Posted on 04/03/2005 3:22:42 PM PDT by raccoonradio
The best movie ever made about baseball in Boston was a 1962 film by the Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel, called The Exterminating Angel. The plot is twisted: People arrive for a dinner party, enjoy themselves, get drunk, snipe at one another, and trade gossip. Then, when the time comes to go home, they stand up, they approach the door. But not one of them can bring himself to pass through that door. They know that the party's over; they cannot leave it. Soon, this group becomes a sensation in the city. Townspeople gather on the street, staring, wondering why the party won't end, long after it has ceased to be fun.
Think of Fenway Park as that dinner party.
One week from tomorrow, a world champion Red Sox team will take the field here for the first time since 1919. It will be a moment of triumph, the culmination of bold and brilliant decisions by a front office willing to try anything in pursuit of victory, even trading the storied Nomar, a player no one had ever envisioned wearing any uniform but a Boston one. Just two weeks ago, the ownership group announced that it is more committed to Fenway than ever. It's a shame, because, in truth, will there ever be a better time to say goodbye to Fenway than now, when the fabled curse has been lifted, the stadium has at last fulfilled its mission, the fans are more passionate than ever, and the city is embracing its team and its owners as it has no other franchise in history?
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I've always maintained that they should put a roof on it and make it the new home of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Now that the Red Slobs have won a Series, it would be a bigger draw.
Shouldn't that be "Fix It; Don't Nix It?"
Hey bub, aren't you the guy what writes the headlines for Variety?
- IIG, a fellow Piper (Tomahawk) pilot
I haven't been to Fenway in 15 years or more. If I were there I'd love to go, but my brother tells me the cost is seldom worth it any more. Dogs and burgers are over priced, seats are (well, see above), beer is over-priced, and parking impossible. But that's pretty much true no matter where you go these days.
Hey, I suggest we sell them Yankee Stadium, for let's say
two billion or so. Imagine that, after 90 years, they finally win something and the fans want to build a 20th century park for their team to play in. The curse has started again, so me say they consider replacing it in 2090 or so. GO YANKEES.
>>If ya don't like the seats at fenway, lose some weight. :)
It's kind of tough to get down to 85 pounds like Michael Jackson!
Wreck Fenway!!!! Blasphemy!!!!!!!
If they tear down Fenway, somebody's going to try to convince the Cubs to tear down Wrigley.
And while Fenway isn't anything special, Wrigley is the perfect ball-park.
Perhaps a new Fenway could be Boston's second "Big Dig". Hope they have about 20 Billion to spare.
I never said hello.
"Isn't It Time We Said Goodbye To Pretentious Baseball Writers Who Begin Their Stories With Luis Bunuel References?"
LOL, it is indeed!
Isn't it time to get rid of the traitorous, communistic, reprehensible, and useless Boston Glob?
Isn't it time we said goodbye to the traitorous, communistic, reprehensible, and useless Boston Glob?
My sentiments exactly.
It is one of the last old-time ballparks and has a ton of character which many of the new ones do not. They should modernize it while still keeping the flavor of the original.
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