Fenway Park is AMAZING

So thanks to Greg M I finally got to Fenway Park. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. It beat my expectations exponentionally. The only bad thing about the park is the parking. Besides that, it is perfect.

I drove about an hour and a half from my Lake House to the Riverside T station and met Greg there to take the train to get to Fenway.

I was mesmerized by Yawkey Way and the outside of the stadium. The trees and the red, and blue banners hanging off the side of the stadium looked stunning. The outside of the stadium is better than any of the other 8 stadiums that I have been to. You feel like your in Red Sox country. The streets surrounding the stadium feel like the stadium. The bars and house of blues right next to stadium is also perfect. If you want to go out in Boston you can watch a Red Sox game and then go hang out at a bar.

Greg M was a professional. He took me to the exact right location to enter Fenway from. The entrance that looks out to the Green Monster. It was amazing to see the Monstah in person. Just the whole Park mesmerized me in a way that no venue has since I first went to Shea Stadium to see my first ball game. Maybe stading in center court at Gampel mesmerized me as much.

The ball park may have been built in 1912 but it doesn't need to be replaced. Nothing looks dangerous. As a matter of fact to me it felt as if the stadium had been built in 2009 and had been created to replicate 1912.

One thing I never realized is that the Citgo sign in Left Field is not really next to the field. As a matter of fact Citgo isn't even an official sponsor of the Red Sox. They used ambush marketing to confuse people. Gulf is actually the official sponsor of the Red Sox, but I bet you and most other fans had no idea because of that famous Citgo sign.

By the way, I remembered that term from my sports marketing class. It took me a second to remember the exact terminology from class, but it came to me.

I love the color scheme at the ball park...I loved the crowd, the fans, the ushers. I think the Red Sox have done a tremendous job. I love the pennants over the press box.

I love the weird angles at Fenway...which by the way I don't like at most other parks. I think it's funny how the right field fence is 302...and a foot or two into play is 380. I love the Monstah too. How could you not?

Interestingly my first game at Fenway reminded me of my first game at the old Yankee stadium. The game started off with a homerun on the first pitch of the game. Both times the pitch was hit by an infielder (Damien Easley at Yankee Stadium, and Adam Kennedy at Fenway Park) over the left field fence. Kennedy's home run is only a home run at Fenway. Every else that is a fly ball. The view I had, in centerfield, was perfect though. I could tell whether everything hit to left field would get out, hit off the wall or be caught. I loved that view, and the center field view is a view I've also never had before. It was a cool view.

Mike Lowell homered in the bottom of the inning for the Red Sox, a three run blast, that easily cleared the monster. I saw two monster shots in one inning...although I wish the first one didn't happen.

Unfortunetly the A's won 8-6. The Red Sox made it interesting at the end, but it wasn't meant to be.

I saw Jacoby Ellsbury make a great sliding catch and also hit a triple.

I also loved the fact that I got to see Greg M this summer and hang out at the ballpark. That was a lot of fun for me. Greg is a good influence on me because he isn't set in his ways. Sometimes I can be.

I might have some more to say about the game later. I just loved it...I can't say enough good things about the time I had, about the Red Sox organization and about the ball park. I had a wonderful time and hope to head back to Fenway again.

If you are a baseball fan, you must get to Fenway Park to see a game...Actually if you are a sports fan you must get to Fenway.

Don't worry, I'm still a Mets fan...even though they don't understand much about public relations and communications.

But the Red Sox moved ahead of the Rays for my 3rd favorite baseball team...The Twins still have me in the A.L....but who knows if that will change over time.

And once again, everything about Fenway Park is better than the old Yankee Stadium. The whole atmosphere. The whole ambiance. It's just better. It's more nostalgic. I can remember people arguing about what stadium is better...and really there isn't an argument. Fenway is better...Yankee stadium is also historic, but Fenway is better. I thought that the moment I started walking down Yawkey way and the moment I saw Fenway Park etched in stone on the outside, the moment I saw the MONSTAH and the moment I sat in my seats. My trip to Fenway Park is something I'll treasure for a lifetime.