Green Monster

Baseball in Boston is something to celebrate every season, especially in the years of late. No longer is Fenway Park just an old school ballpark with the Green Monster towering in left field. No, now the Red Sox Nation has become perennial favorites.

It seems funny that a team that has problems winning its own division has had such huge success in the MLB playoffs, but after decades of devastation at the hands of the Yankees, why not?

Last season the Red Sox blessed Fenway with its second World Series victory in four years. It was also the first time the club won the American League East division since 1990. The year the Boston Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino, 2004, they won from a wild card spot. This had to put baseball purists in a tough spot. Do you want to see a historic team like the Red Sox win the World Series or do you want a two round playoff.

Of course that does not really matter because the Red Sox did win. Every family that hung onto their Red Sox tickets, through all the seasons of disappointment, celebrated that day in October. Fenway was excited and MLB had to be pleased that the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox was reinvigorated.

This year has much of the same for the ballpark built on the remains of a train yard in 1912. The Red Sox are on their way to their second consecutive American League East division title with Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz swinging for the fences and J.D. Drew making good on years of potential. Kevin Youkilis has been a pleasant surprise at first base and the pitching has held up with Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jon Lester, ad Josh Beckett in the starting rotation. Jonathan Papelbon is once again a solid save man making sure that leads are safe.

Red Sox tickets are among the most desired in a city rolling in great sports teams. The Patriots are Super Bowl favorites, or at least solid Super Bowl contenders every year, and the Boston Celtics have turned things around with new trio. The Boston green is flowing as sports are rocking in this diehard sport town.