{"id":1095,"date":"2020-07-22T19:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2020-07-22T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:26:50","slug":"major-league-baseball-is-allowing-you-to-cheer-and-clap-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball Is Allowing You to Cheer and Clap from Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening Day for Major League Baseball is tomorrow, and you can&#8217;t be there.&nbsp; But you can still root for your team . . . virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MLB is launching a new interactive feature where you can cheer, boo, or clap . . . and scoreboard operators at the ballparks will adjust the artificial crowd noise to match what you and the other fans are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let&#8217;s say a Houston Astros batter gets beaned, and everyone at home cheers.&nbsp; Well, with a push of a button, the stadium will erupt with (fake) cheers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, MLB wussed out on the artificial boos.&nbsp; There aren&#8217;t any.&nbsp; So if the folks at home are booing, the crowd noise will just get really quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This chaos will be available through the MLB website, the Gameday app, and through social media links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/29511459\/new-mlb-app-feature-lets-fans-remotely-send-cheers-jeers-empty-stadiums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESPN<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Day for Major League Baseball is tomorrow, and you can&#8217;t be there.&nbsp; But you can still root for your team . . . virtually. MLB is launching a new interactive feature where you can cheer, boo, or clap . . . and scoreboard operators at the ballparks will adjust the artificial crowd noise to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Getty_114198625511.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}