One Station, Under God, Indivisible

So, which Boston-area AM radio station can you listen to tonight to hear the Red Sox beat the Empire?

Your guess is as good as mine. Entercom—the Pennsylvania-based corporation that owns Sox broadcast rights—came up with the brilliant idea of airing Red Sox games on TWO of its stations this year.* So, as FN Board Member Bill Collins has previously ranted, it's darn near impossible to know where to go to hear games. If this is Wednesday, it must be WEEI, unless it's a night game, in which case it's WRKO. Or maybe not. Who the heck has time to figure this crap out?

I've resorted to tuning in my XM radio feed of the game—at least I know where it is on my car radio dial and it's an undistorted signal (another issue since WEEI's signal barely reaches into the hinterlands of the Merrimack Valley). And, with the weak broadcasting crew Entercom has assembled (with the exception of Dave O'Brien), I don't mind if XM is featuring the other team's feed.

So, Entercom honchos, admit your mistake and put the Red Sox on ONE radio station all year. It was a dumb idea. Don't make it dumber by stubbornly sticking to it.

*680 WRKO and 850 WEEI

"Schlock"-U-Mentary Probes For Fenway's "Invisible Energy"

OK, now it's gone too far. It's bad enough we had to endure the CHB's money-grubbing "Curse of The Bambino" scam. Because of this moronic notion, Red Sox fans were portrayed as pathetic losers, clinging to the pull of mystical forces—all the while calling into talk radio from their mothers' basements. Now—with the apparent complicity of the Red Sox brass—two charlatan cousins are planning a "documentary" on how "invisible" forces somehow "willed" the Red Sox to victory in 2004. Have we all gone stark raving mad?

You can pick-up on the New Age babble of these "film-makers", when they toss around terms like "distant prayer", "remote attention", "conditioned spaces", and "emotional resonance". PUL-EEEEZE!

These snake-oil artists (I refuse to mention their names or their film lest they actually make money on this sham) attempt to slap a patina of science on their project with numerous PhDs and seemingly reputable institutions (shame on all of them as well). But all you have to know about these guys is they also cite the "Global Consciousness Project" whose goal is "registering coherence and consciousness in the world". Do any New Agers ever use plain, intelligible language? One of these guys will be "testing" whether events are "less random in sacred places or when masses of people are concentrating on the same subject". According to an article in the Boston Globe*, he will do this by hooking up "a hand-held device that spews out random numbers to his laptop."

Mr. Henry, please don't allow this film to carry the imprimatur (either implied or explicit) of the Boston Red Sox. And fans, please don't give these guys your hard-earned money.

*the second article in the "17% Gazette" on this topic in less than two months!