I don't know what happened to the Marc Ecko poll/thread I started, but here is what Barry Bonds thinks of the whole situation:
Barry Bonds does not think much of Marc Ecko, the clothes designer who bought his 756th home run ball for a shade more than $750,000 and is asking people on the Internet how to dispose of it.
"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."
Bonds' issue with Ecko was not that one of the three choices on the 756-ball ballot is sending it to Cooperstown branded with an asterisk, an implication that his record is tainted by alleged steroid use. Bonds merely suggested the guy could have found a better use for three-quarters of a million large.
The other two options are giving the ball to the Hall of Fame as is or blasting it into space. Bonds pooh-poohed the poll after insisting he heard nothing about it until a Chronicle reporter related the story.
"All of those options don't weigh anything," he said. "In baseball, that number (756) stands."
Thus, if the voters pick blasting the ball into space, do not expect Bonds to watch the launch. He has other issues on his plate, foremost a sprained right big toe, which remains sore. Although he said it felt a little better, he shook his head no when asked if he was getting close to returning.
Barry Bonds does not think much of Marc Ecko, the clothes designer who bought his 756th home run ball for a shade more than $750,000 and is asking people on the Internet how to dispose of it.
"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."
Bonds' issue with Ecko was not that one of the three choices on the 756-ball ballot is sending it to Cooperstown branded with an asterisk, an implication that his record is tainted by alleged steroid use. Bonds merely suggested the guy could have found a better use for three-quarters of a million large.
The other two options are giving the ball to the Hall of Fame as is or blasting it into space. Bonds pooh-poohed the poll after insisting he heard nothing about it until a Chronicle reporter related the story.
"All of those options don't weigh anything," he said. "In baseball, that number (756) stands."
Thus, if the voters pick blasting the ball into space, do not expect Bonds to watch the launch. He has other issues on his plate, foremost a sprained right big toe, which remains sore. Although he said it felt a little better, he shook his head no when asked if he was getting close to returning.
