First Time At Busch Stadium - Classic Tour & In The Dugout - St Louis Cardinals Hall Of Fame Museum
Busch Stadium August 2024
with Gregs Game Room
Transcript
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today's adventure begins from my hotel
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room here in St Louis Missouri as the
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recording of this
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Tuesday August 6th
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2024 I will be knocking off my
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28 that's right
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28th
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Stadium seeing and rooting for the Tampa
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Bay Rays I have my city connect cap
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ready to ride
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doing a stadium tour at 11:00 a.m. and
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then I believe 6:50 or 6:45 p.m. going
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to see the Rays take on the Cardinals
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right down there welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here pretty close
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accommodations to the ballpark in fact
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Ballpark Village is right there meeting
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up with a buddy here that's going to be
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here for a couple days as well from
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Florida he's flying in a little issues
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CU there was a hurricane passed through
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Florida so was not able to fly in
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yesterday afternoon but he's on his way
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going to do the ballpark tour see the
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ballpark game and just have a have a
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good day he's a Cardinals guy I'm a raay
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guy should be fun join me shall you
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little Capital style building right
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there got the archway right here all
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right just waiting patiently for Greg to
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get
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here there's a big World Series
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trop wait a
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second
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wait is that you Greg oh hey you made it
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I made it I was looking the other way
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for you oh yeah I came down this way
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first because I had to come down to see
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this gigantic World Series trophy is
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this not awesome or what you guys won
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the World Series uh just 11 times no big
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deal what's it like to root for a team
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that's won the world series Greg it's
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it's hard it can be heartbreaking when
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they lose the game that you know they
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should have won but uh when they
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actually win it's like the best feeling
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ever all right it's finally happening
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Greg you get to wear your Cardinals gear
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not at another game but you're wearing
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it in St Louis that's kind of I know
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you're very happy about that what's the
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best place to be if you want to watch a
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baseball game the old stadium was here
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the circle right right here's the new
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Stadium corre we're here and you said
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there's a home plate somewhere you got
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yeah it's right over here we can go walk
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over to it this is the home plate let's
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look this is the original home plate
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this is the home plate for Bush Stadium
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2 Bush Stadium 2 yes the second Bush
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Stadium correct the circular round one
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that so there's three now this is the
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third the one that's here now is the
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third one correct that's that's the
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third this is the third one why is there
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no marker that says the that's the
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original home
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PL good
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question I guess you know what they do
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is they they they use this as a kind of
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like a party area yeah so so here's the
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original Diamond like a food truck right
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here in the way so it's nice that we're
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here that's great what would be your
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favorite moment that happened here at
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this is xox Aussie Smith's home run in
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198 I think it was seven or Jack Buck
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said go crazy folks go crazy was right
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there he hit that home
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run just over the just over the line
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just barely over the line and and he's
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just like running like this around the
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hall
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Greg stoked I love it do your home home
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run Trot you got
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it who don't slide don't slide slide but
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just a quick little history about the
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Cardinals in the stadiums so this is
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Bush three we started actually about 5
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miles from here in a place called
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Sportsman Park now we shared that with
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one other team does any know the other
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team in St Louis Browns the Browns who
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became the Baltimore very this is an
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educated audience I like that all right
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even though it is a game day we're get
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to go into the
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Dugout kind of Ni Cardinals play on the
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first Bas side that's where their Dugout
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is all right here's your moment Greg
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we're going in the
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Dugout walking on it yes there's Arch
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going over to the tug out now now have
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you ever done the stadium tour here no
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I've done I did Bush two uh back in '96
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but I've never done this one we never
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done Bush three Bush three no I've never
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been in the Dugout this is where all
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your boys are in here I know I'm going
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to stand in the spot where Tony the rusa
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stood when uh David freeze hit that home
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run okay yes got to do that
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here oh my gosh this is the spot
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someone's already got someone's already
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got it right there is it right here
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where he's sitting right here he stands
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right here he was standing right here
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all right recreate it he looked out the
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window recreate it out like this you
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went
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not allowed to touch these but there's
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the bullpen phone video replay
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phone there with your teeth I my teeth
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looks like this look over
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League Bermuda does a lot better
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is this on can you guys hear me okay
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okay the uh pra grass is a lot better in
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the heat we used to have Kentucky Blue
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Grass that looked really good in the
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winter time it's a cold weather Grass
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but we started doing more and
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more where all the cameras are going to
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be and the Press what do you think
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pretty cool huh you like f huh that's
