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Bonds Homerrun ball goes for $450,000

No, it's only partially because Barry is a jerk. The real issue is that the homerun has been greatly devalued by the juiced ball, players bulked up to Hulk size by steroids, ballparks the size of high school girls softball fields and pitchers who couldn't get my grandmother out. 73 is a meaningless number now, it's only going to be a couple of years until somebody hits 75 and then 80. Whoever owns the Mcgwire 70 ball got hosed, when Bonds hit 73 that ball dropped to a fraction of the 3 million that was paid for it. When A-Rod or somebody else hits 75 the Bonds ball won't be worth nearly $450,000.

I'm happy that it went for so little, neither one of those clowns is going to make enough off the sale to cover his legal fees.
 
Originally posted by: bthorny
Originally posted by: Piano Man
That's cause he's not a white boy.
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no it's because barry is an arrogant jerk
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Not only that he cheated by wearing so much body arour he could crowd the plate with impunity.


As far as the price for any ball...It's worth $8 to me.
 
I'm glad these clowns only got $450,000 for the ball. For claiming to be such big baseball fans, over the past year or so they have only shown themselves to be greedy losers. IMO, what they should have done in the first place is agree to give the ball to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and maybe in return ask for a small monetary compensation or a little marker by the ball saying that it was donated by them. Same thing goes for McFarlane with the McGwire ball. However, McFarlane did say that he intends to donate the Sosa #66, McGwire #70, and Bonds #73 balls to the Hall of Fame in exchange for rights to produce figurines of players that are already enshrined.

-Tom
 
Originally posted by: Soccer55
I'm glad these clowns only got $450,000 for the ball. For claiming to be such big baseball fans, over the past year or so they have only shown themselves to be greedy losers. IMO, what they should have done in the first place is agree to give the ball to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and maybe in return ask for a small monetary compensation or a little marker by the ball saying that it was donated by them. Same thing goes for McFarlane with the McGwire ball. However, McFarlane did say that he intends to donate the Sosa #66, McGwire #70, and Bonds #73 balls to the Hall of Fame in exchange for rights to produce figurines of players that are already enshrined.

-Tom
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well that seems fair

these morons.....500k for a ball
 
Originally posted by: Soccer55
I'm glad these clowns only got $450,000 for the ball. For claiming to be such big baseball fans, over the past year or so they have only shown themselves to be greedy losers. IMO, what they should have done in the first place is agree to give the ball to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and maybe in return ask for a small monetary compensation or a little marker by the ball saying that it was donated by them. Same thing goes for McFarlane with the McGwire ball. However, McFarlane did say that he intends to donate the Sosa #66, McGwire #70, and Bonds #73 balls to the Hall of Fame in exchange for rights to produce figurines of players that are already enshrined.

-Tom
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It's so easy to say when you are not the one catching the ball.
 
Originally posted by: UncleWai
Originally posted by: Soccer55
I'm glad these clowns only got $450,000 for the ball. For claiming to be such big baseball fans, over the past year or so they have only shown themselves to be greedy losers. IMO, what they should have done in the first place is agree to give the ball to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and maybe in return ask for a small monetary compensation or a little marker by the ball saying that it was donated by them. Same thing goes for McFarlane with the McGwire ball. However, McFarlane did say that he intends to donate the Sosa #66, McGwire #70, and Bonds #73 balls to the Hall of Fame in exchange for rights to produce figurines of players that are already enshrined.

-Tom
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It's so easy to say when you are not the one catching the ball.
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What would either of these men have done with the ball besides keep it for themselves or sell it? Neither of them revealed any intention to donate it to the Hall of Fame or even doing something along the lines of what McFarlane did with McGwire's #70 ball (which was take it on a tour around the country so that the fans that can't make it to Cooperstown could get a look at it for free).

Any real baseball fan knows that this ball belongs in the Hall of Fame and I guarantee you that if I caught that ball, I would have had a few pictures with it, shown it to my friends and family, and then called Cooperstown to ask what I needed to do to get it to them safely. Say what you will, but if it was me, that's how it would have gone.

-Tom
 
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