You would also have better luck finding the holy grail buried somewhere in Boston than ever getting a new stadium built in today's age.... There will be an absurd amount of pushback and even thats underseller things
Completely disagree. Being able to smoke a joint behind 2nd base watching a Dead show was one of the highlights of concert attending life time.
This figuratively happened at the urinal troughs all the time. Larry did a remarkable job renovating the park. I went as a kid in the 70’s and the sausage fest at the trough is still a horror I can’t quite get out of my mind. Just getting rid of this ode to the Roman baths was a huge step forward.
Yeah, that was something. As a ten-year old boy standing on my tippy toes to take a leak while seeing a seventy-year old guy peeing directly across from me was certainly an experience.
When was your last visit to Fenway?
I remember as a kid going to many games at Fenway and not wanting to go to the bathroom due to those "troughs". So for just updating the bathrooms he deserves a lot of credit.
And let’s not forget Janet Marie Smith who may have been Lucchino’s best hire after Theo Epstein. They took a place that was falling down and turned it into a place where hundreds of thousands of visitors travel to Boston to experience.
I had the exact same interaction walking into the park on Jersey Street before a World Series game one year. It may have been '04 because he was pretty goddamn happy.
Larry Lucchino dies: Former Red Sox president was 78 (bostonglobe.com)
I was going to add...I would say Camden Yards was probably the most important stadium built in the last 100 years. It ended the era of the multi-purpose, way-too-big-for-baseball stadiums and completely changed the world's perception of what a baseball stadium should look like. Nearly every team in baseball now has a stadium that owes at least some of its design to the Camden idea...and most of the exceptions to that statement (i.e. the Rays, A's, and White Sox) are teams who are trying to get out of their leases.
Haven't you heard of the saying "Speak no ill of the dead"? It would be a good idea for you to shut up. The man passed just a few hours ago. There were alot of factors that went into the PawSox move. Some but Not All of the blame can be placed at Larry Luchino's feet. I'm not saying that Larry was a Saint but to put it in sports terms, on the Scoreboard of life, Larry had more positives than negatives and lived a successful life.
I saw him at Fenway a number of times over the years. I never saw him without that red cap (or an exact duplicate).
I am super surprised not to see Theo's name in the Lucky Tree. Maybe it's in the next paragraph?
I'm 48 and grew up in CT as a Sox fan. Every summer my parents and my friend's parents would drive us up to Boston for one game during the summer & I still have a vivid memory to this day of being 10 or 12 and standing at the trough with dude's hogs out everywhere just pissing into this common thing.
Couldn’t agree more, ever the pugnacious pugilist I loved to (sports) hate. This ownership really misses having someone who can stand out in front credibly and save them from themselves at the mike.
Fact, thanks for setting the record straight! Two years before he graduated from Law School…look how our boys grown up
Don't know about being an asshole but he was from a bygone era where people stood up for themselves and fought back when needed.
Likewise. KKK was no match for him. Larry would call him by his last name and shit all over him.
PPS: And no, unfortunately microbrews do not qualify as domestic beers.