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your favorite part of this so far you
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act like you can act like you're coming
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up out of the dogout
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yep oh taking the field
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paint the thing is cool about a lot of
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these tours they get on field level you
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can't go on the grass haven't been on a
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stadium tour they touch the grass but
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they will let you walk quite a few of
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them will let you walk right here along
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the front warning track some of will let
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you go out towards the out field doesn't
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look like we're going to be going to the
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alfha warning track here
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though but you get to get your feet on
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your feet dirty right here on the on the
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dirt you did it
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yes you're in the big leads stest
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natives who've been going to Cardinal
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games their whole life and you say have
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you ever been to the Cardinal Club like
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what's the Cardinal Club everybody here
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calls it the green seats because there
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are the seats that you just pass through
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there only green seats in the whole
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stadium there's one other little section
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but this is it so if you're trying to
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press through a significant other or you
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want to do something you come here five
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star restaurant and then from there you
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go to your green sea
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C this is the Cardinal city connect I
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believe if I really like the Cardinal
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city connect is this your guys City
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connect yes do you like it exactly
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that's growing on me okay so nothing
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enough look at all these old cards up
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here all right guys welcome to the
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Cardinal Club cardal Club how about the
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red club for you families this is the
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place to come it is MLB's largest Club
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it's not all inclusive but you get the
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air you get the private bathrooms and
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it's pretty affordable I
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mean so these are very old cards and
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like I said Valu to the millions Michael
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how we doing
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John so what do you have is interesting
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I just did the stadium tour at the
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Houston Astro stadium and they have the
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same kind of thing leading to the Press
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Box all the wires along here that was
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the first time I'd ever seen anything
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like that but evidently St Louis also
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follows suits with all the
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wires young Harry carry
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mhm who's this I don't
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know bring the kids up so they can see
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here
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all right well welcome to MLB's largest
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broadcast food and we can thank one guy
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for that his name is Mike Shannon how
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many people remember Mike Shannon he
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loved a couple cold ones while he was
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doing the game he loved baseball a lot
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of people say the greatest athlete to
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ever come out of St Louis he did play
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professional baseball he could have done
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professional football and professional
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basketball say that this is the largest
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radio Press Box in MLB was at the
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Milwaukee Brewer stadium earlier this
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year where Bob uker is he's down the Bob
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uker is down in the corner and it kind
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of is about this size so if this one's
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bigger it must only be by a couple feet
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kind of look like the same
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size here's the raise radio booth
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Andy freed Gil solon's probably in here
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tonight oh here's the radio here's the
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radio
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Bo a year how we're playing what day
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week it can fluctuate from about $65 to
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$500 so if you want the experience all
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inclusive
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anding the 1967 World Series champion
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trophy size B here also check out the
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water
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monster hydrate
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responsibly so is this your left fielder
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this is a gold Schmid's is see the first
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basement I think first basement okay
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okay we're also going to purchase our
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little photo
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posterity cool
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yeah even has the date stamp on it which
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is
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nice planning on winning tonight nope no
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way yes yes way okay we're going to beat
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the ray yeah yeah rise down R down
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that's you talking that's not
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him all right going to go put stuff back
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up in the room over here from Valley
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live direct standing in the shade
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because it's very hot out here you got
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some Cardinals merch we got the photo
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our room's up there so I think we're on
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the towards the top maybe not the top
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we're pretty close to the Top This is
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known as a ballpark view room is kind of
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nice the seats we got are going to be in
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the shade cuz even at 6:45 it's going to
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be sun still going to be out which is
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going to be kind of nice to be not in
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the
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sun gates open at 5:15 so we got a
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little time we going do the Museum tour
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now museum is
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located over there next to the St all
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right now we're going to head
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into the Cardinals Hall of Fame
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Museum which is up here on the second
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floor this includes admission
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from the tour we did earlier it gives
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you admission into the museum as well
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from what I was told this is the biggest
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baseball Museum outside of Cooperstown
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is that what the guide said yes oh I
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like this quote this is a game to be
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savored not gulped 1926 World Series
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here was their uniforms the Red Birds
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and look down here this is the first
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ball from the 1926 World Series right
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there and here's the original
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Sportsman's Park right here this is the
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kind of the layout of the land on it
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right here as well here's a photo of it
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over here first night game May 24th
