From pretty much the time that Kevin Mench became a Ranger, we kept hearing about how big his head is. Well, apparently his feet were too big, too. In reading around tonight, I saw this text on a photo caption of his.
Texas Rangers’ Kevin Mench hits a two-RBI double in the sixth inning against the Seattle Mariners, Thursday, April 20, 2006, in an MLB baseball game at Safeco Field in Seattle. Mench entered the game with zero RBIs in his first 10 games and he has missed five games this season because of a sprain in the second toe of his right foot, but a specialist has determined that Mench’s shoes were a half size too small and on Thursday, he moved to size 12 1/2 from the size 12’s he says he has worn since he was 15.
A specialist, eh? How much money did that guy charge the team and Kevin to tell him he needed a larger shoe size? The wrong shoe size really seems like a reach for the fact that he had zero RBI going into tonight’s game (which is in the bottom of the 8th inning as I write this).