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Posted Thursday 7/30/20 at 5:59AM EDT
Major League Baseball's pandemic return has been profoundly weird, from creepy virtual fans to piped-in audio
"If you've ever seen a Kevin Costner movie, you know that in a sporting world driven by adrenaline and brutality,...
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Posted Wednesday 7/29/20 at 3:55AM EDT
Why sports is having trouble restarting in the United States: Americans didn't want to do the work
"We were given a job to do if we wanted our games back, a very simple job, and we couldn’t...
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Posted Monday 7/27/20 at 3:36PM EDT
Major League Baseball's season is thrown into chaos after 14 members of the Miami Marlins organization tested positive for coronavirus
The positive tests for two coaches and 12 players forced MLB to cancel two games: Miami Marlins vs.
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Posted Saturday 7/25/20 at 6:43PM EDT
Fox Sports' first day broadcasting Major League Baseball with "virtual fans" was "extremely weird"
Announcers spent time explaining and demonstrating the use of virtual fans during today's Chicago Cubs-Milwaukee Brewers game at Wrigley Field.
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Posted Saturday 7/25/20 at 2:56AM EDT
The pandemic is turning sports into video games
"How do you 'take me out with the crowd' when there's a global pandemic? By filling the stadium with people...
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Posted Saturday 7/25/20 at 2:56AM EDT
Bill Murray sings "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" while wrestling a giant stuffed bear for Chicago Cubs' Opening Day
Watch Murray's social distanced 7th-inning stretch.
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Posted Friday 7/24/20 at 6:42PM EDT
ESPN draws its largest-ever audience for an opening night game
The season opener between the New York Yankees and the defending World Series Champion Washington Nationals was watched by 4...
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Posted Friday 7/24/20 at 2:22PM EDT
ESPN misses the first pitch of the San Francisco Giants-Los Angeles Dodgers opener because of a commercial break
Instead of showing the first pitch last night, ESPN featured ads for software company Rimini Street and Stamps.
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Posted Thursday 7/23/20 at 7:14PM EDT
Major League Baseball expands the playoffs, with ESPN and TBS gaining the extra games
MLB announced today that the 2020 postseason will now have 16 teams and begin with eight best-of-three Wild Card Series...
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Posted Thursday 7/23/20 at 12:46PM EDT
Fox Sports will fill empty Major League Baseball stadiums with virtual fans
Thousands of virtual fans will attend Fox's MLB game this Saturday, Fox Sports revealed in a video.
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TV Today: Baseball Returns With What Promises To Be a Surreal Opening Day
If someone told us a year ago that the 2020 Major League Baseball season would kick off in mid-july with...
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Jon Hein's TV Picks — Week of July 20, 2020
Jon Hein knows TV.
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Posted Thursday 7/16/20 at 6:38PM EDT
ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball will be called from ESPN's studio in Bristol, Connecticut
Enhanced sounds from the stadium will be used for each broadcast as Matt Vasgersian and Alex Rodriguez call the games...
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Posted Saturday 7/11/20 at 3:24AM EDT
MLB Network to pay tribute to Al Michaels' greatest baseball calls
Bob Costas and Tom Verducci will delve into Michaels' most memorable baseball moments for The Sounds of Baseball, premiering Monday.
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Posted Thursday 7/09/20 at 12:38PM EDT
ESPN and Jimmy Kimmel team on a 30 for 30 docuseries on the 1986 New York Mets
Mets fan Kimmel and his "Cousin Sal" Iacono will serve as producers on a multi-part series featuring hours of never-before-seen...