Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Mets are using cardboard cutouts of fans to put in the seats at Citi Field during the 2020 season with no actual fans allowed in for games because of the coronavirus pandemic. They are free for season-ticket holders who re-up for 2021, but any fan also can purchase one for $86.



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https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-cardboard-cutout-fans-1.46949094https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-cardboard-cutout-fans-1.46949094

[whippoorwill]

Kinda pricey

[batmagadanleadoff]

It'd be cool if some fan purchases a cut-out of Nelson Doubleday.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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It'd be cool if some fan purchases a cut-out of Nelson Doubleday.

[Ceetar]

doesn't look like anyone got particularly creative. I was hoping for a bunch holding signs, or like photoshopped with blue and orange hair, or whatnot. *shrug* Or holding your pet.



I also think it'd have been cool if you could select spots. Put me at the beer stand in CF for instance.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I like how free cutouts are offered only to season tickets holders who re-up for 2021. The next BLM-like revolution is gonna be a financial one and it's gonna be uglier and more violent by orders of magnitude because it'll affect just about everybody instead of 15 percent of the population.

[whippoorwill]

I wonder if you shell out the $86 plus tax and handling I'm assuming, if they use your cutout more than once?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, what if it rains on Friday night and all of those cardboard cutouts get waterlogged and soft and mushy? Will they print another batch? Or will you be represented, for the rest of the season, by a pile of cardboard pulp?

[Ceetar]

cutout presumably is there for all 30 home games. and yes, handling/order fees because all online systems make sure to nickel and dime you.



They're basically keeping season ticket holders money for an extra year right? Even on a $40 seat at 1% return, that's ~$400.

[whippoorwill]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yeah, what if it rains on Friday night and all of those cardboard cutouts get waterlogged and soft and mushy? Will they print another batch? Or will you be represented, for the rest of the season, by a pile of cardboard pulp?

Lol

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yeah, what if it rains on Friday night and all of those cardboard cutouts get waterlogged and soft and mushy? Will they print another batch? Or will you be represented, for the rest of the season, by a pile of cardboard pulp?

I already am.

Later

[whippoorwill]

Lol again!

[Edgy MD]

I like how it correctly captures baseball's ongoing problem with an homogenous fanbase.



What, oh what will it take to make people of color pay good money to not be somewhere?!

[Ceetar]

that's true.



it also makes me wish someone has started a campaign to get everyone to submit their images as Simpson yellow.

[Frayed Knot]

One of the English soccer clubs did this ... and then apparently didn't notice (or noticed and thought it was OK) when someone submitted a cardboard cutout of Osama bin Laden

[whippoorwill]

It would be fun to be rich and do all sorts of weird people!

Or your Yankee fan friends

[Ceetar]

old mets. Wayne Garrett. Robin Ventura, Gil Hodges.

[whippoorwill]

Joan payson

[G-Fafif]

Cardboard ushers probably will deny cardboard fans access without the right tickets.

Edited July 17, 2020 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

How does this work, anyway? Do you have to submit a high resolution digital image?

[Ceetar]

http://mktg.mlbstatic.com/mets/downloads/2020-Photo-Cutout-Submission-Guide.pdfhttp://mktg.mlbstatic.com/mets/downloads/2020-Photo-Cutout-Submission-Guide.pdf

[Frayed Knot]

My plan is to disguise myself as a cardboard cutout as a way to get in and watch the games live.

I'll need to drop a few more pounds before I can pull this off but the cardboard shirt I'm going to

wear is almost finished and I've already got the pattern for the pants.

[MFS62]

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Cardboard ushers probably will deny cardboard fans access without the right tickets,

[Edgy MD]

I can think of about 100 more interesting ways to populate the stands.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: I can think of about 100 more interesting ways to populate the stands.

What are you doing in this thread young man?

Scores need to be tallied!

Get cracking!



Later

[Edgy MD]

I can't until later. Sorry.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The title of this thread seems to indicate that Citi Field will be hosting a gathering of people who are enthusiastic about cardboard cutouts.

[MFS62]

I heard on tv that MLB has provided each team about 70 different crowd noise sound effects to be played over the PA systems at appropriate times during games(If they would like to use them).

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

EVERYBODY CLAP YO' HANDS!

[LWFS]

I think it would be great if they had a troll section behind the opponent dugout. Like when, say, the Reds are in town, 1000 cutouts of Jesse Winker's mother... or 1000 of Trea Turner in his mouthguard for the Nats.