BOSTON -- Hall of Famer Jim Rice stood in the new TV studio behind Fenway Park's right field bleachers and looked out on a field that barely resembles the one where he played for 16 years.
"It's good,'' he said after the Red Sox gave a tour of the newly cashless and carbon-friendlier ballpark in advance of Friday's home opener. "You've got to change with the times.
"The rules change. The players change. The fundamentals change. The game of baseball keeps changing. Nothing's going to stand still.''
This year, the most visible of those changes is a new bar and deck area behind the right field stands, not far from the historic red seat where Ted Williams' longest home run landed.