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...that I have hopefully cleared some legitimate space for the cliche, let me describe one of the classics: hitting a home run over the Green Monster at Fenway Park...
Fenway park is the most revered park in baseball because of its traditional-style, weird dimensions, and inviting Green Monster. Throw in the gloriously tragic history of the Red Sox and the sports craziness of Boston, and it becomes clear my any red-blooded American kid dreams of clearing the 33-foot high wall in left...
...only did the Blacklick, OH. native go 3-4 with two RBI but he hit one over the Green Monster. That's right--he didn't make a short free throw at the Boston Garden or sing the national anthem at the super Bowl; with grace and power, accompanied by the pure crack of the bat, he drilled one into the net over the Monster. And there was no doubt about it. Everyone knew that this one was gone...
Although Hochanadel's day in the sun was muted by the Harvard loss he still can legitimately tell his grandchildren that he hit a home run over the Green Monster. And that is nothing to sneer at, especially when the vast majority of baseball fans can't even entertain the thought of a cup of coffee in the big show...
...support any comparable sort of social life in place of the clubs (sorry, Dean Epps--the Loker Commons isn't going to cut it), the clubs are beyond the reach of the administration but have not lost their role in campus social life. The administration has created a monster that it cannot control, and that will continue to go about its business until it is marginalized by a competing social structure, or until the University finds an effective, clever way of exerting some control...