Keller @ Large: Stephen King Is Wrong About Fenway Park Netting
BOSTON (CBS) - After several horrible accidents in which balls and bats seriously injured spectators last year, Major League Baseball made the teams put up extra protective netting along the foul lines, a move applauded by the victims.
But for some of the folks in the box seats who now have mesh between themselves and the field, this safety precaution is itself a horror show.
That appears to be the position of the king of horror, writer Stephen King, who has seats near the Red Sox dugout.
In the Boston Globe, King complains that the netting is "taking the taste and texture out of the game," and makes him feel like he's "paying good money to sit in a cage."
"There's something almost ludicrous about wrapping America's baseball stadiums in protective gauze when any idiot with a grudge can buy a gun and shoot a bunch of people," he writes. "I'd much rather see some action taken on that little problem."
I didn't realize it was an either/or situation.
King's choice of words is confusing. How can applying protective gauze to a situation where serious blood has been shed be "ludicrous" when it seems like such common sense?
If the "good money" is the problem, I'm sure he could find cheaper seats with a netting-free view.
The man's entitled to his opinion. But reflecting on the victims and their enduring injuries, the sense of entitlement leaves a bad taste.
And you know how important taste and texture can be.
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