Blue Jays: My experience in an empty Rogers Centre

TORONTO, ON - JULY 09: Toronto Blue Jays players take part in an intrasquad game at Rogers Centre on July 9, 2020 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images)

A few years ago I got to experience what the MLB players did in 2020, being in an empty stadium without the fans.

As players across Major League Baseball played games in front of empty seats, although filled with cardboard fans, the noise was largely silent, atypical from an ordinary MLB baseball game.

No one thought this day would ever come as baseball is seen as a form of entertainment and while the stadium, in the Toronto Blue Jays case, the Rogers Centre, is not always filled to capacity, it’s usually packed in the 100 and…