I Was Out Of Place in Downtown Denver For Stanley Cup Finals - Unpleasant Experience At Coors Field
Downtown Denver During Stanley Cup Finals 2022
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today's adventure will bring me into
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downtown denver colorado
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it'll be a very busy
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downtown day
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it's gonna be fun i ended up finding a
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parking structure over here next to
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a union pacific railroad building that
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has been converted into a brewery on the
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corner of wine coop street
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15 for all day
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downtown on a saturday as a recording of
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this it is saturday june 18th
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2022.
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denver has some inexpensive parking and
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you see those two flags there on the end
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those are both going to be part
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of today's adventure
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colorado rockies
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and the colorado avalanche i'll explain
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more momentarily welcome everyone adam
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the woo here last night when i was
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laying down to slumber i was trying to
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figure out what i would do
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today and i came to a conclusion or a
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decision that what i would do
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would be walk
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go to downtown which i accomplished that
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already and from here walk
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three quarters of a mile down to ball
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arena where the tampa bay lightning the
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hockey team not the rays i do not really
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follow hockey but i would like to
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support the same you know the florida
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team
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what a coincidence that i am here when
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they are going up against
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denver the colorado avalanche as the
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locals call the abs the aves the abs
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i'm just gonna see what the vibe is like
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down there and then i realize that there
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is a baseball game
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in the same general vicinity so about
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half mile three quarters of a way that
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way is ball arena where there will be
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quite a bit of hoopla i believe
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game one this is game two game one the
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watch party drew about five thousand
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people in front of the stadium they are
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expecting more tonight and then after
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that
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i will venture down this direction to
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coarse field
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where i will go to a game where there is
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a team i do not have any
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rooting for it will be the colorado
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rockies and san diego padres
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so it's going to be an interesting day
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i'm inviting you to join
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shalia this is kind of interesting at
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first i thought they were solar panels
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but i think they're just look you can
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like look downward into something down
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below maybe with like a greenhouse or
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something and i normally will sport my
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either double raised cap throwback cap
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or i will usually be wearing the
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starburst cap but today i'm wearing the
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tb because i know tampa jay always wears
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this cap and he's in florida and he's
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going to be watching
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the bolts
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as well from there and i figured i just
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kind of wanted to wrap tampa bay in a
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more prominently
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definitive style so
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putting the tb cap on now there was a
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brief moment where i slightly considered
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trying to get tickets to the game
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tickets are 700 to a thousand dollars
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each and i figured i've never been to
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course field i've heard it's a beautiful
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stadium even though there is not a team
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playing that i really you know
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root for per se which the rays are
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playing there but that rarely if ever
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happens
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70 seats tonight over there versus 700
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to 1000 for
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the the upper you know way up
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and the sky seats
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that seat versus that one for 10 percent
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for a game that 10 of the price
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for a sport that i i love a lot more
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than hockey i don't really know much
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about hockey
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spoiler alert and as i'm walking along
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heading over
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to the first stadium
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noticing up here is a ghost sign
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fallon supply company windmills and
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pumps and i've already got a quite a few
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stairs
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people noticing my hat i don't know how
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many people are going to be wearing
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any sort of tampa bay team house
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through here i don't know if a lot of
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tampa bay lightning folk would have made
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the commute
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all the way to colorado but maybe
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see what happens when i get over there
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this is pretty neat but these old
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bridges are
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now walkways
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over this river there it is not too far
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for a walk from where i parked
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ball arena
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i do have the walk signal i don't know
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what's going on with these cars
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now this one starts at 6 00 p.m
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baseball game starts at a little after
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seven for first pitch
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it is 2 38 right now
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and usually baseball games an hour an
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hour and a half sometimes two hours
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before they'll open up the gate so i'll
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probably head over there at some point
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but i just want to see what's happening
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over here
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three hours and 22 minutes
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before
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the hockey match begins i do find this
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kind of interesting at three hours
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before game time
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they're still setting stuff up out here
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there's not really a ton of people from
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what i can see i went to the world
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series in atlanta
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in october on halloween night of last
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year
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and even three hours before first pitch
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there was just
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thousands upon thousands of people
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outside the stadium here's the 202202
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playoff
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mobile with the skyline off in the
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distance people are starting to
