Matt White, Billionaire

I'd say this is yet another reason to hate the Dodgers, but it's hard to really hate on Matt White, except out of jealousy. (See below).

FYI, this is the first attempt at a blog post using clipmarks, a Firefox extension I found yesterday. Let's see how easy it is to do this.

clipped from www.sfgate.com

Matt White, a journeyman pitcher trying to make the Los Angeles Dodgers, could become baseball's first billionaire player.

It has nothing to do with his arm. He owns a rock quarry in western Massachusetts.

White, who has appeared in seven big league games in nine professional seasons, paid $50,000 three years ago to buy 50 acres of land from an elderly aunt who needed the money to pay for a nursing home.

While clearing out a couple acres to build a home, he discovered stone ledges in the ground, prompting him to have the property surveyed.

A geologist estimated there were 24 million tons of the stone on his land. The stone is being sold for upward of $100 per ton, meaning there's well over $2 billion worth of material used for sidewalks, patios and the like.