Green Monsters: A dark and twisted thriller

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The Red Sox current spring training home, JetBlue Park at Fenway South in Fort Myers, Florida, features a replica of the Green Monster. JetBlue's Green Monster even has Fenway Park's 1934-vintage, manually operated scoreboard installed in it. Ogren Park at Allegiance Field, home of the Missoula PaddleHeads of the Pioneer League, has a 27-foot-high (8.2 m) in right field, located 287 feet (87 m) from home plate as measured along the foul line. The park has a similar wall that is 309 feet (94 m) from home plate, but not as tall.

Long after the much-higher location manual scoreboard from c.1914 existed (as seen in the 1914 photo), the placement of the modern "ground-level" manual scoreboard occurred in 1934. It forms the lower half of the Green Monster and is still updated by hand from behind the wall throughout the game. The American League scores are also updated from behind the wall. The National League scores need to be updated from the front of the wall between innings. [5] There is also a board which shows the current American League East standings. There are 127 slots in the wall and a team of three score keepers move around two-pound (0.9 kg), 13-by-16-inch (33 by 41 cm) plates to represent the score. Yellow numbers are used to represent in-inning scores and white numbers are used to represent final inning tallies. The numbers of the current pitchers weigh three pounds (1.4 kg) and measure 16 by 16 inches (41 by 41 cm). [6] You can find the summoning pool to create a Specter near the Green Monster of The Swamp arena past the Barren Swamp Bridge Stargazer. The Green Monster is the highest among the walls in current Major League Baseball fields; it is the second highest among all professional baseball fields (including minor leagues), as in 2007 it was surpassed by the left field wall of WellSpan Park in York, Pennsylvania, which is approximately 6 inches (15 cm) taller. After standing still for a moment, the Monster uses its Antennae to whip you, inflicting Decay if they hit. Pro Player Stadium, the former home of the Florida Marlins, featured a smaller 'Teal Monster' in left field from the team's original 1992 season until 2009, when the display was replaced by ad hoardings for the remaining 2010 and 2011 seasons before their move to Marlins Park. The board started out as manual but eventually was converted to a digital eggcrate display with remote control. [10]

Funky Apple Slice Monsters: Batch Cooking and Leftovers

The following is an excerpt from The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook by Leah Webb. It has been adapted for the web. Remove the tops of the strawberries and cut them into thin slices. Use a small dab of SunButter to adhere the strawberry into the mouth as a tongue. Adhere the blueberry eyes with a small dab of SunButter. Each monster can have one, two, or even three eyes. Hawkins Field, home of the Vanderbilt University Commodores baseball program features their own, 35-foot (11 m), version of the Green Monster with a scoreboard on top.

Quarter the apples and carefully remove the seeds, leaving as much of the apple flesh as possible. Cut a wedge out of the peel side of the apple, keeping the wedge slightly off center. This leaves more room for the eyes on the top, and less space for the mouth on the bottom. The Green Monster is famous for preventing home runs on many line drives that would clear the walls of other ballparks. A side effect of this is to increase the prevalence of doubles, since this is the most common result when the ball is hit off the wall (often referred to as a "wallball double"). Some left fielders, predominantly those with vast Fenway experience, have become adept at fielding caroms off the wall to throw runners out at second base or hold the batter to a single. Compared with other current major league parks, the wall's placement creates a comparatively shallow left field; the wall falls approximately 304–310 feet (93–94 m) from the plate along the left-field foul line. With this short distance, many deep fly balls that could be caught by the fielder in a deeper park rebound off the wall for base hits. And while the wall turns many would-be line-drive homers into doubles it also allows some high yet shallow fly balls to clear the field of play for a home run. Blue Light • Green Light • Indigo Light • Orange Light • Red Light • Violet Light • White Light • Yellow LightComprising yet another quirk, a ladder is attached to the Green Monster, extending from near the upper-left portion of the scoreboard, 13 feet (4.0 m) above ground, to the top of the wall. Previously, members of the grounds crew would use the ladder to retrieve home run balls from the netting hung above the wall. After the net was removed for the addition of the Monster seats, the ladder ceased to have any real function, yet it remains in place as a historic relic. Fusion Gems: Malachite • Topaz • Zebra Jasper (fusion) • Giant Ruby • Ruby (triple fusion) • Lemon Jade • Bluebird Azurite Place approximately 10 sunflower seeds into the top of each mouth, poking the pointed side of the seed into the apple flesh. Fenway's left-field distortion is offset by the odd shape and generous size of right field, which is 302 feet (92 m) (although its actual distance has been disputed over the years) along the foul line (almost the same as in left), but 380 feet (120 m) at its deepest. The bullpen was added along the right field wall in 1940 to shorten the distance for left-handed slugger Ted Williams' home runs to clear the fence. For years afterward, the bullpens were known as "Williamsburg".