Between the White Lines: Fluor Field at the West End

While taking Cameron his lunch on Tuesday, some of his co-workers were talking about "the Green Monster". It got me thinking that I haven't really seen the ballpark, other than the press box and Cameron's office. I mentioned to him that I would like to see the ballpark, so he gave Connor and I a tour. It was actually pretty neat!

We first started at "the Green Monster" (the scoreboard). I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting, but I was amazed at how big it was. The numbers they display are metal and the team names are either metal or a laminated cardboard (these are used for colleges); they are HEAVY!

Next stop was the locker rooms. The home locker room was set up for a presentation, so it wasn't set up as it would be during the season. We were, however, able to get a really good look at the visitor's locker room. I've never seen a locker room in person before (the only images I have in my head are from movies), but these were really nice! The lockers were bigger than I expected. The room itself was big, but I guess it would have to be in order to accommodate so many men. The weight room wasn't as big as I thought it would be, but it still had a lot of equipment. I guess I'm used to going to the gym and seeing all of the machines.

We then took a look in the dugouts. They're pretty typical dugouts. Cameron mentioned that behind the door was a bathroom. I kinda chuckled at that, but I guess it would come in handy if a game ran long.

I've been up in the press box, so we skipped that. I hadn't been in a suite before, so we went into one of them. I didn't realize how awesome they were. There's an air conditioned room that's set up with food to eat during the game. It has a huge window so if you were too hot, you could sit and watch the game inside while you cool off. There's a door that leads you down to an area with seats so you can sit outside and enjoy the game also. The view from up there is fantastic!