Day 32 – Clapping

There is a running track around the lake beside my hotel so I decided to take a walk around it. It is about 3.5 miles. I also did some walking around the town, I’m surprised at how quiet the area seemed given its proximity to Boston.

For Wed’s game I am sitting in the upper half of the 1st level and they have these big poles (that support the upper decks) that block the view of some seats. Luckily my seat was about 1 or 2 seats over so the pole didn’t block anything significant from me. It is something to beware when getting seats at Fenway, the only problem is unless you are really familiar w/the stadium you won’t know exactly which seats are on the bad angles that get blocked by the pole. Just another one of the design flaws of Fenway Park.

So apparently I have an annoying clap, at least according to the fan beside me. My response was that I had to do something to make up for the fact I was outnumbered.

As I got back to the train station after having supper I ran into a huge crowd of people wearing green. It was b/c the train station is connected to the Boston Garden and the Celtics playoff game had just ended. So the train was a little fuller this night.

The train I would take left at 12:10 am. I have to say I’m surprised at the lack of trains leaving Boston at night, especially when the Red Sox are at home. The penultimate train leaves at 10:35, and on most nights, depending on how long the game goes, it is almost impossible to get to the train station on time w/o leaving the game early. The problem is by the time you are out of the stadium the subway is always packed, and some of the subway cars only go part way along the green line so you may have to get off one and get on another or wait for one that goes all the way. Of course, since I was in no rush to get back to my hotel, plus the fact that I always have supper after the game, that’s exactly what I did. I just found a place to eat around Fenway and by the time I was done eating it had mostly cleared up. There were still a lot of fans that hung around the area after the game as there were several restaurants, bars etc. so there were always a number of people heading down to the subway. Even w/taking time to eat though I still found that I had time to put in before the train.