Home Sweet Home

No blogging this Monday . . . I just got back from Boston and I start my new job tomorrow so I’m pressed for time.  Sorry to dissappoint.

A few more thoughts:

  • Boston is a pretty cool town, it was much better than I expected.  I guess any city with a major rail system helps.  There’s nothing like getting from one end of town to another in about 15 minutes.
  • The outside of the TD Ameritrade Garden looks pretty dull and ugly.
  • We ate a sports bar Sports Illustrated ranked the #1 sports bar in all of America.  It was called Fours.  The food was OK, but the atmosphere was something else.
  • I may have mentioned in an earlier post that one of my friends rode the elevator with Adrian Grenier (Vincent Chase of Entourage).  Well, after we got back from Fenway we found out that our hotel was hosting the Boston Film Festival tribute dinner.  The plethora of limos, spotlights, and media kinda gave it away.  It turns out some big names were there, such as George Clooney.  The only other for sure celebrity we saw was Steve Martin when we were eating at Legal Seafood the next day.  He was wearing a moustache and a hat and looked pretty homely.  I tried to snap an inconspicuous picture of him with my camera phone, but some of our entourage had a conniption and I’m left dissappointing my readers.  I’ll do better next time.
  • I have to go back to Boston in two weeks for two straight weeks of new job stuff.  I just realized that this trip will be during the Red River Shootout Rivalry where Texas and Oklahoma play in Dallas at the Texas State Fair.  The way Texas is playing, Oklahoma just has to be salivating at the chance to pounce UT this year.  It may just be better for me not to be in Dallas during that game.
  • I hate seafood, but my friends seemed to like everything they ate.  Thank goodness there was chicken and burgers on the menus.
  • I still can’t get over the atmosphere of Fenway Park.  One pleasant surprise was the middle of the 8th inning where “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond is played.  The entire crowd gets into this song singing and dancing.  I video-taped this experience, but the audio quality is horrible.  So here is a YouTube video that should give you an idea what I’m talking about.  The best parts are around the 40 second mark and the last 30 or so seconds, where everyone knows the words.  Too bad Rangers fans can’t get this excited. Also, that song is totally stuck in my head.

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Fenway Park

There aren’t many places that I really want to see before I die, but several sporting locations are on my list.  I already have Yankee Stadium crossed off, and today I’m able to say that not only did I visit Fenway Park, but I got to experience a Yankees – Red Sox game.  What a totally amazing experience.  New England culture is something else, especially when it comes to their beloved Red Sox.  It was very emotional, but not as hostile as I would have thought. 

The only downer of the evening was getting seperated from my friends before we entered the complex.  The one single event I was looking forward to the most of this trip was walking into Fenway with my friends at the same time and experiencing the moment of all of us seeing the inside of it for the very first time and realizing that a dream has come true.  It was nice experiencing by myself, but it just means more to me when I’m able to experience such a once in a lifetime moment with those I value having in my life.

Thankfully I was able to sqeeze some juice out of those almost dead batteries in my camera:

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