Even though I am not sure I can get into an 82 game season with no fans, realigned divisions, etc. I really do hope it catches on, as something
is needed to help overcome the overall depressive mood of the country because of the Virus.
As a huge Sox fan, the thought of tuning on a game on tv at Fenway or anywhere for that matter with no fans, no crowd, no noise, etc,
would seem to be like a baseball video game-to be fair, I personally am not into that stuff.
I shudder to think what it will be listening on the radio to Joe Castiglione(Sox lead radio man0, who doesn't have the best pipes in the world, sans crowd noise.
Most of your aren't old enough to remember the baseball telegraph recreations from the 50's.
This occurred whenever a Sox game was delayed by rain or canceled.
What would happen under these conditions was for the network to find another game(assuming there were others being played);someone in Sox studio
via telegraph would get the exact recap pitch by pitch of what was happening in this other game and announce it from the studio over the airwaves.
What made it interesting and sometimes comical is that the recreation was accompanied by fake/canned/piped in and generic crowd noise which
was played while the recreation man was announcing the game to make the game sound real.
The only problem was that the cheers, boos, excitement, etc. didn't match what was happening in the game itself-in short it was just random and
at times almost unbearable even for me as a kid,
Well anyways the point is that perhaps in this sophisticated technological age, Joe Castiglione and all radio broadcasters could have some kind of piped in
crowd noise which could be programmed to match what was going on the game and thus make the broadcast a bit more enjoyable
and authentic.
