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Will facial recognition technology allow teams to actually enforce lifetime bans?

In hindsight, wearing a neon-yellow shirt with funny messages on live TV was a poor way to hide a crime. KP Watershed sees that now. It was like he was livestreaming himself reaching into a cookie jar. But at the time, he wasn’t thinking about consequences. He was just a Yankees fan blinded by the light of a righteous cause, rising up against an enemy of all that the U.S. holds true and dear: Marlins Man.

Yeah, that guy. Marlins Man, the camera-hogging doofus who wears an orange Miami jersey and shows up behind the plate at seemingly every big game baseball game, was going to show up on Derek Jeter Day at Yankee Stadium in 2017, and that was more than Watershed’s pinstriped heart could take.