Major League Baseball Stadiums Will Have Metal Detectors by 2015

[Redfairen]

Source: Associated Press

Major League Baseball announced new security measures to protect fans at stadiums Tuesday.

The MLB said its 30 teams will have to screen fans with metal detectors at stadium entry points starting in 2015, the Associated Press reports. Teams can pick between hand-held metal detectors or walk-through magnetometers.

The new measures will be in addition to bag checks that are already standard in baseball stadiums, MLB spokesman Michael Teevan said. “This procedure…results from MLB’s continuing work with the Department of Homeland Security to standardize security practices across the game,” he explained.

Last year, several baseball teams, including the New York Mets, Oakland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco, tested fan screening at various points in the season.



Read more: http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2014/01/21/major-league-baseball-stadiums-will-have-metal-detectors-by-2015/

[shenmue]

1. I'm surprised they don't already

Sigh.

[warrant46]

20. Amazing what 19 Islamic Nutjobs with Stanley BoxCutters can do

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[lapfog_1]

2. What about non-metallic weapons?

like the ones they GIVE the patrons on "bat day"?

14,000 people with beer and baseball bats. What could possibly go wrong?

[jmowreader]

3. They'll stop having bat days

They'll replace them with Ten Cent Beer Nights at every park in the country.

[former9thward]

17. Nothing goes wrong.

They have been doing those promotions for decades with tens of millions of people and nothing has gone wrong.

[HockeyMom]

4. Spring Training

We went to a Twins/Red Sox game in Ft. Myers last year. No guns or backpacks allowed. Everyone was searched. I heard one man complain that he couldn't carry his gun into the stadium. It surprised me they were doing these searches for Spring Training games in Florida too.

I would imagine eventually they will have metal detectors at their Spring Training Stadiums also.

[onehandle]

5. Thank you, gun culture. nt

[SpankMe]

6. Prediction:

Arizona will be the first state to pass a law to make exceptions to allow guns to be taken into stadiums.

Some states have passed laws that ban the banning of guns in places of business or assembly (i.e., overriding a business owner's right to say "no guns allowed&quot . Arizona will respond to this with their usual nut-fuck indignation with a law that overrides MLB.

[NYC Liberal]

8. Yep. Right-wingers hate government regulation...

except when a business decides to do something they don't agree with.

Just like how they love "states' rights"...until a state decides to legalize same-sex marriage or abortion or pot or assisted suicide. Then they're all for federal regulation!

[hrmjustin]

7. Not surprised at all.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. What about all those legal concealed weapons?

How will they "stand their ground" without their guns? What about the Constitution? You mean corporations get to violate the sacred and holy 2nd Amendment?

Where is the NRA?

[former9thward]

18. The Bill of Rights has never applied to private orgnaizations.

You lose your 1st amendment right to free speech when you walk through your workplace doorway.

[Kelvin Mace]

19. I know

That is kind of my point. Corporations are a law unto themselves.

[kimbutgar]

10. Great news until the the NRA has Alec write a bill says this practice takes away their 2 nd amendmet

Rights to carry their guns in the parks. With the GOP buying our government in 2014 they will push this bill.

[freebrew]

11. Mostly thanx to our cowardly congress...

that allowed the patriot act.

And then, terror.
So, now we have terror 24 hrs a day. More war that way you see.
Cops can have assault weapons, drones and pretty soon missiles.
Did I mention they already have tanks?

Who gives a rat's ass anyway, a working person can't afford to go to a game now.

What do you think they'll charge in 2015 to enter our 'public' stadium?

[Gormy Cuss]

12. And the march to the security state moves on... n/t

[RoccoR5955]

13. One more step...

Welcome to the Police States of America.

[Xithras]

14. Honestly, this can only be an improvement at AT&T Park.

Few things are as aggravating as having 15,000 fans trying to pour through a gate 30 minutes before a game starts, only to be stopped because there are only FOUR rent-a-cops with hand scanners doing the checks. I don't have a problem with basic, cursory security checks, but if you don't have the staff or equipment to do it properly you're just wasting peoples time and pissing everyone off. That's all they managed to do last year.

[1000words]

15. Aaaaannnnd ... that does it for MLB, for me.

Between SafeCo and Fenway, I usually take in a half a dozen games a year. Long ago, I accepted the ticket prices and concession gouging, bit my tongue when the nationalistic "God Bless America" nonsense wormed it's way into the experience.

Now this. I'm done. You see a better game on TV, anyway.

[Nye Bevan]

16. So fans of minor league teams don't deserve protection?

Surely someone who wants to randomly murder baseball fans will then simply go to a Long Island Ducks game? (whose attendance, I may add, not infrequently exceeds that of the Florida Marlins).