Results tagged “fenwaypark”

Falconn67 has the PotD for today, a 9 shot panorama of our favorite home away from home, Fenway Park. The stitching of the different shots is well done, and the perspective actually makes the Pesky's Pole look unreachable by hitters. This great photo is a fitting way to wish the Sox good luck as they head into the playoffs.

• Congressman Michael Capuano will announce on Friday that he is running for Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat. Capuano said he waited to join the race out of respect for Sen. Kennedy. [Boston Herald]

• With Mass. Attorney General/Senate candidate Martha Coakley now supporting the appointment of a temporary Senator to replace Ted Kennedy and momentum growing to change the law to allow it, former Governor Michael Dukakis is being seen as a leading choice for the interim appointment. [Boston Globe]

If identity theft scares you out of trying to get the chance to buy tickets to possible Sox playoff games, and you're not comforted by the Texas Rangers even worse brand of bad karma, there is a solution for you and other pessimists. It's called the 2010 season. Yes, on a day when the push to sell 2009 playoff tickets began, the Red Sox released their 2010 schedule. That's right. Skip the 2009 playoffs entirely! FYI, the 2010 season opens against the Yankees.

When Red Sox owner John Henry robbed the cradle earlier this year, we had no idea that it was also a headhunting expedition. According to the Herald, Henry has replaced longtime Red Sox vice president Janet Marie Smith with Linda Pizzuti, his wife. Smith was the one who kept Fenway Park from being bulldozed, hatching the series of improvement plans that gave us the seats on the Green Monster and the generally pleasant seating atmosphere in the 97-year-old ballpark. Pizzuti? Well, she's married to John Henry, and she used to work for her family's development firm, building condos. Bad news for the Kenmore area, where Sox-owned parcels could easily be transformed into enormous, hideous luxury buildings? Probably. As one source told the Herald, "Janet Marie was told to go because Linda’s taking over the whole damn place." [Herald]

OK. So much for the AL East pennant. The Yankees all but clinched the division last night, taking the rubber match of their series at Fenway with a low-scoring 8-4 win. Most troubling is that the eight runs came at the expense of Josh Beckett, about the most worry-free guy on the roster. Nobody's worry-free today.

IntheViewfinder took a look at Fenway park, and instead of seeing the green of the grass or the blue of the seats, saw angles, lines and light. This picture of the underside of the green monster should be a hit with geometry fans and the way the light falls on the structure should make it a keeper with just about everyone else.

The NHL had announced a "major announcement" would be announced at a press conference yesterday at Fenway Park. What would it be? That the Pengins won the Stanley Cup? That Ovechkin had been named the MVP? That Charlton Heston saw the Statue of Liberty at the end and realized he'd been on the Earth of the future all along?

Remember Ian Ferris? This Yankees-loving Vermonter earned a brief moment in the spotlight when he found a way to scatter the seed of the Evil Empire onto the fabled green grass of Fenway Park. While visiting Fenway for the May 31 Phish concert, Ferris' feat was an effort to playfully plant - literally - a curse in the heart of Red Sox Nation.

--Police in Cambridge continue to unravel Monday's shooting of a 21-year old man at Harvard University's Kirkland House residence hall. Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr said the killing occured after an alleged drug deal gone bad. Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, turned himself in and will be arraigned today in Cambridge District Court. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]

Today's PotD comes from one of our favorite photogs gnarayan. This Fenway shot was taken during a helicopter trip a few hours before the Red Sox game. The #7 mowed into the field is in honor of Dom DiMaggio who passed away on 5/8/09. This aerial shot affords us a unique perspective on the city and allows for many of Boston's most recognizable landmarks to be viewed at the same time.

--A man from Marblehead was arrested in connection with Wednesday's killing of 21-year-old Wesleyan University student Johanna Justin-Jinich. Stephen P. Morgan was taken into custody outside a convenience store in south Meriden without incident after asking a store clerk to call police. Morgan was reportedly targeting Jewish people. [WCVB]

shyto got a great photo of the Red Sox big comeback game against the O's. The warm tones of the foreground and cool tones of the background make an interesting mix, with the light rays adding a touch of panache.

Rumors have been swirling for several weeks that Phish, Vermont's biggest export not made by either Ben or Jerry, would take its upcoming reunion tour (already set to play the Venue Formerly Known as Great Woods) to the grass of Fenway Park. Today, it's official: Phish is going to rock Fenway on May 31.

Bostonist learned earlier that opening day for the Red Sox has been postponed until tomorrow due to rain, but that doesn't mean we aren't already psych'd up. Local photog Chris Devers took an "Opening Day Eve" tour of Fenway and took this photo of the beloved Citgo Sign. Hopefully this will help with the anticipation of tomorrow's big day.

Can you imagine the Red Sox gearing up for the 2059 baseball season at Fenway Park? The Red Sox ownership can.

Losing to the Commodores. Nobody around here has uttered those words since like 1985. But it's the sad reality for Boston College, who lost their nine-game bowl winning streak to the Vanderbilt Commodores, 16-14, in the Music City Bowl.

If watching the Tampa Bay Rays score 29 runs to the Red Sox' 5 over the course of two games and six and half innings weren't discouraging enough to watch on television this postseason, imagine the fans at Fenway Park.

In Bill Simmons' epic mailbag today, he dreams of a Manny/Sox World Series, which is great stuff, but there's this tidbit which we're hoping to help spread far and wide:

They're still working on 2008, but the Red Sox have unveiled their 2009 schedule. They'll open with an ALCS rematch against Tampa Bay at Fenway before heading out West. They haven't opened at home in seven years, so bundle up, kids. The old interleague home-and-home with Atlanta is back on the menu, along with home series against Florida and the Mets, and road trips to Philly and Washington (the first meaningful Sox games in DC since 1971). Tickets are probably already available from your neighborhood scalper.

A Saturday and Sunday full of doubleheaders would have made for one really taxing weekend. The Red Sox seemed to realize this and faced down a potentially demoralizing rainstorm on Friday night to deliver the only kind of performance that could shut down the red-hot Blue Jays: dominating offense that provided the run support Tim Wakefield has deserved (and often not received) over the course of the last couple of seasons. A 7-0 victory must be helping the team (which should include J.D. Drew today) feel fired up as they arrive at the park this morning for today's two-game battle.

You're Dan Duquette, former Red Sox general manager. You've come across the Boston equivalent of a Wonka Golden Ticket, in the form of two tickets to the 2004 World Series. At the same time, you're trying to nice-nice your friend James Ruberto, the mayor of Pittsfield, because you'd like to make a deal to put a minor league team in his city.

--That queasy feeling you had after a trip to Fenway may not have been connected to the way the Red Sox were playing. It may have been the food. [Boston Globe]

Because there's no footage like shaky blurry footage shot from the windswept Conigliaro's Corner. But we were there, man. We were there.

We wrote on the Red Sox recycling jerseys about a month ago, and now the team is taking green to a new level with some hot new solar panels. The panels went into effect today, and will help heat water used throughout the park. The panels are expected to replace 37% of the gas formerly used to heat water, eliminating 18 tons of CO2 emissions annually.