A Day In Downtown Detroit - Comerica Park Ferris Wheel/ Deep Dish Little Caesars Pizza & Tim Hortons
Detroit Summer 2023
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here as the recording of this it
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is Friday August 4th about 4 P.M
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4 P.M on the 4th of August I am in the
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parking lot across from a place called
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Tubby's
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in an establishment
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known as Jim's starting the video here
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getting around the Greater Detroit area
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TGIF on a Friday
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as this moment as a recording of This
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probably not the best idea traffic is a
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little intense I am heading downtown
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but not before being properly
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caffeinated by a little Tim Hortons dare
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I say one of my favorite coffees mild
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coffee I like Joffrey's I like Duncan
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I have got acclimated to the bitter
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taste of Starbucks but let me tell you
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I am so happy I do have the K-Cups of
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these that I'm making my Keurig when I'm
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home which very rarely ever happens when
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I make up on the road more than I'm home
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but it has been a long time since I held
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a real cup through a drive-through of
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Tim Horton's Coffee cheers
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oh that's so good I'm wearing an
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appropriate hat I'm wearing an
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appropriate water Franco shirt
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because the rays are going up to against
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the Detroit Tigers today the first game
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of a three-game series this will be the
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only most likely will be the only game
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of that series I go to even though I'm
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going to be in town throughout the
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weekend I want to do other stuff but I
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have to knock out I believe is my 16th
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Stadium
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in the MLB I'm more than halfway through
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all the 30 while rooting for the Rays
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only counting stadiums win the Rays are
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playing if that makes sense this is
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number 16. I'm inviting you
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I'm also going to do some stuff around
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downtown depending on how traffic is and
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win first pitch is I should get there on
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a time and parked to see some other
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stuff join me
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Superman's over there by the way shall
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you yeah
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it says make a line down the sidewalk
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down Wilson if it's really busy take a
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look right here there's Superman right
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inside
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there's got the pay phone right there
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it's got the the suit always wearing the
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purple breastplate there
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doesn't really look like Clark Kent so
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much but got the telephone booth every
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time I see a telephone booth I always
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think of Superman
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those are not his shoes those are my
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shoes down there making me the
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reflection right here
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yeah gems you look across right next to
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gyms a place called Tubby's steak and
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cheese there's a guy up there holding a
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huge
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cheese steak
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oh you can't really see it because it's
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kind of silhouetted out hold of that big
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old piece of bread with the steak in
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between it now I am not in the mood for
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ice cream yet or a steak I'll probably
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get something at the stadium
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once I get over there or downtown now as
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I'm heading downtown a couple miles from
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where I just was
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this road is eight mile
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now I'm just going to assume something
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I do know some of Eminem songs I know
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the movie Eight Mile
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and I would imagine that that is based
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on this road or at least given the name
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because this is a
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a road here in Detroit Eight Mile
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when I saw the sign
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I thought that reminds me of the Eminem
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movie
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eight mile
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all right I digress heading downtown
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ready to turn off and get on the freeway
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going under
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this underpass over here with a soft
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cloth car wash place over there American
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Jewelry and Loan
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got the diamond up top just seeing some
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sights my way to the stadium the church
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kind of looks like a castle
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right there
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nice yeah I probably should have planned
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it out a little better where I wasn't
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driving to downtown
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in rush hour
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it is what it is oh I got the skyline
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here about this exit and then the big
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building that says Motor City
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nice all right an even better view of
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the Detroit skyline
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take a look at that
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heading downtown yeah it has been a long
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time since I've been in Detroit a decade
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Maybe
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eight nine years was here with a band on
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tour
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don't remember the name of the punk rock
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venue we played but
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that was the last time I passed through
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this neck of the woods
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a lot of old buildings like that very
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fantastic looking church right there
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right on the corner with the green
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steeple or at least the green Clock
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Tower not Clock Tower but Bell Tower
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it's a relative
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old signs ghost signs on the top like
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Hotel Park Ave
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Town Pump Tavern eat drink and have a
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good time
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got some parking over here next to the
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freeway
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five dollars
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district Detroit
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right there credit card only 25 dollars
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a couple blocks from the stadium
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a lot of other people are doing the same
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thing I did first pitches is 640 it's
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507 right now stadium is just right over
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there I'm kind of looking at a general
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layout of the land for this neighborhood
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for downtown got two big bats out front
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and even got some tigers up there kind
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of looming down there's like one there
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there's two up there there's another one
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right there there's even like tiger
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heads all across the front of the Tiger
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Stadium now called Comerica Park take a
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look over there that's like the Party
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Wagon right there it's like
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self-propelled while people are fueling
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up their innards with some adult
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beverages right in front of this very
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ornate classic church it was like just
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big churches down here everywhere very
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classic architecture these old theaters
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are great too got the Fillmore and then
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you got the fox down there with the
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classic Marquees and even on top of the
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fox building is that big antenna with a
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little star up top and the flag going by
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that says Fox it's like a big neon star
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foreign
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just getting another little view here of
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this church just a beautiful church it's
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the central United Methodist we're
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steeple right there and it appears that
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on the corner over there they have like
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a little ledge almost like they rented
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out kind of like how Wrigley Field in
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Chicago you could get on top of the
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apartments and the rooftops so you can
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almost sit up there at the church and
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look down into the stadium all right I
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paid 25 or 15 more I could have parked
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right here closest proximity
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to the stadium
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well I guess that would be closest
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proximity to the stadium
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so 25 is not too bad 40 I mean I've paid
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more I definitely paid more so forty
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dollars if you want to be right next to
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the stadium and they got these little
