I went there this summer with some of my family members and it's really a cool little place, with all the Red Sox fans there of course. It was the only game in the July series that they lost there, but it was still a really good time. Besides the guy next to me who, when the crowd said "let's go sox" would say "they suck" RIGHT next to my three year old step(?)- cousin, but that's another subject.
Bill Simmons is an okay read. He's one of those sometimes funny, sometimes not so funny type of reads. I haven't read any of his stuff lately because basketball doesn't interest me all that much, but oh well.