We had neighbors with a pool who used to turn their outdoor speakers to baseball games ever Saturday, then crank up the volume whether they were on the patio or not. My wife, who loves to work in her garden, hates any kind of sports broadcasts — says the announcers yell all the time. She had put up with this for months, ocassionally asking if they could turn it down and getting only marginal and temporary results.

One beautiful august afternoon the neighbors had invited about 20 friends for a barbeque and pool party, so wife put our best speakers in the bedroom windows over the patio, cranked up the volume and listened to opera all afternoon.

We never heard another baseball game we didn't want to.

And thank god I wasn't home that day!!!