Long time guys trip where we go to spring training every March, you miss out and you get ragged endlessly. We bought a blow up doll one year, put at tshirt on her with the missing friends name on it and took it to multiple games. We had to use his seat ticket for something...........
My wife once bought a box of those dolls.
Shipped them to troops in Afghanistan.
They were in the mountains. They'd take 2 dolls, put old t-shirts and hats on them, and sit them on a remote outpost on a barren mountainside.
Then go back and sit on their M-2s and Mk19s and wait for sniper shots.
For some reason the Army never did stock list them.