Marquee Sports Network general manager Mike McCarthy chuckled at his own question.
“Did you notice that we put the attendance up last night?” he asked in reference to the MSN broadcast of the Cubs’ scrimmage Tuesday at Wrigley Field.
Indeed, the winning number for the Guess the Attendance game was 186 – a far cry from the roughly 41,000 the ballpark can hold.
There’s nothing wrong with a little levity during a pandemic. The coronavirus likely will keep stadiums fan-free for the shortened 2020 season, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be fun at the old ballpark.