Twenty years later, the Green Monster seats still serve up some of the best views in baseball. Though former Red Sox players recalled one feature they wished still remained. 'The only thing they ever messed up was not keeping those Coke bottles.' More:
BOSTON — On the final day of the 2002 season, Jason Varitek stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning with theHe crushed a solo homer to left, the ball landing in the net above the Green Monster.“That’s the only offensive stat I remember,” said Varitek, now the team’s game-planning coordinator.
The planning for the game atop the Monster started months ago with NESN senior coordinating director Mike Narracci and Red Sox senior vice president of marketing and broadcasting Colin Birch spearheading the endeavor. Four headsets, three monitors and an extra camera were set up in the section with NESN play-by-play man Dave O’Brien joined by analysts Tim Wakefield and Kevin Youkilis. NESN had their booth above home plate also ready to go, in case of bad weather at the last minute.
“The only thing they ever messed up was not keeping those Coke bottles,” Youkilis said. “I hit them in the ‘07 ALCS and it was the coolest thing ever.”
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