
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something that said Oakland Coliseum on
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it they do have some specific
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merchandise which is for the final game
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so I'll show some of that as well you
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see a lot of TV crews out here as well
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it's another really good shirt too the
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last game with the with the a there oh a
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and the S that's pretty that's actually
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really really creative last game final
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end of an era game 926 2024 what is that
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oh wow
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okay by Jeremy wesler yes this is a book
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that um is
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a um good night Oakland A
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is got all the
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special moments of Ace history familiar
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with good night Moon yeah yeah sure
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think I know about stealing I learned
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from Oakland Ricky Henderson there these
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are freaking great shirts you going to
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buy a shirt maybe at some
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point another team okay I got you well I
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got my race cap on but I I want want to
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support no yeah it doesn't even say the
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a it just says the Coliseum but I I got
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to think of yeah I got you so I I went
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in and used the facilities over here and
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these might be the most disgusting porta
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potties I've ever seen they were not
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definitely not emptied out any time in
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recent days you know this owner is such
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a good guy you figure he would invest
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money into this the Porta poot system
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yeah I I wanted to vomit in there but
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you know what if you couldn't the toilet
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was full definitely a lot of memories
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here you ever seen the movie Moneyball
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that was
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all based on real events here when the
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A's won 20 games in a row which was
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pretty
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fantastic also think of the bash
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Brothers Maguire I always think of that
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era Maguire cono the earthquake 89
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earthquake I
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89 here in the Bay Area so you think you
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think Fisher's going to sell the team
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when he goes to Vegas 100% he's going to
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sell the team when he gets to Vegas it's
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the price of the team is going to get
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driven up and okay he's he's just he's
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scum he's he's going to do it he's a
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scumbag scumbag yeah let's go what's
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your name going to do it Alex nice to
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beet you Alex there towards the end the
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battle of the bay 1989 I remember that
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one very well watching it on TV I lived
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in ealo
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Oklahoma watching it on TV when the
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earthquake hit now they were not in this
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Stadium I believe they were over on the
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San Francisco side of the
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bay but Oakland Oakland was in it during
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that an ambulance it's an ambulance I
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think they're missing an opportunity
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they could just had the A and right
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Ambulance with the oh yeah oh here we go
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chips Erica arada what the heck is this
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is that definitely has a peewee's
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playhouse Vibe right there right over
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there that is
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interesting also we were talking to this
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couple over here and they were saying
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that these seats here are mounted a
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little bit differently because there's I
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don't know if it'll happen or not but a
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lot of people like
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souvenirs but I guess the ones in here
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are a little bit different seats than
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these but these are just kind of just
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sitting out here so anyway look at this
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Crossing see man see you on the internet
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see you got the crossing of both uh both
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trains over
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there let's go
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Oakland let's go
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Oakland let's
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go let's go give me 100 bucks pictures
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ow 100 bucks for every picture you take
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definitely uh definitely a lot of a lot
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of officers are going to be around which
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is a good thing the gate should be
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opening soon it's almost nice 903 right
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now I have a lot of signs you have a lot
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you you have a plethora of signs all
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right all right thank you so much yeah
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is crazy George sending the off it's a
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terrible day but a great day a are the
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greatest baseball team in the
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world why I hope you're back what's the
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question why are you crazy with a K and
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not a c cuz when I started signing a
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girls I thought it was spilled with a K
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that's how you really are crazy I'm a
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Sho Sho come on all right got go saw you
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in Minnesota before oh you were the B
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had a great time you invented the we
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right there right there now I have a
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question is there ever an improper time
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to do a with but is there a certain run
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score like it's got to have momentum got
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to have momentum got stor a run or
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something's going on great are you going
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faes are loaded that's a good time to do
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it all right are you going with the
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Sacramento to watch the games I'm going
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to try you know I it's tough right it's
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tough I'm sorry this is happening to you
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you're one of the best fans in Major
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League Baseball and you deserve better
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go go this a proven fact that guy right
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there crazy George invented the wave at
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the O Coliseum that is freaking cool
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crazy with a K crazy with a K that's
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what I that's I like I got we know
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another guy that's crazy with a K crazy
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Joe crazy Joe I think he's I think crazy
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George is a little crazier there he is
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crazy George awesome all right when I
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think of an Oakland blogger I think of
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Gabe here how's it going gamer athletic
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tell me tell me your thoughts right now
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man a lot of uh emotions
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um it's been a hard you know 48 Hours um
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just kind of lost for words really just
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uh it hurts there's no other way to
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really put it yeah you know for coming
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here for years and seeing so many old
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friends come last night it was uh it was
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very emotional and I know I'm going to
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get emotional today I already had like
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maybe two or three breakdowns in the car
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with my friends and um we're just going
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to try to make the best of it what we
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can but it's it's going to be hard today
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yeah but I saw you at the reverse
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boycott and uh I was in LA I figured I'd
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drive up and and be here for this to
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show my support as a baseball fan yeah
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and um I'm glad to see you here and it's
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uh it means a lot that you know to see
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you come out here and you know support
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what we've been doing and um basically
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be here for history cuz you know this
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place is a one-of A- kind place and the
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fans that are here it's it sucks man and
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I tried my hardest along with last Dive
