AN Invades Anaheim: Card Stunts!

by noava22 on Aug 12, 2006 11:37 AM PDT

Ok AN, baseballgirl has done a wonderful job of coordinating an AN lovefest in Anaheim the last weekend of the season, and yours truly will be present at the Thursday game. All plesantries aside, I think this is our chance to make a mark, get noticed and have a good time doing it.

Card stunts, and moving card stunts, are hella old school. You see them now at Cal, among other schools, and it's a fun way to razz the opponents or get noticed. Well, I looked at our sections and the diagram of seats for Thursday is way too small to work with, so peeps on Saturday - this dream all falls on your heads!

Today I got bored and designed some preliminary stunts that you who go on Saturday can do. If this is something the community as a whole is interested in, I'll talk to Blez and BBG and see if we can coordinate purchase of some cards for the stunts. This can only happen, though, if everyone is willing to participate. It's going to be weird enough that we're missing a row...

Anyways, take a look at the designs and let me know if this is something that interests the AN community!

diagram link

PS - Rickeyfan has also shown interest in pursuing this idea, and perhaps you can post some ideas and/or diagrams on here, Rickyfan?

PPS - by no means am I an art major, so if you see something that can be improved, by all means, please let me know! Feel free to design your own, too. If you want the excel file, just let me know and I'll email it to you.

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Those are great!

"Grit" and "Rex" are really hard to read (stupid row I!!!), but I love the whole idea. I hope to be there Saturday... maybe we could get all of row I to trade seats with all of row H... LOL

Food burns just as surely at 5 mph as it does at 65 mph.

by Poppy on Aug 12, 2006 11:42 AM PDT reply actions

yeah i know they're hard to read

if someone else has an idea of how to, then try it out? I'll try and tinker with it some more when I've got some free time.

by noava22 on Aug 12, 2006 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions

bigger cards ...

that will over hang Row I

I'm not a big wine guy... Where do you grow the BEER?

by str8tarrow on Aug 12, 2006 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions

No depiction of

the "Dear Leader" as in Pyongyang card stunts?

the great playoff miss of 2004 followed by the good try of 2005...in 2006?...prove it.

by ak_A on Aug 12, 2006 11:47 AM PDT reply actions

Maybe if Row I is friendly...

They could join in? (But who the hell am I kidding? It's enemy territory!)

by anomaly_kat on Aug 12, 2006 12:12 PM PDT reply actions

I find it bizarre...

...that row I is unavailable for both Thursday and Saturday -- in completely different sections. Maybe there actually aren't any row I's in the park! The letter I might look too much like a number 1, and somehow be confusing?

Food burns just as surely at 5 mph as it does at 65 mph.

by Poppy on Aug 12, 2006 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions

or it could be..

season ticket holders?

I'm not a big wine guy... Where do you grow the BEER?

by str8tarrow on Aug 12, 2006 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions

THERE IS NO ROW I

anywhere in Angel Stadium

by RevHalofan on Aug 12, 2006 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions

OH SHIT!!!

The Enemy knows what you're up too....there will be sabatoge....full scale riots, panic in the streets.....ABORT ABORT!!!!!

"I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence." Barry Zito

by athleticsgirl24 on Aug 12, 2006 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions

I actually want to see this happen

can your cards defeat the power of the monkey?

by RevHalofan on Aug 13, 2006 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions

So you're automatically assuming

you're going to be needing to rally, then ;)

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Aug 14, 2006 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions

No I?

Because there's no "I" in "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim"? Oh wait, there is....

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Aug 12, 2006 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm not going to be there

but I wholeheartedly support this plan. If you pull this off, you win my vote for fans of the year!

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Aug 12, 2006 12:46 PM PDT reply actions

Wow! Those are really great!

One thing for sure, we'll participate for the saturday's game and I'm sure other ANers will too, we should make this happen!

by gilaASfan on Aug 12, 2006 12:48 PM PDT reply actions

very college

but I think this idea rocks hard. I'm sure you'd make ESPN if you were Yanks or BoSox fans...

by Apricot on Aug 12, 2006 1:19 PM PDT reply actions

I hope that Fox shows it.

Something else fun to watch for.

by IM4Oakgal on Aug 12, 2006 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Im in...

And so are the other 2 people coming with me.(Thursday)

Saturday I am sitting with season tix holders so I cant do it then.

Its a fantastic Idea and I am willing to do my part and pitch in a little if needed.

by Paul3online on Aug 12, 2006 3:10 PM PDT reply actions

I'm in, if we can pull it off!

So fun!!!

"I'm living in a cuckoo clock!" ~HollywoodOz
"I'm your huckleberry." ~grover

by baseballgirl on Aug 12, 2006 4:12 PM PDT reply actions

Great idea

If it would make a difference, I could help support this financially.

"YA-freaking-WHOOOOO!" ~ alaska A

by eamb on Aug 12, 2006 4:34 PM PDT reply actions

That would be so sick...

to see it on espn. I'm all for it...of course I'm not doing any of the work...

