When it became clear in early March that the immediate future of sports featured games without crowds, fans were excited by the possibility that a lack of noise pollution could take them closer to the game. Unfortunately, the NBA has been employing a seven-second delay so that the audio from the court can be dropped whenever somebody swears (which is often). NBCSN’s coverage of the Premier League, one of the live first sports to come back to American television, featured artificial crowd noise that covered up the sounds on the pitch. Baseball, however, hasn’t really bothered to do anything about hot mics, and it’s glorious.
Hot Mics Picked Up So, So Many Baseball F-Bombs on Sunday
