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November 07, 2008
Fenway renovations nearing completion
Boston Red Sox execs say the latest round of renovations to Fenway Park - mostly waterproofing, replacing old seats, and adding more upper-deck seats down the first-base line - will bring them close to concluding their multi-year plan to revamp the 94-year-old ballpark, with only small maintenance projects to follow. And they said lots of nice things about staying put for the long haul:
"We are committed to Fenway Park - short-term, middle-term, long-term," team president Larry Lucchino said today as the Red Sox unveiled their winter renovation plans. "We're going to be here. No thought has been, or is being given to a new ballpark."
"There's no reason they couldn't play here for generations to come," project leader Janet Marie Smith said. "There's no reason it should become physically obsolete. It survived the domes and it survived the multipurpose arenas. It’s back again."
if every city had owners who did this most of the b.s. that surrounds especially baseball would not happen.
even though the current red sox ownership obtained that franchise through commish bud's usual inside dealing, they are not holding the mass. taxpayers hostage...
