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Originally posted by thomas35forever View Posthttps://theathletic.com/1919837/2020...mpty-stadiums/
This is bogus. It's not going to feel genuine at all, and it's going to be insulting to everyone's intelligence.
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Can't wait to see an empty stadium burst into "Na Na Hey Hey" the next time a visiting starter has a short outing at the Rate."Hope...may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources...but those who stake their all upon the venture see it in its true colors only after they are ruined."
-- Thucydides
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Watching a game from an empty stadium wold be a hollow experience. Listening to a game without crowd noise, with only the crack of the bat and the sound of players echoing is unworldly. At the same time, there is something detached about recorded sound that isn't generated by what's going on. Thresholds for this vary among different people. I have a problem with recorded walk-up music, preferring a live organist who is feeding off the crowd as part of the sounds of the game. I first noticed I had a problem with this when I was going to games in San Diego and they would do the "charge" thing. But Nancy Faust provided the soundtrack to baseball when I was coming of age as a fan, so I was spoiled.
The crowd noise will bother some more than others. Knowing the stadiums are empty, people are more likely to be bothered than not. But the empty stadiums are a problem. Baseball without crowds seem more suited for spring training practice fields than stadiums. The settings are more intimate, and the sound of the game wold come through to replace the sound of the crowd.
There is something other worldly about a game in an empty baseball stadium. But there is something other worldly about the idea of recorded sound that is supposed to represent people that are there when they aren't. Years ago, I was writing stories about work at the Yuma Proving Ground. I had to talk to do a lot of the work over the telephone because the installation was a 40-minute drive into the desert. Even on the phone you could sometimes have to wait for someone to come to the phone. The answering system developed a glitch, and there were a couple of weeks when calls to YPG would go to Perry Como singing Papa Loves Mambo. When the song ended, it would begin again and so on. No one was there -- and, really, if there had been an accident leaving no one alive, the effect would have been the same. Just a Perry Como record playing over and over in a building in the middle of the desert.
Baseball from empty stadiums wouldn't be that bad.. (Perry Como isn't anyone's walk-up music, but, really, what would be the purpose for walk-up music in an empty stadium?) But I would find the lack of crowd noise unnerving.
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Originally posted by thomas35forever View Posthttps://theathletic.com/1919837/2020...mpty-stadiums/
This is bogus. It's not going to feel genuine at all, and it's going to be insulting to everyone's intelligence.
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I'm an Australian Rules Football fan. In fact, I'm watching Richmond vs. Sydney as I type this (fourth game on TV in the last two nights,) and I'm hearing the fake crowd noise they're pumping into the empty stadium. They do have the loud cheering at the appropriate moments, with just general murmuring and organized cheers at other times.Nellie had more doubles than strikeouts every year from 1950 to 1963, and more triples (12) than strikeouts (11) in 1951 (682 plate appearances.)
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This seems like pretty basic stuff. Distribute an app that let's fans watch on their device in real-time blended together to create the background crowd mix for the usual delayed broadcast that everybody else is watching. You as a fan thus get to pick your own preference. You can participate yourself yelling and cheering without fan noise or you can watch/listen in the usual fashion with real fans yelling or booing in the background same as always.
Well, duh...
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Originally posted by Chez View PostSeinfeld used a laugh track for many scenes. It was still hilarious.
Baseball adding crowd noise essentially may be the same thing.
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Anyone gonna try this Cheer feature? I have to admit this is pretty cool.
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Originally posted by thomas35forever View PostAnyone gonna try this Cheer feature? I have to admit this is pretty cool.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/ml...rnd/index.html
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