During a time with no baseball games, even team broadcasters are looking for some way to fill the gap in normalcy that comes with the annual baseball schedule.
On Tuesday night, the New York Mets broadcast booth of Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling called a video game matchup between the Mets and the Houston Astros on MLB: The Show.
While calling the simulation, Cohen dropped a joke about the Astros sign-stealing scandal, giving us a taste of what a broadcast likely would have sounded like any time a team faced the Astros during the 2020 season.
“You can hear very little from the crowd tonight, it almost feels like you’re playing in a library,” Cohen said on the broadcast of the simulation. “Which would mean that any sound that might be emanating from the dugout, say, the sound of a trash can being banged, would be quite formidable.”