Exploring an Empty Stadium - a podcast by Jake Williams

Professional team sports are coming back in bubbles, to be played in completely empty arenas and stadiums. Until the coronavirus pandemic ends, it's probably we won't get any further than partial crowds in the stands.

But there is a second, and larger cloud casting a pall over these fan-less sporting events... To understand the full symbolism of an empty stadium, we went back five years, to the April 29, 2015 game between the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles played at a locked down Camden Yards. Outside the stadium, Baltimore was teeming with demonstrators protesting the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who'd recently died in a hospital a week after sustaining what would turn out to be a fatal injury while in police custody.

CONTENT WARNING: This podcast contains graphic audio clips and descriptions of people being killed by police.

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