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"

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

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

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