The Red Sox / Fenway are beautiful

[wyo-sox]

Went to my first Fenway game last night. Wow, felt great. We have nice seats purchased for tomorrow night's Angels finale game, but thought what the heck... we're not in the neighborhood often. So we got some tickets last nights. Sat in the bleachers (sect. 42) three rows from the field.

 

Just wanted to remind everyone how great this team is. No not, this current group wearing the uniforms, but the Red Sox. Being there with first time eyes I was in awe of the place. I've been to a few other pro ball parks and nothing ever came close. While we are all disgusted in the performance this year we can take pride in the Sox anyway. "The Sox" are bigger than any one player or group of players, bigger than a win loss record one year. The history, tradition, pride, and general character of Boston are manifest in the character of Fenway... hard to put into words but it just really hit me last night how great the team and stadium are.

 

Sometimes after being married for more then a couple years I forget how beautiful my wife is since I'm around her everyday. I live next to the Big Horn Mountains, the first time I saw them my family pulled over on the interstate to take pictures and stood in awe of them.... I typically go through my day now without noticing the mountains in my back yard. How often we seem to forget how beautiful things are when we have been exposed to them over and over. I think the same can be said of the Sox.

 

So to all you Sox fans, take heart, your team is great. This years players who were privileged enough to wear the uniform and priveleged enough to be our players have stunk, no doubt... but the team is bigger then this year and bigger than them. I realize how cheesey this is but sometimes fresh eyes provide a good perspective. I've not been a fan long compared to most of you and just made my first Fenway game.... it's true being from Boston or being a life long fan gives most of you a better informed and deserved opinion of all things Sox, but from my fresh eyes it's a great team to be a fan of. This season will come and go but the Sox will still be the beautiful Sox.

 

If anyone is at tomorrow's game I will be wearing a blue hat with a red "B" on it.... feel to say hello:D

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

blue hat with a red "B", for sure I'll find you! I'm glad you had fun. I can't wait till I go to Fenway. I know the first time I go I'll shed a tear when I step foot in that stadium.

[Behindenemylines]

To paraphase a line from the movie Fever Pitch that I think says it best, you can love the Sox and sometimes they don't love you back. Fenway is the place that is the center of the baseball world. Glad you enjoyed the pilgrimage.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

To paraphase a line from the movie Fever Pitch that I think says it best, you can love the Sox and sometimes they don't love you back. Fenway is the place that is the center of the baseball world. Glad you enjoyed the pilgrimage.

 

"Careful kid they'll break your heart"

 

It's true.

[Thunder]

So wyo-sox, you were behind the bullpens? That's pretty cool. I've sat in much better places though. :harhar:

[jung]

Sox fans are used to having their hearts broken. This is different. This is being bent over a desk by a bunch of conniving carpetbaggers that don't deserve to be stewards of one of baseball's most cherished franchises.

 

Sure they have spent money...ya' gotta' spend money to make money. You can't convince me that they spent all this money in an effort to build a competent team because you could not have maniacally mismatched players this badly if you tried. They continue to pander to the "I want my superstars" crowd ignoring the "build me a winner" crowd. Granted it is much easier to simply go to the top of the FA market and grab whoever is there whether it makes sense or not and it is A WAY to keep people coming back to the park....just not the best way.

 

The other side of the "I want my superstars" coin is the number of chumps you end up seeing in your favorite home town uniforms because there is a limit to what they will spend. I give you Pods, Byrd, Punto, Sweeney, Aviles, Salty, Shop, Cook, Melancon and on and on and on.

 

On the field their biggest problem is the starting pitching....no question. But that only highlights how ill conceived this "team" is. The kinds of games this bunch can win has been narrowed down basically to slugfests where they are able to mash their way to a win. But they no longer even mash very well and can't do anything else offensively. Their pitching strategy is Buch and pray for rain...their offensive strategy has been get Pedey and Ortiz back to the plate as fast as possible and hope they do something....whoops....Ortiz is not even playing.

[ibot2much]

Of course people love the team, the name on the f front of the shirt --the history and all it has been for years. Too often people get caught up in hero worship of the name on the back of the shirt. Those guys come and go. The team stays.

[Behindenemylines]

That is why you root for the name on the front of the jersey and not the one on the back. Very few players play their whole career in one city any more. They change teams like we change our underwear. If a favorite player of mind ends up on another team I end up not rooting for them, and if they end up on the $pankees they are dead to me. Being a Red Sox fan builds character because nothing is easy.

