VOTE: On Barry Bonds Record Breaking Baseball

[n2nh]

You get to vote to decide what happens to Bonds record breaking 758th home run baseball. Marc Ekco, who bought it for over $750,000, has started up a website where you can vote for 1 of three choices:

A) Bestow It. Give the ball to the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame. Just like it is.

B) Brand It. Put an Asterisk as a visible footnote on it then donate it to Cooperstown.

C) Banish It. Put the baseball on a rocket and into orbit, banished from the Earth.

(It will also last forever in orbit unless it crashes into something or re-enters the atmosphere.)

There's about 3-1/2 days left in the voting.

VOTE HERE. (http://www.vote756.com/marcecko/)

[K3XR]

Would that be the steroid record baseball??

[k0dxc]

I think it should be banished.

Barry Bonds cheated to break that record and I don't think he deserves it.

[N0KLT]

My choice wasn't listed to vote on. Of course, if my choice was chosen, Bonds would probably walk pretty funny for quite awhile.

I see now that even the Giants don't want him after the season is over.

[AC0H]

Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ Sep. 22 2007,11:26)]My choice wasn't listed to vote on. Of course, if my choice was chosen, Bonds would probably walk pretty funny for quite awhile.

I see now that even the Giants don't want him after the season is over.
Rectal Inversion?
Of course the Giants cut him loose. They recognized the !@#$ storm on the horizon as far as "Steroid Barry" is concerned and don't want anything to do with it.

[K6BBC]

Quote[/b] (k0dxc @ Sep. 22 2007,09:20)]I think it should be banished.

Barry Bonds cheated to break that record and I don't think he deserves it.
And to amplify that point, not much positive attention was given to it when he broke the record.

Hank Aaron and Roger Maris are the kings.

bbc

[K0RGR]

Any power hitter who played most of his career in Candlestick Park deserves another 1-200 homers on his record, steroids or no. Bonds hit most of his homers into the wind at Candlestick, and he did it with hundreds fewer at-bats than Aaron. There still is no real proof that he used steroids. Aaron has acknowledged the new record, so we don't have room to beef.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (K0RGR @ Sep. 22 2007,13:01)]Any power hitter who played most of his career in Candlestick Park deserves another 1-200 homers on his record, steroids or no. Bonds hit most of his homers into the wind at Candlestick, and he did it with hundreds fewer at-bats than Aaron. There still is no real proof that he used steroids. Aaron has acknowledged the new record, so we don't have room to beef.
That's because Hammerin' Hank is a class act. Barry is hardly alone in this category. Sosa, McGuire and others share in this. Just because he claims not to have used them, doesn't mean he hasn't. Canseco has been blowing the whistle, but baseball is not looking that hard at it.

Hank Aaron still needed no enhancement.

I only wish they had "D: Brand the baseball and send it into orbit." It's tainted.

[kc2orw]

Too bad they lacked a throw it in the garbage can vote. Banning it to space might accidentally bestow an honor on it. Better off burning it or rolling over it with a steam roller then tossing it into a sewer filled with human fecal matter...

[K0HWY]

Who is Barry Bonds?

[k0ews]

Quote[/b] (K0RGR @ Sep. 22 2007,12:01)]Any power hitter who played most of his career in Candlestick Park deserves another 1-200 homers on his record, steroids or no. Bonds hit most of his homers into the wind at Candlestick, and he did it with hundreds fewer at-bats than Aaron. There still is no real proof that he used steroids. #Aaron has acknowledged the new record, so we don't have room to beef.
Actually, Bond's biggest home run seasons in San Francisco came after the new park was built. It is not all that long down the right field line, and the park is shifted 90 degrees east of the old one, putting the wind in Barry's favor. Honestly, steroids or none, I think that's had as big an impact as anything in his last 7 seasons. Along those same lines, many of these major league parks have much shorter fences than they did 40 years ago.
What's really amazing to me is that steroids or no, we've still not had a .400 hitter in 66 years, and I don't think Joltin Joe's recored of 56 consecutive games with a hit is in danger any time soon either.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] ]<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>Bonds Baseball to Be Branded With Asterisk</span>

Fashion designer Marc Ecko announced Wednesday that the baseball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk before being donated to baseball's Hall of Fame.

Speaking on NBC's &quot;Today&quot; show, Ecko said donating an altered ball to the game's Cooperstown shrine reflected the overwhelming desire of fans voting on a Web site established after he purchased the ball for $752,467 at an online auction on Sept. 15.

Ecko said more than 10 million votes were cast on his vote756.com site, with 47 percent favoring branding the ball and another 34 percent preferring to see it donated to the Hall untouched. The remaining 19 percent chose the third listed option: &quot;Launch it into space forever.&quot;

Branded! (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/sports/baseball/27ball.html?ex=1348459200&en=13a8f7424677095d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)

[KD6NIG]

$752,467 eh? Someone spent about $752,460 too much on that puppy. (I think I recall seeing baseballs on sale at Walmart for about $7.)

A fool and his money are soon parted, obviously.

Yeah, and Barry who? Oh, you mean the Barry Bonds that, now that the record has been broken, is not going to be renewed in San Fransisco. Now that hes not packing the seats, they don't need him anymore.

Effective marketing tool, though. We'll see if anyone picks him up in the offseason. I'm not counting on it. He's done. Best get ready for a real job there, Barry. Since you probably spent all your money on ster*...errrrrrrr keeping healthy to hit home runs all these years.

*-Allegedly http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif