Sheesh this sounds more like boarding an airplane than going to the old ball game.

"The Detroit Tigers are one of the early adopters of Major League Baseball’s new stadium security initiative that requires all fans to pass through metal detectors when entering a ballpark.

The team bought 55 walk-through metal detectors and about 15 hand-held scanning wands, Mike Healy, the Tigers’ vice president of ballpark operations, told Crain’s."
This should be fun...

"Fans will need to empty their pockets of keys, mobile phones, and other items before walking through the metal detector."
Why not belts and shoes in the trays? Don't they know about the shoe and underpants bombers?

Nonpermitted items include aerosol cans, nonservice animals, baseball bats, bottles, brooms, weapons, fireworks, fishing poles, Frisbees, hard coolers, laser pointers, markers, paint, full-face masks, nonbaseball signs, rollerblades, skateboards, sticks or folding chairs.
Fishing poles? Really?

"The Tigers also said all the streets around Comerica Park will be closed to vehicle traffic beginning two hours before a gates open."
What next? Blast barriers? Cavity searches?

Cited from this Crain's article