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 world’s gone mad.
The good news for the Tampa Bay Rays, is that social distancing won’t be a problem at their home games.
Actually, based on baseball’s attendance track record over this may look like an improvement...
I like your idea...how about a random generator that randomly selects plays and outcome. All done in realistic 3d animation. Each person has their own computer watching the game. Each game for each computer is different. Everyone can enjoy their own dopamine rush. Then they can talk about it on facebook or twitter or tiktok..or make youtube videos forever and ever and ever. Amen.
Money, money, money, monnnnnney.
Hollywood does this.
If they need a scene in a large stadium it is sometimes cheaper to have cutout in the stands with real people spaced around to move them about to provide some motion.
Personally I think it is a little silly for a real event, but then we are in uncharted territory so let them
experimenterhttps://www.quora.com/How-do-they-shoot-stadium-scenes-in-movies.
Everyone will be out at first because they have a 6 foot circle around the bag.
“What... No blowup dolls?”
those cost an extra $50 each or $100 extra if you want your pic on the face ...
Party time. Are the inebriated ones tilting forward?
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