David Wright Moonlights, Makes a Delivery

There was a fuss - and VitaminWater truck - at the FDNY's Ladder 20 Engine 13 firehouse on Lafayette Street. With good reason: Mets third baseman David Wright was filming a commercial for vitaminwater. Wright, New York's hottie come lately athlete, plays a vitaminwater delivery man - see how his uniform says "David"?

Firefighters were taking photographs with their cellphones and Wright seemed to be having a good time. We just hope he's well-rested for tonight's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Red Sox star David Ortiz and Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher appeared as badminton players in a vitaminwater ad (Slate's Seth Stevenson gave the ad a B), while 50 Cent played an orchestra conductor in another. The Queens-born rapper actually owns a stake in vitaminwater's parent company Glaceau (also based in Queens), so when Coca-Cola bought Glaceau, 50 made around $100 million. Wright has a 0.5% stake in Glaceau, which lead the Post to speculate he would make $20 million, though Wright has said it's much less.

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It's just good sound business to invest in companies with good "Upsides" . Glaceau is just one of hundreds of Companies to make money off of . I've been investing for years and look forward to turning profits annually . It's the way to go if you want to get ahead in this country ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"

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Damn, I'm sad I missed this. Can you notify us that this stuff is happening before it happens, rather than after? Thx.

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Why oh why doesn't my water delivery man look like David Wright? He definitely is a hottie!

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