Mets Hire Additional Team Security To Corral Rogue Ballplayers

by Eric Simon on Aug 20, 2010 8:44 AM EDT

Per Andy Martino of the Daily News reports that, according to police sources, "the Mets have increased their security presence monitoring players." The article doesn't indicate how many officers make up the new security detail, just that the Mets had previously employed just a single security guard for both home and road games and that the new guards, however many, will be culled from "a more experienced pool than before".

And the money quote from Martino's report

"The Mets are forced to baby-sit their investment," a police source said. "They can't afford another mess. So they upped the number of chaperones."

Said another source: "Now the big shots in Mets security travel with the players, on the bus, plane and hotel. Watching so they don't get in some stupid season-damning fight."

The idea of the Mets hiring someone to babysit their rogue millionaire athletes naturally led to this.

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That is fantasic,

the picture of course. I’m pretty meh about the overall idea.

by Sokojoe on Aug 20, 2010 9:10 AM EDT reply actions

Oh my god.

Dickey.

Darrelle Revis once won a game of Connect Four in three moves.

by bm01bath on Aug 20, 2010 9:11 AM EDT reply actions

That picture is hilarious

by Shevshevy on Aug 20, 2010 9:19 AM EDT reply actions

Incredible

Especially the use of Wright with the Gazoo helmet

by JoshNY on Aug 20, 2010 9:25 AM EDT reply actions

is there a super-rec button

At least the Mets are doing their part in helping the economy with job creation in the security sector

Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know? A headache with pictures?

by KeithsMoustache on Aug 20, 2010 9:38 AM EDT reply actions

Amazing Work

Great Pic

by Sir Tmac on Aug 20, 2010 9:39 AM EDT reply actions

reyes looks so fitting

dickey, wright, and jeff. lmao.

by clip on Aug 20, 2010 9:40 AM EDT reply actions

The pic is fantastic

But good lord – one guy (who has, incidentally, a history of anger problems) does something stupid and the team has to hire extra security? Is there any evidence whatsoever that this is a broader issue that the team needs to spend money on? The extent to which this team is run based on fake and/or misguided PR principles is staggering.

by dontstopbelieving on Aug 20, 2010 9:52 AM EDT reply actions

Tony B?

mediocrity thy name is Wilpon- jdon

by Gina on Aug 20, 2010 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions

Also it could be to protect the coaches from the players

a mutiny has to be coming

mediocrity thy name is Wilpon- jdon

by Gina on Aug 20, 2010 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions

God willing.

by SuperT on Aug 20, 2010 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions

What happens when the fans rise up and shout"We're not going to take it

any more" No one will be safe!

by Putnan Prince on Aug 20, 2010 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow

That graphic is the funniest thing I have ever seen. I just spit coffee all over my computer, so thanks for that.

Excellent - everybody knows that.

by borasblog on Aug 20, 2010 9:53 AM EDT reply actions

Best Vin Diesel movie?

Pitch Black was pretty sweet.

Worst is… I dunno, too many to choose.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON... BUY THAT MANSION. WE DONT NEED A CONDO.

by kendynamo on Aug 20, 2010 9:56 AM EDT reply actions

Boiler Room

is probably my favorite.

by Eric Simon on Aug 20, 2010 10:04 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

xXx

Boiler Room would have been really good if it weren’t for the awful Giovanni Ribisi emo scenes. By far Ben Affleck’s best work though.

by TedBerg on Aug 20, 2010 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions

Funny

I hated the Affleck scene. I thought it was a ripoff of the Alec Baldwin scene in Glengarry, and a far inferior version.

But yes, Boiler Room with the Ribisi scenes with his father edited out > Boiler Room.

Excellent - everybody knows that.

by borasblog on Aug 20, 2010 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions

Find me Guilty.

by MatthewM11 on Aug 20, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Pitch Black all the way

two of my fraternity brothers actually had bit parts in Boiler Room, they were in the training scene when Affleck does the big speech. how exciting i know! lol

saving private ryan is pretty good too. he also does the voice of the giant in Iron Giant.

by Dep on Aug 20, 2010 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions

REC'D AND A HALF!

Can’t rec it enough!

Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the street: wheredotheygo?!?!? Right here: http://myentireteam.wordpress.com/

by CharlieH on Aug 20, 2010 10:03 AM EDT reply actions

OMG this is too good

Everything is just so appropriate.

by Angel Muñoz on Aug 20, 2010 10:10 AM EDT reply actions

where can I apply?

Maybe I have somewhere to work when I retire from law enforcement now

Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all

by Rickfansince76 on Aug 20, 2010 10:12 AM EDT reply actions

Intersting because

“Watching so they don’t get in some stupid season-damning fight.”

I thought the season was already damned.

by Coolpapabell on Aug 20, 2010 10:15 AM EDT reply actions

so this is a reality show now?

