Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Barry Bonds' Baseball

I voted to send Barry Bonds' record breaking 756 homerun to outer space. Designer Marc Ecko bought the ball for 750,000 dollars or so and set up a website where you can determine the balls fate. You can send it to cooperstown. You can send it to cooperstown with an asterik branded into it, or you can have is sent into space. I vote for space simply because I want to see if Ecko really will spend the money to launch the historic ball into outer space. The sad thing is that the most excitment over the biggest record in sports has dwindled to this. Cheaters have made us cynical and stolen the wonder from our lives. When I watched Floyd Landis in the 2006 tour come back on stage 17 and no one could catch him on that historic climb...I had chills and tears...only later to test positive for doping. The cheaters create skepticism and so we don't want to trust our "wonder" to their amazing efforts...the sad thing is we are left to the fashion designer and web geeks to vote to send their memorabilia to space. We must be careful who we turn into heroes! If we are not they can be abducted by fashion desingers who will steal their glory and fame and launch our "Wonder" into space.

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