Game at Fenway

Watch stub hub. Weekend game. Memorial day. You will probably be looking at 2 bills for nose bleed seats.

Many Sox fans at Fenway are mean spirited, vicious, vile assholes. Things will be particularly bad if you are in the cheap seats.

The game I went to was the Coco Crisp vs. James Shields brawl.

I bought my tickets directly from their website….but I bought them very early. It was probably around this time of the year….maybe a little later on in the spring. It said my seat was “obstructed view” because of the large beams they still have to support the roof, but it was an awesome seat. I had to lean one way if I wanted to see an area of the field next to 1B, but it was nothing to complain about for as close as the seats were. There are a few good seat data websites that will help you find out how poor of a view you have if you do end up with obstructed view as your best option remaining.

I would highly recommend taking the tour of Fenway prior to the game. It only cost about $15. They take you up in the press box, down behind home plate, up on the Monster seats, down to Pesky Pole, etc. On the tour I went on, Spaceman Bill Lee just happened to show up and take the tour with us, so he was telling all sorts of old time stories from his playing days. Anyway, you can’t buy tickets for the tour days in advance, you just show up that day and they’ll sell you tickets then. I literally showed up five minutes before the tour started and bought tickets. There were other people from the KC area on the tour, which was cool.

I didn’t experience any hateful or nasty behavior at all in Boston. Granted, it wasn’t a Royals vs. Red Sox game, but I was still wearing my KC hat for the entire time in Boston. Just a few “Royals fan, eh?” comments here and there at the concession stands. But you get comments like that in this part of Missouri, to be honest.

Sounds like NYRoyal had a different experience…but it was awesome when I was there. I also went to Yankee Stadium and didn’t have any issues there with the Yankee fans out in the OF seats. The atmosphere around the stadium was sweet—-much more of a fan friendly experience than roasting out in the concrete parking lots at the K.

And it was cool. I can not see why you would want to subject yourself as a Royals fan to the torture that will be a Royals game in Fenway though… I took the stadium tour the following day rocking some Royals gear and the tour guide was relentless (albeit cool, despite being like 80). Red Sox fans are a strange breed, and the stadium is kind of a dump. I actually had more fun taking the stadium tour than watching the game.

Unluckily enough, it was Jon Lester’s no-no. My roommates and I sat in the bleacher seats. I was the only one wearing any type of baseball gear (a Brett shersey).

Sox fans heckled the shit out of me. Granted, it was a no-hitter, but they were pretty much assholes the whole time. A couple people threw shit at me as the game went on (I suppose I may have had it coming — I yelled “YOOOOOOOOOUUUUU” when Youk made an error at 3B). Aside from that, though, I was pretty well mannered and kept quiet for the most part.

Just be prepared for the worst and you’ll probably be pleasantly surprised. I think Sox fans are more annoying than any other group I’ve encountered, but it just depends on what group you get around you and the dynamics of the particular game, etc.

Fenway, by the way, is an awesome place to catch a game, asshole Sox fans notwithstanding.