The Boston Red Sox recently expressed interest in hosting the ACC Baseball Tournament at historic Fenway Park

No way, Fenway?

The Boston Red Sox recently expressed interest in hosting the ACC Baseball Tournament at historic Fenway Park sometime in the future, but didn’t exactly get the red carpet treatment from the league.

Apparently Dee Todd, ACC associate commissioner, who oversees baseball, said, “We’re really interested in Greensboro, North Carolina. We have lots of interest there and a couple [sites] in Florida. Right now, we’re just settling in on the first round of Jacksonville, so that’s really not on our minds now.”

Say what?
Put it up to a popular vote of ACC coaches and players and see where they would choose. Anybody with any appreciation of baseball would give their left elbow to play in Fenway. It’s the Green Monster for goodness sakes.

Todd said playing at Fenway is “certainly a nice idea,” but had concerns about logistics, such as will the Red Sox give the ACC access to the field when needed, where are the practice fields and how far are they away from the stadium.

She also mentioned that Boston College might not qualify for the tournament when the league changes its tournament format in 2006, when only the top eight of 12 teams qualify for the event.

The conference will follow the football divisions format next season, with Miami, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, UNC and Duke in the Coastal Division and the others in the Atlantic Division. The two schools with the best conference records in each division will qualify for the tournament along with the next best four teams regardless of divisions.

The ACC Tournament will be held in Jacksonville for the next two years, but Greensboro’s new 8,000-seat minor league park, First Horizon Park, is attempting to become the league’s permanent home for the event.

That would be a big mistake at least for the immediate future. If the ACC basketball tournament is going to move around to D.C., Atlanta, Tampa (where there’s not a team within a three-hour drive), then why not move the baseball tournament around?

Fenway would be the thrill of a lifetime for any college baseball player. Source>>>

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posted by ADMIN @ Saturday, March 26, 2005