Posted on 07/28/2022 8:29:32 AM PDT by bitt
Yes, I actually found it for him.
He has been really lucky in the places he has lived since moving out of my house.
His first apartment was 1/4 mile from the ocean at Jenness Beach in Rye, NH. He had a 450 sq ft one bedroom cottage on the back side of a 5000 sq ft house that had been in the owners family for three generations. It was a 2 minute walk to the nicest beach in NH. A couple former NH governors live on that beach.
If you are not familiar with Rye, NH it is the most expensive town on average in the state. Most of the rentals are seasonal beach/summer rentals.
Those four touchdowns the defense allowed the other night didn’t help their cause.
Even the Sox's scores show inflation.
Plus they actually spent the money to get some good players so they could compete with the YANKEES.
Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, Lefty Grove among many. Tom Yawkey bought those players in the 1930s to compete with the Yankees. He spent a lot of money trying to win.
Must confess I’ve never heard of Rye, Mass.
Did live with a girlfriend in Falmouth for a short while in the late ‘80’s but that kinda fell apart.
Actually, it is Rye, NH. Not MA.
Rye, NH is the town on the Atlantic Ocean just on the south side of Portsmouth, NH. Portsmouth is by far the most expensive metro area of NH.
I was mostly referring to the lack of investment in Fenway park in the last thirty years the Yawkey family owned the team.
Fenway was a real Sh#t Hole in the 1980s and 90s. There were never enough bathrooms. The men's rooms had one big stainless steel trough to pee in. People waited in line so long, they would just piss in the sinks. You would miss a complete inning if you need to go. That was for the men. The ladies would miss at least a full inning, if not two going to the bathroom.
The seats were still the original oak slats installed in 1912. Your backside hurt to sit on them for 3 hours.
They never had nets up for foul balls. Multiple people were hit by foul balls especially in short left field that sticks right out to the third base line.
Of course, they added the Green Monster seats. Which are a very expensive novelty. The most expensive outfield seats in MLB. Plus, unless you are in the front row, you can not see half of left field.
There are still obscured view seats, which you can not do anything about the 12” wide I beam holding up the grandstand roof.
However, they added a lot of seats on the roof. They also added two pavilions. One out the right field line. The other out the left field line. Right field is a large bar. Again with its own bathrooms. The left side is family oriented. No Alcohol is served. It is rented out by many family/youth groups. Basically, the new owner group spent hundreds of millions of dollars improving the Fenway experience. It might have been cheaper to tear it down and rebuild from scratch. However, the city/people of Boston would not allow that.
The place had that faint sewage smell.
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