I made my second trip of the year to Fenway Park this week, and as I sat in the bleachers and looked around for flying pizza, I realized that I had made a mistake.

About a month ago, I wrote about how I thought the Boston University club baseball team should play a spring tournament at the Red Sox’ home park. I still think it’s a brilliant idea, but considering the season that our softball team is having, I’m afraid I may have picked the wrong squad.

So I began to try to think of an appropriate way to honor these fine athletes.

Sure, I could spit out 800 words about how great the softball team is and how everyone should go watch their games, but that wouldn’t be much fun. No, I think that once again, the answer lies within the friendly confines of Fenway Park.

And I’m not just saying this because I’ve been a Red Sox fanatic since the second grade when I dressed up as former Red Sox first baseman Mo Vaughn.

The point is that I always wanted to come to BU for one reason: the chance to go to school within walking distance of Fenway Park. I knew that Warren Towers sucked, but I wanted to live there anyway just because there was a slim possibility I would be able to see the stadium from my dorm room.

Even though our school is so close to one of the most famous sporting facilities in the world, we hardly get to make use of it at all. And with the way our softball team is tearing up the America East, I think it’s finally time for that to change.

In fact, I think it’s time that Boston University officially adopts Fenway Park.

The BU Softball Field is certainly a nice place to play, but the ladies deserve a little upgrade for their amazing achievements thus far (27-9 record, record-breaking 47 home runs). I know that Fenway would require a few adjustments to make it softball-ready, but it would be worth it.

BU is in such a unique position, located essentially next door to a professional baseball field, it seems foolish not to take advantage of it. Imagine hosting postseason softball games at the historic ballpark and filling the 30,000-plus seats with Terrier fans – now, that sounds like a true home-field advantage.

Obviously the softball team would have to work around the Red Sox’ schedule, but the Sox play most of their home games at night, so I don’t see why BU couldn’t steal the field in the afternoon for a couple days a week. Plus, the softball team’s offense has been so unstoppable that many of their games end early because of the mercy rule, which would leave plenty of time for the grounds crew to get it ready for a Sox game at night.

But at the same time, softball still isn’t terribly popular at BU, so would it really be worthwhile for the school to invest in adopting Fenway? Well, with just a little creativity you can understand why it makes perfect sense.

You see, softball is simply the first step. Assuming the Red Sox agree to sell a portion of the ownership of Fenway Park to BU, then the school would have a right to use the facility in any capacity it sees fit. That means the club baseball team (which has also had its share of success this year) could also play games there too, instead of at its “home” field all the way out in Brighton.

But hey – why stop at sports?

For example, rather than spending university funds to rent out hotels for student housing, the administration could instead house kids in Fenway’s luxury boxes. Rooming at the Hyatt is not especially appealing to me, but if a dean sent an email asking me to live inside Fenway Park for a semester or two, I’d sign up in less than a second.

And what about those large lectures that hundreds of kids need to take but can’t all fit into a classroom on campus? I say we start holding them at Fenway. How cool would it be to look at your fall schedule and see Gate C as the location of your biology class?

My other plans for the Fenway adoption include letting the CFA students “express themselves” on the Green Monster while their building is being renovated and letting the CGS kids run around the bases during their recess.

I admit that other colleges have nicer buildings, real campuses and better sports teams. But BU has a chance to outdo the rest by adopting a professional sports stadium and holding everything there from softball games to science classes.

And if it ever happens, I’d finally be able to sleep easily knowing that my tuition dollars were going toward something truly worthwhile.

Bennett Gavrish, a freshman in the College of Communication, is a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at [email protected].