Night Games in Mexico
Patches, I don't need no stinkin patches.
Please consider how much a Wilson West Vest Platinum model cost in Mexico. Using a 9 Mexican pesos to 1 US dollar conversion from my last visit there many years ago and my latest high school math class conversion method; I figure 1350 Mexican pesos cannot buy as much Platinum protection as a $150 US dollars once did. I also suppose transpotation, local taxes, import duties, other cost of living factors such as bribing local baseball officials, and today's conversion rate bring the actual costs up to about $2000 Mexican pesos or $222 US dollars.
I figure it costs more because I suppose Wilson wouldn't be all to eager to market them to Mexico where the average smitty is probably making $1 a game. I hear most of the smitties down there don't even bother to wear any chest protection or shin guards at all, just a traditional mask. At least that is what I have been told. Then again, I'm sure any smitty wearing a 2000 pesos (Yankee Woodrow) Wilson Platinumo Oeste Vestario in Mexico City late at night might want to invest in KEVLAR, life insurance and protection against theft insurance, instead.
Oh- don't get so bent out of shape. Just jolk-king with myself and others watching from lower San Diego.
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