She recalled happier days on the playing field.
"I liked way back when Fisk was playing," Burke said.
But, she said, the management managed to screwed things up in that case too.
"They dissed him--is that the word, dissed?" she asked. "They sent him his contract a week late. It wasn't good. He should have stayed."
A seasoned Sox fan, Burke didn't have much confidence in team's ability to come back when they were behind by a few runs going into the eighth inning.
Unwilling to witness the defeat, Burke decided to head out.
She put together her two shopping bags, threw her pink polyester scarf over her shoulder and slowly trudged down the 30 rows--off to a senior meeting, she said.
This year Fenway is instituting a new alcohol policy which terminates the park's foamy Bud Light after two and half hours of play.
Nevertheless, most fans were sufficiently served to become marginally excited when the Red Sox had the go-ahead-run at bat in the bottom of the ninth.
Not before he struggled to a full count and brought the Fenway crowd to its feet did Sox batter John Valentin get called out on strikes to end the game.