[DocHolliday]

That is why you root for the name on the front of the jersey and not the one on the back. Very few players play their whole career in one city any more. They change teams like we change our underwear. If a favorite player of mind ends up on another team I end up not rooting for them, and if they end up on the $pankees they are dead to me. Being a Red Sox fan builds character because nothing is easy.

 

This has been one of the biggest character building years for me atleast. I'll admit that I was at a point where I was taking for granted the success the team was having when they were winning in the not so recent past. If there is a way to spin this turmoil in a positive way, atleast it has served to purge a large majority of the pink hats away, if even for a short amount of time.

 

Whenever the time comes that the Red Sox go on their next multi year run, it will be all the more rewarding for us fans who stood by them during these tough times. Like the OP and others on this thread have suggested, players come and go but the tradition and pride are forever. There is no doubt in my mind that greener pastures are ahead in the future. As fans, our passion and demand for success on the field WILL translate into winning baseball. It's clear that our demand has been lost in translation with this current group. This is why I fully expect change to come this offseason.

[jung]

This bunch apparently thinks we want bats and bricks and Pumtos' and Byrds'.

[wyo-sox]

So wyo-sox, you were behind the bullpens? That's pretty cool. I've sat in much better places though. :harhar:

 

I'm probably better looking though:D

[Youk Of The Nation]

Sox fans are used to having their hearts broken. This is different. This is being bent over a desk by a bunch of conniving carpetbaggers that don't deserve to be stewards of one of baseball's most cherished franchises.

 

Sure they have spent money...ya' gotta' spend money to make money. You can't convince me that they spent all this money in an effort to build a competent team because you could not have maniacally mismatched players this badly if you tried. They continue to pander to the "I want my superstars" crowd ignoring the "build me a winner" crowd. Granted it is much easier to simply go to the top of the FA market and grab whoever is there whether it makes sense or not and it is A WAY to keep people coming back to the park....just not the best way.

 

The other side of the "I want my superstars" coin is the number of chumps you end up seeing in your favorite home town uniforms because there is a limit to what they will spend. I give you Pods, Byrd, Punto, Sweeney, Aviles, Salty, Shop, Cook, Melancon and on and on and on.

 

On the field their biggest problem is the starting pitching....no question. But that only highlights how ill conceived this "team" is. The kinds of games this bunch can win has been narrowed down basically to slugfests where they are able to mash their way to a win. But they no longer even mash very well and can't do anything else offensively. Their pitching strategy is Buch and pray for rain...their offensive strategy has been get Pedey and Ortiz back to the plate as fast as possible and hope they do something....whoops....Ortiz is not even playing.

 

 

Scene: A child's fifth birthday party. An upbeat clown stands off to the side of the picnic table, handing out balloon animals and making funny faces. Aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins mingle together, sipping beer or soda and waiting for the burgers to finish. A giggling, deliriously happy child sits amidst a growing pile of brightly-colored wrapping paper, his smile widening with every small gift. In the backs of their minds, they know that life will sometimes throw despair at this child, but for now they let him bask in his innocence and realize the happiness and good inherent in being a child.

 

(suddenly, jung bursts through the gate in the picket fence, clutching a stack of papers, out of breath and with glasses and tie askew. Before he can be waylaid, he grabs the child from his perch on top of the pile of gifts, digs his hands into the collar of the boy's ice-cream stained shirt, and holds him at eye level)

 

jung: What are you doing, you fool!? Celebrating? Being happy about the good things and trying to enjoy them? THE WORLD IS GOING TO END! I have reams of data from the Large Hadron Collider! In less than five billion years our sun is going to expand suddenly and swallow the entire solar system in an instant, fiery conflagration! Everything humans have accomplished will be for naught! Josh Beckett is the anti-Christ!"

 

Child: Mommy, help! He's mean and he smells like three years of a four-year psychiatry degree!

 

jung:...and before the planet is swallowed up by the unforgiving vastness of the universe, long before, you will wither away and die, your last days riddled with senility and incontinence, unaware of the mockery your life has become! I DEMAND YOU STOP ENJOYING THINGS AND LISTEN TO ME EXPOUND ON THE ILLUSORY NATURE OF LIFE ITSELF! THERE IS NO ENJOYMENT TO BE HAD!

