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Leave the outfield alone
By adamg on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 2:42pm
Dirty Water cannot abide the news that the Sox plan to bring the right center fences closer to home:
Death Valley in right-center has been a part of Fenway lore for decades and it is part of what makes Fenway special.
So to John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino I ask that you bite the bullet. If you need to expand the bullpens then simply knock out 2 or 3 rows of the bleachers. I am sure you can make up the lost seating there somewhere on the roof.
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So
If we knock out a couple rows we'll pay what 4.75 for a hotdog instead of 4.50? I love Fenway....I spent many an afternoon there as a kid sitting in the bleachers for a couple bucks.
It really doesn't matter to me what they do as I can only afford to watch it on TV. Taking my children there would likely involve a second mortgage.
Bring back Duffy's Cliff!
Seriously. Upgrade away. The last game I went to, I was in the right-field grandstands, in a seat a Titanic victim would have been uncomfortable in, staring down into the drama of the visitor's relief corps.
Moving the bullpens in to make them modern will not change the distance to right field out of proportion to the average park, and there will still be that deep triangle in left-center that goes to 420 or so feet.
I will bet that Dirty Water was butt hurt when they replaced the trough urinals, too, and probably swooned insensate when the Sox food stands started selling wine by the glass.
isn't the magic of Fenway
isn't the magic of Fenway precisely that it doesn't hold to the proportions of the average park?
Indeed
I'm all for Sox management doing whatever they wish to make the park work, both economically and aesthetically, but let's not start arguing that being the same as every other park is somehow an acceptable excuse.
Suldog
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