Red Sox Game

Just one of those things. It spans across countries, across cultures, across languages. The experience to go to a Red Sox game is more than the ultimate fantasy of a baseball game fan, but it has not any less of a significance for anyone - even if they happen to hate watching sports.

Sure, it has been commercialized to a stage that parallels political campaigns. From the way to the stadium with hundreds of shady characters buying and selling tickets, to the entrance with a number of fan merchandise, to the stadium itself covered in banners and every free inch of space around the walkways filled in with food stalls, and you have your mandatory hot dog and coke guys walking around and making an extra buck the entire night. But that's just how it is these days. If it wasn't for the money involved in it, it would have been left out like a blind dog by the street and would have never been perfected and polished to the stage where each and every game is a piece of art, giving spirit and inspiration to young and old alike.

The energy is undeniable. The thousands of people piling to get in feed expectations from the start. There is something about so many people in one place, all thinking positively about achieving yet another victory. Once you find your way to the stadium instead, after going through the maze of dungeon-like walkways, you are greated by an amazing site. A garden of eden amidst the concrete jungle of Boston. It illuminates (under the stadium lights) the healthiest green light. The whole field shines like an emerald, rewarding whoever decides to look at it and enjoy it an eternal bliss of serenity.

I refuse to go beyond this on expressing the experience. Sure, there was an actual game to follow, but it was the energy of the people around this amazing place that really created the experience for me and presented itself as one of those times where the power of the people really exists in unmeasurable, yet just as real proportions.

I leave on this note - no matter who you are, what you enjoy and how much you like (or not) sports, reward yourself with this experience at least once in your life. If you regret it, come and complain to me about it :)