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Green Monster (Boston)   -9 (90%)
War Eagle Flying (Auburn)   -1 (10%)
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« on: April 09, 2014, 02:06:11 pm »

From wiki:
The wall was part of the original ballpark construction of 1912. It is made of wood, and was covered in tin and concrete in 1934. It was then covered with hard plastic in 1976. A manual scoreboard is set into the wall. Despite the name, the Green Monster was not painted green until 1947; before that it was covered with advertisements. The Monster designation is relatively new. For most of its history it was simply called "The Wall".  The wall is the highest among current Major League Baseball fields, and is the second highest among all professional baseball fields (including minor leagues), falling approximately six inches short of the left field wall at the Santander Stadium in York, Pennsylvania.

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« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2014, 02:10:59 pm »

This should be a landslide, IMO.
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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2014, 02:15:02 pm »

Funny you say that.  I'm still undecided and think this is one of the hardest ones I've had to choose yet.
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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2014, 01:30:45 pm »

I decided to go with Green Monster, simply because it's so synonymous with that park, in my mind.  It should follow the Red Sox forever, if they ever redesign or whatever.  The field dimensions are part of that team.

However, that war eagle circling in the crowd is friggin' bad-ass.  Bad draw....I think that could've done really well, had it faced off against a weaker opponent.
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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2014, 02:06:59 pm »

The thing about the War Eagle is it just seems so out of place. It is cool but Auburn is the Tigers.
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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2014, 09:42:09 am »

^ Funny.  I never even thought about that.  Other schools do that, too, though.  Alabama has multiple nicknames, I think.  Also, FAU's baseball team was called the Blue Wave for a while.
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