Take me out to the ballgame...
May. 1st, 2008 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariLast night I got to see my first Red Sox game in Fenway Park, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zfarcher, who kindly gave me his extra ticket. It was wicked awesome. We had pretty good seats - about halfway up the bleachers, to the right of the scoreboard. My only complaint, and it's a very minor one, is that it was colder than I would have liked. Since this was a somewhat spur-of-the-moment outing for me, I wasn't perfectly prepared. But I was only mildly uncomfortable, not physically miserable.
Watching a game from within the park is a completely different experience than watching it on TV. There's things you just don't see or even know about from a broadcast. Like the guys who run out to rake the brick dust. And the songs played for every player. Singing along to "Sweet Caroline". Jumping to your feet with the crowd when something exciting happens. Watching the ball fly over the field. It's so much fun.
I got lucky, too, and the game provided a complete Fenway experience. The game went scoreless for several innings, then quickly became a tie, which gave it delicious suspense. David Ortiz hit a home run. There were some dramatic catches made. Jonathan Papelbon was the closer. And then the Sox won. So cool.
zfarcher, who kindly gave me his extra ticket. It was wicked awesome. We had pretty good seats - about halfway up the bleachers, to the right of the scoreboard. My only complaint, and it's a very minor one, is that it was colder than I would have liked. Since this was a somewhat spur-of-the-moment outing for me, I wasn't perfectly prepared. But I was only mildly uncomfortable, not physically miserable.Watching a game from within the park is a completely different experience than watching it on TV. There's things you just don't see or even know about from a broadcast. Like the guys who run out to rake the brick dust. And the songs played for every player. Singing along to "Sweet Caroline". Jumping to your feet with the crowd when something exciting happens. Watching the ball fly over the field. It's so much fun.
I got lucky, too, and the game provided a complete Fenway experience. The game went scoreless for several innings, then quickly became a tie, which gave it delicious suspense. David Ortiz hit a home run. There were some dramatic catches made. Jonathan Papelbon was the closer. And then the Sox won. So cool.
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Date: 2008-05-02 06:18 pm (UTC)I agree about it being different than on TV. I have to be there live or I can't get interested. And while I'm not an MLB fan, the Cape Cod league is a great way to get lots of live baseball. Go Cotuit Kettleers!
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Date: 2008-05-03 08:47 pm (UTC)I've yet to get to a Fenway game, but I know that it's somewhere fairly high on my "Boston must-do things" list.