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Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

batmagadanleadoff Jul 17 2020 10:14 AM

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. [FIMG=555]https://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.46949097.1594934710!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_960/image.jpg[/FIMG] https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-cardboard-cutout-fans-1.46949094

whippoorwill Jul 17 2020 10:16 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

Kinda pricey

batmagadanleadoff Jul 17 2020 10:19 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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

batmagadanleadoff Jul 17 2020 10:20 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=40687 time=1595002743 user_id=68] It'd be cool if some fan purchases a cut-out of Nelson Doubleday.

Or 20 fans.

Ceetar Jul 17 2020 10:52 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 10:57 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 11:25 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 11:50 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 11:51 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 12:15 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 12:17 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 12:18 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

Lol again!

Edgy MD Jul 17 2020 12:26 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 12:52 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 01:14 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 17 2020 02:21 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

It would be fun to be rich and do all sorts of weird people! Or your Yankee fan friends

Ceetar Jul 17 2020 03:54 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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

whippoorwill Jul 17 2020 07:24 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

Joan payson

G-Fafif Jul 17 2020 07:33 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 18 2020 07:46 AM

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

Benjamin Grimm Jul 17 2020 08:01 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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

Ceetar Jul 17 2020 09:18 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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

Frayed Knot Jul 18 2020 03:29 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 18 2020 07:44 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

=G-Fafif post_id=40782 time=1595036031 user_id=55] Cardboard ushers probably will deny cardboard fans access without the right tickets,

BOC

Later

Edgy MD Jul 18 2020 09:09 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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

MFS62 Jul 18 2020 09:19 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 18 2020 09:30 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

I can't until later. Sorry.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 18 2020 09:37 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 18 2020 09:55 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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 Jul 18 2020 10:07 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

EVERYBODY CLAP YO' HANDS!

LWFS Jul 18 2020 11:39 AM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

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.

whippoorwill Jul 18 2020 05:45 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

Who is Jessie winklers mother?

Benjamin Grimm Jul 18 2020 05:47 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

Those cutouts look ridiculous. They should at least have made them have consistent proportions.

LWFS Jul 18 2020 05:55 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

Who is Jessie winklers mother? Jesse Winker's the Reds' LF who made a habit of taunting fans in the third-base line stands during their series at Citi last year.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 18 2020 06:02 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

Who is Jessie winklers mother? https://ipaintings.com/images/james-abbott-mcneill-whistler-paintings-a-portrait-of-whistlers-mother-arrangement-in-grey-and-black-no-1/31620/600x600/LF5872.jpg>

Fman99 Jul 18 2020 08:00 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

I would like cardboard cutouts of your moms out there. Yes, all of your moms.

G-Fafif Jul 19 2020 05:12 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

MFYS III personnel still preparing their cardboard cutouts, sorting through vast collection of mug shots and perp walk images that feature MFY gear.

whippoorwill Jul 19 2020 06:25 PM Re: Cardboard cutout fans at Citi Field

My mom is 90 but still sweet