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1940 right there you can get tickets in
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the bleachers some old seats here Sports
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and Park seat green seat
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1953 over here here's a field box seat
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1953 as well or actually seating chart
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is above it from 1945 there is usual
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what do you call him stand the man stand
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the man it's a good
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nickname stand the man
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usual he's very I say he's very unusual
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but he's is
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misual
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unusual everyone else is unusual he's
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misual that's it yeah you got the
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groundbreaking shovel from the third
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version of bush well Bush Stadium 3 Bush
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3 so Tropic Canfield 2028 will be having
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a new stadium opening they're going to
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be doing groundbreaking on the New Tampa
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Bay Ray stadium the first of next year
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in January you got to wonder if if they
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ever have a museum if that shovel like
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this one will be in theirs most likely
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how to make a Rawlings bat look at this
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shows the chunk of wood down to the
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final product how you just Whittle away
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at it all the different stages it
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doesn't look like that hard of a process
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does it I wouldn't know how to whittle a
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bat out of that well I mean to get the
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grain just right yeah to do that in a
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way
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that that's kind of neat how they that's
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the last part before you take that off
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to Y have the little like por spot there
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prototype when they were designing okay
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that there but it's like 103 diamonds
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and 14 custom cut rubies on the Cardinal
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it's all on white gold down the home
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stretch motto for a while you remember
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that you remember the rally squirrel oh
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heck yeah rally squirrel's on this ring
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too is he running over the top of Home
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Plate really so the rally squirrel where
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is he now there's a home plate there
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uhhuh and he's running over the top of
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it okay
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that was awesome all right back over at
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the stadium now where gates are about to
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open and we were talking about this
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earlier the go crazy folks go crazy
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folks home run in October of
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1985 Aussie
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Smith the gates are going to open very
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very soon we're going to head in all
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right in now overlooking the stadium the
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gates are open doors are open we're
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going to be sitting over there on the
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second level up up right about over in
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that area and they also do something
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kind of like Wrigley does where Wrigley
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has the on top of the apartments and
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houses outside the stadium this thing
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over here called Cardinal nation which
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has the brew house and all that but you
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you can get seats out here that
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technically are not even in the stadium
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if you so choose they're like way out in
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left
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field kind of reminds me of how
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Wrigleyville is and of course you can't
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think of this stadium in St Louis
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without the Budweiser Clydesdales a
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little timeline here going back 1876
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up to the present right over here the
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Budweiser Clydesdales all right we're
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walking over to basically the batter's
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eye which they said they're never going
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to change this over here and that's
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because what game was it in the World
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Series the game six 2011 World
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Series David freeze hits a walk-off home
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run that lands right in this spot right
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here right there and the entire Cardinal
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Nation just blew up a with bananas go
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take a look inside the Authentics shop
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have one of these at Tropic Canon field
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in fact they have one of these at every
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Stadium I've been to you get some
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authentic gear bunch of autograph balls
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oh there's Aussie right there Aussie
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Smith how much is he aie Smith uh right
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here on the side 199 200 Buckaroo 200
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bucks yeah a little bit of everything in
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here authentic stuff like bases here
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over here jerseys that players have worn
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Etc I if there's room in your carryon
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Greg but you could proba get one of
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these this is uh this is the base is
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here what is this Cardinals versus
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Cardinals yeah so St Louis Cardinal
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versus maybe is a I don't know yeah I
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really like this old big huge neon sign
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Coca-Cola says best fans in baseball
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gather here GRE was just telling me that
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this is the
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scoreboard from Bush 2 the second of the
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Bush Stadium hello so this is the second
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one right yeah look at the top
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one the final game yeah look at the very
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oh wow that was that was the last game
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they played that was the last game
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before the Cardinal Stadium was torn
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down wow so Tampa Bay played the last
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game at Bush two no no it wasn't at Bush
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This is just where the the score was
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between Baltimore Tampa Bay when they
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took down oh when they took it down
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gotcha gotcha gotcha okay that makes
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more sense but just the fact that Tampa
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Bay is on that scoreboard is pretty
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unique because I
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think that is pretty cool yeah that was
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one of their last
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wasn't their first year Tampa Bay
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started in
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98 first
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pitch 28 Stadium seeing the Rays yandi
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leading off almost always swings at the
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first pitch nine times out of 10 swings
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at the first pitch and he didn't miss it
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and just like that a Brandon La home run
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it's two to nothing no outs gr
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up gray
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up told you they'd be your new favorite
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team
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you were like's going to hit into a
