Due to reasonable limitations on my ability to download new applications at work, I have to rely on my Windows Media Player for my workday drone. This rules out BBC Five Live which had been my aural diet for some time and most other BBC stations. It also rules out CBC so I can't listen to Maritime Noon. I have tried New Jersey, Vermont and New Hampshire Public Radio but landed on WNYC, an NPR station still apparently on the AM band.
Living at the east end of Lake Ontario, I am surprised that I am surprised how things New York State pervade. I got to watch the Red Sox lose to the Yankees last Firday on local Watertown TV and listen to a glorious 7th inning last night on WCBS 880 as the Yankees watched six runs come in. Nothing like hearing Yankees losing to the BoSox on the Yankee's home radio. My only trip to Fenway was to watch Louis Tiant lead the Sox over the Yankees around 1972. Unbelievably to me now, me and my brothers were left seated at the very top of the centrefield bleachers with a view over the Green Monster. My Dad and uncle sat behind first base - we were 9, 10 and 13 or so. The Sox won with a homerun over the wall, over the net and into a car. Saw it all. But I digress...
Still, like in the Maritimes and keeping up with all things Maine, the North Country of New York State, just seven miles or so to the south, and what elae lays south, is worth paying attention to. A large number of the US troops in Iraq are local to the area's military bases. The political structures you need to know to follow the news are byzantine. Heck, just being north of an area considered remote it a bit of a novelty. One of the nicest things is having access to the New York Times the morning it is published for 1.50 or so. The Metro Section alone is worth twice as much putting a human face on the city we up here often think as a suburb of Hell.
Comments
Wayne - July 28, 2003 3:02 pm
Fenway bleachers were not, and still are not, a safe place for anyone, let alone 13 year olds. College football players were employed there in the late '70's to break up fights in the stands. A hot day, coupled with cold beer make for a dangerous mix on Yawkey way in summer...especially if the Yankees are in town.
Alan - July 28, 2003 3:11 pm
That's kinda my memory. I recall wearing an Expos hat on the day and getting some grief. I also recall, now that I think of it, the guy in front of us saying "Ya, shoah we'll keep an eye out for them..." as the next oldest generation walked away down the stairs. It was a great vantage, however, as I seem to recall we occupied the top two rows a one-seater bench behind a two seater bench.