It's Live, but it Blows.
Mic'd up baseball players = awful
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Houston’s Jeremy Pena was chattin’ with the fellas from Apple TV+ in the middle of a game about two weeks ago when the New York Mets’ Jeff McNeil hit a popup sort of behind where Pena would normally stand, at shortstop.
Pena wasn’t stationed there because the Astros were playing in a shift against the lefty-swinging McNeil, so he needed to move to his right to get under the ball. Alex Bregman, Houston’s third baseman, moved back and to his left, the ball arcing down behind him. Bregman might have drawn a bead on it, but he appeared to sense Pena approaching.
The players converged in the general area, then stopped still. They said nothing to each other. The popup fell to the ground between them.
“Holy shh…,” the mic’d up Pena said.