Fenway Park

by ABY on Jul 30, 2008 9:57 PM PDT

Fenway Park: Angels vs. Redsox

In 1946 the headline in the newspaper simply read “BULLSEYE!”

Ted Williams hit the longest home run in Fenway Park’s history, 502 feet. It is clearly marked in the stadium by a single red seat in a section of green ones in the right field stands. “Ted Williams knocks sense into Yankee fan”. Apparently, the New Yorker occupying that seat was not paying attention and it hit him on the head, rendering him unconscious! Lol. I’m sorry, a line drive foul of first base I can understand but 502 feet, you have a little more time to react!

I expected to be impressed with Fenway (it was another park on my list of must sees) by its history and venerability. I was not expecting to be swept away by the atmosphere…

On the other hand the next time those bawdy sawx fans come to SD and hassle me about how we don’t know how to support our own team I’ll give ‘em what for! Up and down, up and down all game long… it’s uncomfortable enough sitting in those midget seats (and I wasn’t in the originals, which are smaller still) without having to sit and stand every two minutes coz they can’t go 3 minutes without a beer in their hand. God knows how they lasted 86 years!!!

Unfortunately, we arrived late and almost missed our tour but we got a shortened version with tour guide Steve Meterparel. Ask for him personally, a more animated caricature of his own self you will never find, the stuff cartoons are made of - awesome!

I did discover a wonderful locals bar a little off the beaten track but not that far from the park called BUKOWSKI, after the writer (one of my faves). They have over 140 bizarre bottle and taps beers to choose from and a great looking kitchen.

Fenway Park

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I really liked the atmosphere

I will agree about the crappy small seats. We had a couple of ahem larger fans literally take up 5 “seats” in the right field bleachers when we went. The game was close to a sellout and there was a domino effect of people saying, “sorry you’re in my seat” and then having fingers go down the line till it was made clear that there were giant asses messing up the works. These were larger fans, but not so large that they deserved the ignominy of taking up 2 1/2 seats apiece.

by Dex on Jul 31, 2008 9:40 AM PDT reply actions

i love the Fens

there’s something nostalgic about seeing a game there. and if you’re over in the behind home plate section, you are literally ON TOP of the game. there’s a little walkway to loop around the park that is like 7 rows from the field. i could hear David Ortiz smack his hands together in his at bat.

the seats are awful. the fans are obnoxious. but there’s something special about pre-gaming at Game On and having them raffle off a free bar tab and tix to the game. we drank a $250 tab in the hopes we would get it for free.
we did not.

there’s something just magical about that place. granted, i have seen some amazing games there. a few gems:
1) 2004 Yankees-Sox regular season game: ARod gets beaned and talks some shit and starts a huge bench clearing brawl. epic game. billy mueller wins it with a walk off HR off Mo Rivera in the 11th.
2) 2007 ALDS Angels-Sox: Beckett CG Shutout of the Angels. Masterful pitching performance. 6 rows from the field. met alyssa milano and luis tiant at this game. nuff said.

just wish that tix weren’t so ungodly expensive and that games didnt last 6 hours.

ps you can’t beat Sweet Caroline in the middle of the 8th. everyone should experience it at least once in their lives.

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by justdave on Jul 31, 2008 10:06 AM PDT reply actions