Red Sox ownership is "again eyeing an expansion" for Fenway Park, with an estimated $4M in work planned, which includes "more dugout-area seating for fans, new suites, a right-field grandstand bar and a removable bullpen field wall so the park can fit regulation FIFA soccer and college football games," according to Goodison & McGovern of the BOSTON HERALD. The plans for a regulation FIFA pitch "raise the question of whether Fenway’s owners could be open to hosting" the Revolution's MLS matches. The Red Sox also want to "add 124 new dugout seats for fans -- 110 in the infield and 14 in the outfield -- by replacing the existing field wall and extending the dugouts, camera pits and seating by one row toward the field." A planned right-field grandstand bar "would replace grandstand seats in the top six to seven rows of Sections 5 to 7 and a portion of Section 4." It would "include bar rails and stools, with seating for 92 people on a new concrete platform." The changes "would result in a net loss of 367 grandstand seats." The four new “day of game” suites "would be installed at the press level of the park, beneath the existing overhanging roof, in left and right fields." The club also is "seeking approval to replace" Fenway Park's “Pesky’s Pole” and "install a new 15-foot-by-42.5-foot-long LED video board in place of the smaller Cumberland Farms sign in right field" (BOSTON HERALD, 8/18).