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Bar in the Oakland 60s try to make this
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you stop but I know you did there's not
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much else I can do unfortunately well
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thanks for talking to me gab appreciate
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it all right headed
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in went through security just scanned
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our tickets going
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in all right on the way in you got two
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things a replica Stadium voucher after
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the seventh inning and the first 25,000
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people get one of these I don't I don't
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want if I want to leave before the
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game's over but basically giving these
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starting these in the seventh trying to
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get people out of the stadium starting
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in the seventh inning and then also a
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once in a-lifetime Opportunity last game
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souvenir ticket here September
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26 not that's not the section we sitting
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in but uh this is a souvenir ticket here
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of the last
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goland seen a few people walking around
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can I take a picture of you for my yeah
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bring it in man let me ask you do a
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selfie who's your favorite road warrior
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animal or oh it's got to be animal you
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tell I'm going to try to find some uh
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there's larusa right there there's
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Maguire top got Dave Stewart Reggie
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Jackson of course Catfish Hunter Ricky
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Henderson acly a field here not being
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used a smaller miniature field people
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were just using to put their beers on
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and things out Center been a while since
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I've been to a baseball that the Rays
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were not play felt like I had to be here
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for this a historical moment you got the
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Rangers down
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there that is the line for helmet nachos
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it is out of control so no helmet nachos
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today however we're both going to we
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both end up got a hot dog each over here
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we found a line that was kind of short
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for hot dogs I got some popcorn got a
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lemonade here and chur Ros right over
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there we never had one in the bowl Park
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before dog and yes put mustard on my hot
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dog of course you
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do all right up to someone in line who
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got Notch to how long did you wait for
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these about 10 minutes 10 minutes okay
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maybe I'll get maybe I'll get one but
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yeah I'm a I love not helmets that's
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Prett that's pretty decent though it's
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got the sour cream and the guacamole and
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all that on there so
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nice the secr of
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camera the walkway is a single file line
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that Bud
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Light little uh stand right there is
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blocking the whole thing that line
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should be going this way that's crazy
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and these officers over here are walking
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off with a sign from the stadium I don't
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know if someone tried to steal that and
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then they were just like you know what
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we're going to take that instead but
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that is the upper deck signage that they
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are walking off with we got themselves a
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little
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souvenir well did some try to use it as
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or someone tries to use it I think it
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was a oh that's good point valid point
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Dave Stewart and Ricky Henderson are
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throwing out the first pitch that's
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freaking
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awesome that's cool that's
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Ricky
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oh awesome holy
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cow I did hope that they would open up
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Mount Davis up here which is put here
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when the Raiders played here but they
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did not open it up
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I bet from up there you can get a really
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good view across the Bay San Francisco
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also mention this is one of the few
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Fields just like Tropic can of field
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that the bullpen is on the field you
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don't see that too often this Stadium's
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going away trop's going away in a couple
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of years a break breaking ground for the
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new stadium in St Pete for 2028 first uh
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first game right underneath this pretty
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good siiz scoreboard not the biggest
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scoreboard you guys got the biggest the
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Mets do by like an inch an inch cuz
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jerks good thing about sitting in the
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back row you can stand up and you're not
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rocking
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anyone we're not blocking anybody by
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standing no stretch our legs a little
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bit more people are
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standing hoping for a grand slam right
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here for the
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here oh it's a big old baseball over
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there
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best
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strawberry so Tropic field won't even
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let you bring C bells in
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anymore Dr here football Dr
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big this is the best section in all of
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Major League Baseball how much fun is
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this the owner of the a stinks how can
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you take the game away from
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these the beach
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field beach baseball on the
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field Fielding our error in left field
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Oakland's now up three to zero
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so I'm noticing not only are there
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people here filming things there are
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like full documentary crews in all the
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different sections like three or four
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different like legitimate cameras in all
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the different sections everywhere we're
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walking there's like really nice cameras
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filming people filming documentaries
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about this final experience not just
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people the personal cameras
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me you know he used to send tickets to
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to all the school houses you know he was
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motivated he sto being
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motivated good wave coming through good
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wave coming
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through let's make crazy George
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prown let's go
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that a good one I think the best waves
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are here well they started here yeah
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they started always better in the
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circular that's true seeum like
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environment I'm seeing the toilet toilet
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paper flying over there
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back of a catch
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go
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go let me get a picture yeah yeah for
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sure let's go down here
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also never realized this about Oakland
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stadium so the dugouts is over there so
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there's the a Dugout you have to go in
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through the bottom of this and walk
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along that to get to The Dugout you
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can't go directly into The Dugout and
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then into the locker rooms you got to go
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under and underneath behind home plate
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which is kind of
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bizarre that's going to drop that's
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going to
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drop we are vicariously rooting for Oak
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Oakland today let's go Oakland that's
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right F John fer
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ball this is
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it top of the ninth only need three outs
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and the A's close out their last home
