You know what they say about guys with big feet, right? Yeah: they have really big shoes. Susan Slusser of the Chronicle tells us about new Oakland A David Purcey’s big ones:
Purcey wears size 17 spikes, and the A’s haven’t had a player above size 14; manager Bob Geren is a size 15, the previous Vucinich-era record holder. So when Purcey was traded to the A’s from Toronto on Monday, the team had no spare white shoes in his size.
This is a problem. No, not the shoe size. The fact that the A’s still wear white shoes. God, I hate white shoes on ballplayers. I am convinced that the A’s wearing white shoes has negatively impacted my view of the team as a whole over the years. There have been times -- and I’m not proud of this -- that I have turned off A’s games because the white shoes have bothered me so much.