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stanchions up you cannot drive any
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farther than right there and so close to
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the Canada Line you got the Canadian
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flag up there and then right over here
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this kind of reminds me of New York City
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where they have the steam coming up from
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oh they've got this like pipe coming out
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of the ground there's also a karate
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chain practicing over there as the steam
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is being emitted up into the air over
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the top of this well not over the top
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from this perspective was like but
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there's a karate team right in front
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where all the tigers are hey I have made
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it in already kind of digging the vibe
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in here like the the layout of it and I
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like all the little Throwbacks that they
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have some of the newer items some of the
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Throwbacks as you kind of wander through
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the stadium itself looking out across
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the field and it's going to be it's
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going to be a good time this is like
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this is also like I said it's the only
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game of the three-game series that I'm
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going to but it's also the only night
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game it's the only game that's going to
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be well at least late afternoon the
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other two I believe are like noon or 1
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pm so this would be the only one where
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it won't be in the blistering Sun during
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the day which I can't it's gonna be
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pretty nice always good to go to a nice
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open-air night game prop it's not open
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air because it's in a dome so it's gonna
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be a lot of fun good to be here in
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Detroit now over through this little
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Courtyard are some topiary baseball
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figures and look at this there is a
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ferris a freaking Ferris wheel up there
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I can see it just gonna walk over here
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maybe I get a a better view
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now I have a thing where I have to ride
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every Ferris whale I see or at least at
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least if there's like if it's a fair and
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there's three or four Ferris wheels at
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least go on one I have never been on a
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ferris wheel at and inside the MLB
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baseball stadium before
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oh you know I'm doing this you know
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you know I'm doing this and one thing
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that's really awesome it's over here in
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this picnic area it is only two dollars
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per ride cashless but only two bucks per
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ride oh this is like a dream I could get
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inside of a baseball and circle around
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like a big octopus that has like you
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know double the arms an octopus has and
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see I might be able to see get a good
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view of the skyline I don't know if you
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can see out the other side I'm gonna pay
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my two dollars and it opens from the
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gates open until game ends I am way more
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excited about this than a human should
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be
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but I love baseball and I love Ferris
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wheels and I love attractions for real
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goodness gracious sign me up
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I've never seen anything like this
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before in a baseball stadium MLB
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baseball stadium I can see this like
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maybe like a minor league part to get
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people in there
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well done Troy Tigers well done
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yeah sometimes when you're at a fair
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they will not let you ride single Rider
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but here you can ride single Rider
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I am at an MLB stadium riding a freaking
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ferris wheel
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how cool is this it's rocking just a
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little bit I feel like I'm an affair I'm
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in a state fair or a carnival of some
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sort I'm getting ready to watch a
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baseball game a good way to watch the
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race Let's Take on the Detroit Tigers my
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16th Stadium seeing the Tampa Bay Rays
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who are currently in second place in the
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AL East two games behind Baltimore
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Baltimore is crushing it Yankees are in
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last place who knew but this season
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would bring Ohana still a little bit of
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a ways to go there's already talk about
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the postseason look at this see the BBQ
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smoke going up
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this is the mechanism here
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oh man
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this made my day I mean the gang made my
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day this double made my day I just gotta
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find a nice delicious treat go Savory
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treat
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look at this you can see the reflection
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beautiful and
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props to the Detroit Tigers field for
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only charging two dollars they're like
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where's my two dollars it went to the
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cashier down below cashless though so
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you have to swipe your credit card for
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two bucks which honestly probably more
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fees on the two dollars swiping but I'm
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not complaining which is kind of
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interesting they don't accept cash most
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places don't accept cash anymore
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look at this
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this
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what do you know
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there's little footballs these Ventura
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Club but they're little baseballs
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easily amused obviously
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happy here
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cracks I guess I could go over the gates
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looking at the line there's a hot fries
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over there they got pizza now when you
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get on a ferris wheel it takes a couple
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minutes before it completely goes around
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they usually will go up one they'll let
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the last person off let the other person
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on
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and it should be cycling all right there
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it goes it's going pretty soon most
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likely it's gonna continue around and
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start to do a couple loops but if you
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look behind me look at that on that bad
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I think it's actually going now I think
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it's going like full circle now I think
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it's going around
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we got
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nice Falls right there going around
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all right it's going into full
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fully armed and up up operational Ferris
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wheel baseball
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so good
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every ballpark should have one of those
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there's also a carousel when I walked in
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as well but it was not running this is
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running they're cooking some BBQ over
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there next to this fountain that has
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another baseball on it look at this
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baseball Fountain and then the nectar of
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goodness when it comes to BBQ is
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happening right over here everywhere you
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look there are tigers even piggy Tigers
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all right the gang begins first pitch
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also I just learned that Usher was
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telling me that
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little Caesar started here in Detroit
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and they have
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a deep dish Detroit style so I will be
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getting that for my meal
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much like that in the first inning
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sit down yeah there are people all the
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way up on that building
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and now it's a pretty cushionable lead
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in the bottom of the second I'm gonna go
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get some little seeds yeah I had no idea
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Little Caesars began and it's owned and
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operated here in Detroit and they have
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their own they have their own Detroit
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deep dish style I think I'm gonna get
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myself a super sliced Detroit style deep
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dish pepperoni
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7.49 we've got a calorie count on this
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was 770 or 780 calories and which is
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kind of funny a bag of peanuts is like
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1200 calories I also realized I was
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actually sitting in section 123 and I'm
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supposed to be in 124 so I need to move
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over one section just his head said yes
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you were one section over so I'm gonna
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go over here to 124. I was in 123.
