2007 ALCS Game 1 - Obstructed View

Last night, for the first time, I went to a postseason game and didn't sit in the bleachers. After TLM won the opportunity to buy ALCS tickets we went online and got a couple of grandstand seats 3rd base side with the tag "possibly obstructed" affixed to them, though I figured we'd be fine once I saw that they were in row 3. Then we got there before the game and saw this:


Just when I thought we were the proud buyers of the worst seats in the house, I noticed someone settling into a seat in front of us - a seat directly behind the post. Unreal. That guy lasted all of two innings.

The Red Sox have absolutely no gripes about selling this ticket, and why should they? They'll gladly take your $95...they told you "possibly obstructed", didn't they? At least they gave you some warning, as opposed to building something new that wrecks the view you've had for 18 years without telling you. Wait...I've heard this story before.

The first inning or two was, as TLM put it, an "exercise in patience", and not just because of the (missing) view. I try to make it a point not to complain (that's a disclaimer), but just about everyone seated around us was tough to bear. My personal favorite was some guy behind us, pretending to be a Red Sox fan, who wouldn't stop talking about how Yankee Stadium is better than Shea and how his uncle loved the Whalers. I'm pretty sure TLM's favorite was this obnoxious kid who claimed to be related to Johnny Pesky and had a knack for standing up and blocking what precious little view we had (oh, and his real seat was 7 rows behind us, by the way).

Eventually, a few more innings passed, the Sox took a commanding lead, and these and a lot of the other fickle fans left, allowing TLM and I to upgrade our seats and watch the Red Sox win. I can't wait to get back to the bleachers tonight for Game 2 with some real fans.