Not many places in the world can beat this view.

It’s only fitting that on the day of the Major League Baseball All Star Game, I have a post about baseball.

On Sunday I went to the Red Sox game - they played the Rays, and this turned out to be the second year in a row I went to a game on the last day of the season before the All Star break. (Last year I saw the Mets play a terrible game against the Rockies.)

It was a really lovely Sunday afternoon.

I like Sunday games because street parking is more wide open - no time restrictions on meters. But we found a non-metered spot where I usually like to park anyway over on the BU campus. This is a fun side story - when we pulled off Storrow Drive we were behind a blue car with Connecticut plates and an easily-identifiable bumper sticker. (“Honk if you’re a silly goose”, something like that.)

So we go, park, and we’re walking across to Fenway and there was a lot of honking and angry cars and I joked to my daughter there must be a lot of silly geese…and as we’re walking past the parking lot who should be pulling into said lot but the blue car.

I was very proud that not only do I know the area well enough to have beaten that car to that spot by a good 10 minutes (at least), but also they paid $55 to park there and we paid $0 to park slightly further away.

So it was a good day right off the bat. As I mentioned, the weather was beautiful. The food was good - I had a Fenway Frank, and also a sausage and pepper and some fries.

Four of us went. We had nice seats - you see them pictured above - I sat there with one daughter and Kathy and our youngest sat down the third base line.

I try to make it to Fenway Park at least once a season. I’m lucky to have spent so much time living so close to it - in some cases right down the street - and to be able to go somewhere people travel from across the country (and in some cases around the world) to see.

I admit when they were at the crossroads between renovating and building a new park, I fell in the camp of build a new one…but that’s because the new ballparks are all so beautiful. I’m sure Boston would have done a good job.

But we still have classic Fenway Park, and I still like going there.

It was a good, fast-moving game. (The Red Sox won their tenth in a row.)

We left in the 7th inning - I wanted to go to the store outside the park to see if anything appealed to me. (I really like their new City Connects and wondered if I’d see something I liked. I didn’t, as far as the City Connects…but I did get a green Fenway Park hat to run in.)

Turns out, we had seen all the scoring there was - and as an added bonus, I got to see Wally the Green Monster on our way out.

And we made it home in time for me to watch the final few innings of the Mets game.

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon.