As a lifelong Red Sox fan and a big fan of Jerry Remy, I was interested to read about his new sports bar and grill on Boylston Street in Boston.
You can visit Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grill website or call at (617) 236-REMY.
Of course, New York's press had to respond. Here is an article by Mike Jaccarino from The New York Daily News:
Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grill offering Boston fans season pass - for $500
Leave it to Red Sox fans to pony up big bucks for seats - in a pub near Fenway Park.
Sox fans can guarantee themselves a table or barstool during games inside Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grill with a $500 season pass - a pub version of the pricey personal seat licenses hawked by the Giants and Jets.
"This $500 season-ticket package can deliver an experience as close to an actual season ticket holder as possible, at a fraction of the price," bar manager Don Bailey crowed to the Boston Globe.
The soon-to-open bar is owned by Sox broadcaster and former second basemanJerry Remy, who has a cult following in Red Sox Nation.
Yankees fans, never needing an excuse to bash their Beantown counterparts, said they wouldn't pay a dime to watch the Sox on TV.
"It's foolish, totally foolish, to pay to watch a Boston Red Sox game," said Rich Saunders, 44, a construction worker and life-long Yanks fan. "There's no way I would do it."
Some 170 Sox suckers have already coughed up the $500, and Bailey is hoping for another 130 to sign on.
But bar owners may be onto something - and several New York spots are mulling similar posh VIP packages.
Jose DeCaruz, 28, of the Bronx, said he'd gladly pay for a reserved spot where he could watch Derek Jeter & Co. play for another championship.
"It gets packed in the bars here and I'd rather have a pass to go in and watch the game without a hassle," he said.
Besides, $500 won't even buy you a prime seat for a single game at the Stadium.
That's one reason Saunders said he would sign up for a similar package "in a second."
"It's the Yankees," he said. "Money isn't important."
The Boston pub pass comes with $25 toward food and a free beer per visit - something for Sox fans to cry in after another beatdown by the Bombers.
Actually, it is a pretty good deal. The $500 seat pays for itself in just twenty visits. As far as the "beatdown by the Bombers" goes, lets see how the 2010 season goes.
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