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congregate over here i did see a couple
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people wearing tampa bay stuff which is
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pretty cool and over there in the
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distance is bronco stadium
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and that
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wooden roller coaster is six flags
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they're kind of in the same general area
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kind of zoomed in across the parking lot
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there and that sky tower i believe also
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was part of six flags now here's a
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mascot
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named rocky
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in front of the arena see the ball arena
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emblem up there
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there's rocky well at least here in the
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little veranda there's nothing you can't
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you can't sell any kind of bootleg stuff
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so no merchandise or anything like that
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so but i'm sure like once you just get
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off this property there will be people
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selling some stuff for some reason i
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don't think this applies why do they
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have an nba fan code of conduct out here
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in front of an nhl game all right now
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that they have this inflated i realize
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what it is
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it is a it's a hockey rink there's
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people over there playing hockey inside
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the hockey rink
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rink i'm really thirsty
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i don't know what it is about colorado
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but i'm just like way more thirsty than
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i usually am up here in the salivation
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and i'm really hoping the game of my
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baseball game i'm going to go to doesn't
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get rain delayed or
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you know doesn't happen because of the
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because the storm clouds over there
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there's somebody over here
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selling some merchandise some jerseys
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and whatnot
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this is how stanchions are put in place
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that's interesting i don't even know
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what they're not a traditional cone
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like a heavy-duty
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item that kind of i guess keeps traffic
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from going down over there to that other
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area
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take a look at those they almost have
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like a pallet jack to get them in place
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point six miles over the course field
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now where i just was at the ball arena
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probably another i don't know half mile
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quarter of a mile over to where the
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where they were doing the watch party
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still on a quest to find a drink this
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states this this bridge was built back
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in 1907 by the pennsylvania steel
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company
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out of steelton
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pa could have been a railroad bridge at
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one point could have the tracks
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going across here
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i don't know if it's wide enough for
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automobile i guess back in 1907 you
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could have got two automobiles
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across either side of this possibly
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hello sir hey i'm sorry on the other
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side that's okay
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there's another one right here hardware
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store
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oh advertisement on the side of this one
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seeing all these scooters reminds me i
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have mine in the back of my car so i
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think i'm gonna go get a
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soda or a water or something to hydrate
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myself and then
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relax for a bit get the scooter out of
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my car and maybe cruise back over there
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right before
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the 6 p.m
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you know beginning
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of the hockey match
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definitely a very impressive building
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right there
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looking down this avenue
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into downtown
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17th street
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and i'm getting myself not only a water
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dasani salt filled the sauna but also a
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sprite
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just to
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whip my whistle okay went back to my car
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sat down for a bit and got my scooter
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so i wrote it back over here
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heading back up to see what's happening
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this guy's got on his bike i wouldn't
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have ever taken that in any sweet slides
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and there seems to be quite a few more
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people down here milling around there
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was about an hour or so ago everyone's
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heading in well everyone that has
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tickets everyone that's not at the watch
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party is now heading in and i'm going to
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be leaving soon to
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head over to coors field i did meet two
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people wearing lightning jerseys and
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they asked me to take a photo they said
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we know that you will take a good
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picture and not throw our phone across
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the little area here so i did and it
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looks like over here at brooklyn's
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they're having a watch party everyone's
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getting their drink on before heading
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now this is my own i bought this one a
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while back but take a look at this all
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these scooters that are over here there
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are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
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of these there is now a storm
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incoming weight is coming in coming in
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hot
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standing under this little awning here
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right here where it says take your pet
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to a designated
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i'm just going to stand here until maybe
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this passes
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all right it's now time for san diego
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padres at
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force field against the colorado rockies
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i'm going to go over this little ramp
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going over the road to head at gate e i
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believe it is all right chalk this up to
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another stadium to mark off my list i've
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never been to this one before kind of
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wish the rays were playing but you know
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i could not pass up pop it in here while
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i'm and there's also bobblehead giveaway
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night here we are enjoy the game thank
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you
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there we go a little bobble head usually
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what i do when it's an away team
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i'm not rooting for anyone
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i usually just give it to someone so
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i'll probably just give it to whoever
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i'm sitting and they can have two