"It is like Menudo, where guys reach a certain age and are kicked out of the band. And they go on to be Ricky Martins somewhere else." -Billy Beane

by WhiteElephantGuy on Aug 12, 2006 9:25 PM PDT reply actions

YO TrojaNoava!!!

You go to USC too? no SHIT! yo we gotta carpool...that drive is a bitch. facebook me. saturday our boys are at WSU...so i'm willing to skip that to watch our a's clinch if that's the situation...lemme know. Fight On

by rsur5 on Aug 12, 2006 11:26 PM PDT reply actions

No shit.

I'm a senior. Kinda hard to facebook you without a name though, buddy.

by noava22 on Aug 13, 2006 4:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Careful guys...

... there's a long history of messing with Card Stunts down there:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html

by RickeySteals on Aug 12, 2006 11:31 PM PDT reply actions

Card stunts rule!

by calgbear on Aug 13, 2006 1:37 AM PDT reply actions

heck yes they do...

only 4 more weeks til Cal's home opener. The best part is tearing up the cards afterwards and trying to hit the people below you in the stands...

Lynch for Heisman!

"Peter you're drunk again!"... "No, I'm just exhausted because I've been up all night drinking."

by ChavyFan03 on Aug 13, 2006 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions

"Please pass your cards to the right"

by calgbear on Aug 13, 2006 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I think it'd be the most fantastic thing ever

And you'd certainly get on ESPN or something like that for it, but something tells me ole Rev knowing about it might spoil your little plan.

Gary's Furniture gon hook you up with discount priced furniture....UP, IN, HERE

by walk off bunt on Aug 13, 2006 3:16 AM PDT reply actions

One can get really big and good at it.

the great playoff miss of 2004 followed by the good try of 2005...in 2006?...prove it.

by ak_A on Aug 13, 2006 9:33 AM PDT reply actions

Thought of one last weekend

I was in Seattle behind the A's dugout. Something happened to Milton like a strikeout or call out at first - I do not recall. I do remember he was heading back to the dugout and he looked pissed. It was like he was walking straight towards me. I was thinking to myself, 'stay cool Milton.' Then I thought, that would be a great sign...and it is not meant to be negative. I truly wished he would just let it blow over and be cool.

Problem is that he may have an off day on that Saturday.

by easyraider on Aug 13, 2006 10:39 AM PDT reply actions

BRILLIANT!

What a great idea. If it's still in doubt that weekend, we're coming down to those games. We're gonna get scalped.

Anaheim is pretty stringent about bringing things in the park, you might wanna clear the cards coming in to the stadium.

by BleacherDave on Aug 13, 2006 1:14 PM PDT reply actions

They're not stringent really

For example, signs are NOT allowed in Dodger Stadium at all.

3 ft x 3 ft signs are allowed in Anaheim.

Very mellow So Cal attitude.

by RevHalofan on Aug 13, 2006 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions

You can always trust.....

The Reverend.......

by BleacherDave on Aug 13, 2006 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Thanks you :)

We appreciate your help. :)

"Please cue the duck"

by baseballgirl on Aug 13, 2006 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions

sounds like fun!

I'd so be up for this if we can actually pull it off.

"I never saw a hooligan I did like. They're like left-handed pitchers, they all have a screw loose somewhere." - The Asphalt Jungle

by drmmerchk on Aug 13, 2006 11:40 PM PDT reply actions

Hey Trojanoava,

I've updated my file (much easier knowing there isn't an I) ... do you hae an email I can send them to?

by Rickeyfan on Aug 14, 2006 10:46 AM PDT reply actions

P.S. Does anyone know how to reach

Mickey Morabito, the team's travel guy? I was wondering if he'd have some sort of 'in' towards getting a good hotel rate for fans traveling down for the game, perhaps at the same hotel the team stays at? I'm sure the team would be juiced to see a core group of die-hards willing to go down to back them up.

by Rickeyfan on Aug 14, 2006 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions

yeah i do

Noava22@hotmail.com

by noava22 on Aug 14, 2006 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions

AHH

where r ya'l sitting?!?! my bf and i want to join too.

Can I move back to NorCal?!

by griffisgurl on Aug 14, 2006 11:09 AM PDT reply actions

Whats the plan on the card stunts???

Are we going to do them?

I think BBG should send a letter with the tix and maybe let the people who are sitting in that spot(i.e. K 6,7,8 occupants get "x" color cards, etc...) or organize it somehow to see if everyone is willing to be involved.

by Paul3online on Aug 14, 2006 11:41 AM PDT reply actions

Basically

if we're going to do it, it's requisite that we get 100% participation from those who are going. BBG is emailing everyone who has tickets to Saturday's game to see if we can secure close to 100% participation. If we can, then I will look into making individual seat assignment things as well as purchasing the cards.

by noava22 on Aug 14, 2006 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Once we settle on the chants

I can figure out which seats flip their cards when for certain chants. I think a simple set of chants as well as two color (green one side, yellow the other) will work best. I'd rather not complicate things too much. Better to focus on nailing the easy ones fluidly. (And the camera's / blimps won't have to interpret the cards).

by Rickeyfan on Aug 14, 2006 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions