The Boston Red Sox are pleased with the compromise bill that will legalize Massachusetts sports betting once signed into law by Gov. Charlie Baker.
Yet the legislative language will not allow the team to build a retail sportsbook near Fenway Park, at least as of now.
“There’s going to be a study of further retail things such as kiosks, but I think that overall it’s a model bill, and we believe the evidence is most people who do sports betting use mobile platforms to begin with,” Red Sox senior VP of legal and government affairs David Friedman told LSR Wednesday.
“So, for the moment, we won’t be opening a sportsbook here because it’s not part of the bill.”