"Fantasy, reality, science Fiction. Which is which? Who can tell?"

by feslenraster on Aug 20, 2010 10:21 AM EDT reply actions

I thought this might be the best thing I ever saw on AA

So I had to find the Decision Making Tree to compare.

Nope. Decision Making Tree still the best thing ever.

On a side note, did the marketing team behind The Pacifier really think that putting “from the producer of bringing down the house” right on top of the poster would bring ADDITIONAL people to see this flick?

Excellent - everybody knows that.

by borasblog on Aug 20, 2010 10:27 AM EDT reply actions

I am crying.

I cant tell if its tears of joy or tears of pain and suffering.

Consequences will never be the same.

by NetsMets4Life on Aug 20, 2010 11:02 AM EDT reply actions

This is so, so good

Jeff and Dickey are downright disturbing, they just look exactly like rookie-hazing pics.

by deadspy3 on Aug 20, 2010 11:13 AM EDT reply actions

It's very simple

(1) Identify the players who require the added babysitting (if any,) and (2) offload those players. I don’t get it — the team is flat as a pancake on the field, but of the field it’s a shitshow? Christ.

by tmu on Aug 20, 2010 11:16 AM EDT reply actions

If they actually hired Vin Diesel as babysitter

I would have no problem with that.

by James Kannengieser on Aug 20, 2010 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

But they'd give him $36MM to do it

with a vesting option if Jose Reyes makes curfew for 30% of road dates.

by tmu on Aug 20, 2010 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Phenomenal!

I especially like Castillo as the duck.

by METSRULE on Aug 20, 2010 12:47 PM EDT reply actions

I read the title

and thought this was going to be some Onion-esque article.

I bet Jerry Manuel just bunted.

by GilbertP on Aug 20, 2010 12:53 PM EDT reply actions

ditto

The events in my life are now defined by whether they came before I saw Jeff Wilpon in a miniskirt or afterwards.

The ones before still had smiles in them…

Image credit to astromets

by hotspur on Aug 20, 2010 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions

RA Dickey made me spit my coffee

Great job )

by Brittannia on Aug 20, 2010 12:58 PM EDT reply actions

Awesome work on the picture

Rec’d

Hey !. Don't talk to my mami like that.

by fxcarden on Aug 20, 2010 1:03 PM EDT reply actions

So you're telling me they blew all the free agent money on Rent-a-Cops?

Faaaaantastic.

by chakrabs on Aug 20, 2010 1:16 PM EDT reply actions

Great work, and rec'd

Ever since the BB-Rod story broke, the Pink Floyd song “Brain Damage” comes to mind whenever I think of the incident.

The lunatic is in the hall/The lunatics are in my hall

It's a game of redeeming features. ~ Bob Murphy

by CTRefJay on Aug 20, 2010 1:28 PM EDT reply actions

vin Diesel could look like cora

And... It's outta here!!!

by SuperSantana on Aug 20, 2010 3:03 PM EDT reply actions

That Dickey picture gets me everytime

There is no hope.... there is no future....there is only GRISSIONZ

The 2010 Mets- Hey, we may suck, but what did you expect?

by Syler on Aug 20, 2010 3:13 PM EDT reply actions

This is possibly my favorite Photoshop work of all time.

by lefty vs lefty on Aug 20, 2010 3:44 PM EDT reply actions

That picture is teh winzzz...big time.

That Jeff Wilpon picture is always funny, as is the Dickey picture. I think the duck should’ve been Jerry Manuel, though.

The one and only mistermet on teh Interwebz!

by Steve Schreiber on Aug 20, 2010 6:09 PM EDT reply actions

THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is RAD being dishonored by being portrayed as a little girl?!?!?!? Clearly he should be the duck! :-)

Mets 2010 slogan; "a whole new level of stupid you were unprepared for."

by scott from peekskill on Aug 20, 2010 7:12 PM EDT reply actions

epic win

by eric10 on Aug 20, 2010 7:39 PM EDT reply actions

You epically win all the internets in the world!

Ed Rooney: What's the score?
Pizza Joint Owner: Nothin' nothin'.
Ed Rooney: Who's winning?
Pizza Joint Owner: The Bears.

by R_Adragna on Aug 20, 2010 10:02 PM EDT reply actions

All our internetz are belong to you!

by secret defense on Aug 20, 2010 11:27 PM EDT reply actions

Likes very much....Nice work on the MSPaintz..

But just one thing. Can people stop calling the K-Rod thing “season ending”? The season was over well before he did that, arguments that we could win 30 out of 32 and greab a wild card spot notwithstanding. That was just the rotten cherry atop the s*** sundae.

by MookieTheCat on Aug 21, 2010 1:12 PM EDT reply actions