Dodgers' fan takeover?! Is there still a Red Sox Nation

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Dodgers' fan takeover?! Is there still a #redsox Nation?

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00:00Alex Cora talking about the fact that it was like Dodger Stadium, that a lot of Red Sox fans

00:06seem to have sold their tickets to Dodgers fans. And Curtis, I agree with you. I don't fault these

00:11fans at all for giving up their ticket, especially for this weekend when there was so much confusion

00:15and question marks around what the strike was going to do to your fan experience, how the Red

00:20Sox had been playing. It ended up being a great weekend for the Red Sox. If you were there to see

00:24those two games on Saturday and Sunday, you got two good ones. But overall, I mean, it makes sense.

00:30And I think the Dodgers, they do a good job. I think they travel well, their fan base.

00:35But this is an indictment. To me, it's not an indictment on the fan base. It's an indictment

00:40on what the ownership has done to the fan base, where this, Wiggy, the only times you ever heard

00:46opposing fans at Fenway Park were Yankees, Red Sox. When Jeter would go deep, you'd have the 20%

00:54of Yankee fans at Fenway yell, just the same as you hear Red Sox fans at Yankee Stadium when they

00:59are winning a game. Because with that rivalry, it's always going to be not 50-50, but you'll

01:04hear from both fans. Last summer, it was the Dodgers and the Blue Jays at Fenway Park.

01:09And you would have closed your eyes and thought you were in Toronto or Chavez Ravine.

01:14And this weekend, there were a ton of Dodgers fans around Boston. I saw a bunch in the seaport

01:19and they flew in, they bought the tickets, and I totally support Red Sox fans selling

01:23them. Absolutely.

01:24Do you think it's part of the possible food strike thing?

01:29I think that has something to do with it.

01:30Or is it that...

01:32I just don't think the Dodgers fans that came waited for the food strike. I feel like

01:36you would have to fly in. I'm sure there are some that live in the area, but...

01:40I guess maybe it's like, do you think it's more, and I know Courtney's not a huge fan of

01:45the word, but the Pink Cats, do you feel like it's more Red Sox fans nowadays are not like

01:51the diehard diehard, so they got no issues with selling their seats?

01:55See, we talk about that a lot, but the more that I talk to people, the diehards are still

01:59there. Like Red Sox diehards...

02:00But there are a lot of them, though.

02:02I just think that the price that people have to pay to go to Fenway Park, no matter what

02:06the weekend is, is so high that people look at where they were playing going into this

02:11series, and they're like, eh, I'll give up my ticket. I'm sure they could sell

02:15them for a pretty penny to a Dodgers fan.

02:17It's obscene wigs. Living in the city is different. You can grab a cab and Uber, you get there

02:22back and forth for $30. It's $60 to park. It's $200 for the babysitter, or it's $200 a ticket

02:30if you're bringing the kids. Or easily $200, probably $300 for the babysitter. Then you've

02:34got dinner, you've got drinks, you're looking at over $1,000. And if you can make that money

02:40back, I would absolutely do it.

02:42One thing that I saw over the weekend, and I wish I had the clip, I should have sent it

02:45to Jackson, to Mitch, but there was a Dodgers fan who was their first time at Fenway, and

02:51it came across my TikTok, if you will. And it was very cool to see him. He said, it's my

02:56first time at Fenway. I've never been to a ballpark, and I've been to a ton of ballparks

02:59that have ever taken my breath away. And he sat down, he had great seats to begin with,

03:04kind of right behind home plate. But to then turn the camera and see Fenway, and I think we

03:11are spoiled. We talk about Fenway. We complain about Fenway. We talk about how the seats are

03:15too small, and how it's too old, and how they need to update. But to hear from a fan that traveled

03:20to come to Fenway for the first time, it was on their list of ballparks they needed to see

03:24before they died. And to give kind of that rave review, that's why Fenway's never going to change.

03:29And it's cool to see people that have never seen it see it for the first time. Again,

03:34we're spoiled. We complain about it. But it is very cool to have a historic ballpark like

03:40Fenway Park in our backyard.

03:41But it's also a downside too, though. Because now the ownership group, they don't care who's

03:47in the game.

