Yankees ban imported sunscreen

How are those $2500 seats in the new place going to work out for you when you can't bring in your own sun sauce?

The Village Voice reports:

The [New York] Post today has a story about the ban on sunscreen at Yankee Stadium. The reasoning? That good ol' T word: "terrorism."

The brilliant reasoning here is the same one behind the liquid ban on flights, but here's the kicker: security allows you to put on sunblock before throwing it away. So, if you apply the lotion on your skin, essentially confirming it's not liquid explosive, you still have to throw it away. Yankee Stadium sells a 1-oz. bottle of SPF 15 for $5.

The best part of the story is this exchange between a fan and security:

Seeing the giant bag full of confiscated sunscreen Saturday, one steaming Yankee fan asked whether he could take one of the tubes and apply it before heading into the park.

"Absolutely not," the guard told him. "What if you get a rash? You might sue the Yankees."