MLB Cardboard celebrities, fans a hot topic on opening day

Baseball is back, but MLB’s 2020 Opening day had a little different feel in the quiet, fan-free ballparks. Well, almost fan-free.

Baseball is back, but MLB’s 2020 Opening day had a little different feel in the quiet, fan-free ballparks. Well, almost fan-free. As cardboard cutouts of fans fill some stadiums across MLB, Max Goodman joins Madelyn Burke to discuss how the players have reacted to the gimmick, and other ways the league and its broadcast partners are getting creative in empty ballparks.

Dear @MLB ,

If the fans behind home plate are now all cardboard... why is there still a safety net?

I will totally start watching baseball if it means I can see a ball knock over a cut out or even a whole row if someone rips a sweet liner

Please consider this idea

Love,
Kevin

— kevinbiegel (@kbiegel) July 24, 2020

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