The Red Sox Keep Building & Building…
In order to keep up their revenues and cash flowing, the Evil Empire 1A, I mean the Boston Red Sox, have yet again added new seats this year to Fenway Park.
From Boston.com: The Boston Red Sox and the Coca-Cola Co. unveiled the “Coca-Cola Corner,” a new section of 412 seats in Fenway Park that will be topped with a large illuminated sign above the new section.
The “family friendly” section, which will include picnic tables, will be located on the State Street Pavilion upper level, near where the left-field foul line meets the Green Monster, the Red Sox said. The seats will be available at $75 each.
The section will also include space for 100 standing-room patrons at $25 per ticket.
The Coca-Cola Corner was previously occupied by luxury suites that were built for the 1999 All-Star Game, said Sam Kennedy, Red Sox executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer.
Luxury suites in both that area and in other parts of the park are being removed from Fenway as part of efforts to offer more seats that cost under $100 this season, Kennedy said.
Collectively, those luxury suites could accommodate about 120 people; by removing those suites as well as by other measures, Kennedy said the Red Sox will be able to offer about 960 additional tickets this season when standing room space is included.
Fenway’s capacity for night games this season will be 38,888 versus 37,925 last season, Kennedy said.
Keep the people coming, folks.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I have no idea how they’re putting new seats in that place. Every year we think they have added all they can add and they add more.
Hey… next year, Mr. big baseball blogger, I had better see you at SXSW. There’s no excuse for you not being at the single biggest blogging event of the year. Plus, Austin ain’t so bad.