ROOM WITH A VIEW: RENOVATION TO TAKE SEATS FROM CINERGY

          Cinergy Field will have "nearly" 14,000 outfield seats
     removed "to accommodate construction of" the Reds' new
     ballpark, according to Dan Klepal of the CINCINNATI
     ENQUIRER.  Reds Managing Exec John Allen confirmed that the
     seats are to be removed after the 2000 season and will
     affect "only a handful of games during the 2001 and 2002
     seasons."  The Reds will continue to play in the "partially
     demolished" stadium, with 39,000 seats, until the "new home
     is ready" in 2003.  Allen, on the loss of seating: "We won't
     lose any advertising signage, and there are only a few games
     when we draw more than 38,000. ... So the impact will be
     minimal."  Tickets "sell for about $7" for the seats that
     will be removed (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 1/11).