Major League Baseball MLB famous players want to open an esports theme cafe

The famous MLB star and his wife are about to open an e-sports-themed coffee shop.

"I like watching Twitch live, and I also like watching e-sports games." "We also plan to hold e-sports events and are going to open a themed coffee shop to run board games," Hunter Penny, the two-time World Baseball Championship champion, said in an interview with the famous American writer Gary Venacek. "

Their idea is not only out of their love for e-sports, but also out of what they have seen and heard in major American cities.

Penny is the outfielder of the San Francisco Giants, the two-time World Baseball Championship champion, and his wife, Alexi, has been with him in various cities in the United States. Alexis is a veteran Youtube video writer and Twitch anchor for Nintendo stars, and Hunter will also be the anchor in his spare time.

The couple had been expressing their love for e-sports even before Venaceak's QA question and answer. The first half of their interview was mostly about video games and games like Magic.

Hunter and Alexis have very similar views on the role of traditional professional sports in a media-dominated culture.

"I think e-sports will definitely become a strong competitor or even surpass what we now think of as mainstream sports, such as baseball, football and so on." Alexis said.

Hunter nodded in affirmation, saying that the live broadcast will become the main driving force for e-sports 's future growth: "your mobile phone is a new TV."

Penny is not the first professional baseball player to dabble in e-sports. Trevor May of the Minnesota Twin cities broadcast the Watchman Vanguard live for the Luminosity Club during the offseason. However, Trevor Live is also because they are recovering from a strained elbow ligament, so they will have a lot of free time to broadcast live and will continue to play for the Twin cities once they recover from injury.

Trevor, like penny, is looking for time to run their e-sports business after busy traditional sports or training.