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double play I go he never hits it in the
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infield and he pretty much confirmed
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that fact by launching it out to
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Right double it
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up
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oh got out of it got out of it grg got
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out of it got out of the got out of the
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bases loaded J the Cardinals are now up
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four to2 they scored four in the second
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inning starting to sprinkle now though
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all right it's now starting to mist a
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little bit almost
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precipitation so if it starts to rain
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heavily I think it would be maybe time
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for some nacho it's nacho time to
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rain all right it's definitely starting
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to rain just a little bit so going to
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pop over here and grab some nachos do
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not have helmet nachos up on this level
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they have it on the bottom level but
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they do have nachos in a home plate box
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all right I loaded
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up thought they said it was a home plate
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but I think it might be just a first
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it's just a regular
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plate it is windy out here is that
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coming our way is that coming our
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bird there a very there a very bird
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theme Here St Louis oh my gosh that's
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going to drop in nope not going to drop
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lot earlier today Greg and I were right
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down there in The
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Dugout now way up here looking down into
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the Dugout got a wave going on down
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there we got a
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wave now three and one to DeLuca there's
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a wave going around
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crowd was cheering I wonder what they
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were cheering for cheering for the
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W you a fan of the wave Greg uh oh
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that's a straight popup dang
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ago it could happen we and two Cabo has
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been known to steal home in fact Cabo
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was the first Ray to steal home since
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Randy did it 2021
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it dang it dang it dang
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it course the
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mascot the redb bird is that what it's
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called fredb bird Fred bir
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yep Fred
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bird down there way down there down four
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to two kind of had a
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feeling there he got
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it still down four to
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two oh oh oh oh oh
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oh on first and second now he's coming
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up cabie cabier coming up to the plate
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no out sky on first and
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Jose on second got Jose Siri on first
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the crowd is very very quiet no
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outs o oh
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noed out a little
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bit went to Beat the Traffic though yeah
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there's people behind us but not
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directly was like there was okay so
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what's going to happen here so we got a
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guy on first and second Ben W bets up
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one
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out what's your prediction Ben usually
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makes pretty good contact he can hit the
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long ball doesn't really hit in the
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infield I don't want it to be a double
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play ooh he's swinging for the F kind of
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clear out a little bit kind of hoping
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that he kind of maybe hit hits it in the
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Gap
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somewhere Jose is very fast we've been
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talking about this all night but maybe
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they just need to play a little small
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ball well caby tried to do a little bunt
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he tried they're trying but I think he's
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going to
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a two and two one
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out one out man on first and
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uhoh go one foul two and
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two two and two one out and W better
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catcher up struck him out oh my
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god get on their feet you guys only need
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one more
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out everybody else all right let
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dos come
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alive all going back to that
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second well down feeling this is going
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to be kind of a low scory game after it
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started
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off
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oh
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go
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woo I'm not I just want to see this a
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little bit now now it's four to three
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with one out gu on first and
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second Johnny D came through little
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RBI is everyone going to still stay
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standing Taylor Taylor walls coming
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up all right 0 And1 two
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outs R's got a guy in scorting position
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to tie it up very fast Jose Siri that's
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a
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ball this is the kind of game you want
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to see though well yeah I mean they're
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making they're making an effort at least
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at this point so far you guys have not
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done a whole heck of a lot
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tonight get a valid point
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oh what the ball oh two and
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one the wind is blowing in the storm on
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the horizon no home runs with the wind's
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blowing in though you don't need a home
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run this is a solid base hit down you
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got to get more than just one run
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otherwise tie game and then we just keep
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going on nextra that's a ball three and
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one okay all right let's see
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it getting really excited now finally
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took nine innings to get
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here or eight
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Innings and one three and one three and
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two oh this could be it three and two a
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moment of Reckoning Taylor walls
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oh down
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dang
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it that was a freaking ending all right
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heading back to the hotel the
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Cardinals have won all right that's
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going to do it for today from St Louis
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Bush Stadium was a really close game I
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kind of glad it ended that way very
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excited could have gone either way in
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the ninth I wish there were days would
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have won but either way had a good time
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me and Greg watching the game having a
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good time my 28 stadium is now the list
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is knocked off the Vlog is so