Fake Phillies Player Draws Crowd At FanFest

↵
↵Cab to the Javits Center: $15. FanFest tickets for your family: $90. An official All-Star Game baseball for your son: $35. Your son’s baseball after C. Yaeger signs his name on it: worthless.↵↵Who is C. Yaeger, you ask? Well, he’s the guy in the following video -- just an average dude, who happens to enjoy going to every Phillies game dressed up like a ballplayer, head-to-toe. He’s tall, lean, in his 20s, so he pulls the look off. In other words, he could be easily confused for an actual ballplayer. But I can assure you, he is not. He works for a regional sports media company in Philly and never played ball beyond high school. ↵

↵↵However, kids at the FanFest, with their underdeveloped little brains and thirst for autographs, do not know all this. So you see where this is going. Here’s a taste of the feeding frenzy that occurred around Yaeger.
↵

↵

↵
↵↵The video captures only a couple minutes of him defacing any and all overpriced memorabilia put in front of him, but this went on for about 15-20 minutes before the cops realized he was a fraud and finally escorted him out.↵

↵↵Let this be a lesson kids: This is why being a collector is stupid. I tease, I tease. But no, seriously, kids are idiots. And so are their parents. Everyone knows it’s not an autograph worth getting unless you wait in line for a minimum of two hours. ↵

↵