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Post by candyflippedaround on Apr 15, 2009 17:42:54 GMT -5
negative, a few people have said they did in the Phisharoo thread. my friend also got a ticket through one of his friends, im gonna be scrambling saturday morning to pick one up. never been to fenway for anything but a few ball games, but the place is incredible. i am personally offended when people mention tearing it down and making a new ball park
Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Apr 15, 2009 23:35:45 GMT -5
well don't worry about the park going anywhere. john henry was in weei a couple weeks ago and announced that fenway will be around for another 50 years and they still have a lot more renovations to keep the park looking nice and i think just what they have already done is very cool.
I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high.
I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high.
I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high.
i cant believe it was so hard for people to get these tickets. friend of mine said she got shutout. had the rutgers spring game today so i wasnt home to try. sounds like the problem was because it was through e tickets.
at risk of karma loss, fenway park is a disaster and should be torn down immediately. what a shithole.
but, i have tickets
dmb + willie then phish the next night. holy crap!
i have to respectfully disagree. fenway is the best ballpark in the country and i'm not just saying that because i'm a sox fan. i've been to half of the major league ballparks in the country and it is my favorite with pac bell or at&t (whatever it's called now in san fran) and wrigley to round out the top 3. i think all the renovations they have done to fenway are awesome. the old yankee stadium and shea those were shitholes.
Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Apr 19, 2009 9:05:29 GMT -5
haha that's funny there is most definitely more than one bathroom and they're all to big to be full most of the time. the seats in the grandstands were moved a little further a part over the winter so they aren't as tight but they are still tight but those are the only ones i ever was uncomfortable in but everyone a hundred years ago was typically smaller than everyone today. the guinness line i was only in for about 2-3 minutes at a time yesterday and i'll see if i have a repeat performance today but they did take out the guinness stand in right field which is wicked dumb. i hope i don't sound like a dbag for talking so much. i sound like i'm defending my wife or something.
at risk of karma loss, fenway park is a disaster and should be torn down immediately. what a shithole.
but, i have tickets
dmb + willie then phish the next night. holy crap!
i have to respectfully disagree. fenway is the best ballpark in the country and i'm not just saying that because i'm a sox fan. i've been to half of the major league ballparks in the country and it is my favorite with pac bell or at&t (whatever it's called now in san fran) and wrigley to round out the top 3. i think all the renovations they have done to fenway are awesome. the old yankee stadium and shea those were shitholes.
Post by generalstore on Apr 19, 2009 12:03:47 GMT -5
I fully agree that Fenway is a shithole that has been overly romanticized. Form has certainly trumped function in the minds of Fenway loyalists.
The sightlines for baseball games at many seats in Fenway have either direct obstructions (mostly in the form of support beams), or deny the ability to track flyballs as the roof blocks your view.
The seats themselves are notoriously small, and unless you are the avg size of an American during the early 20th century, you're going to be uncomfortable at best, and worst case scenario you'll be using your $50+ ticket as a standing room only ticket.
In my case I am 6' 6" and there is no way I can sit in an original Fenway seat. The recently added seats (post 2002) are a bit more roomier, but they are the minority.
I certainly get the attraction of the romantics, but a ballpark is not a piece of visual art to be admired from afar. It is a utilitarian device that should be designed to maximize the enjoyment of watching a baseball game(and your occasional concert ).
But I believe you can have your cake and eat it too. Build a new ballpark, call it Fenway Park, design it so that the dimensions of the playing field are the same, put a lot of the original features in it and I guarantee you, no one will be missing the old Fenway after a few games in a comfortable seat that's closer to the field, with no obstructed views.
this issue will always have the people who hate losing a sense of the past.
but think about going to the dcu center for a show - maybe you went to the dead last night, maybe you are going tonight. how was your experience compared to the new boston garden?
i agree, leave the field, the green monstah, the scoreboard, whatever, but the structure itself is beyond redemption.
leave the field, the green monstah, the scoreboard, whatever, but the structure itself is beyond redemption.
I'm with you on that one. If they left it the way it is but replaced the seats and fixed some other problems with the way it's set up, I'd definitely be all for that. I just don't want it to become another cookie cutter ballpark known as "<insert corporation name> Field".
Also, to people coming from out of town - stay alert and don't do anything stupid. Cops love to lurk around Fenway after games get out, and I'm sure they will be even stricter after a Phish show.
Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Apr 20, 2009 3:26:53 GMT -5
i know fenway's faults and they are being addressed. the thing is there is no place in boston to put a park so it's either play somewhere else for a year while they rebuild it at once or slowly renovate it which i think they're doing a very good job of. i think the right field seats will be repointed next year so they don't have you looking at centerfield
^ Once they fix the direction of the seats, no complaints from me!
Overall I love the look and feel of Fenway!!
I have NEVER had to wait a long time to get a beer, there are TONS of places to get them. Same thing with the bathrooms!
I am just glad they don't enforce the same silly "you have to be 25+ to order a beer with an out of state drivers license" that almost all other MA events enforce. (The Garden, Gillette, the Comcast Center)
Edit: BTW I am glad those right field seats havn't been replaced yet, because they will be pointing me right towards the action on May 31st!!
I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high.
6/18: Phish in Hartford 6/25: Phish in Camden 7/2-7/4: Nateva 7/17: God Street Wine at Irving Plaza 7/23-7/25: String Cheese at Red Rocks!! 8/17-8/18: Phish at Jones Beach 9/3: Rush at PNC
This Bonnaroo lineup is in dire need of some Rush.
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Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Apr 20, 2009 19:25:17 GMT -5
i know but the old building was a wreck with all the additions they had put on it over the years. i don't think charging $2,600 for tickets is a good way to make money though. baseball isn't just for the super rich.
what happened man? i thought you were going down to the box office?
uuuh...got lazy....did the computer and the phone. did not work.
that sucks man. i was trying phone and internet while in line at the box office. i was determined. scored sec. 33. guy at the box office said they're amazing seats. still though it seemed some 100 people didn't get tickets that were in line
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
