According to a report by Eno Sarris at the The Athletic Friday morning, “Major League Baseball will be supplying teams with pre-recorded crowd noise to pump into fan-less stadiums,” during the 60-game MLB season. Not great, MLB. Not great.
[ed. note - “Also starting a runner on second in extras is awful.”]
MLB will be supplying crowd noise options, and apparently, says one executive quoted anonymously in the piece, companies are springing up to meet the needs of organizations who are afraid the sounds of the game won’t be enough for fans who tune in to baseball’s planned return (during a pandemic) later this month.