This season, fans are finally allowed back into Busch Stadium.
BY: ANDREW CROWDUS
Staff Writer
The time has finally come where fans flood into the most beautiful venues that sports have to offer–baseball stadiums. Although socially distanced at times, and with masks on when fans aren’t eating or drinking… fans are finally back.
It is amazing to flip on the TV and watch America’s pastime with fans in the stands and not cardboard cutouts that fans had to spend their money on. Along with it, the sound of actual fans cheering and screaming instead of piped in noise from “MLB The Show.”
I do believe they could allow more fans and loosen the regulations, given it is an outdoor sport. However no matter the number of fans they will show their love for teams. It has been so long since fans were last allowed in an MLB stadium without capacity rules, mostly dating back to the finale of the 2019 World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros.
In 2020, the MLB had a “bubble” format for the playoffs only. The World Series and the NLCS had fans allowed at the Rangers new stadium in Arlington, Texas. Although it was limited, the players got to experience fans, something they hadn’t heard since the time Spring Training shutdown in March of 2020, the time when not only the world but the entire sports world came to a screeching halt.
I am overjoyed to once again see the sea of red that overtakes the seats at Busch Stadium. My hope is to never have to see a reduced number of fans in those seats across sports, not just baseball. I also hope to never see empty stadiums due to a global pandemic again. I hope this never happens again, because it truly crushes the athletes because fans bring so much to the game.
