Christmas at Fenway

[a700hitter]

I as lucky enough to get selected for the Christmas at Fenway event for this Saturday. I am in the first group so I will get first crack at the tickets. This will be the second time for me. They do a really great job. They keep things moving. They have grab bags, tours, Q&A sessions, etc. WEEI will be broadcasting from the EMC Club that day. Here's the itinerary from the email:

 

* At 9:30 a.m., Red Sox President & CEO Larry Lucchino will welcome

everyone... and he won't come empty handed. He will be giving away prizes to 10

lucky members of the crowd, so be sure to get their early to save your seat!

* A randomly selected member of the 10 a.m. group will win a viewing of

batting practice from the field before a game in 2012! We will call this winner

at approximately 10:30 a.m.

* At 11 a.m., WEEI will broadcast from the EMC stage a roundtable with Red Sox

executives Larry Lucchino, Sam Kennedy, and Ben Cherington.

* Fans throughout the day will have the opportunity to take some swings in the

visitors batting cages after you purchase your tickets!

* Check out some of Fenway Park's oldest artifacts in the historical artifact

display set up in the State Street Pavilion Club.

* Visit the Great Fenway Park Yard Sale!

* We will even have free coffee for you.

 

I will probably buy the maximum amount of tickets that they allow, which is usually 2 Game PAX (4 games) 4 tickets each and 16 single game tickets, but only for certain selected games-- usually April, early May and September.

 

They also make available certain seats that are not available to the general public, i.e. the EMC Pavilion Club seats. They are awesome seats, but they were $165 each a couple of years ago. You get access to the restaurant and the bars with those tickets. I am reluctant to purchase them, because they are expensive and I don't know my schedule that far in advance. If i can't use them they are hard to sell. I wouldn't look to make a profit on them- just get the face value. If anyone thinks they might be willing to take some of them off my hands during the season, I might be more apt to purchase some of those seats. Post in this thread if you think you would have any interest.

[Nerak0621]

I am in group 3 and not happy...I want to be there at 9:30 to get free stuff! PICK ME PICK ME!!! LOL

 

Really though, I am excited to be going!! I can't wait!!!

[a700hitter]

Almost every year by the time this event rolls around, the Sox have some new acquisition that has the fans all excited. This year not only do we not have an acquisition, but we lost a star- Papelbon right on the heels of a collapse. I expect the Sox staff will be extra friendly at this event.

[jibkid88]

I got one email saying I could show up at 8am, and another telling me that I was chosen to go to the auction but couldn't arrive until 4. Are these two seperate events or dies my getting chosen for Christmas at Fenway 2011 mean I get to have first crack at tickets because I can get in at 8 and then at 10 they are available? Thanks for the help.

[seabeachfred]

Glad all you folks are happy and I hope you get the best share of tickets. Out here in Southern California they are celebrating Christmas early, especially my lovely wife Linda, my daughter Christine and my son-in-law Scott----his brothers and their wives, children and their parents. Something like 24-1 and I'm the 1. The only Red Sox fan in the whole caboodle. Think I'm celebrating too? This is for sh!t if you root for the Sox. The Angels have cleaned up and we're high and dry. Thanks for listening to my semi-rant. It's a crappy feeling right about now.

[a700hitter]

Glad all you folks are happy and I hope you get the best share of tickets. Out here in Southern California they are celebrating Christmas early' date=' especially my lovely wife Linda, my daughter Christine and my son-in-law Scott----his brothers and their wives, children and their parents. Something like 24-1 and I'm the 1. The only Red Sox fan in the whole caboodle. Think I'm celebrating too? This is for sh!t if you root for the Sox. The Angels have cleaned up and we're high and dry. Thanks for listening to my semi-rant. It's a crappy feeling right about now.[/quote']I can't abandon hope yet, although things don't seem to be headed in a good direction. Until this guy does something positive, it's hard for me to have faith in him. Up to this point he looks like a bumbling fool who can't convey a coherent thought.

[seabeachfred]

I can't abandon hope yet' date=' although things don't seem to be headed in a good direction. Until this guy does something positive, it's hard for me to have faith in him. Up to this point he looks like a bumbling fool who can't convey a coherent thought.[/quote']

 

You know 700, I love your location that you give BEHIND ENEMY LINES. Have you thought lately that behind enemy lines might be right in our own back yard.? It seems to me that our own people in the front office are sabotaging the Red Sox right in front of our own eyes.

[a700hitter]

You know 700' date=' I love your location that you give BEHIND ENEMY LINES. Have you thought lately that behind enemy lines might be right in our own back yard.? It seems to me that our own people in the front office are sabotaging the Red Sox right in front of our own eyes.[/quote']:lol: true, but they are not doing it deliberately. They are just misguided and a bit incompetent.

[TylerD]

Ugh I envy you Ill stay here in cold Canada, and pretend im at Fenway....... ya pathetic.

[Bellhorn04]

There are rumors that Bobby Jenks will be playing Santa.

 

The cash-strapped Sox brass need to get some value for their $12 million.

[XOSK]

I'm so incredibly jealous of anyone who is able to attend things like this! It would honestly be a dream come true. The day I'm actually standing at Fenway, Christmas or not, I will probably cry with happiness.

