First TV Baseball for me

DaveA

DaveA

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Watched a couple of innings of a live "pre-season" game between the Yankees and Mets. Fake crowd noise helped to make it seem "real"and some said that there were cut-outs of fans in the seats behind home plate? If there were, I missed them.

It was nice to see a game on TV and I'll probably watch this bogus season as soon as they get going. I'm a "hometown" fan so I'll be watching Red Sox games and that'll probably be all, until the end of the year and some sort of "play-offs".
 

DaveA said:
some said that there were cut-outs of fans in the seats behind home plate? If there were, I missed them.
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I watched the Orioles-Phillies game last night. Big deal. I fell asleep due to boredom.
 

DaveA said:
Watched a couple of innings of a live "pre-season" game between the Yankees and Mets. Fake crowd noise helped to make it seem "real"and some said that there were cut-outs of fans in the seats behind home plate? If there were, I missed them.

It was nice to see a game on TV and I'll probably watch this bogus season as soon as they get going. I'm a "hometown" fan so I'll be watching Red Sox games and that'll probably be all, until the end of the year and some sort of "play-offs".
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Hearing that many teams with have cut-out fans for their games.

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@DaveA Another Red Sox fan here! I go so far back with the Sox that I can remember getting a box seat at Fenway for $8.

Those were the days of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Lonberg. My sister and I used to take our mom and our aunt to home games. I haven't thought about those games in years. It's so different at the park now, we'd have to rob a bank to afford 4 good tickets and 4 Fenway Franks...
 
Watched the second half of the Brewers beating the Cubs. No cutouts but recorded “crowd noise”. They were tripping all over themselves. I was going to actually pay to add a channel to watch the AZ Diamondbacks, which I’ve enjoyed the past few years. Then I found out before the game they were going to do some kind of a kneeling thing before the anthem, so I don’t want to watch them now. Then I found out today that most of the clubs were doing something like that. If they’re all going to do it before the games, I’m done. I think the only place for kneeling is in church & then, only if it’s part of your traditional observances.
 
Yea, did not know the kneeling thing has spread to baseball 😒, haven't watched
the start of any basketball, don't know what their doing.
Ditto Geezerette's post-kneeling is for your prayer closet.
 
chic said:
Yeah, so is 2020 baseball season going to be cancelled or what?
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There was a report on this evening's news that 4 games were cancelled due to players testing positive for this virus. There is a Real Good chance that pro sports....baseball, basketball, and even hockey and football may not take place this year. Virtually all these sports expose the players to "close contact", and it would only take one player getting infected to pass it to several others on the team.

I've been watching baseball and football games, from prior seasons, on ESPN and the NFL network....I suspect that will be the norm this year.
 
Now I hear players are refusing to travel to Miami to play ball there. Can't blame them. Even if the season drags on with cardboard cutouts for fans winning the world series would be nothing to cheer about. Picture the clubhouse celebration everyone wearing masks maintaining social distancing. The whole thing is sad.
 
I tried watching down at my son's house and couldn't stand it. Was like watching a cartoon. Better to listen to it on radio.
 

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