Right Field Roof

My creation
Pete was given tickets to Sunday’s Red Sox game by one of his coworkers, and we lucked out with perfect weather. The “seats” were actually for standing room up on the right field roof, which is one of the few sections of the park that we haven’t been in before. I wasn’t sure that I would like standing for an entire game, but I would do it again! It’s much more comfortable up on the roof – you’re not packed into the small seats and there’s a constant breeze and plenty of room to move around. We were there early enough to snag a pretty sweet spot right along the small counter at the front of the space (overlooking the right field roof tables, which would also be awesome but are three times the cost), so we had somewhere to lean on and set our drinks. Maybe the best part of the right field roof is that the bathrooms are restricted so that only folks with the right field roof tickets can use them – there were never more than two women in line the entire game!

Root, root, root for the RED SOX!

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…If they don’t win it’s a shame.

And it was a shame. But we had fun anyway! Pete picked up a few tickets from a co-worker, and I snuck out of the office for a few hours to join he and Jamie for the game. The seats were awesome – immediately against the fence of the Tampa Bay bullpen, where there was a ton of hilarious interaction between their pitchers and the crowd.

The seats were also hot! It was 90° out (poor marathoners!) and we were in full sun for the entire game. I sweat my face off and managed to get sunburn on a small, crazy shaped patch on my back. There’s always that one sunburn every spring just to remind you exactly how thoroughly you need to apply sun block, isn’t there?

Being in the sun at Fenway, though…I’m not sure there’s anything else that feels more like summer in Boston.