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...Harrington, Mayor Thomas Menino, and their legions of corporate climbers discard the sacred traditions of Fenway Park, I have several observations for their careful consideration...
Zero-sum games create permanent enemies. The current zero-sum power game will produce tens of millions of losers if Harrington and Menino destroy Fenway Park. Instead, why not phase in an upper deck of perhaps 10,000 seats? Harrington gets expansion, Menino gets re-elected, the players remain rich and my nephew and I keep our memories. Fans and Fenway Park neighbors would prove patient with the ongoing reconstruction...
...Fenway Park is an original. Boston prides itself on originals. The historic home of the Red Sox, Fenway Park--commissioned in 1912 before World War I--is an artifact that makes Boston baseball unique. A new stadium in the Fens changes forever the meaning of "Red Sox nation." A new culture of Boston Red Sox baseball will emerge. Will Back Bay become the Manhattan of Boston? Who is getting rich from attempts by Harrington and Menino to make Back Bay and the Fens more like Manhattan and Central Park...
...personal--and the corporate. Major League Baseball has become very corporate. Yet the game of baseball played in Fenway Park is very personal. Old Fenway is the game at the park. A new Fenway Park will be a stadium at the mall. The uniqueness of Fenway makes it what it is. And with Red Sox pitching the way it is, obstructed views have meaning...
...Saving Fenway Park is moral. Drucker is correct. A new world of Major League Baseball is emerging. Boston society is rearranging itself. But morality implies rightness and wrongness. Saving Fenway Park is moral. Boston might gain the corporate world of MLB, yet lose its very soul. Fenway Park is as Boston as Faneuil Hall. Saving Fenway Park is a family value...