MLB All-Star Game Programs Weirdly Became a Problem for Cleveland Airport Security
By Sean Facey
2019 MLB All-Star Game festivities went off without a hitch over the past few days in Cleveland, but the fans and media members who are now returning home have run into an odd situation at the airport.
The official programs for the game have appeared as black boxes on X-ray machines at airport security, causing some problems for folks trying to get out of town with one of the Midsummer Classic mementos in their checked bags.
So this is weird: Apparently the #AllStarGame programs looked like black boxes to the X-ray machines at the Cleveland airport when they were inside people’s luggage. Hence, this advisory that they had to be removed and carried through security by hand. That’s a new one. pic.twitter.com/ZwNOAKnx72
— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) July 10, 2019
That's certainly one way to make the event memorable. It's not every day that you get stopped by TSA in the airport for the crime of having gone to a baseball game. The malfunction proves that the excitement spawned by the events of the past few days isn't quite ready to end quite yet.
Both the All-Star Game and the Home Run Derby provided edge-of-your-seat entertainment for the fans in attendance. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Joc Pederson pieced together arguably the best head-to-head round in Derby history before Pete Alonso stood tall at the end, and the AL narrowly avoided blowing a late lead to the NL to win their seventh consecutive All-Star Game.
How many All-Star Game programs will be left behind at TSA checkpoints when baseball fans fly home from CLE tomorrow? https://t.co/laWjWzChNB
— David Koenig (@airlinewriter) July 9, 2019
This debacle with the programs is simply another unexpected twist that nobody could have forseen to come out of all this. There's a year before next year's festivities at Dodger Stadium-- figure it out, people.