An Impressive Lineup

Father-son night at the Red Sox game, and it turned out to be a star-sutdded one at that.  Emphasis on stud.  Took Andrew in for a night game, and after a quick visit to see Annie over at Brigham and Women's it was off to Yawkey Way for the main event - a sausage sub for Andrew, natch, not the baseball game.

So there we were, Andrew had been craving a sausage all day, so we stopped at El Tiante's to grab one, and lo and behold, who was there, but the main man himself.  Of course, as readers of this blog know, I couldn't resist, so I had Andrew pose with the Sox legend. (Note the foot-long Cuban cigar in his shirt pocket.)

As we walked away, to put age in perspective, Andrew said, why did you want me to take my picture with the cashier?  He had no idea who the Sox legend of the 1970s was, though he would soon see Luis Tiant on the jumbotron as part of a Red Sox history montage.  But I thought it was still nice of Andrew to have posed so happily with who he thought was a vendor.

And for the record, Andrew got his sausage sub.  Me, I went with the Cuban sandwich.

Inside fabled Fenway, great seats await.

The son and the skyline

And since there's ALWAYS a Lowell connection, who do I bump into but my friend, former Lowell PD Captain and current Fitchburg Police Chief Bob DeMoura.  Don't be surprised so see his name popping up elsewere in the near future.

Time to head out of Fenway, so we can get home to watch the Bruins game

But not before one more stop, and yet another reunion of friends.

 Time for a quick hello with Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, and retired State Police Lt. Robert Long, who would end up being the first witness to testify in the state's case against accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger 

To REALLY make us feel old, the three of us had worked on some of the same cases, albeit from different perspectives more than 25 YEARS AGO!.  Ugh.

Still, great times, great friends, great father-son night, great baseball.

Yep, life ain't just good, it's great.