Due the challenges that figure to be presented thanks to hockey being played at Fenway Park in January, and the subsequent construction on the park that is scheduled to follow, WEEI.com has learned that the Red Sox are still petitioning Major League Baseball to begin the 2010 season on the road. The MLB-released schedule for the ’10 season has the Red Sox beginning their regular season at Fenway on April 5 against the New York Yankees, although there was a provision within the announcement that said the schedule is “subject to change”.

“We continue to ask about the possibility of opening on the road,” said Jonathan Gilula, the team’s senior vice president of business affairs. “I think there still is (a chance of starting on the road). As the schedule is released it is subject to change, it is the type of change Major League Baseball is still looking at.”