You've probably caught MTV's show about over the top Sweet 16 parties where parents try to buy their children's love and their neighbor's awe by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on birthday parties for their daughters. The show's a popular one, which is why there are a spate of similar shows popping up on other networks. One such show airs on WE and is called Party Mamas. Neil Best of Newsday caught a recent episode of this triumph of American ingenuity and found that there was a guest whose been in the news recently. It seems that killing a mother while driving drunk with a suspended license isn't the only way Jim Leyritz tried to stay in the limelight. It's a chance to ponder the rare intersection of America's love for the excesses of money and alcohol in one fell swoop.
A woman named Cindy from somewhere on (yup) Long Island spends $30,000 on a baseball-themed birthday party for her 9-year-old son, $5,000 of which goes to Leyritz to make an appearance.The episode was taped well before Leyritz's recent travails which still doesn't explain why a 9-year-old would be impressed by a baseball player who's only memorable moment came years before he was born.
(H/T Can't Stop The Bleeding)
