Initially just posted my haiku in the Google Drive. Here it is!
In the stadium’s
Silence and empty stands, they
simulate ballgames.
My haiku is about the Orioles and White Sox game during the Baltimore riots when the organization decided that instead of cancelling the game they would play it without a live crowd. This did make some sense, because they don’t want to endanger the fans or the players, but it still amounted to one of the weirdest games in the history of baseball and reminded me a lot of postmodernism, particularly Baudrillard. For Baudrillard simulations come to take the place of reality. Part of what made this seem more of a simulation was the lack of the crowd. Though the decision was for a good reason it seemed to be indicative of trends in our culture towards watching online and being further and further separated from the “real.” Though an isolated event, if the future of baseball is the empty ballpark this is more troubling because it separates us from the realities of the game by embedding our experience more and more in screens.
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