Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Marc Ecko, the fashion designer who bought Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball, is putting on a public vote to determine the ball's fate. From SI.com:

Ecko, 35, has set up a Web site that lets visitors vote on three options for the ball: give it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, brand it with an asterisk before sending it to Cooperstown or blast it into space on a rocket ship.

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Bonds said Ecko could have found a better way to spend three-quarters of a million dollars.

"He's stupid. He's an idiot," Bonds said. "He spent $750,000 on the ball and that's what he's doing with it? What he's doing is stupid."

Ecko did not directly respond to Bonds' comments Wednesday, but said in a statement he would make Bonds a custom T-shirt that says, "Marc Ecko paid $752,467 for my ball, and all I got was this 'stupid' T-shirt."'


See, this is why I love rich people. I'm actually a bit torn as to what I want done with the ball. The most appealing option at the outset is to blast the sucker into space. But then again, maybe we should save Bonds' shame for posterity by branding it with an asterisk and sending it to Cooperstown. You can vote at Vote756.com...Or you can do it right here. Of course, I'm leaving that first option off the table...



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