Thanks Rob…I’ve been waiting to hear more about this since, well, October.

I think they should move them in. Crawford, AGon, Ortiz, Drew, Ellsbury, not to mention Kalish, Salty, Lowrie, Varitek. These guys would benefit greatly.

I hate historical societies. Why should they have any say in the rights of land owners? Thats a rhetorical question. I’m not interested any arguments against my opinion.

I suppose my question would be “historically, what has the depth of the right field fence always been, and what is so historical about the fence’s depth that causes it to have to undergo a review by the Boston Landmarks Commission and the Massachusetts Historical Society?”

This may come as a shock but as a Yankee fan I feel moving the bullpen in would be awful. There is something great about Fenway being the same all these years and changing even that small part would be wrong. And yes I am not a fan of the new Yankee Stadium. I understand why it was done but I don`t have to like it.

This probably fell through because the Red Sox wasnt going to pay the ransom fee that the BLC and MHS would require to approve. They can take this statement anyway they want, all politics.

Acrually, The bull pens were not an original part of the stadium. They were built in the early part of the 1940′s. Most speculate that they were built to accomodate Ted Williams. I have not heard any confirmation about this, but I suspect it’s true. So if the bull pens were’nt part of the original stadium, why would they have any historical value as far as the historical society is concerned. I think Thom is correct about the fees and the politics.

Travis, Fenway has changed many many times over the years. In no way am I a fan of a new stadium, but updates have to be made in order to accommodate the ever changing needs of the game and it’s players and fans. Moving the bullpens a few feet wouldn’t change the integrity of the park. And as Flightstar pointed out, our lefty hitters would definitely benefit from it.

As a fan, I would have loved to see the fence pulled in 8 to 10 feet.Could make the difference between a LH slugger coming here, or not,and would have been interesting to see how it affected HR totals.Same thing for attracting a reliever who would prefer more space to move around in.I can’t think of a logical reason why MHS would care. It’s probably about what Thom said.FEES.

It’s about the money that Massachusetts won’t pay the Redsox for the renovation of a historic commercial structure. Massachusetts has paid 20% via tax credit for the prior phases.

Landmarks had already approved it.

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhctax/taxidx.htm

FYI, since Fenway is a designated or registered historical landmark, they do need approval to make alterations to that landmark. there are tax benefits to being a “landmark”, the downide is the approvals needed to change the landmark structurally.

I am glad they won’t be doing this, as if it helps our lefthanded hitters, it would definately help other teams such as the Yankees. I prefer to have hitters like Gonzalez who can hit instead of sluggers who just grip it ‘n rip it.

Freddy Lynn really used the Monster.He deeply regrets not having played out his career in Boston,and it probably cost him a 400 HR career. Boggs was a magician,and may have cost himself a 4000 hit career by leaving.Yaz was incredible at going the other way. His numbers speak for them self. Ted W refused to go the other way. He should have played at NY with Dimaggio here.Ted would have hit 700 there,and a 1000 without the war. Joe D might have hit 700 playing next to his brother Dom at Fenway,and 1000 without his military service and early retirement.A-Gone is a blank page waiting for numbers.With the hope that he will stay healthy and play 10 years here,it should really be fun to watch.600 career HR’s,maybe?

move in the fences? What’s next $ 20.00 beers, this organization will do anything to make more money. What’s the reason more homer’s? or more money to make, What a bunch of phonies, Carl Crawford has never hit more then 20 homers, all that money for a singles hitter with no power. Good luck

Wonder how they got approval to tear down the LF screen. Now, that was a landmark!

I though it intereating.

They should tear down the whole park

dman should brace himself,Ference was not striding when he hit him,

What about the Prust hit?

The guy is not a dirty player, just a dumb player. He knows the rules. Man up, apoligize and take a vacation.

all of you guys calling him out haven’t played hockey ( or a lick of good hockey ever) he was going full speed, towards the boards, and had to make a split second decision, where he though he was getting the shoulder….unfortunate hit, deserves some punishment, but it was not a purposeful hit

he won the battle in the corner , McDonagn unfortunately miss judge and turn his back to Andrew .  no suspension in my eye .  SUck happens

The Boston baboons are at it again they  should just kick the whole team out of the league  this is hockey not MMA  also Marchant the rat gav a low blow punch during a scrum bunch of freakin baboons not hockey players. Even a long time bruins sports writer said yesterday they are going too far and deserve the reputation there getting as a bunch of goons