That Was Weird
By metstradamus | July 18, 2020
The Mets got back after it as they played a Summer Camp Training game against the Yankees at Citi Field on Saturday night. Certain things about this game and this broadcast I was used to. I watched KBO games on DVR religiously during the shutdown. (What can I say? I missed baseball.) So the cutouts and the empty stadium didn’t phase me. (The NC Dinos also had cutouts, while the Hanwha Eagles had stuffed animals in the good seats.) I thought the Mets made it a nice touch to leave some of the expensive seats empty just like in real life.
Some things, however, seemed weird. Like the pumped in crowd noise. Even with a few timing issues, it sounded okay, albeit a bit antiseptic. I mean, there’s no crowd noise button for the “Yankees suck” chant. No button to hit for all the loud-ass Yankee fans that would have been at a game like this when Clint Frazier hit a two run HR into the second deck in the fourth inning. I mean, if you want realism you’re going to have to include those things.
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2 comments:
Not a big fan of all this but at least it is live baseball.
Hope to see better Mets defense tonight.
Um, Diaz did NOT give up the HR. That was Zamora, the only Mets pitcher who was bad.
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