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Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials between innings are monotonous.

I listen to it during the day too. I’m very tempted to score some of the games, but I’m a little worried I’d find holes like only 2 outs in an inning or missing innings in a game.

https://www.sleepbaseball.com/

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They periodically have ‘specials’ such as idle chatter by the announcers during a rain delay. Ha!

Northwoods is actually a very real collegiate summer baseball league.

https://northwoodsleague.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwoods_League

Hah! I often keep a few 1-3 week-old sports podcasts around as a sleep aid.

I find that outdated previews/predictions of events that have already happened is the perfect thing to get me to doze off.

I think the 2 weeks of heavy speculation about where Giannis Antetokounmpo will be traded to has me set for another month.

I love this, and I wanted to use it when I was suffering from a bit of sleeplessness in the past month or so. Unfortunately, my brain gets stuck in a loop trying to figure out when the audience noise loops. There's one guy who makes the same holler every N seconds.

Tried this out for a few days. Works surprisingly well. I've yet to make it past the third inning before I'm out.

I've determined it must be fictional (maybe wrong?) given the just-entertaining-enough player names, which set me up into a smile during the lineup introduction.

I almost think the possible scoring inconsistencies would make it better, not worse

That’s great. Definitely going to check it out. I usually use NASCAR for this. I’m out in 10 minutes like a baby going for a car ride.

Same effect for me. As a child, I was prone to fall asleep even during live events! The racing cars or motorbikes were interesting, but the drone of the motors brought an overwhelming drowsiness.

I found the voice doing the play by play more aggravating than anything else. I don't know why. Very interesting.

For me it's Sunn O))) Live at the Mayan. I've never made it past the first note before falling asleep.

I didn't think baseball could be any more sleep inducing but this is great.

Michigan. Though there are fictional Wisconsin teams in the fictional league.

This is actually fascinating. I have never heard of this before.

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