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We just added a new feature to our blog. Don't get too excited it really isn't that spectacular. If you scroll down a little ways, you will see our guest book on the right hand side of the screen. If you have the time, Dan and I would love to see who all is reading the blog out there. Thanks.

My take on Fenway Park

Fenway is awesome!! By far the best stadium we’ve been to and I don’t think any others will beat it. I was a bit surprised at the size of the park. It was smaller than I had imagined, especially after seeing some of the new aged domes, that make you feel like you are watching the game with the rest of the city sitting next to you. But the one thing that sold it for me was the atmosphere of the park. It’s hard to even describe. Everybody is wearing team colors and everybody is singing “Sweet Caroline” in the 8th inning. Hot dog vendors walking the aisles selling the rare steamed not grilled Fenway Frank. Dan and I did notice that there was no “Cap Dance,” which was a little disappointing to be honest. But, then again, you don’t really need stupid jumbotron gimmicks to get your fans excited when you have the history that the Red Sox franchise does. You can feel the history and tradition when you step onto Yawkey Way. Good things happen at Fenway Park.



Speaking of good things, we snagged a foul ball yesterday. Our seats, courtesy of Dan’s cousin, John, were about 20 rows up and just short of Pesky’s Pole (the right field foul pole) in foul territory – section 94 if you want to look then up online. In the first inning Manny Ramirez hit one that headed straight for the upper deck along the 3rd base line when it ricocheted off the railing and shot down at some guy in front of us. He tried to bare hand it but couldn’t hold on, so the ball popped up and I snagged it out of the air before anyone else could. Everything happened so fast, so all I can really recollect is the applause I got from our section after making the play. I’d guess if you see enough ballgames, something good is bound to happen. And the baseball gods rewarded me with a foul ball from Manny.

We said our farewells to Beantown this morning and headed up the coast to Wiscasset, Maine, where we will spend the next few nights with some friends on the Chewonki Neck. For those of you that don’t know, Chewonki is where I spent the first semester of my Junior year of high school in a program called the Maine Coast Semester. I couldn’t help but want to return to Chewonki seeing as we were so close, and, after all the stories I told Dan, he couldn’t help but be a little curious.

So, we’re taking a quick break from driving and baseball, and recharging our batteries before heading to Cooperstown.

The Down Side of Free Tickets

Yes, that's right there is a down side to getting free tickets. The problem is that you don't always remember if it is a day game or a night game. But, to be completely honest, it was absolutely our fault that we didn't get to see the Yankees game last Saturday. We printed our tickets and put then in a place where we wouldn't forget them, and we just assumed that it was going to be a night game. Unfortunately we found out otherwise at about 1:30, when we caught the game on the radio during the 3rd inning. So we missed our chance to see Yankee Stadium and we missed our chance to see Chad Gaudin hold the Bronx Bombers to only one hit over 7 innings. We really couldn't help but be mad at ourselves, and the endless traffic across the George Washington Bridge just added insult to injury. We ended up drowning our sorrows with a large New York pizza in our hotel room.

Now we're in Boston getting ready for the Fourth of July and a couple games at Fenway Park. We have both really been looking forward to this part of the road trip. We had some time to kill yesterday so we stopped by Fenway and the Yawkey Way team store, which made us both pretty excited. We just spent today walking around Davis Square with another MCS buddy of mine, Nate Grady, who is also a big Red Sox fan. Tonight we are having dinner with John Sutliffe, Dan's cousin who gave Dan (and me indirectly) Red Sox tickets as a graduation present. And tomorrow we hope to catch a Pawtucket Red Sox game in Rhode Island. The Paw Sox are the triple-A affiliate of the Red Sox. And then Wednesday and Thursday we have tickets at Fenway. As you can see, we have a pretty eventful week in store for us.