While Fenway Park gently sleeps...
Actually, not so gently. They’re doing some major repair work on Fenway during the off-season, with cranes and hammers going at it for two 10-hour shifts, 7 days a week. I mention this because that hubbub might have an impact on the offseason computer recordings we’re making at Fenway. Or not.
The Joy of Sox theory is that Fenway magic is real and measurable, and is part and parcel of the Park itself. During the regular season, we documented that invisible energy exists during games, but we haven’t yet been able to show that any afterglow lingers when the park is empty. That would have to happen in order for Fenway to qualify as a true “sacred space”. But at least we now have the technique to make these measurements, and so our RNG laptop is back on the scene, generating random numbers just as rapidly in March as it did back in September.
It’s hard to predict what we’ll find. On the one hand, you’d figure that all that construction work would disrupt any subtle vibrations stored at Fenway. On the other had, if these vibes are real, they might exist at a non-physical level of reality, and shouldn’t be affected by a few loud noises and boisterous construction workers. But your guess is as good as mine. Hopefully our analysis will show that there’s still some magic at Fenway in the offseason, maybe not as much as during a game, but more than at some other nearby public space (I might set it up at the McDonalds across the street, as a comparison).
If it’s true, then we can actually monitor the waking-up process of the stadium, as Fenway recovers from its winter hyibernation and the vibes come alive over the next few months. As Spring Training gears up in Florida and people begin to think about baseball again, perhaps they unconsciously begin to reconnect with Fenway. There may be some delays in doing the statistical analysis, though, as Scott the stats guy is in the process of relocating from Colorado to Florida. But when the data is ready, you’ll be the first to know.
And here’s one other quick, but key, update. There’s no offseason for Joy of Sox, and recently we added on Karen Webb as Producer. She’s an experienced documentarian, and a mover and shaker, with great ideas on how to move this project to completion. She runs Pinch Hit Productions LLC (yes, she’s also a Sox fanatic!), and you’ll be hearing a lot more about her – including a new look for our website, and some tantalizing leads to some big names (we’re now only one degree of separation away from hitting a home run with our proposed celebrity narrator). But that’s all for now, with plenty more to come.
The Joy of Sox theory is that Fenway magic is real and measurable, and is part and parcel of the Park itself. During the regular season, we documented that invisible energy exists during games, but we haven’t yet been able to show that any afterglow lingers when the park is empty. That would have to happen in order for Fenway to qualify as a true “sacred space”. But at least we now have the technique to make these measurements, and so our RNG laptop is back on the scene, generating random numbers just as rapidly in March as it did back in September.
It’s hard to predict what we’ll find. On the one hand, you’d figure that all that construction work would disrupt any subtle vibrations stored at Fenway. On the other had, if these vibes are real, they might exist at a non-physical level of reality, and shouldn’t be affected by a few loud noises and boisterous construction workers. But your guess is as good as mine. Hopefully our analysis will show that there’s still some magic at Fenway in the offseason, maybe not as much as during a game, but more than at some other nearby public space (I might set it up at the McDonalds across the street, as a comparison).
If it’s true, then we can actually monitor the waking-up process of the stadium, as Fenway recovers from its winter hyibernation and the vibes come alive over the next few months. As Spring Training gears up in Florida and people begin to think about baseball again, perhaps they unconsciously begin to reconnect with Fenway. There may be some delays in doing the statistical analysis, though, as Scott the stats guy is in the process of relocating from Colorado to Florida. But when the data is ready, you’ll be the first to know.
And here’s one other quick, but key, update. There’s no offseason for Joy of Sox, and recently we added on Karen Webb as Producer. She’s an experienced documentarian, and a mover and shaker, with great ideas on how to move this project to completion. She runs Pinch Hit Productions LLC (yes, she’s also a Sox fanatic!), and you’ll be hearing a lot more about her – including a new look for our website, and some tantalizing leads to some big names (we’re now only one degree of separation away from hitting a home run with our proposed celebrity narrator). But that’s all for now, with plenty more to come.
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