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because i don't really have any need for
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this i just want to watch a baseball
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game but unless it's like a raised
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bobble head i don't really keep them
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it's just something i do oh this is last
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year's bobble head from the all-star
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game was here
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oh they're giving away last year's
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bobble head that's interesting this had
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some left over
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this is pretty interesting there's a
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little forest back here in center field
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i did not realize i thought we're
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familiar with the stadium i did not
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realize they had a forest out here and
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that little forest over there is right
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by the bullpens imagine being a pitcher
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like warming up maybe a relief pitcher
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or something warming up down here and
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then having the the beautiful force and
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this is pretty neat out here in the
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outfield out in close to right field
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they have speed pitch where you can
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compete against others to see how fast
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see how fast you throw it i also have
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the home run challenge except the home
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run challenge
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completely out of order
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i would have tried the home run
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challenge i would have failed miserably
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but yeah i was wondering why there was
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no line for the home run challenge
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because i don't worry i'm not going to
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buy any merchandise but look at some of
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the rockies merch they have here some of
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the hats and t-shirts
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caps and whatnot
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and their mascot is a dinosaur
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maybe i'll see the dinosaur walking
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around
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walking around tonight they even have
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gloves down they're gonna need gloves
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today
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they do have gloves and i kind of wonder
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tropicana field allows cowbells in i
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know cowbell max buddy of mine there's a
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lot of raised games he's always banging
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on the cowbell with one of these kind of
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miniature
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bats right here i see the bats but i
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don't see any cowbells i know every
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stadium is a little bit different most
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frowned upon cowbells but the trout they
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love
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and because i have not eaten today yet
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either trying to decide on what kind of
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food i want
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wow there's a lot of screaming and
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yelling
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nachos supreme super dogs
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where's all that yelling from what's
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happening
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i think all that yellow is coming up
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from the upper level so it's coming from
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the level above where i'm at
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i am sitting on the third base side also
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behind the visitor dugout and the
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visitors today would be
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the padres there's a car up here that
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has a cr on it stands for colorado
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rockies and on top of the vehicle itself
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is like a mountain bike that's pretty
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neat maybe they're giving this away it's
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toyota
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emblem there on the side
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either they're giving it away or they
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just want people to know that this
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exists a lot of eyes that roll through
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here see that and i was kind of
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expecting no one to really be here
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because the hockey games the you know
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the
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stanley cup score on right now but this
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place is definitely a lot of people here
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a lot more than i thought all right i've
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decided to go with the carnito
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nachos
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also no cashier credit cards only and
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this is what we're dealing with the
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carnitas nachos
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i asked for a fork so they told me the
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forks out the other end so i grabbed a
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fork there on the counter it's got the
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meat on there it's got a little bit of
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salsa some cheese and some nachos i'm
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gonna start off
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i'm gonna start off with this and
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probably get a we get a hot dog
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at some point yeah i do love some
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ballparks snacks and food and nachos i
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enjoy
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me some notes all right just preparing
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for everything to get underway
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spraying down the infield there spraying
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down the diamond make sure none of that
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dust can get kicked back up and the ball
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hits it
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the infielders
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also there's the mascot his name is
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dinger i'm gonna hit a dinger
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all right so university of nebraska is
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down here a little red
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he's the inflatable guy to stand in
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there and he got dinger walking by
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as well so
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maybe one of them is going to throw out
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the first pitch but they are recognizing
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them and little red is just gyrating
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around very very excited little red's
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the one in the middle very tall he's
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like
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very taller than all the other
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cheerleaders and dinger's all ready to
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catch the catch the first pitch when it
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finally happens also they're bringing in
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this little this item here is what they
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put down they spray paint around it for
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the batter's box and now it's time for
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first pitch 7 10 p.m
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i am sitting in row 14 10 rows back
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behind visitors dug out
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first row is row 5 but i'm in 14 so 10
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rows back
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not bad right here on the third base
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line
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and i have no stake in the guy i'm not
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rooting for either team so i'm just
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gonna enjoy the evening
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says hey i'm wearing a raised cap i want
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to see how the team's doing
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the rays
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have won today against baltimore seven
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to six
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see it right over there on the top of
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the scoreboard
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and i was asking the guy next to me goes
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to a lot of games sitting in the seat
