On balance, Eilis O’Neil says Wednesday was a pretty great day.
However, O’Neil wishes she got to see her favorite Red Sox player, Andrew Benintendi. She didn’t — thanks largely to a flying Bud Light, one of many that was thrown, often aimlessly, toward Red Sox by fans as the duck boats rolled through Boston during the World Series victory parade.
O’Neil, a 17-year-old senior at Windham High School in New Hampshire, says she was standing in front of the 7-Eleven near the corner of Tremont and Park streets around 12:15 p.m. when the duck boat with Benintendi arrived.