{"id":28365,"date":"2020-07-16T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/baseball-in-new-york-without-fans-will-be-a-whole-different-ballgame\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:09:00","slug":"baseball-in-new-york-without-fans-will-be-a-whole-different-ballgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baseball-in-new-york-without-fans-will-be-a-whole-different-ballgame\/","title":{"rendered":"#Baseball in New York without fans will be a whole different ballgame"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Baseball in New York without fans will be a whole different ballgame<\/a><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Surely, they will go for the usual rhythms of game-day normalcy. In The Bronx, the grounds crew will no doubt drag the infield while the Village People extol the virtues of the YMCA and getting yourself clean, having a good meal. Around the eighth inning, a twangy voice will ask: \u201cWhere did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe?\u201d<\/p>\n

And at the end, of course, Sinatra will start spreadin\u2019 the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Queens? There\u2019s less tradition behind the game-day menu, but we will assume that at some point during the seventh-inning stretch we\u2019ll hear an Italian crooner go on about Lazy Mary (\u201cC\u2019e \u2019na luna mezz\u2019u mare\/There is a moon in the sea \u2026\u201d) and an inning later there\u2019ll be a rousing version of \u201cPiano Man\u201d (although that\u2019s become a tad less fun than it used to be when everyone sang, \u201c\u2026 and the manager gives me a smile \u2026\u201d and Terry Collins\u2019 beaming face would app<\/a>ear on the video board).<\/p>\n

Wait. Back up a couple of words \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen everyone sang \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the reasons these game-day rituals don\u2019t change much, because EVERYONE likes to belt out \u201cNew York, New York,\u201d and because it has been scientifically proven that even human beings who are not fans of Billy Joel\u2019s music are physically incapable of not wailing, \u201cIt\u2019s nine o\u2019clock on a Saturdaaaaaay \u2026!\u201d It\u2019s an involuntary thing, not unlike blinking and breathing. It\u2019s law.<\/p>\n

But can you have a singalong if \u2026 well, there\u2019s nobody to sing along?<\/p>\n

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Yankee Stadium<\/span>Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that\u2019s just one of the eerie things that will face the Mets and Yankees, who will each play 30 games across 67 days inside their ultra-friendly home stadiums but will be missing one key element.<\/p>\n

Actually make that 47,309 elements in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

And 41,922 elements in Queens.<\/p>\n

Those are the number of seats in each ballpark. In a good year \u2014 and most folks on both sides of the divide believed both teams were heading for good years in 2020 before COVID-19 became a part of our vocabulary \u2014 you would be looking at close to 6 million to 6.5 million people crowding those seats over the course of 162 games in New York City. There were some years, in older, bigger parks, where that number once approached 8 million.<\/p>\n

And one thing about New York baseball fans: They are not bashful. They come to the ballparks wanting to cheer themselves hoarse but, if necessary, as warranted, they will happily alter the plan to booing and screaming themselves into a phlegmy spasm of laryngitis. They don\u2019t sit passively. You KNOW that they\u2019re there.<\/p>\n

Only they won\u2019t be there.<\/p>\n

There is the occasional optimistic word that maybe later in the season a few thousand lucky (and brave) fans might be allowed inside but, as with the very reality of starting and completing the season, that is so far down the road it\u2019s hard to think about. For now, the assumption is this:<\/p>\n

Besides the approving roars of teammates, and mascots (which gives the Mets one more potential live fan than the Yankees) and the quiet watchful eyes of scouts (if they are allowed in) and sportswriters (who take vows of silence during games even in normal times) there\u2019ll be \u2026<\/p>\n

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Yankees Stadium<\/span>Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, there\u2019ll be walk-up music. There\u2019ll be crowd noise, at least that seems to be a plan, until either home team decides that it\u2019s not only ridiculous but unhelpful. At Citi Field, there will be the overhead symphony of airplanes arriving and departing LaGuardia, and that\u2019s normally a hazard of playing there and now might well be a welcome slice of normal.<\/p>\n

And look: Both new ballparks have been criticized for not being what their predecessors were. The old Yankee Stadium used to be an acoustic masterpiece, walls of sound that could last, unabated, for three solid hours and spook even the most sanguine foe. And Shea used to get so wobbly during big moments there were times the mezzanine or the grandstand seemed certain to come down.<\/p>\n

Still: We have been bombarded with televised memories the last four months so we know perfectly well what a house of horrors Citi Field was in 2015 for the Nats, Dodgers and Cubs (the Royals, clearly, were comprised of cyborgs). We have seen enough Yankee moments at the new joint \u2014 Game 6 of the \u201909 World Series<\/a>, Derek Jeter\u2019s 3,000th hit, Mariano Rivera\u2019s farewell, Jeter\u2019s one-for-the-road final at-bat \u2014 to attest that if the new places don\u2019t necessarily make your ears bleed, it\u2019s still hard to hear your soft-talking spouse for a day or two afterward.<\/p>\n

Everything right now is an adjustment. Everything is adaptation. There are a lot of nights every summer when those of us in the press box will say, \u201cI can\u2019t hear myself think.\u201d Not this time. Not this summer. Given the choice?<\/p>\n

We\u2019d opt for ear plugs. A hundred times out of a hundred.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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