"The City Connect Release is finally here", he says, as if he's been waiting months for it when it was only announced by the team 3 days ago.
Yes, it's time for Adam to pretend to be from Tampa Bay, or to care about the city of Tampa Bay, or to have some connection to Tampa Bay other than attending baseball games 5-6 times a year there, as he celebrates the City Connect merchandise release of the Tampa Bay Rays. As always, more excited about merch than baseball.
Adam then announces that, having driven to Tampa 4 whole times so far this year (3 Spring Training games and then Opening Day), that he's "really tired" of doing the drive over and back in one day. Traffic on I-4 is just getting worse and worse, he says, so going forward
he will get a hotel EVERY TIME. What a hardship. He then says it's 70 miles from his house to St. Pete, "give or take". Google maps says Celebration to the Trop is 88 miles, which seems more than "give or take".
He is doing the intro in front of a billboard for the City Connect promotion and you can tell he really loves it because it's totally skate punk themed (lol) and the people depicted on it have bad sharpie tattoos just like Adam. He calls out the tats of the local area codes like he lives there, "You got the 813 right there."
Add another redundant phrase to the list: "
complimentary free parking"
He loves this ad campaign because "
it really embraces the skate community here in town",
and we can all recall the many, many vlogs Adam has done where he's driven down to the Tampa/St. Pete area and delved deep into the local skate community, interviewing all the legends on the scene and getting tons of great footage.
Oh, you don't remember that? Maybe because he's never really mentioned the skate community of Tampa before?
Now it's time to go handle all the merch, pick it up and read it/describe it when we can all see it. He picks up a zippered jacket that is "really nice" with a price tag of $225. Too bad the Rays didn't do this before he went to Milwaukee, eh? Adam moves on the caps and gosh, he may have to slum it and buy snapback caps instead of his usual expensive Mr. Moneybags fitted caps because he likes the designs on the snapbacks so much. Ultimately he refuses the buy the snapback hats, only expensive fitted hats are good enough for Adam.
He says this material hat is a "throwback style, the material is like a wool, I guess"
I guess Adam is unfamiliar with corduroy
He ends up dropping $250 on the merch. He didn't get the jacket he thought was so amazing, because frankly he hates jackets as a rule. He will barely pack or wear a ratty hoodie when he's really forced to, let alone take care of or bring along a nicer jacket. And again, so much for the contingent of people over on the subreddit who think he might be running out of money...
BTW, while Adam is wearing a Rays cap to this event, Mr. Appropriate T-Shirt chose to wear his Ed Roth "Rat Fink" t-shirt and not a Rays t-shirt, which seems to me has more of a connection to car culture than skate culture, but whatever. Time for the guy who is so scared of I-4 traffic to check into his hotel and show us his $250 worth of merch, which amounts to 3 t-shirts and 2 hats. Yes, for $250. MLB laughs all the way to the bank with this guy, just like Disney does. I guess his favorite player is Yandy Diaz now, because the one shirt he got with a player name on it is Yandy.
We then get YET ANOTHER situation where Adam looks up info on his phone, and seemingly does not have the ability to read it off camera and summarize it to his audience. Although he did read it off camera, he MUST show it on his phone to the audience and scroll while (poorly) reading it all over again for the benefit (not) of his viewers.
Adam is then just beside himself that they use a quote from Ian MacKaye from Fugazi and his favorite, Minor Threat, about skateboarding. DJ Kitty could now be found kidnapping real cats and serving them as food at the concession stands and Adam would probably let it slide because they quoted the guy from Minor Threat.
Adam has nothing to do, he's just waiting for the big City Connect party to start so he can meet some players, eat some food, and probably buy more merch. So he takes a walk. Of course the old pier pilings are "stanchions"
He's right there when the party starts at 5pm and he finds some shade while he complains about the heat.
Adam very, very excited to get a picture with Zach Eflin, a guy who was with the Rays last year, is obviously with the Rays this year, and might be with the Rays next year, but then he's probably gone. Zach is just realizing this party is open to the public, including the unhomed. Thumbs up!
Adam meets the non-DJ Kitty mascot, Raymond, and I'm sure the poor person in the costume really appreciates Adam's whining about the heat. He then goes up to the booth about the Rays new stadium, and says "this is what the
supposed new stadium is going to look like" right in front of the guy manning the booth, lol. I guess Adam still isn't sure they're really building the stadium? Or that it will really look like the drawing?
Adam said "it was great to see DJ Kitty and Raymond together, rocking out" to the band. Really, he said it.
The attendance for this event seemed to be on par for a Thursday night home game for the Rays. There was so much going on, Adam lost interest and walked over to the water. He was distracted by this, which completely amazed him, kinda like mobile ordering
And then this guy shows up
Pete Fairbanks isn't sure what's scarier, his pitching so far this season or Adam's body odor. Thumbs up!
Adam then says, "I thought I was tall at 6'3", Pete must be 6'4" or 6'5"." If only there was some way to know, Adam, if only.
Adam returned to his hotel for just a bit, then after dark returned to the party to watch some skateboarding and the drone show, which was probably great looking but you'd have to find someone who documented it with a modern smartphone or a real camera because Adam's footage is hot fuzzy garbage. Here he manages to
not get himself
or the drones in focus, with the blank, serial-killer stare and the idiotic finger point to boot. Bravo!
PS: He mentioned getting a coffee. Unless I missed it, there was no mention of food. He documents the most trivial and inane things, but not what he ate at any point today? I guess we are just supposed to believe he didn't eat anything. I'm sure the Woovians do.