Home stand begins
FENWAY PARK — Strangest sight of the day — so far: I was just at the dedication for the new Jordan’s Furniture third base deck, just beyond the outfield grandstand seats in the left field area of Fenway.
As Larry Lucchino and Jordan’s Elliot Tatelman dedicated the new, expanded pavilion, joking about the furniture giant’s World Series promotion gamble in which customers get their purchase free if the Sox win the World Series, team employees, dressed in uniforms, stood on podiums distanced throughout the area, posed in various actions, holding still as if they were life-size statues.
I walked up to one that was wearing a glove and posing as if going for a grounder.
“So, how long do you have to stand like this?” I asked.
His eyes darted down toward me, almost in a desperate plea for help. Other than that, nothing, as if we were out in front of Buckingham Palace.
I tapped him on the shoulder with my notebook. A small grin escaped his lips.
But still, nothing.
“They just started like 10 minutes ago,” a nearby bartender tried to inform me. “We’re going to start throwing ice at them soon.”
So, if you’re coming to the park you might want to hoof your way to the third base line for that display later on.
Meanwhile, as they cut the ribbon to the new area, Fenway architect Janet Marie Smith also on hand, Tatelman wondered aloud, “How about between innings we bring some mattresses up here and sell some?”
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