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A few nights ago I had the pleasure of watching my St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League Championship*, which means we're going to the World Series**! This weekend, the Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers, which means we're getting a rematch of the 2004 World Series. I am looking forward to our avenging the 2004 World Series loss and putting the Sox down. Payback time, baby. But I'll set aside my hostilities for but a brief interlude:
On another one of my many work trips this year, I traveled to Boston and actually had an opportunity to see a game at the venerable Fenway Park (or Fenway Pahhk). I don't know what exactly I was expecting it to be like, but I think going in, I wasn't expecting it to be very nice, since I knew it was also rather old.
My experience was diametrically opposite of my expectations. Fenway Park was really really nice. It was far smaller of a park than I expected, and I'd hazard a guess that it's one of the smallest of the 30 major league stadiums. But small in this case translates to an unexpected benefit: even the cheap seats felt very close to the action. The park had apparently recently undergone some renovations; whatever they did paid off, and I really enjoyed my experience.
The Red Sox, as far as I'm concerned, can go pound sand. But their stadium richly deserves its hallowed reputation. Here are a few photos I took during my visit.
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| Like I said: no bad seats |
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| Fenway Franks guy*** |
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| I came away from Fenway an admirer of the stadium. Utterly wonderful Temple of Baseball. |
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*Woooooo!!
**Woooooo!!
***Upon showing Sharon this photo of the hot dog guy, she exclaimed, "Yeah, that's totally a shot you would make."
***WOOOOOO!!!
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