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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Sunday, February 01, 2009Just act like you belongRick Reilly makes trespassing sound so glamorous: Now, the Phillies have just won, 4-3, when Lionel notices a 6'8" guy in a suit begin to walk down the aisle. Lionel figures the guy's important, so he slinks in behind him, through a gate and toward the Tampa dugout. Who's in there but Bud Selig, some suits and the World Series trophy, all of which are on the field a minute later for the presentation of hardware to Phillies boss David Montgomery. Which is weird, because the way Lionel is strutting around, you'd think he were the boss . . . Despite the insane level of security we've purported to establish in this country since 9/11, I have always found it incredibly easy to get into places like government buildings and the like with ease. Why? Because I'm a bald guy who wears glasses and, quite often, a suit and tie. I look like I belong or, at the very least, I don't look threatening, and as a result people tend not to give me a second look or even insist on normal protocols being followed when I try to get in someplace. Sneaking, plans and schemes never work. Just walk confidently, use people's distaste for confrontation and their assumptions about race, gender, and perceived socioeconomic status against them, and it's smooth sailing. This Lionel fellow has that figured out. In any event, a fellow by the name of Earnell Lucas is Major League Baseball's Senior Director of Security & Facility Management and is responsible for establishing and directing all of MLB's security policies, procedures and programs. He probably will be called into a meeting of some type tomorrow morning. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||