How was your experience in Boston?

[sterlippo1]

Re: How was your experience in Boston?

Nah, not even the worst in New England. Up north, it's just as gray, a bit less damp, colder, and mud up to your hub caps. Then the black flies hatch, if you consider that's part of the weather.

unless you're talking coastal Maine (which i may agree with) the rest is not near the ocean, hence, not as bad . I have a buddy in Northern NJ and go there a couple times every spring and cant believe its so different right west of NYC

 

[tape]

Re: How was your experience in Boston?

(two people working four registers).

I feel like the four-register stands always have only two people any time I go to the Garden, and I've been about 10 times this season (5-6 Celtics games, 1 Bruins, and Hockey East tournament).

You can probably go ahead and blamed noted cheapskate J. Jacobs for that, since he owns the arena and the concessions company along with the resident hockey team.

 

[The Hallucination]

Re: How was your experience in Boston?

We very much enjoyed the food and drink. Having been there in '98 and '04, we didn't make too much of an effort at the historical/tourist stuff, other than bars, including sating one of our party's desire to see Cheers/Bull & Finch. Since I was two months shy of 21 last time around, I have to say that I like Boston much better when I can enjoy the bars. (In 2004, we were confused and dismayed to find the you-can-order-a-beer-with-your-parents exception to the drinking age does not work there like it does in Wisconsin.) The highlight was probably the Boston Brew Tour we did on Friday night.

I kind of hated TD Garden. There was nothing particularly wrong with it once we were in our seats, but getting in, especially on Saturday, was hellish. Is there just the one entrance gate, or did we just not see other options? Where we entered had people extremely packed together in a very unpleasant wall-to-wall people, can barely shuffle your feet kind of herd to get in. Also, the lower level concourse was similarly unpleasant the one time we ventured down from the balcony, as if the souvenir stands/concessions/entrance/something were not configured well to allow people to move about. We go to the Frozen Four every year, I know it's going to be crowded, but the entries and concourse at TD Garden seemed unusually bad.

Oh, and it's kind of a miracle we avoided any ankle/foot injuries. Cobblestones are bullsh**

 

[chickod]

Re: How was your experience in Boston?

unless you're talking coastal Maine (which i may agree with) the rest is not near the ocean, hence, not as bad . I have a buddy in Northern NJ and go there a couple times every spring and cant believe its so different right west of NYC

My wife is from there...everyone thinks NJ is all about the turnpike and GSP, but up north and west (Ramsey, Pompton Lakes, Wycoff) are some BEAUTIFUL areas. One would never know unless they have been there!

 

[chickod]

Re: How was your experience in Boston?

I kind of hated TD Garden. There was nothing particularly wrong with it once we were in our seats, but getting in, especially on Saturday, was hellish. Is there just the one entrance gate, or did we just not see other options?

Well, there are two, but the problem is that you are also entering North Station where 50% of the commuter rail trains come in every day. It IS congested...it's Boston, as I have mentioned before. Everything has been here 400 years so there are not a lot of options unless you want to go to the suburbs, which is not a good idea in this area given many people's propensity/ability to travel outside the city. Different for the Patriots, because it's only 8 days a year. You could NEVER have the Bruins, Celtics or Red Sox based outside the city...it doesn't work here. Thousands need to be within public transportation access. So the Garden is essentially on the site (next to) the "old" Garden. They "shoehorned" it in, which meant the only viable option was to put the parking underground and "compress" the concourses to fit on the existing footprint. Would it be nicer if the concourses were wider? Of course, but then the building would not have been able to be built on that footprint.

Yes, cobblestones are brutal, especially for the women who are wearing heels!

 

[walrus655321]

Re: How was your experience in Boston?

I feel like the four-register stands always have only two people any time I go to the Garden, and I've been about 10 times this season (5-6 Celtics games, 1 Bruins, and Hockey East tournament).

You can probably go ahead and blamed noted cheapskate J. Jacobs for that, since he owns the arena and the concessions company along with the resident hockey team.

If that's true, I've never noticed it before. The lines were unreal. Maybe that was more because a few stands were closed.

Like I said, I'll pay attention next week at the Cavs clincher.