The Wall Street Journal has a blog entry about Jeff Motuzas, bullpen catcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who supplements his salary by performing eating challenges for money. He once received $3000 for drinking a gallon of milk in under 12 minutes. (via email)

March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Phoenix | Permalink * Comments (3)

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  1. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    March 27, 2011 @ 12:57 pm

    Eating challenges, amongst other disgusting things. I actually found the description of the things he does disturbing (eating tobacco spit, allowing himself to be punched in the groin at will, burning himself, etc.)

    I also didn’t realize bullpen catchers were not rostered players for MLB teams.

  2. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    March 27, 2011 @ 1:14 pm

    Kidding, right? Outgrossing any competitive eating and all for his own bucks. And he gets media attention in The WSJ?

  3. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    March 27, 2011 @ 3:51 pm

    Yeah it’s great he earns extra income and the like, but who let’s themselves get hid in the groin on a regular basis or voluntarily eats someone else’s vomit?? The article reminded me of episodes of Fear Factor, many of which were just gross.

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