This Monday, Red Sox nation will be celebrating Opening Day at Fenway Park. Lansdowne Street will be mobbed, students will be mysteriously absent from their tantalizing classes, and the 34,000+ will be roaring as Pedro and Co. take on Toronto. But with all the major changes the Red Sox organization went through this winter, it appears Fenway Park will be revamped a little itself before April 1. Some of these ideas and changes, which are being made to refill pockets that are $700 million light, are thoughtful and productive, others are trite and downright dangerous.

Owner John Henry, along with his partners, are adding 400 more seats to bring in around $3.5 million extra this season. 149 of these will consist of new roofbox seats located on the first and third base lines. Of course, not only are these seats on the roof deck, they aren’t even seats. They are barstool-height chairs, with little tables and footrests in front of them. While these seats might seem cool at first, who wants to sit on a tall chair for three hours in the upper deck of a baseball stadium? Yeah, personally, I’m afraid of heights, but I can’t be the only one who wouldn’t be amused by sitting on the roof in a tall chair. It’s going to be interesting when fans sit up there and constantly stand up to cheer on the Sox because they’ll have to sit back down on a tall, thin chair, hoping they don’t fall off. This wouldn’t be too bad if they weren’t in the Upper Deck.

Then there are the 160 “dugout seats.” The one great thing about Fenway is that the fans are so close to the action, but these dugout seats are pushing it. While the players in either dugout at Fenway have the luxury of shrieking and diving out of the way of sharp foul balls, fans seated in the “dugout seats” won’t have this option. They can scream all they want as baseballs are smacked in their direction, but they won’t be able to get out of the way. The owners say that the people want to be even closer to the game. However, in light of the tragedy in Columbus, Ohio where 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil died after being struck in the head by a puck at the Blue Jackets-Flames game, this move seems ill-conceived. Sports organizations should now be focusing on making stadiums safer in light of this accident no matter how low the risk may seem, and I’m surprised the Red Sox owners would decide to place possibly dangerous seating closer to the action just to make a few more bucks.

Apart from seating, there will be more eating options, as well. A new “mini food court” will be located under the right field grandstands with a Tex-Mex flavor. I think the addition of a food court, along with another 10 food and drink stands, will alleviate the long lines to wait for food, giving fans more time to watch the game.

However, has it come to the point where people have to order meals when they go to a ballpark? What’s wrong with pizza, pretzels and hotdogs? Do people really need sizzling fajitas at a baseball game? What if you’re sitting on your scary roofbox stool, and just as you go to eat your smoking fajitas, the wind blows burning fajita juices into your face, scalding it for life? The chances of this happening are smaller than Dan Duquette rejoining the Red Sox front office, but do you really want to chance it just for a fajita? If people want fajitas, they should go to a restaurant; fans want simple things like hotdogs and beer at ball games. Of course, I have no scientific data to back this up. Maybe people do want to eat dinner at the baseball game. Too bad. How about you go out to dinner, don’t buy the tickets and let someone else go who might actually pay attention to the game and not his main course.

One thing I admire about the new Sox owners is that they haven’t given in to decorating the Green Monster with advertisements…yet. They said there won’t be ads up there on Opening Day, but after that it’s possible. I don’t mind the huge Coke bottle above the screen, nor do I mind all the Fleet signs. But if the Green Monster becomes a billboard, it’ll be a disgrace. I don’t want Manny judging how to play a line drive by what letter in a big “Coca-Cola” banner the ball hits.

Fenway will look a little different this summer. So will the Red Sox team, just like every season, and now when you attend the games, make sure you bring the essentials: ball cap, score sheet, camera, chest protector, face mask, safety rope and silverware.