Life in Boston

Jim Ingraham
JIngraham@News-Herald.com
It’s a small world. My cab driver in Boston Friday told me he was hoping the Phillies would have won the National League pennant _ naturally, the Red Sox will win the AL, because he said his wife is the aunt of Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels.
That may have helped the cab driver to get a ticket to a World Series game, if it is, indeed, played in Boston. Because Boston is a bit pricy.
Another cab driver told me that the top priced ticket to Fenway Park for a game in the American League Championship Series was $2,900. I didn’t check that out, but I’m almost certain that’s wrong.
That price sounds like the price for one seat to ALL postseason home games at Fenway, although I could be wrong. Remember, we’re talking about a city that is charging $400-$500 per night for most downtown hotel rooms.
And that doesn’t count what they’ll charge next weekend, when there apparently is an international regatta in town, which a cab driver told me routinely draws upwards of 600,000.
That, again, sounds a little high to me. The cab driver said this regatta takes place on the Charles River on the third weekend of every October, and is annually the single biggest event in Boston every year.
I’m no expert on aquatic sports, but when the cab driver told me this I said, “How can something that big be going on here and most of us in the rest of the country have never heard about it?’’
He said he didn’t know, and acted like it was our problem, not his, but then added that the Patriots will be at home next weekend, too, as will the Red Sox, for Games 6 and 7 with the Indians, if the series goes that far.
With the Patriots busy next weekend I guess that means Tom Brady won’t be attending a Red Sox-Indians game wearing an Indians cap.