Orem to Paris

I flipped on the TV last night as I was going to bed. David Letterman had a rerun from last spring going, and he was talking to Paris Hilton.

The cameras kept switching to backstage, where her boyfriend was sitting. His name was Doug Reinhardt. She sounded like she was really infatuated with him – the real thing, rather than a nightclub romance.

Turns out that not long after, they broke up. Then got back together. Sort of. In a Hollywood kind of way.

What interested me was he said he had played minor league baseball in the Angels and Orioles organization. And he wasn’t lying. I checked it out. He played in 2006 with the Orem Owlz.

That’s right, Paris Hilton’s future boyfriend was playing in Orem, where he hit a sorry .188 in 64 at-bats.

Still, it goes to show that someone you see at a minor league ballgame may wind up famous. But not necessarily as a ballplayer.

The latest news is he rented a private island in Fiji to win back her heart. (How he did that on a minor league ballplayer’s salary is a mystery, though I understand he’s into acting and other stuff, too.)

Maybe the Owlz should use it as a promotion: “Come to Our Games and See Future Boy Toys.”