PHOTO: Grant Balfour's truck probably isn't helping the environment

Baseball players showing off expensive vehicles is commonly brushed aside in the media. We get it, athletes make WAY more than the average Joe and buy A LOT of expensive crap too.

But when they've got a beast like the one below, one must stop and admire the enormity and scoff, all over again, at the ridiculous spending of the modern athlete.

Whether Grant Balfour purchased this truck before or after he signed a $12 million, 2-year deal with the Tampa Bay Rays doesn't matter. Just about every baseball player can afford one of these babies after a year or two in the majors.