If Cleveland can say goodbye to the name 'Indians,' why can't we say goodbye to Fenway Park? [View all]
What say you, Red Sox fans?
From The Boston Globe.
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We just spent a full, albeit short, major league season with canned crowd noise echoing through our ballparks and cardboard cutout fans dotting the seats. It was weird, awkward, hollow. Yet somehow we made it, though sports being what sports is, a few old-timers in Flatbush likely lament it would have been way better had their bums won it all for Brooklyn and not LA.
If the Red Sox announced this weekend that their days at Fenway were finished, that a new ballpark in the Back Bay was on the way, say, for the 2025 season, would we be wrecked? Oh, a few of us, for sure.
The old joint opened in 1912, in case you hadn’t heard, and we have a thing here for history … and an undying love of rickety seats and sightlines more bizarre than a funhouse mirror.
I just think the hue and outcry among Red Sox Nation would be but a fraction of what it would have been a year ago, before news of a mysterious disease began to trickle in from Wuhan. We’ve changed. We’ve changed in ways we’re just beginning to realize, in ways we won’t fully understand for years post-pandemic.
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