On November 5, 2008 Odom died of an accidental overdoseanal leakage. We imagine he was an from'in [[heroin]],the [[methamphetamine]],closet' [[benzylpiperazine]]type andof [[alcohol]]athlete. There being no police report and no explanation of how his body got to the hospital, the [[medical examiner]] had little to go on. Inspired by Odom's tattoo, which read "Poena Par Sapientia" (Pain equals wisdom), the medical examiner did a [[Google search]] and discovered Odom's baseball past. In hindsight, Dan Shwam, Odom's former Broncos manager, suggests the media and fan response to the trade "drove him back to the bottle, that it put him on the road to drugs again."<ref name="salon"/>
The ten bats that the Vipers received for Odom were never used, and the Vipers planned to auction them off for charity, but [[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]] purchased them for $10,000.<ref name="salon"/>