If Cleveland can say goodbye to the name 'Indians,' why can't we say goodbye to Fenway Park?

[Ohiogal]

What say you, Red Sox fans?

From The Boston Globe.

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We just spent a full, albeit short, major league season with canned crowd noise echoing through our ballparks and cardboard cutout fans dotting the seats. It was weird, awkward, hollow. Yet somehow we made it, though sports being what sports is, a few old-timers in Flatbush likely lament it would have been way better had their bums won it all for Brooklyn and not LA.

If the Red Sox announced this weekend that their days at Fenway were finished, that a new ballpark in the Back Bay was on the way, say, for the 2025 season, would we be wrecked? Oh, a few of us, for sure.

The old joint opened in 1912, in case you hadn’t heard, and we have a thing here for history … and an undying love of rickety seats and sightlines more bizarre than a funhouse mirror.

I just think the hue and outcry among Red Sox Nation would be but a fraction of what it would have been a year ago, before news of a mysterious disease began to trickle in from Wuhan. We’ve changed. We’ve changed in ways we’re just beginning to realize, in ways we won’t fully understand for years post-pandemic.

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/18/sports/if-cleveland-can-say-goodbye-name-indians-why-cant-we-say-goodbye-fenway-park/

[bottomofthehill]

1. Ummm , no

Let Fenway be Fenway

[KPN]

2. Heresy!

[relayerbob]

3. As long as teams do it I'm fine

I personally can't stand it when cities use taxpayer funds to build stadiums

[matt819]

4. They said goodbye to Indians because it was offensive

Not because it was old.

[Docreed2003]

5. Nope...I love Fenway...crappy sight lines and all

Frankly, if you buy a ticket online, most services allow you to have a "virtual view" from that seat location and even if they don't there are plenty of sites out their where you can research your seat view before buying tickets. Fenway, like Wrigley, has adapted to modern times while preserving the history.

[JDC]

6. This is stupid

[Ohiogal]

7. It's an opinion piece ..

[bluedigger]

8. It's a stupid opinion piece.

The name of the Cleveland baseball team and the place of employment of the Boston Red Sox have nothing to do with one another.

[JDC]

9. I get it, but the comparison does not align

It feels more like a John Henry PR plant piece to seed the push for a new stadium.