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didn't realize I was just you know a few
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feet over from where I needed to be
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technically I'm going to be 124.
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ball down the Third Base Line
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super slice deep deep dish Detroit style
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I love it I'll watch this down with an
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Aquafina sure water perfect taste
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this is what we're dealing with right
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here yeah it went kind of like a win in
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row moment so oh it's a wild fish
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looks like that
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we have cheese and they have pepperoni
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and cheese but look how thick this is
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it's pretty sick
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that is a thick chunk of pizza pie
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you know it's been so long since I had
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little seizures I don't know if they're
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all like us or maybe it's just Detroit
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style they're marketing it as Detroit
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and it is cheesy hot dog for me it's a
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pizza day
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I mean I thought it would be more than
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700 calories but that's what the sign
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said either way
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cheers Pizza
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thin slice but it's kind of fun to have
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something that's localized
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got a guy on second and on first he's
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looking at the standings as of right now
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this game's not over yet but Tampa Bay
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is two games behind Baltimore
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Central the American League Detroit this
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third place seven games back behind the
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leader up to the plate now for the
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Tigers he has his Milestones after the
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Mickey Milestones
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508 home runs at
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3138 deaths that's very impressive
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and I'm hearing rumor some of the locals
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that they gave that I were saying this
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might be this last season so
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it's hard to do in the way because I
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gotta do something we're down 7-0 yeah
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he's got another one
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eight to zero that was into the eighth
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now decided to leave my seat come up
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here way up here to the upper deck
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Curtis mead just got called up for the
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race he got his first MLB hit there he
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is over at first base
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first major league hit
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got a single out of it three outs left
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and the Rays got this one again this is
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my 16th stadium that I've been to while
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the rays are playing
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number 16 of course Tropicana Field the
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number one on the west coast their home
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stadium and then 15 others so 16 MLB
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stadiums I've been to while rooting for
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the race I'm on my way to 30 but it's
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going to take to the middle of next year
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to accomplish that
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just based on scheduling
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one more out
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everybody's about to get this W that
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Armstrong on the mound from the bullpen
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about to deliver the third strike right
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here
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really a perfect night for baseball I
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mean obviously the race one so that
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helps a little bit but the weather was
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great even when it was still daylight
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out I was sitting on the side where
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there was no sun that was pretty nice
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and now Nightfall was reared his head
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and it's just nice cool and crisp out
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here it's great and from here you can
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see the Fox Theater over there all
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illuminated you can also see the
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Huntington building and you can see the
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Little Caesars building yeah take a look
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at that Little Caesars World
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Headquarters pizza pizza I've got the
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fireworks going on look at that
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fireworks I'm hunting there in center
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field
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tigers
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I was on a grand finale right off the
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bat
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holy cow
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what's going on in there
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what the heck just send them all off at
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one time one thing I kind of wish the
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Detroit stadium would have was tours but
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they do not do tours anymore for at
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least while I was here they did not have
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any active tours like a lot of stadiums
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they'll do chores but Comerica Park does
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not do tours so there were no tours of
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the stadium itself I did not get to do a
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chore some of the stadiums that I've
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been going to on my I want to go to each
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and every one I try to I've been trying
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to do the tours like to remember to do
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the chores but I called earlier and they
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don't do chores here
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then again Tropicana Field where the
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Rays play you don't do chores either so
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I guess not every place does a tour
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well that's going to do it for today
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I had some Little Caesars Pizza I had
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some Tim Hortons coffee my belly and my
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taste buds are fulfilled and I watch the
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Rays win which is pretty dang getting
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that W which is pretty good on the road
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which is always even better I'll see you
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in the next video
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the Vlog
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is over
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there goes
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the q line
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apparently
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also interesting how there's a Canadian
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flag
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so that's probably why
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technically on U.S soil
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not Canadians