03:48But I also feel like the games that I've been to, or you watch the games on TV, I always

03:53feel like no matter what it is, they're always close to selling out. It's always patty, especially

03:58if the weather's nice or what, you know. People are always there. So I think if your

04:04ownership, you would never complain about anything because people are always, you know, you're

04:11packing that place else. And part of it is, you know, they want to go do the selfies and

04:16that kind of thing. And I think you see more, you know, a lot more of like the fan that says,

04:21oh, this is an experience for me. I'm going to go down there and I'm going to kind of, you

04:25know, go to Fenway and try to put this on my bucket list. So I don't know. I feel like

04:30you should see the lines when I get there, when we do the show from Fenway on Saturday

04:34mornings, the lines of people waiting for a tour. And then I went in, I was getting just

04:41to pick me up. I had like 15 minutes to kill and I was like, oh, I got the gift, the whatever

04:47half off at the pro shop. And I walk in, it's 1215. The game's not till seven that night on

04:56Saturday. There was like 200 people in twins. Yeah. Whatever it's called now. Well, Saturday

05:02was also the run to home base, right? That's right. Yeah. Yeah, that's true, I guess. But

05:06the run to home base, that's one thing they do. That's great. By the way, amazing work by the

05:10Red Sox Foundation. And what they've done with Fenway is remarkable. In a million years. But it's not

05:16like other stadiums because, you know, it's crazy. My son and I, we were watching like,

05:20I think it was like Detroit was playing. So I can't even remember. And the seats behind

05:26home plate just look so comfortable, cushions on them, even when they played out in, they

05:34played out in, I want to say it might've been Seattle or, you know, San Francisco. San Francisco

05:40is an awesome park. I've been to San Francisco. That's a great park. Right. So the seats look

05:43so nice. And, and you're right. They'll never change the Fenway experience, but for people

05:49who are here, who go to Fenway, they're probably like, man, upgrade these seats. It's too tight.

05:57But did it, did Yankee Stadium, when they did the re, the redo of that entire thing, did

06:01they, did they update the seats? Oh yeah. People say they go there and it sucks now. Yeah.

06:05The old Yankee Stadium was awesome. Right. So I haven't been to the new one, but people say

06:09it has none of the feel, none of the, I mean, listen, I, I have a lot of problems with the

06:16ownership group as it's been well stated on this show. What they did to Fenway Park is an

06:23unmitigated success. They, the seats on the, everything looks like it's been that way forever.

06:29Yeah. It feels that way. They used to, we used to have a closed in structure behind home plate

06:35in the 600 club. We had no seats up on the right. You go to the Dell deck, you'd have

06:40this unbelievable view of the city of Boston. There used to be the green surrounding the

06:45bleachers. So you couldn't see the skyline from inside Fenway Park. The, the, the Sam's

06:50roof deck that we go to, which is unbelievable. Like you can rip Larry Lucchino. You can rip

06:55John Henry. You can rip all of the, I think it's a Janet Marie Smith. Is she the ballpark

07:00designer? Anyway, what they did with Fenway is amazing and it's not going to change.

07:05You can say lipstick on a pig. You haven't been to Fenway Park. If you think it's just

07:09lipstick on a pig, it's, I understand people are big. The seats are small.

07:12Oh, they are. And, and the, but see those areas you're talking about, whether it's a top

07:17the green monster or it's or the Sam Adams, uh, sports deck over there, they made those

07:23a little bit more comfortable, right? The, uh, the originals are just still stuck to what

07:29it was like 1930. And you know, if you are a larger person, it, it obviously the feel

07:35being there is, is fun being, I always prefer being at a baseball game than watching it on

07:42television. But I am more along the lines where you don't have to tear Fenway down and

07:48build a new one. I would just like to see you put in some new seats, but I'm cool with

07:53that. Yeah. I just, I boned people could use better seats, but they tried to do that at

07:57the TD garden and the seats I think are even worse. Yeah. They made them smaller.

08:00Like they, they added cushions and they, they made it smaller. I was literally thinking

08:04the exact same thing. And it's more than cushion. I need a little bit of leg room, TD

08:08garden. You're right. But then you're going to be taking seats away. It's going to be

08:11less. I don't care. I don't really care about taking seats away. If you go to Citi Field or

08:15if you go to Yankee Stadium. I've never been that. I have to go. You're going to not be

08:18comfortable. Like you're, you are six, six. Am I going to be squeezed in there? Like you're

08:22just a very, you are an above average sized man, not in a negative light. Right. You're just,

08:26you're, you're a big guy. I guess maybe you might be right. Like, are you comfortable

08:30in any coach seat on a plane? No. So like, that's what the world is. Like, that's where

08:35we are. I mean, maybe they should think about us. Like I'm with the fat lady who's, who was

08:39trying to fly and say, you know what? They need to think about the larger and obese people.

08:44No, there should be seating for you. There should be seating for people like, you know, get like

08:48comfort plus at Fenway. Right. There should be like some, you know, Santo and coach. There should

08:53be some of that, but I guess I've never been to another stadium. So maybe you might be

08:57right. It'd probably be tight no matter where I went. All right. Well, we're going to get to

09:00help.

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