Chief Nine
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- May 31, 2015
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The irony in all this is the person who blocked the new Fenway Park in 2000, Stephen Mindich, is now deceased.
John Harrington needed the Boston Phoenix holdings on Brookline Ave to make his Fenway Park II dream a reality and Mindich would not sell and the Yawkey Trust then decided to bail and JWH and friends wound up with the team.
What team is the most popular today is age driven - if you are older than 5o it is most likely the Red Sox but the Patriots now own the 18-49 demographic.
The time WILL come when the Patriots collapse and then Foxborough becomes a liability again. The Krafts have never had to deal with less than capacity crowds and I don't think Jonathan Kraft will be able to deal with a losing team. One thing we have learned in almost 50 years, if the Pats are winning, fans will tolerate Foxborough - if they are a bad team fans will not put up with it.
What nobody saw back in 2002 was how John Henry looked at the Kenmore/Fenway area and saw real estate gold and look at where it is now.
THIRTY FOUR years ago
Whatever happened to Dana Hersey? Always liked him, he seemed to have a good sense of humor and not to be too full of himself. Great voice as well