Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl
Fulfilling every baseball fan’s dream, Mike O’Hara, a punk rocker and aspiring actor, was drafted by Major League Baseball on Wednesday to watch all 2,430 regular-season games, beating out 10,000 applicants for the job.
Starting Thursday, he will be holed up in MLB’s “Fan Cave,” a shrine to fandom built in the old Tower Records building in Manhattan, in front of 15 flat-screen televisions.
As he watches the games, he will tweet his thoughts, be interviewed by MLB sportscasters, and have his daily adventures chronicled in online videos.
As of Tuesday, O’Hara, 37, said he still had a girlfriend. Fortunately for him, he will not have to live in the 15,000-square-foot Fan Cave or subsist on a diet of stadium food.
“I don’t want to end up two sizes larger by the end of the season,” he said. MLB officials would not say how much O’Hara is being paid, but said his salary falls between that of a batboy and baseball’s league minimum of $400,000.
WRITTEN BY NEWSCORE & FULL STORY HERE
