Watch the Trailer for a Documentary About Grief, Bucket Lists, and the Magic of Fenway Park...
Everyone has a bucket list. One item on my bucket list has always been working on the grounds crew at Fenway Park. I used to tell Susan that when I retired, I was gonna work on the grounds crew at Fenway. That it would only be 81 days, more if they made the playoffs and won the World Series. She laughed, and then I laughed too. But I always finished with, "I'm serious, Hon!"
Over the years I watched a lot of Red Sox baseball, even while I was Susan's caregiver. After I finished wound care at the house, the last medical procedure I was responsible for each day before preparing her nightly meds, Susan would tell me to grab a snack, go into the living room, and watch the rest of the game. During the most difficult time of our lives, baseball remained my only escape, and Susan knew it.
After Susan passed on May 9th of 2025, I began watching every game. And for 9 innings, sometimes more, I was able to detach and enjoy myself. That's when my youngest son Dylan and I started talking bucket list and groundskeeping.
Dylan got in touch with Big Cat, and he got in touch with Jared Carrabis, and Jared made my dream come true. He got me on the grounds crew at Fenway for one incredible game. It was the last regular season game of 2025, against the Yankees, and it came after two crushing defeats. The Yankees were on the verge of sweeping us at home, in the comfortable surrounds of Fenway Park.
It was an important game in many ways…
Jared got four of us in. Along with me, Dylan, his wife Lexi, and a cameraman named Fraser MacMannis, who worked with Lexi and was there to film. Fraser was a diehard Sox fan like the rest of us, and standing on the field holding a camera was his dream come true. Maybe even one of his bucket list items.
It was a great day, and in a lot of ways, it helped me make some sense of my path forward without the love of my life.
In February of 2019, Dylan and Lexi released the video, "My Dad, the Facebook Addict", which went viral in the US and the UK, was one of 18 short films that were chosen out of 1,000 to compete in the Somerville International Film Festival, and was the reason Dave hired me to work at Barstool nearly seven years ago.
The two of them have been working hard on this documentary. I've only seen the trailer, and if it's any indication of what the finished product will be, then it's gonna be incredible.
At its core, it's about finding a way to keep living a full life as a way to honor the person you've lost.
Enjoy the trailer!