PRESSURE MOUNTS ON RED SOX TO OFFER BALLPARK FINANCE PLAN

          MA state officials "are pressing" Red Sox CEO John
     Harrington to "quickly detail his plan to pay for the team's
     proposed" $600M Fenway Park project, according to Meg
     Vaillancourt of the BOSTON GLOBE.  State Rep. Michael Ruane,
     who chairs a special committee formed to review ballpark
     plans, said that the team "probably needs to file a
     financial plan within two weeks if it expects the
     Legislature to act before its scheduled adjournment, in
     July."  Ruane: "If they don't have a financial plan in front
     of us by April 1, it may be too late to act on it this year"
     (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/16).  One state government source suggested
     to the BOSTON HERALD that the team is "in a panic" over the
     impact that Boston's "Big Dig" development's estimated $1.4B
     cost overrun could have on the availability of public funds
     for the ballpark (BOSTON HERALD, 3/16).