Giants fans can pay $99 to have cardboard cutout in stands at Oracle Park

If you've ever wanted a cardboard cutout of yourself in the stands of a ballpark, well, now's your chance to make that happen... if you're a San Francisco Giants fan.

According to ESPN, Giants season-ticket holders will have cardboard cutouts of themselves in the stands once the Major League Baseball season gets underway, and now non-season ticket holders will have the opportunity to purchase a cutout of themselves for $99.

The Giants announced in a letter to season-ticket holders that games at Oracle Park will be played with no fans in attendance due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the program, called “Giants Fan Cutout Program,” is being sold as an opportunity for fans to “be at Oracle Park even when you’re home watching the game.”

After months of brutal negotiations between MLB and the players' association, the league announced a 60-game season earlier this week and that Opening Day will be on either July 23 or 24 with training camps beginning on July 1.

With multiple health and safety protocols in place for the season resumption, teams have already begun testing players for COVID-19. Charlie Blackmon is among three Colorado Rockies players to test positive for the virus and multiple other players around the league also have tested positive.

The coronavirus will determine whether the season even gets underway as expected and also lasts the full 60 games that it's supposed to. According to a report, 40 players and staff tested positive for the coronavirus last week, which doesn't necessarily bode well for fans hoping for a season.

Things are going to get extremely complicated in the coming weeks if the virus continues to surge in southern states such as Florida, who reported over 5,000 new cases on Wednesday and Thursday, and out west in California, who reported over 7,000 new cases on Tuesday.

While some players certainly will opt out of the season, only ones deemed to be at "high risk" of infection will receive their full prorated salary.