[seabeachfred]

XOSK---I've told this story before so I will make this short. After the Dodgers left Brooklyn I was a male without a team, sampling this or that team, usually the one with the same name of the team I was currently managing. On August 19th, 2000, I went to Fenway at the tag end of a baseball tour sponsored by Sports Travel, located in upstate New York. That day I fell in love with the Red Sox mainly because of Fenway Park. I now have a Red Sox baseball room, a 34 by 25 Fenway Park painting that hangs in my living room with my Angels fan wife indulging me, and for posterity, it has been planned that I will be interned in a Red Sox casket when the Good Lord calls me home.

 

My friend, I know exactly what you mean.

[mvp 78]

I went last year. It's an ok event. Cool for the location, but that's about it. The "yard sale" was alright especially if you like game used jerseys from AAAA players. Last year, we got tickets quicker by going home and going online due to the group we were in.

 

I just hope A700 wins the raffle for a signed Salty jersey.

 

It's definitely something to experience once.

[a700hitter]

I went last year. It's an ok event. Cool for the location, but that's about it. The "yard sale" was alright especially if you like game used jerseys from AAAA players. Last year, we got tickets quicker by going home and going online due to the group we were in.

 

I just hope A700 wins the raffle for a signed Salty jersey.

 

It's definitely something to experience once.

A Salty jersey? Talk about your AAAA players.

[onlybereaved]

I'm so incredibly jealous of anyone who is able to attend things like this! It would honestly be a dream come true. The day I'm actually standing at Fenway' date=' Christmas or not, I will probably cry with happiness.[/quote']

 

I literally teared up when I finally got to Fenway Park.

 

I then teared up further when I was allowed to take 3mls of dirt from home-plate to fill my vile which I intended for this purpose lol.

 

[seabeachfred]

I literally teared up when I finally got to Fenway Park.

 

I then teared up further when I was allowed to take 3mls of dirt from home-plate to fill my vile which I intended for this purpose lol.

 

 

I have a small container of Fenway dirt that was sent to me by the Red Sox Destinations people and I allow no one to touch it. Every time I turn the corner and head over the bridge and see Fenway Park I get the same feeling you do. I know it's silly for an old war horse like me to getting all teary but the ballpark has that effect on me. I hope they never tear it down.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Heyyy! I got two tickets to the Sox/Rays game at Fenway on Sunday, April 15th. Anyone else grab any tickets to this game? We're sitting in the RF roof deck.

[XOSK]

I literally teared up when I finally got to Fenway Park.

 

I then teared up further when I was allowed to take 3mls of dirt from home-plate to fill my vile which I intended for this purpose lol.

 

 

That's incredible. It's so hard to explain the passion behind all of my love for the Red Sox and Fenway Park to the people I know - baseball isn't big enough in Australia and is nothing close to comparable to the Majors. It makes me feel like a little less of an outcast to know others have tested up/will tear up when they get to Fenway.

 

I hope I'll be able to do something similar to that, at some stage in my life... Numerous times haha.

[YAZMAN]

Anybody else get selected this year? I got in the 1pm group. Last time I got picked was '07, my son was only 3 so I took my godson who was 7. Nice pic with the '04 and '07 trophies. This year will be even better with my boy and the 3 trophies.

 

3 Pax of 4 tickets allowed, I'm going to try to get loge seats....48 time a buck change...you only go around once....

[Behindenemylines]

I thought Christmas at Fenway happened in the end of October with the third title in ten years.

[seabeachfred]

I thought Christmas at Fenway happened in the end of October with the third title in ten years.

 

Let me fall in line behind you on that BEL. If I had a Christmas wish asked of me around March or April I would have said a Red Sox World Series Title, and I would have been happy with that, even though at that time it looked it would be a pipe dream. At any rate my wife always gets me Red Sox stuff for Christmas. I actually hope someday some of my friends here tell me they're going to visit So. Cal do I can invite them to my house and show them my Red Sox room. It's my pride and joy. And BTW----Remember when the Sox ended that 86 year old curse that night in St. Louis back in '04? That was my 64th Birthday present.

[a700hitter]

Let me fall in line behind you on that BEL. If I had a Christmas wish asked of me around March or April I would have said a Red Sox World Series Title, and I would have been happy with that, even though at that time it looked it would be a pipe dream. At any rate my wife always gets me Red Sox stuff for Christmas. I actually hope someday some of my friends here tell me they're going to visit So. Cal do I can invite them to my house and show them my Red Sox room. It's my pride and joy. And BTW----Remember when the Sox ended that 86 year old curse that night in St. Louis back in '04? That was my 64th Birthday present.

You have a good birthday. My son has a good birthday too. On his 19th birthday, we attended the parade for the 2004 Champions and on his 28th birthday the Red Sox beat the Cards at Fenway for the Championship. My birthday is in January and the last memorable thing to happen on my birthday was the Colts winning Super Bowl V against the Cowboys on Jim O'Brien's last second field goal. That was pretty cool since Johnny Unitas was an idol of mine as a kid. He was tough as nails.