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    Please make it stop.....

    I can deal with the constant onslaught of politics being mixed in with baseball and the hilariously bad first pitches,
    I can deal with the short season,
    I can deal with Thom,
    I can even deal with the unholy DH rule,

    But please, I beg of you..... please............get rid of the fake crowd noise. I can't take it.
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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    The empty seats were weird for the 1st batter, then i didn't really notice unless they showed full stadium shots after that. I was ok w the pumped in noise, seemed better than just silence through TV, though sure its weird in person.
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    Please make it stop.....

    At the bottom of the box scores this morning we see this

    Attendance: Not Given.
    Field Condition: Unknown.

    No head count and no impartial gauge of the state of the field of play.

    There will be a lot of things we will need to adjust to. Including the giant stuffed bear that Oakland had in the stands behind the first base dugout

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    the grounds crew were doing their best to provide real crowd noise
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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    I'm all for tanking the fake crowd noise. I'd add extra infield mics and give the option to turn off the announcers. I want to hear the ball hit the mitt, infielders calling cuts, and players yelling the occasional obscenity.

    Hearing pro soccer players playing the game has been awesome. They sound just like me and my lads playing pick up. It would be cool to hear baseball sound like it did when I actually played the game again.

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    It's not great but I'm already getting used to it.

    Having seen other teams do the cutouts of fans in the stands, I'm looking forward to the Reds doing it. I think it's hilarious.

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    I didn't really notice the crowd noise or pay much attention to the fake seats. Other than that Amy person in Milwaukee, I don't really notice who is in the stands. It seemed just like Baseball to me and its mostly a TV show since every game started being televised anyway. They've used laugh tracks and fake crowd noise on TV forever.

    The runner on 2nd thing will probably offend me to no end when it happens. I'm rooting for no extra inning games this year so I don't need to see that abomination.
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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    I thought it was fine. I wish they would crank it up more though for RBI's and HR's. I noticed it didn't change that much.

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    Quote Originally Posted by DocRed View Post
    I thought it was fine. I wish they would crank it up more though for RBI's and HR's. I noticed it didn't change that much.
    Agreed! Give me more fake loud noise...i want it to sound like a real game with real fans. Home team obviously louder crowd noise and quieter for away team.

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    No way, needs to be louder if anything

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    Fake crowd noise or lack thereof doesn’t affect me.

    But that Blair Witch clicking noise..
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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    Quote Originally Posted by adkindo View Post
    the grounds crew were doing their best to provide real crowd noise
    They did the Moose Horns too!! Need to expand the grounds crew to a couple thousand

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    I've liked the piped-in crowd noise during European soccer games. Haven't decided how I feel about it for baseball yet.
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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    When I told my wife they were pumping in crowd noise, she said it sounded just like a regular game and didn’t realize it was artificial. She said it sounded like a regular game.

    Of course, she sits and reads a book when I’m watching a ballgame and she only makes a comment 1-2 times during the gane.
    She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning

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    Re: Please make it stop.....

    Quote Originally Posted by thatcoolguy_22 View Post
    I'm all for tanking the fake crowd noise. I'd add extra infield mics and give the option to turn off the announcers. I want to hear the ball hit the mitt, infielders calling cuts, and players yelling the occasional obscenity.

    Hearing pro soccer players playing the game has been awesome. They sound just like me and my lads playing pick up. It would be cool to hear baseball sound like it did when I actually played the game again.
    For real. I feel like MLB is missing a huge opportunity here. It seems what they're going for with the fake noise and the CGI fans (I have not recovered from this concept) is trying to make things seem as normal as possible. Nothing is normal. We know it. We know there aren't fans there. Embrace it. Give us something different. Mic the players (and get the censor button ready). Explore the noises of the field. Give us this very unique chance to see what a baseball game sounds like to a player, in an empty stadium, rather than what it sounds like through a fake filter that can never trick us into thinking things are normal.

    One of my biggest takeaways from the last few months is how little imagination we have. If things aren't exactly the way they've always been, we feel like we're not even ourselves. It wouldn't be a bad idea to practice things that are new and creative. The world is different right now and baseball is different right now. Why not take this chance to experience it differently?
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