The abbreviated regular season for Major League Baseball (MLB) is already more than half over, but the big story in this COVID-19 scarred season doesn't seem to concern what's happening on the field. Some viewers might say it's about heightening the fan experience. The season has featured, at various points, cardboard cutouts of fans in the pretty people seats, groups of virtual fans that fill a 40,000-seat ballpark and sounds of the game that are piped in and accentuated during tape-measure homers or a game-ending strikeouts-often against a background of virtual ads that are appearing in areas of the venue where they are not normally seen. That's about making today's game more appealing to players who aren't used to playing in empty steel and concrete caverns and fans who are used to heightened broadcast production.
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