Piped-in fan noise is the new reality for a 2020 baseball season that will be played primarily, if not entirely, in empty stadiums. Anthony Rendon, the star third baseman in his first season with the Los Angeles Angels, heard it for the first time during Wednesday's intrasquad scrimmage and thought it was "stupid."
He would prefer silence.
"Without a doubt," Rendon said. "It's like you have two of your senses that aren't coinciding with one another. It's like you're looking at a pizza, but you're smelling a hamburger. You hear noise, but you know no one's in the stands; you don't see anybody.