Red Sox Winter Weekend in Review

Changes Needed

The events on Saturday were too close together and got in the way of checking out of my room on Saturday, the deadline for which was 11 am.  All due respect to Foxwoods, but Friday nights cost $229 for a room, so a second night ($400 for a Saturday night, but was sold out anyway), even with a storm coming, was not a feasible option.

Perhaps some sort of premium ticket which could guarantee a seat in an event would be a good idea.  There were premium areas for season ticket holders, perhaps another area for higher priced ticket holders could guarantee more access.  This writer was just ten minutes late, due to checking out, for the Outfielder event with my all-time favorite player, Fred Lynn,  but the line to get a seat was at least 50 people long and if I wanted to get a seat at the Infielder event, I couldn’t wait in the other line.  Then, during the infielder event, I knew that I couldn’t watch that whole thing or I would never have gotten a seat in the 1986 team event as they overlapped by 15 minutes.  Even leaving early from the Infielder event where Pedroia was breaking up the room with his jokes, I barely got a seat in the 1986 event.  There was no way to see the 1986 event then go to the event with Pedro Martinez and Jason Varitek for which people started lining up early.

Space the events out more.  There was only the Town Hall on Friday night.  A couple player events could happen that evening as well as the player events could be spaced out into the evening on Saturday.  Someone who took the time to come to this event (I came from 3 hours away) should be able to see every event if they want to.  If you are not coming with kids and don’t need to know how fast you can run or throw a ball, the events on top of each other also leave you little time for enjoying the trophy display, of which my brief view was spectacular, and the merchandise area.