For those of you watching the Red Sox battle the Yankees on TV, have you noticed the industrial hum while listening to the game? It kinda sounds like the background hum of the ship on Star Trek: The Next Generation. If you don't hear it, listen to the game carefully and wait for a commercial break, and you'll notice its absence as soon as they go to a commercial break.
Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that my entire apartment sounds like that at the moment -- and it's not because I'm watching the game. It's coming from outside.
You see, we live less than a mile away from Fenway, and the entire neigborhood sounds like we're all hording electrical generators in our backyards. At first I thought it was just coming from the TV, but then I turned down the volume and noticed that I could hear the same hum in every room of our apartment.
What's causing it, you might ask? I'm not positive, but if I ventured a guess (and I will, since that's what blogging's all about), it's the numerous blimps and helicopters hovering over the neighborhood. The last time I looked outside, there were two blimps and at least one helicopter hovering over Fenway. Since they have to travel in wide arcs over the sky, they're constantly coming into the airspace over our apartment: hence the perpetual hum. I'd noticed a similar phenomenon during previous Sox games, but with the attention of the entire sports universe focused on Fenway, there's more air traffic than usual over Kenmore Square and eastern Brookline.
It's strangely comforting hearing that hum outside; after going to bed last night around 11:30pm I certainly didn't expect a repeat of it. If I were an optimist, I'd say I'd hope to hear it again some time next week. But that would betray the whole ethos of being a Red Sox fan, right? -andy
Posted by acarvin at October 18, 2004 06:16 PM | TrackBack