Taiwanese Baseball Team Puts Mannequins in Stands to Replace Fans
Well, that's one way to do it...
The Rakuten Monkeys from the Chinese Professional Baseball League plans to put 500 robot mannequins in the stands since real fans can’t attend the games yet.
https://twitter.com/GOCPBL/status/1247378969516634113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1247378969516634113&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrobible.com%2Fsports%2Farticle%2Ftaiwanese-baseball-robot-mannequins-stands%2F
Rakuten Monkeys' players met up their new robot mannequin fans. #CPBL https://t.co/sxocHBRQxt pic.twitter.com/9KcgVoS9aE
— CPBL STATS (@GOCPBL) April 7, 2020
The league’s regular season has been postponed twice already and is scheduled to begin April 11th and fans will not be allowed to attend the games.
https://twitter.com/WBSC/status/1247475062590132225
Some of the mannequins have even been programmed to hold up signs.