 

Mother: (frantically rifling through purse, screaming to her husband) Oh, God, Frank, I can't find the Taser, WHERE IS MY TASER?!

[SoxSport]

To paraphase a line from the movie Fever Pitch that I think says it best, you can love the Sox and sometimes they don't love you back. Fenway is the place that is the center of the baseball world. Glad you enjoyed the pilgrimage.

 

The line was originally penned by James Jones in his book "From Here to Eternity". In the successful movie of the 1950s based on the book about Army life in Schofield Barracks, Pearl Harbor, just before the 1941 attack, Pruitt, the bugler, played by Montgomery Clift, replying to a question about why he should love the Army that's treating him badly, says

"Just because you love something, it doesn't mean it has to love you back." One of the memorable lines in the novel and the movie.

[Designated Hater]

Glad you had a nice time at one of America's most uncomfortable and expensive baseball experiences.

 

Read "Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston" It will change your life and thinking about how great this team is. They were ass holes back then too.

[Thunder]

I'm probably better looking though:D

 

I'm at least 10-15 years younger than you.

[kapsis21]

Glad you had a nice time at one of America's most uncomfortable and expensive baseball experiences.

 

Read "Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston" It will change your life and thinking about how great this team is. They were ass holes back then too.

 

the reviews of that book are enough to warrant not to read it. 1 decent review, rest just say its a rant from Bryant nothing more.

 

but i have heard that places in Boston are still racist and its a complete opposite of that in NY.

[wyo-sox]

Sorry hater, my comfort was just fine. Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but I had a good time. I've been to several minor league venues, Twins games, and Reds games. I did nit find anything more expensive at Fenway.

 

This thread was started as a means to talk about something positive. Anyone that hates Fenway, the Sox, thinks Boston is an expensive racist town.... please start your own thread.

[kapsis21]

hope you are not talking to me?

[Youk Of The Nation]

Glad you had a nice time at one of America's most uncomfortable and expensive baseball experiences.

 

Read "Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston" It will change your life and thinking about how great this team is. They were ass holes back then too.

 

Is there any particular reason you even bother being a Red Sox fan?

[Thunder]

Is there any particular reason you even bother being a Red Sox fan?

 

Yeah, go on and join jacko.

[wyo-sox]

hope you are not talking to me?

 

Nope.

[wyo-sox]

Is there any particular reason you even bother being a Red Sox fan?

 

I'm pretty certain he is not a fan.

[mvp 78]

the reviews of that book are enough to warrant not to read it. 1 decent review, rest just say its a rant from Bryant nothing more.

 

but i have heard that places in Boston are still racist and its a complete opposite of that in NY.

 

There are racist people everywhere. Boston isn't more racist than anywhere else I've lived.

[kapsis21]

There are racist people everywhere. Boston isn't more racist than anywhere else I've lived.

 

i agree. i havent even visisted Boston so i cannot even comment on it.. actually shouldnt have even brought that up.

 

Dont know when i will go to Fenway, but I am going to kiss the turf if I can whenever I go there.

[Brennan]

Pull this thread back on the rails. I'm sure you had a great time Wyo and thanks for the reality check.

[kapsis21]

I am jealous of everybody who is on the East coast..

wyo-sox hope you had a wonderful time in Fenway!!

[wyo-sox]

Well that game last night vs. The Angels felt like it gave me all the highs and lows of being an old sox fan packed into one night. Sucks they lost, but not like I was not expecting it, fun game any how.

 

At the airport now waiting to board and leave Boston. Caught a Pats game, two red sox games, ate at a bunch of cool places, saw some cool historical places, took a million fun pictures, spent a fun afternoon at the beach and had an amazing time with my wife and no kids. Oh, and we rode the green line with Mark Melanconen last night, that was kinda cool. Over all great trip. Here's to the next trip when the Sox are back to winning. I'll post some pictures next week. Bostonians, enjoy your town.

[Designated Hater]

the reviews of that book are enough to warrant not to read it. 1 decent review, rest just say its a rant from Bryant nothing more.

 

but i have heard that places in Boston are still racist and its a complete opposite of that in NY.

 

A rant from Bryant? Who did the rest of the reviews, a bunch of drunks from Southie?

[wyo-sox]

OK, I have loaded some pictures from my Fenway trip. If anyone wants to see them go to my profile page and check them out. Enjoy!