It's so life-like
Posted on 07/18/2020 6:34:15 AM PDT by Libloather
Mets fans may not be able to attend any games this year, but they can still have a presence once the season kicks off next Friday at Citi Field. The team is selling cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands for $86 each, and a significant amount of them have taken the Mets up on the offer.
“Obviously, we want to be there in person,” Michael Ammirabile, a season-ticket holder who attends roughly 10 games a year, said in a phone interview. “I got me and my 7-year-old son in there. I guess this is the best thing at this point. … It was something cool, something fun to have your picture there, especially for my son. He thinks it’s pretty cool.”
The Mets have begun to put the cutouts in the seats to the right of home plate. The team said close to 5,000 fans have bought the customized placards, proceeds from which will be donated to the Mets Foundation COVID-19 Relief Fund. JT Teran and his girlfriend each bought a placard as well.
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“Some people I know don’t like it. Some people think it’s kind of cheesy. They’re like, ‘Why spend the money to do that?’ Whatever, it’s something fun,” Ammirabile said. “My son [Santino] loves it. He thinks it’s hysterical.”
Mets players have gotten a kick out of it as well. In fact, J.D. Davis said he, Michael Conforto and Dominic Smith had joked about buying some cutouts and using embarrassing photos of each other in the stands, possibly playing a “Where’s Waldo game around the seats.”
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The blow up dolls are for Biden Rallies.
What a bunch of brain-dead suckers. But hey...it’s for charity.
What a bunch of brain-dead suckers. But hey...it’s for charity.
Maybe they can rent them to the thug leaguers in the nfl and nba.
They can pretend to play baseball, and we can pretend to watch.
Win. Win.
When I clicked on this thread, I fully expected to see an article from the Babylon Bee.
It’s to make everybody “feeeeeel safe”, y’know. It’s “scientifically proven” that the Chineee flu can be transmitted through the tv or radio during the game. Better wear your governor-mandated face diaper ...
What... No blowup dolls?
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That’ll cost you more than $86. ;-)
Reminds me of the virtual, fake Rock Ridge scene in Blazing Saddles where they completed the disguise with cutouts of townspeople.
It's so life-like
But will the concession stands be open?
This is just sad.
That is what South Korean professional baseball has been doing, though not in the numbers planned by the Mets.
Korean teams (like some other Asian teams) also have “cheer leaders” that lead the fans in the stadium in cheering their team. The South Korean league has had cardboard cut outs of cheerleaders in the stands also, and sometimes a few well spaced actual cheerleaders.
“There’s a sucker born every minute.”
P.T. Barnum would be proud.
Thanks! You just reminded me to watch The Greatest Showman again.
Waste...pure waste.
Counterfeit
Angel of light
Satan
Coming soon to an NFL stadium near you.
Building a Potemkin village. Only deluding themselves.
These people will pay to have a piece of cardboard attend their ball game for them?
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