I went to Fenway for the first time in a dog\u2019s age the other night and watched the Sox lose to Cleveland on a series of Jed Lowrie missed-opportunities. While the outcome was unfavorable, it seems Fenway has not lost any of its charms or ambiance.<\/p>\n
I was stashed with a comrade up in the right field grandstands, under a\u00a0pall of the upper deck (which did nothing to warm an already frigid evening). No cup holders up in section 5, no heated seats, no fan-friendly, turn-of-the-century amenities like those that soothe the spoiled bosoms of the \u201cfans\u201d in Arizona or St. Petersburg. Denizens are satisfied with a cocktail of baseball, bellowed obscenities and the rank perfume of spilled beer.<\/p>\n
By the fifth inning my neck felt like an un-greased door hinge and my arse, which I had painstakingly managed to coerce into a plank of wood designed for an anorexic toddler, had assumed the properties of a cast iron bowling ball.<\/p>\n
In the middle of the inning, mostly in an attempt to stave off paralysis, I decided to embark on a mission\u00a0into the bowels of Fenway in search of a cold brew and a hotdog. I flopped and cajoled my way down aisles, across motley assortments of hooligans. I stepped on a little girl\u2019s toes and earned a look\u00a0from her 300-pound mother that would\u2019ve made Tek blush. And as I made my way down the cement steps, hitting holes like a disoriented tailback, I remembered again why I love\u00a0Fenway. There is no place like it. In a baloney-infested world, Fenway is a preserved slice of raw authenticity.<\/p>\n
Screw the new-frangled, imitation, retro faux-parks. Screw the new Yankee Stadium with its 5 kruzillion luxury suites. And screw Hank Steinbrenner on general principle. Long live Fenway, with its cramped seats, smelly patrons, and overpriced dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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