clubthumb3 asked:
I’m a casual sox fan (if you can believe they exist). I have heard about the green monster and something about weird hops etc. in regard to fenway park. I’ve also heard players and coaches refer to fenway as “tricky”. What’s this all about?
I’m a casual sox fan (if you can believe they exist). I have heard about the green monster and something about weird hops etc. in regard to fenway park. I’ve also heard players and coaches refer to fenway as “tricky”. What’s this all about?
9 responses so far ↓
1 Mr X... // Aug 11, 2009 at 12:00 am
I think it’s how the stands stick out along the 3rd base line. Creates weird hops. Can be hard to play the wall too
2 k97city // Aug 12, 2009 at 12:11 am
it’s just small. and there’s nothing weird about
that. except for maybe getting a beanball
in the head while sitting in the green monster
seats that line the wall.
3 ????????? // Aug 12, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I think it’s because the fans are disgustingly pale even in mid-July. That’s just freaky.
4 n3w_guy1 // Aug 14, 2009 at 1:23 am
Its because of the green monster and the seat by Petski foul pole seats are so low and easy for ground role doubles..
5 RoflWaffle // Aug 17, 2009 at 7:07 am
Its small for one
The monster can knock down balls that would otherwise be HRs in other stadiums
There are also dead spots in the monster that can just drop a ball almost straight down
The scoreboard in the monster sticks out off the wall
If the ball is hit right it can bounce off at a weird angle
center field is a triangle
In that triangle facing the right side is a low wall that sometimes creates ground rule doubles
The wall in right field has angles that can either **** a ball in, or toss them out to right
There is pretty much no foul territory down the left field line.
6 pedrooch // Aug 17, 2009 at 7:55 pm
It’s oddly shaped, so when the balls hit the wall, they don’t bounce back like other parks, example, look at just right of center field how that spot jets out.
7 Stephen K // Aug 18, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Well, just look at the Green Monster. Thats the obvious one. Then you can take in the 3rd baseline and how foul territory becomes nill near the leftfield corner (an example is the ground ruled double last night in Game 1). Then you have 420 feet to a spot in Center field then down to 318 in the right field corner near Pesky Pole. There are a lot of “tricky” off-the-wall doubles that Boston players actually practice whereas other teams players have to guess or go by how the coaching staff tells them to play the walls. An attempt at an analogy would be to compare Fenway Park to Augusta National golf course. There are so many tricks you have to know about how to approach the greens and once you get on the greens how to read them. Same can be said about Fenway. Perfect example is when the third base coach held Kenny Lofton up in that 1-run situation. If that were Boston running the bases they wouldn’t have thought twice about sending David Ortiz let alone someone like Jacoby Ellsbury.
8 yanksFan223 // Aug 19, 2009 at 12:56 pm
it’s shape is so freakin weird. the corners are all strange and such. if you’re not used to playing the outfield there, doubles can easily become triples..and not in your favor.
even though it sounds like an oxymoron to most people
they’ve got that stupid annoying green monster. it pisses me off when balls that would be homers only count as doubles!
that annoying stupid sock sign like around the pitcher’s mound. haha that’s not a reason it’s considered a weird place to play..i just consider it annoying.
and don’t worry, i believe casual sox fans exist
9 Dr. J // Aug 21, 2009 at 9:43 am
Because even the ushers there are either drunk or drinking. It is the worlds biggest drunkfest. That and there are no bathrooms there.
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