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Star Wars Nerds Took Over Citi Field Last Night, And There Are Photos

The New York Mets are in the midst of another season to forget. They’re 71-77, they’ve been feuding with Major League Baseball, there was that whole Bernie Madoff connection – the team hasn’t given fans much to be excited about. Unless, that is, they’re also Star Wars fans.

And even then, the entertainment was just for one night – last night, when the Mets held Star Wars Night at Citi Field (and lost, 3-2). Apparently, it was also Filipino Night and Knitting Night – maybe the Mets realized they had an excess of theme nights and are just putting on a bunch every game to get them all out of the way before the end of the year. It was for a good cause, too: a portion of ticket sales benefited Stand Up To Cancer. And any event that would give diehard Mets and Star Wars fan/Mets blogger Jason Fry a chance to actually be a Stormtrooper has to have something going for it.

So what does a Star Wars night at a baseball stadium look like? There are plenty of photos to tell that story. We’ve gathered a few of them in the above gallery – just try convincing us a theme night like this wouldn’t work at just about any MLB stadium.

Photos via New York Daily News (Andrew Theodorakis), New York Times (Barton Silverman), Barstool Sports, New York Magazine (AP/Henny Ray Abrams)