Let me make an uncontroversial statement: baseball games need more players mic’d up during the game. Not just the Chicago Cubs, but all teams need to give more voice to their players to inject more personality into a game that, in terms of its players, is trailing behind other professional sports in popularity.
In a game like baseball where players can have some serious downtime, filling that time with fun mic’d up segments makes all the sense in the world. We caught a glimpse of just how effective this could be during Monday’s game between the Cubs and the Angels when ESPN focused on the North Siders’ dynamic duo: Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo.