Current events
Lately, things have not been going well for Red Sox Nation. A brutal 5 game sweep by the visiting Yankees has seemingly sucked all the air out of the room, or taken the wind out of our sails, or pulled the rug out from under us. Whatever metaphor you choose, the energy of RSN is not what it used to be. And that doesn’t bode well for our boys, because without the collective energy of RSN to boost the vibes, we might lose our intangible edge. A recent experience I had makes me worried that we might already have lost it.
Thanks to some generosity (and patience, and Internet savvy), my brother-in-law Mark gave me a belated birthday present in the form of tickets to the last game of the 5 game Yankee series. I had never seen the Sox play New York at Fenway, and I was expecting a gonzo circus. Unfortunately, game day came on the heels of the 4th consecutive loss to NY, the result of a very poor performance by our erstwhile savior, newcomer Josh Beckett. So it would be up to newly rehabbed oldster David Wells to right the sinking ship (those sports cliches seem to be coming fast and furious – sorry!).
As soon as we arrived at Fenway, it was clear that something was amiss. The crowd wasn’t into it, and in fact wasn’t even there – by game time, there were still at least 20% empty seats. Understandable if we were playing Kansas City, but the Yankees? The seats eventually filled, but the famous Fenway electricity just wasn’t there. It was a low scoring pitchers battle, to be fair, where opportunities to cheer aren’t as frequent. But it was a measure of the crowd’s lethargy that the loudest moment of the day came late in the game, when Johnny Damon (former Red Sox star and current Yankee traitor) was announced as a replacment. Those boos for JD were the first ear-shattering sounds of the day.
Ironically, that announcement was made just when the crowd was getting into its traditional singing of “Sweet Caroline”, the Sox’ unofficial rally song and general crowd pleaser. The sudden shift in emotions from good-natured cameraderie to resentful booing was pretty striking. And according to the theory of one of our physicist interviewees (Prof. William Tiller of Stanford), the negative emotions of booing probably disrupted the coherent energy state, or standing wave, that our singing had generated inside Fenway. So by regressing into our old habit of booing the enemy rather than cheering the home time, we had apparently dissipated our energetic advantage.
And no game-saving rallies came. The game ended with star slugger David Ortiz waiting helplessly in the on deck circle. But at least we hadn’t descended all the way back into the old bad habit of chanting “Yankees Suck”to generate some emotion.
To top it off, in a recently revealed news story, RSN learned that Ortiz spent a night in the hospital being treated for arrhythmias, following the lengthiest double header in major league history (games 2 and 3 of the Yankees sweep). Somehow this news was kept secret for a week in the nation’s hottest sports media market, but in a recent interview Ortiz admitted that dehydration and stress were getting to him after the first three losses to the Yankees. What does this have to do with the Joy of Sox? Well, if the team’s emotional heart, its energetic “metronome” (as scientist Dean Radin described Ortiz), is getting bent out of shape, imagine the emotional and energetic impact that will have on the team as a whole.
As the Joy of Sox documentary will show, the heart is the key organ for generating electromagnetic fields around people as they interact with others in groups (for details of how cardiac rhythms influence the brainwaves of those nearby, link to the HeartMath Institute at www.HeartMath.com). And the heart center is also the place where we receive subtle energy pulsations from outside ourselves. So if our centerpiece player, the “heart” of the team, is having cardiac arrhythmias of his own, he is no longer able to pulse out rhythmic heartwaves to entrain his teammates in a coherently synchronized group energy field. And the team will also have more trouble receiving the subtle energy infusions from the prayers of RSN (who are in an emotional tailspin of their own). So with all these energetic mishaps occuring simultaneously, it’s no wonder the Sox have continued to slump.
Now if only there was a way to teach some simple heart rhythm meditations to the Sox. Hmmmm….
Thanks to some generosity (and patience, and Internet savvy), my brother-in-law Mark gave me a belated birthday present in the form of tickets to the last game of the 5 game Yankee series. I had never seen the Sox play New York at Fenway, and I was expecting a gonzo circus. Unfortunately, game day came on the heels of the 4th consecutive loss to NY, the result of a very poor performance by our erstwhile savior, newcomer Josh Beckett. So it would be up to newly rehabbed oldster David Wells to right the sinking ship (those sports cliches seem to be coming fast and furious – sorry!).
As soon as we arrived at Fenway, it was clear that something was amiss. The crowd wasn’t into it, and in fact wasn’t even there – by game time, there were still at least 20% empty seats. Understandable if we were playing Kansas City, but the Yankees? The seats eventually filled, but the famous Fenway electricity just wasn’t there. It was a low scoring pitchers battle, to be fair, where opportunities to cheer aren’t as frequent. But it was a measure of the crowd’s lethargy that the loudest moment of the day came late in the game, when Johnny Damon (former Red Sox star and current Yankee traitor) was announced as a replacment. Those boos for JD were the first ear-shattering sounds of the day.
Ironically, that announcement was made just when the crowd was getting into its traditional singing of “Sweet Caroline”, the Sox’ unofficial rally song and general crowd pleaser. The sudden shift in emotions from good-natured cameraderie to resentful booing was pretty striking. And according to the theory of one of our physicist interviewees (Prof. William Tiller of Stanford), the negative emotions of booing probably disrupted the coherent energy state, or standing wave, that our singing had generated inside Fenway. So by regressing into our old habit of booing the enemy rather than cheering the home time, we had apparently dissipated our energetic advantage.
And no game-saving rallies came. The game ended with star slugger David Ortiz waiting helplessly in the on deck circle. But at least we hadn’t descended all the way back into the old bad habit of chanting “Yankees Suck”to generate some emotion.
To top it off, in a recently revealed news story, RSN learned that Ortiz spent a night in the hospital being treated for arrhythmias, following the lengthiest double header in major league history (games 2 and 3 of the Yankees sweep). Somehow this news was kept secret for a week in the nation’s hottest sports media market, but in a recent interview Ortiz admitted that dehydration and stress were getting to him after the first three losses to the Yankees. What does this have to do with the Joy of Sox? Well, if the team’s emotional heart, its energetic “metronome” (as scientist Dean Radin described Ortiz), is getting bent out of shape, imagine the emotional and energetic impact that will have on the team as a whole.
As the Joy of Sox documentary will show, the heart is the key organ for generating electromagnetic fields around people as they interact with others in groups (for details of how cardiac rhythms influence the brainwaves of those nearby, link to the HeartMath Institute at www.HeartMath.com). And the heart center is also the place where we receive subtle energy pulsations from outside ourselves. So if our centerpiece player, the “heart” of the team, is having cardiac arrhythmias of his own, he is no longer able to pulse out rhythmic heartwaves to entrain his teammates in a coherently synchronized group energy field. And the team will also have more trouble receiving the subtle energy infusions from the prayers of RSN (who are in an emotional tailspin of their own). So with all these energetic mishaps occuring simultaneously, it’s no wonder the Sox have continued to slump.
Now if only there was a way to teach some simple heart rhythm meditations to the Sox. Hmmmm….
posted by Rick Leskowitz,MD at 6:56 PM
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