So I am reading about the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park and all the plans the Red Sox have for showing it off throughout the 2012 season.
No one asked me, but I have a modest suggestion for the Red Sox:
How about improving your tours of Fenway Park?
I wrote about this earlier (Click Here), but currently the one hour tours given are totally inadequate. You mostly sit in the empty stadium (which is kind of neat and a different view of the park than you usually get) and hear a tour guide give some history of the park and a lot of snide comments about the Yankees.
You get very little real inside views of Fenway.
On the tour of National’s Park in Washington, DC, for instance, you get to sit in the dugout, you throw a pitch in the bull pen, you see the locker room from the entrance door, you sit in the press box, etc.
No such insights at Fenway.
Apparently there will be one day in 2012, according to the press releases, where you will get a chance to see some ‘inside’ sights.
Why only one day?
Come on Red Sox, give us better tours every day.
(Maybe some (one?) of you reading this can pass on this idea to the powers that be at Fenway.)
unknown said:
more Color Orange would help
Lincer said:
After you tell them the story of you and your grandfather (including the years of the century in which this took place), you should issue them a list called “100 Ways to Knock our Sox Off: What Fans would like to see on the Fenway Tour in 2012,” one item for each of the hundred years. I mean are we religionists or what? They should figure out the stations of the cross, as it were, and allow the fans to walk the paths.
Where did Ted Williams longest HR land? (and why isn’t the seat painted red?) Where was Babe Ruth’s locker? If someone has saved a ticket stub from 1935 or 1927 or 1958, they should be allowed to sit in that seat while they’re on the tour. There should be a special usher squad just for that.
Pester the Boston media; contact fan clubs; lift all the “trivia” about the place and hold it up to the light.
It’s the Parthenon, right?
Modest schmodest; go Sox.