I'm not a baseball park expert, but I have been to 4 major league parks and I have to say, Fenway Park is painful. I believe a cabal of chiropractors has been preventing a modern park from being built in Boston. They talk up the historic nature of the place and convince people that singing "Sweet Caroline" has anything to do with Boston. This way, all the people that sit in the grandstand, twisted and bent by the impossibly cramped seats, will spend months recuperating at the hands of the very same chiropractors.
I went to Fenway many times as a kid in junior high and high school. I remember how much worse it was then (piss trench, anyone?) and I do love the spirit of the fans that filled the park tonight. But my back is mad at me and is going to make me pay. I'm not even six feet tall and my knees bump against the row in front of me in a $60 grandstand seat.
When I get back to Maryland I'll have two high quality parks to choose between (Camden Yards and Nats Park). Sure, you only see really rabid fans at these parks when the Phillies are in town (or the Mets. Or the Dodgers, ffs), but at least the hometown fans in DC and Baltimore can be drowned out by "Let's go Phillies" in relative comfort.
Boston, you're a great sports loving city and you deserve a modern ballpark. You can have nostalgia (memories that evoke wistful emotional pain) for the famous days gone by at Fenway, or you can keep the park and have physical pain.
As for me, if I can't afford at least Loge seats, I won't be going to Fenway Park. I know Boston won't miss me, but at least I'll be able to stand up straight after the game.
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