Category: Boston Red Sox (Page 3 of 5)

The Glow From Fenway

21 May, 2011 / Kat

Late Thursday night, around 10:30pm, I was walking down Commonwealth Avenue from work to Kenmore Station. It was foggy, misty and dark – unless you looked in the direction of Fenway Park. In that direction, it looked nearly dawn like. The Boston Red Sox – Detroit Tigers game had just ended with a walk-off single in the Red Sox’s favor by Carl Crawford, and the crowds were spilling from the ballpark into the area. But this section of Comm Ave was still unaffected.

Between the street lights, the glow of Fenway’s lights and massive new scoreboards, and the wetness of the air, this atmosphere just begged to be photographed.

Win A Private VIP Tour Of Fenway Park!

14 May, 2011 / Kat

The great team at Tickets for Charity has another giveaway for Boston Red Sox fans and baseball history buffs. By entering this contest, you could win a VIP tour of Fenway Park on May 25th. This tour involves features of the park not usually explored during routine tours of the historic venue. After your unique tour of America’s oldest ballpark, the Tickets for Charity crew will treat you to lunch.

To enter the giveaway, please click on this link. This contest runs until Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 6pm. A winner will be selected at random by Tickets For Charity.

Best of luck!

To learn more about my partnership with Tickets For Charity, read this earlier post. The organization sells popular sports and entertainment tickets and uses the profit to support a variety of charitable groups.

Tickets For Charity: Give Back By Getting The Tickets You Want

20 April, 2011 / Kat

I recently met the fabulously passionate staff of Tickets For Charity, an organization that uses the demand for sports and concert tickets to help charities nationwide.

Teams and concert promoters provide Tickets For Charity tickets to high-profile events which the organization turns around and sells at the market value. That premium price you would usually be paying then goes to a charity group as opposed to a profit margin. Tickets For Charity also develops VIP packages that provide fans access to events that they couldn’t get unless they were in the know.

Currently, Tickets For Charity has Boston Red Sox regular season tickets and both Boston Bruins and Celtics playoff tickets. With each purchase, you can designate what group receives the charitable portion of your purchase price, including the official charities of the Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox.

I hung out with the Tickets for Charity crew at Jerry Remy’s (a very neat take-in in itself), and was impressed at how dedicated they are to the cause and how knowledgeable they are about sports. This is code for, “We had a long conversation about the woes of the Buffalo Bills” and “We talked college hockey.” These aren’t folks oblivious to the passion of sports fans – they’re sports fans themselves.

If you’re going to be paying out the nose to get to a must-see sporting event – especially a playoff game – why not help out others in the process?

During the Red Sox season, Tickets for Charity will be giving you the opportunity to win some unique ticket packages, including Green Monster seats for a Yankees-Red Sox game, Fenway Park tours plus lunch, and tickets to the Red Sox Foundation’s Picnic in the Park. Stay tuned – I’ll have more info as we get closer to these giveaways!

Drive Up in Red Sox Style

1 November, 2010 / Kat

Example Massachusetts Jimmy Fund license plate

An example of the new release of Red Sox license plates that you could win from Ace Ticket.

One thing that struck me when I moved to Boston over six years ago was the amount of Boston Red Sox material plastered all over cars. At first, my knee jerk reaction was, “Oh look – that car has Red Sox stuff on it! You never see that in Binghamton or Rochester….oh wait, I live in Boston now.” And when I say, “At first,” I mean until six months ago.

If you are in need of some Red Sox love on your car, Ace Ticket is sponsoring a Red Sox License Plate Giveaway until November 12th. The winner will receive number 17 in the new release of Jimmy Fund Red Sox license plates (which have a preface of JF), fully paid for the first year.

To enter, email platecontest@aceticket.com with the subject “Number 17,” which will add you to the official Ace Ticket mailing list (of which you can always unsubscribe.) For more rules, regulations, and legal fun, check out the contest’s official Facebook page.

In the interest of full disclosure, a representative from Ace Ticket’s PR agency emailed me this information, but I was not compensated in anyway for the post.

In a Four-Year-Old’s World, Jason Bay is Still a Member of the Boston Red Sox.

1 January, 2010 / Kat

Let's Go Fishing - a childhood fave for me and thousands of other kids

Playing “Let’s Go Fishing” with my favorite four-year-old (a cousin of my fiance’s) this New Year’s Day with the dull portion of the Winter Classic flickering in the background, the topic of conversation turned from what kindergarten would be like next year to the Boston Red Sox. Favorite Four-Year-Old, like every child born and raised in the Greater Boston area, understood that he was a Red Sox fan prior to understanding that hands were for picking things up, not chewing on.

Over the summer, Favorite-Four-Year-Old and I had played “Big Papi” and “Jason BAAAYYY” in his backyard – a catch-tag megamix named after his two favorite members of the Red Sox roster. This afternoon, I wondered if he knew what had conspired a few days before.

We held our faux primary colored fishing rods over the faux thrashing primary colored fish. I sighed, and asked the question that had to be asked. “Who is your favorite Red Sox player?”

Favorite Four Year Old’s head snapped up, forgetting about the fish. “Jason BAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!” he exclaimed, proudly, with a giant grin on his face. He quickly returned to faux-fishing.

I was left with a dilemma. Was I susposed to be the one to have the “free agency” talk with Favorite Four-Year-Old, or was this a talk that his father or grandfather needed to have with him? This was an important talk in the life of a young sports fan, and I felt that it needed to come from a close relative, and not just little ol’ me.

I looked around, trying to find Favorite Four-Year-Old’s father. He was busy in another room eating. His grandfather was no where in my sightline either. Favorite Four-Year-Old didn’t seem to sense the turmoil within me.

So I said nothing and set to not lose too poorly in “Let’s Go Fishing.” In that four-year-old’s world, Jason Bay could still be his favorite Red Sox player. If only just for one more day.