"An apartment in New York, that's gonna run me $14,000, maybe$15,000 per month, yo," says Bell, who's earning $5.2 million this season playing rightfield for the New York Mets and who is clearly talking about the higher end of housing in the Big Apple.
Such as hip-hop CDs (he owns nearly 2,000). And DVDs (100-plus). And games for his Sony PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast (300-plus). And alligator shoes (100-plus pairs). And aqua suits and green suits and beige suits and fruit-punch-colored suits and canary-yellow suits (each of which he wears once and then gives to friends). And the gold-and-diamond baseball pendant that dangles from his beanstalk neck. And sparkling diamond studs, one for each ear. And a six-bedroom house in Tampa, his hometown. And his five vehicles--three trucks, a 2000 Mercedes-Benz S500 and a 2000 Bentley Azure