Protecting the home of lovable loserdom

Sure they won last year, but Fenway remains a monument to nearly a century's worth of failure.

So why not make it a landmark?

The Red Sox are in the midst of a decade-long, $200 million renovation of Fenway. Built in 1912, it is Major League Baseball's oldest and smallest stadium.

Smith could not put a dollar figure on the rehabilitation tax credit, which is designed to give property owners an incentive to save historic structures.

However, according to the Park Service's Web site, the rehabilitation tax credit "equals 20 percent of the amount spent in a certified rehabilitation of a certified historic structure."

So, taxpayers from around This Great Land of Ours will be coughing up $40 million semolians so that Red Sox ownership can make more money from a rehabilitated food court and luxury boxes atop The Green Monster?

Another reason to hate the Red Sox.

But I love this graf from the story.

According to the federal government's list of National Historic Landmarks, the only other Major League stadiums considered for landmark status were Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park, both in Chicago. The process was never completed for either stadium, and Comiskey has since has been torn down.

Comiskey went from landmark status to a parking lot in a blink of an eye? The White "best record in the American League" Sox may be doing something similar this year.