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game ever here at the Coliseum and their
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last home game as the Oakland
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A's with a
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W there's two back
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two that's high come on bro no outs and
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everyone well 75% of everyone in here is
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on their
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feet usually something you don't see
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until two outs and two strikes
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W just a just
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to try to
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comprehend people who've had 57 I think
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it's 57 years of memories here family
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siblings brothers sisters Sons daughters
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time spent here parents who have
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probably passed on that they came to
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games with here this place is going
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away I really feel bad for anyone from
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Oakland that supported this team for so
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long it's like a a piece of your life
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just completely erased
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goes whole area everyone's moved down
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here including
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us we already got Security on the field
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we got we got a guy on the field we got
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r we got a
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runner oh he thinks he's up for a
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challenge out
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there full on security team going out ah
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we got the beer flying
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now oh
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dang dang it took till the ninth inning
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to get a
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runner it took till the ninth and a beer
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launch
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okay now we got the officers coming out
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officers are now heading
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out we got oh there was two of them we
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got a couple we got a couple no security
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going on the
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field there goes the everyone's
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Everyone's Watching stuff up
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more stuff being launched yeah it's
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getting a little chaotic stuff's getting
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in the field over here stuff's getting
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launch in the
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field let's just hold off for two more
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outs let's get this game let's get this
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game let's get the W for these
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guys the problem with throwing things on
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the field the actual player the owner
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doesn't have anything to do with that
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it's the people working that have to
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clean it up
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what happened the left fielder went out
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the gate over
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there two strikes Full Count one
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out one to go one to
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go here we go that doia for Oakland
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one more
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out
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more strike
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one oh what's that out in the outfit
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hold on what's that out there there's
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literally a smoke there's like a
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something smoking out in right field
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there's something smoking out in right
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field
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holy cow two strikes two
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downs the ball was in play while that
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was out there I was like man what if he
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hit a a drive out to out to
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right more stuffy throw on the field out
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here strike two strike here
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go come on Blue get some
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is that's freaking
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it yeah Oakland 3 Texas 2 they have one
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they have won 3 to2 the last ever
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Oakland A's game at the Coliseum just
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happened lots of security now and
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they're also kind of a shovel they
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trying to get dirt off the in front of
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home plate to put in little bottles I
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guess for like souvenirs for people
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which is kind of interesting one last
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flag W for the Oakland A's mascot right
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there on the pitcher
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M man this is
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a this is something really is nearly six
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Decades of Oakland A's they're all
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coming out yeah they're all coming out
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they're not going
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anywhere there was a rumor that all the
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players were told to leave none of them
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left they all stayed here tip of the cap
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to the Oakland fans that's that's good
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to
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see that is so good to see right
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there oh even a tiip of the cap by the
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Mas to share on
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you our
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privilege
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fi [\h__\h] John
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fer I know it's been H
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with all of us different
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times stay here
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my amazing
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wife and we took it all
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in especially those who AR
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coming I forever
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grateful never
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for and to all of you
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on behal of
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my
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myself this
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team all the past players and
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coaches everyone SP the great
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guys w
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thank you all for loving the game of
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baseball thank you for your life M
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support of the
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O share this
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moment with the club I'm so proud of we
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play
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I think we all
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should to this amazing stadium that
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we've had the privilege and pleasure of
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En time from
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57 and I ask you for one more
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time to start the greatest cheer
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baseball
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man let's
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Go's go
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go go
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let's
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go let's
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go evidently it's a big thing for people
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to go down on the field you know workers
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associated with the A's to get dirt off
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the front of Home Plate oh y
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I was waiting for to go by there's a
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couple guys with propeller
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they're scooping up dirt and giving
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people dirt from the
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the security guard is chastising this
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guy for ripping some of the cup holders
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off the seats explaining he's not
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allowed to take
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them they almost got this they almost
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got that one off that's
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close that's a close one you got this
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one oh somebody got themselves a little
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souvenir
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there thank
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you and that's going to do it for today
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from Oakland from the
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Coliseum again I feel really bad from
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those from Oakland who have been
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following this team there is San
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Francisco San Francisco Giants across
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the bay but it's quite the Rivalry the
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battle of the bay it be hard to root for
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this team for so long it'd be so
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invested and then just kind of jump ship
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and go over to the other team but I
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don't know what I would do in this
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situation if I lived here
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and devoted a lot of time
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and money resources effort memories to a
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place and had it ripped from me
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video be for a little bit the Vlog
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is over