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September 08, 2009
Fenway power struggle: Catfight or condo conflict?
The Boston Herald is reporting that Fenway renovations director Janet Marie Smith's departure from Boston wasn't as voluntary as official sources had claimed:
"Janet Marie was told to go because [John Henry's new wife] Linda [Pizzuti is] taking over the whole damn place," said one person familiar with Smith's exit. Another source said, "Janet was thrown under the bus and everything is a mess as a result of the young bride. The Chinese symbol for conflict is two women under one roof."
Minus the gratuitous misogyny, I'd heard something similar through the grapevine. So if three unnamed sources count as confirmation, consider it confirmed.
As for what this will mean for Fenway, probably not much — as Smith noted, most of the planned renovations were complete before her July ouster. It does seem, though, that Pizzuti, a 30-year-old who formerly worked for her family's development firm, is likely to push the Sox to build condo towers on land the team owns around Fenway — so while the Green Monster won't be changing, the view of what's beyond it might be.
fenway is such a dump it has nothing in common with mlb only with the cubs dump old is good for only so long boston is a world class city and i needs a world class stadium to compete they did a good job on the renovations but enough is enough its important to have what the majors need also to bring in money and quality players more often what they have done will never make the money they will need so its time all star game or not to get with it get that dump out of here so boston can have what it should have a normal park and boston would make it the best oh would that be nice
Posted by david fisher on November 1, 2009 01:07 AM