Don't even think of parking near Fenway Park tomorrow. Diamond-inspired parking restrictions around Fenway, effective noon on Saturday.

Blue Mass. Group posts numbers from a tracking poll conducted by the Sonia Chang-Diaz campaign in the Second Suffolk senate race. The campaign says 417 likely voters were questioned, but doesn't specify their geographic distribution in the district.

A veteran MBTA worker was arrested this morning on charges of skimming money from fare boxes after Red Sox games, the MBTA reports.

Gilberto Carrasquillo, 43, of Dorchester, will be arraigned tomorrow in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of larceny over $250.

The MBTA says Carrasquillo, a senior revenue collection agent in charge of returning post-Sox "drop boxes" to a T vault, was caught in a sting operation last night.

The T sets up these boxes at Fenway and Kenmore stations to expidite fare collection for passengers without cards or tickets after Sox games. Last night, police put marked bills in the fare boxes. When an audit this morning showed all but one of the bills missing, police arrested Carrasquillo.

Carrasquillo has worked for the MBTA for 22 years, the T said in a statement.

More delays, more mess, more excuses.

Stephen Laniel adds this to a list of T construction and maintenance issues. And as somebody who moved back to Boston because he missed it so much, he gets frustrated:

... It all smells very much like politics: buried deep within the MBTA and the city government, someone has paid someone else off; or the union won't fix something because one of its members is pissed at Grabauskas; or there's a feud going between the Italian wing and the Irish wing of city government. Something. If someone knows the politics, I'm sure that's 99% of the story; I would love to hear it. And I would love for the Globe to dig down to this next level. When a bridge is effectively running at 25% capacity for a few months, I want my local media to explain the root cause, rather than constantly turning to "MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo."

What I want to know is: as someone who loves this city very deeply, what can I do to fix what's broken? I'm not leaving this place. I want to make it better.

Interesting stop-motion video by a bicyclist on his way to work (he even stops for a red light).

Might be a bit discomforting, though, if you're the sort who needs Dramamine on boat trips.

Life in Fenway isn't all peaches and cream, Jenn Martinelli proves.

Herald: Sen. Dianne Wilkerson reaches $10,000 settlement with AG:

... As part of the settlement, Coakley said Wilkerson acknowledged violations of campaign finance laws by failing to keep proper records from 2000 to 2004. ...

Sen. Wilkerson unable to account for money? Gosh.

Steve S discovered the hard way that the state Department of Conservation and Recreation has figured out it can put up "No Parking" signs on Park Drive near Beacon Street and then start towing away reams of cars:

... I talked to the woman at the tow lot. she says the sign is brand new and they towed something like 20 cars on one day this weekend, probably Saturday. While we were there, the tow operator came over the nextel... "Towing two cars at the corner of Park and Beacon"... two more suckers. ...

Seems Tom Menino wants to build a new Boston Arts Academy on what is now a city parking lot at Tremont and Washington streets.

The Sox connection? The city would pay for part of the $100-million project (take that, Newton) by selling the current high school, valued at $13.2 million, to the Red Sox, Banker and Tradesman reports.

Via John Keith, who wonders why the city needs a new high school when he keeps reading about half-empty school buildings.

... but he's "called out" on a curve ball