I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

So, I've been gone for about a week now and I have a lot to catch up on. Let's get started.

Last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday my dad and a family friend, Danny, came to visit me. It was a quick trip, so we mainly tried to check out the main tourist attractions in Boston, along with me showing them around the ballpark and they also were able to take in a game. We had a really great time, doing everything from going to Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall near the harbor and also getting to walk the field and check out the playing surface of Fenway Park. One of the best things we did before they left was going on a duck tour of Boston on Saturday morning. It was a really cool way to see the city, driving us around downtown and some hot tourist spots along with taking a quick ride through the Charles River. If you don't know, duck tours are city tours in duck boats from WW2, if you're ever in a city where they do one, I highly recommend it. I was able to get Dad and Danny tickets to the Friday night game against the Orioles, one in which the Sox won, Papelbon closed, and I was on drag, so they could see me work! I'm sure there is a lot more I could write about their visit and what we did, but I'm gonna keep it brief. We had a blast, and I'm really thankful and glad that they decided to take time away from work to come visit.

We've had a 7 game homestand that ends today, so Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday I've been spending a good bit of time at the ballpark. I'm actually already at 45 hours on the week, and I haven't even clocked in for work today yet, and I'm on the schedule for Friday and Saturday too, this could be a very nice paycheck!

Really quickly, this past weekend, Red Sox legendary left fielder Jim Rice was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In honor of his induction to Cooperstown the Sox decided it was appropriate to retire his #14 for the club. So, for this honor, me, along with 3 other guys from the crew and Griff worked on mowing a huge 14 in left field. I worked mainly on the mapping out of the numbers with Griff. The toughest part of mapping out the numbers is making them look exactly like the Red Sox number font, as it's pretty unique. But we measured it using a certain scale and just blew it up, it turned out well. Overall, I think the 5 of us did a really great job. Dave, the head boss, gave us all nice, big pictures of the number in left field. Hopefully Jim Rice appreciated it, I was proud to work on it.

Here are some pictures of the #14, hopefully they look great to you all!





Other than that, I'm off to work for the day. Luckily we have an afternoon game today, so work should be ending about 5 or 6. After the game most of the grounds crew is getting together at one of the MIT frat houses where some of the guys live for the annual Boston Red Sox Grounds Crew party. Summer interns like me start leaving next week, so this I guess if the first of the last hurrah's before we're all gone.

Have a great day everyone, love you all, thanks for reading. Sorry for my absence, just a busy dude I suppose. Go Red Sox!