poor old Fenway
They should be playing baseball at Fenway now, but the Rolling Stones tore up the field so much they had to push back the game an hour. The poor groundskeepers have been working around the clock for who knows how many days since those 'rock-n-roll' barbarians tromped around the place a couple days ago, kicking up divots and whatnot, but they still didn't manage to get things in order; it's thought that the additional time will be sufficient to return the field to a playable condition. Well, if it is or not, they still have to go: this is already the start of 14 games in 14 days!
Allowing ancient rockers to mess up the grass isn't the only damage that the current Sox management are doing to Fenway and baseball in Boston, neither. The latest story is that they're working on getting the old park on the Fens made a recognized historic site, which means they'd get tax breaks for 'improving' it. What?! What makes Fenway historic is it's very uncomfortableness and unsuitability for a modern game of baseball. Updating it, adding seats all over the place, modernizing the concourses--those don't preserve the historic spirit of the park at all, beyond the spirit of wringing the maximum amount of money out of the fans. No, they can't have it both ways: either Fenway is historical, in which case they should get out of there, turn the poor old girl into a museum, and build a beautiful modern park; or it's not, and the owners are just too cheap to put up a new stadium when they have one where they can get away with charging $21 for bleacher seats and sell out every single game. The first option is what I'd like to see; the second is the truth of the situation here.