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Ohiogal

(34,719 posts) Sat Dec 19, 2020, 01:06 PM Dec 2020

If Cleveland can say goodbye to the name 'Indians,' why can't we say goodbye to Fenway Park?

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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If Cleveland can say goodbye to the name 'Indians,' why can't we say goodbye to Fenway Park? (Original Post) Ohiogal Dec 2020 OP

Ummm , no bottomofthehill Dec 2020 #1

Heresy! KPN Dec 2020 #2

As long as teams do it I'm fine relayerbob Dec 2020 #3

They said goodbye to Indians because it was offensive matt819 Dec 2020 #4

Nope...I love Fenway...crappy sight lines and all Docreed2003 Dec 2020 #5

This is stupid JDC Dec 2020 #6

It's an opinion piece .. Ohiogal Dec 2020 #7

It's a stupid opinion piece. bluedigger Dec 2020 #8

I get it, but the comparison does not align JDC Dec 2020 #9

bottomofthehill

(8,823 posts)

1. Ummm , no

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2020, 01:15 PM

Dec 2020

Let Fenway be Fenway

KPN

(16,110 posts)

2. Heresy!

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2020, 01:16 PM

Dec 2020

relayerbob

(7,020 posts)

3. As long as teams do it I'm fine

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2020, 01:21 PM

Dec 2020

I personally can't stand it when cities use taxpayer funds to build stadiums

matt819

(10,749 posts)

4. They said goodbye to Indians because it was offensive

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2020, 01:27 PM

Dec 2020

Not because it was old.

Docreed2003

(17,810 posts)

5. Nope...I love Fenway...crappy sight lines and all

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2020, 01:27 PM

Dec 2020

Frankly, if you buy a ticket online, most services allow you to have a "virtual view" from that seat location and even if they don't there are plenty of sites out their where you can research your seat view before buying tickets. Fenway, like Wrigley, has adapted to modern times while preserving the history.