Because I actually think Barry Bonds is right about something:
Barry Bonds said the man who bought his 756th home run ball and announced plans to let the public decide its fate is an "idiot."
Fashion designer Marc Ecko had the winning bid Saturday in the online auction for the ball that Bonds hit last month to break Hank Aaron's record of 755 home runs. The final selling price was $752,467, well above most predictions.
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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"All of those options don't weigh anything," Bonds told the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday night in Phoenix. "In baseball, that number (756) stands."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."
Fine, it's Ecko's money, and he can do what he wants with it. The fact that he's a fashion designer means he's not really a productive member of society to begin with.
And he certainly isn't as big an idiot as this guy.
I just checked out Ecko’s website (www.vote756.com), and it seems to me that the guy’s getting some good publicity for himself. The site already has almost 4.5 million votes. People pay a lot more than $750K for advertising in stupid places. And besides, fuck Bonds and his big HGH-bloated head. Ecko can do whatever he wants, and if a $750k publicity stunt is his idea of fun, and he gets to mock Bonds’ tainted piece of history in the process, I say more power to him.
But hey, it’s just one guy’s opinion. I’m gonna go vote a few more times. It’s free!