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next to me what that purple stripe was
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across the seats way up there in the
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upper upper deck he's saying that's
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exactly one mile above sea level 5
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280 feet above sea level
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that's pretty neat it says they call it
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the mile high city well they don't call
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it the mile city for nothing
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this stadium is one mile
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above sea level
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it is kind of neat how they use that
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forest as the batter's eye
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right there in center field instead of
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just a blank spot they got the green
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trees which actually acts as a batters
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on
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padres just scored oh
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safe at third too
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the action pack all right this bottom of
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the fourth inning i've decided to go
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ahead and leave
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yeah i just didn't feel like sticking
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around for the rest of the game i'll
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kind of explain a little bit i mean i
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wasn't really there for any other reason
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so maybe to eat some snacks and you know
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watch one of my favorite games
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but just kind of got a bad taste in my
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mouth so believe it not from the food
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the food was the nachos are good
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this is a little tripod thing i've used
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for many years sometimes i use it with
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with my canon g7x sometimes i won't you
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can see it's only about the size of my
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hand it's not like a selfie stick or
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anything and certain stadiums like
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tropicana field sometimes you can get in
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with them sometimes there depends on
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who's checking with a checkpoint and if
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it's good it's bad
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it just really depends on
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you know luck of the draw getting up
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there sometimes you gotta put them back
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in the car when i went through
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the checkpoint over here
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they didn't have any problem with this
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oh it's totally fine so i took it up to
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my seat
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and then
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uh usher came up to me
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and he wasn't exactly very pleasant
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about it and in a very i would say
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non-pleasant or very rude tone
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showed me
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some kind of rule book that he had and
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it said no selfie sticks he said if i do
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not take this off of my camera i would
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be ejected from the game
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i don't know if someone a few rows
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behind me
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was complaining or what it was he said
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that someone someone
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behind me at some point was complaining
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about a selfie stick even though really
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i just use it
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to hold the bottom of my camera like
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this
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i never really like hold it like this
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and it doesn't extend so i guess
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technically it's not a selfie stick i
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didn't argue with him or anything but he
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was really not
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he was not very happy
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that he had to deliver you know the way
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he delivered the news is not in a happy
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time which was kind of confusing to me
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so from now on i just want to take this
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item in because you know i figured it's
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probably easier not to have this on the
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camera it's interesting because they
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sell those bats that are like two three
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times the length of this people have
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gloves that are twice as tall as this
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and i don't even extend it up i just
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kind of hold it like that
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i think it was just the really
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condescending tone and the
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they will you'll be ejected if you do
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not follow the rules even though i said
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yeah i'll just i'll unscrew it it's no
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big deal
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just kind of weird and you know the only
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reason i was here is just
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to kind of see a new stadium and
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enjoy a good night of baseball but
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yeah i'm leaving uh it looks like the
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avalanche just scored there's another
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watch party up here you hear everyone
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cheering it's like a lot of people up
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here around the corner now look at how
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many people are over here at this watch
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party there's a lot of people in here
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this has definitely been a kind of a
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bizarre different type of day for me
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it's just like
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i've just been it's just been a weird
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day you know a lot of ways it's like you
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have those days where it's just kind of
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a little bit different and you can't put
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your finger on it this is
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one of those guys i think what i learned
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today big the foot
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is i will just only from now on take my
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camera and i will not take the
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additional
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little
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selfie holdy thing that i use the
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manfrotto
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and
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i won't go to any more any more stadiums
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unless the rays are playing i
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contemplated not going but then i
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thought you know i'm already here why
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not go
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and i wasn't really 100 on the
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on board with the idea but i went with
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it
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and you should always go with your first
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instinct well my first instinct was not
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to go to the stadium
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just because the rays weren't playing
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and i didn't really know who to root for
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or just
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so i got good seats i think i paid 70 80
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for the seats i had
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up front good seats behind the dugout
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but from now on just go to race race
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race games and
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only take the camera no additional
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little holder on the side of it i won't
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even take my chances anymore
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that's gonna do it for today i'll see
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you in the next video the vlog
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is over yeah i really see yeah
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that thing really is obstructing the
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view there big time