Major League Baseball Mandates Metal Detectors at All Stadiums, Working With Homeland Security to “Standardize Security Practices”

America’s favorite pastime
is about to get more American but less likeable.

From the AP:

Entering a big league ballpark will be a bit like going
through an airport by 2015.

Major League Baseball has told its 30 teams they must implement
security screening for fans by then, either with hand-held metal
detection or walk-through magnetometers.

“This procedure, which results from MLB’s continuing work with the
Department of Homeland Security to standardize security practices
across the game, will be in addition to bag checks that are now
uniform throughout MLB,” baseball spokesman Michael Teevan said
Tuesday.

The Seattle Mariners will have metal detectors at their stadium
starting this season. During the last season, the Oakland A’s, San
Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and Pittsburgh Pirates all tried
some kinds of screenings. Bag checks are already standard at
baseball, and many other, stadiums. Major League Baseball says it’s
trying to “standardize security practices” in cooperation with the
Department of Homeland Security. Feeling safer yet?

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