Octavio Dotel Likes Shoes

Perhaps you missed this piece in The Wall Street Journal:

Pro ballplayers these days collect cars and real estate. Mr. Dotel collects designer shoes. He buys about 20 high-price pairs a year—Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada. The Carrie Bradshaw of the majors says he has so many pairs he’s lost count. “What can I say, I love shoes,” says Mr. Dotel, his eyes lighting up, when a recent interview veered from baseball to footwear.

Of course, right now it’s nothing like when he was on the Cardinals:





Jeremy Blachman is the author of Anonymous Lawyer, a satirical novel that should make people who didn't go to law school feel good about their life choices. Read more at McSweeney's or elsewhere. He likes e-mail.

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Wait Til Next Year
12 years ago

That’s a pair of clown shoes, bro.