What to do with Bonds 756 HR Ball?

**Lonnie** · 09-17-2007, 02:55 PM

Your options,

Send it to the Hall of Fame.

Brand it with an Astrix (then send it to Cooperstown.)

Shoot it into space.

http://www.vote756.com/marcecko/

I voted to brand it.

**El Chupacabra** · 09-17-2007, 03:00 PM

Sell it for $750K and laugh all the way to the bank.

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default...AAN4102707.htm

**Art Shirk** · 09-17-2007, 03:00 PM

I actually really Like M. Ecko, even though I hate his "dope threads."

Good for him.

**Art Shirk** · 09-17-2007, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

Sell it for $750K and laugh all the way to the bank.

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default...AAN4102707.htm

I think the "anonymous buyer" was Ecko. He don't need the money.

**Odin** · 09-17-2007, 03:12 PM

Home run No. 755, the ball that tied the record, went for $186,750, according to Sotheby's/SCP Auctions. Both final prices included the winning bid plus a 20 percent buyer's fee, according to the auction houses handling the sale

Hughes said that after taxes and auction house fees, he expects to take home about $90,000 from the sale. He said he would probably invest some of the money and use some of it to help out a cousin who just started college. He might also go on a cruise, he said.

Not that 90,000 is something to sneeze at but......

**El Chupacabra** · 09-17-2007, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by commonlaw

I think the "anonymous buyer" was Ecko. He don't need the money.

Google confirms:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20819623/

**pechelman** · 09-17-2007, 03:32 PM

what a moron
he could have actually done something useful in this world with that money

**brutah** · 09-17-2007, 03:39 PM

i think he has to sell it, just because the IRS already deemed it wortha certain amount so that he now has to pay taxes and he can't afford them otherwise.

**Adolf Allerbush** · 09-17-2007, 04:22 PM

I think I'd just give it to Bonds...and I despise Barroids....that or blow iit up

**Egon** · 09-17-2007, 07:36 PM

I voted to put it into orbit.

I like this idea. I hope Bud Selig gets a chance to vote.

**KoKopeLLi** · 09-17-2007, 07:58 PM

Put it in a hotel room and let OJ steal it

**72Twenty** · 09-17-2007, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by KoKopeLLi

Put it in a hotel room and let OJ steal it

While the Patriots film it.

**leroy jenkins** · 09-17-2007, 08:25 PM

I dunno, play baseball with it maybe?

**powpig** · 09-19-2007, 12:39 AM

I like this one better:

http://vote756marcecko.com/

**Sluff** · 09-19-2007, 05:57 AM

Send it to Vince McMahon and they can have a 20 man steroid themed battle royal for it.

**woodstocksez** · 09-19-2007, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by BRUTAH

i think he has to sell it, just because the IRS already deemed it wortha certain amount so that he now has to pay taxes and he can't afford them otherwise.

Yeah, I read somewhere that he decided he had to sell the ball in order to be able to pay the taxes that would due.

What's the basis for taxing the acquisition of this ball? I feel like I must be missing something obvious ... but what?

**Gerome** · 09-19-2007, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by pechelman

what a moron
he could have actually done something useful in this world with that money

Sure, but anyone that has this much money to waste on some baseball memorabilia has plenty more to spend on everything else in life. The designer has to practically find ways to get rid of money. And he probably donates some money somewhere even if the only reason would be through tax benefits.

**Gerome** · 09-19-2007, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Adolf Allerbush

I think I'd just give it to Bonds...and I despise Barroids....that or blow iit up

I have yet to understand why this would be considered that special. The great thing about Barry is that he isn't fazed by people's opinion. Such as when he was booed by the entire Dodger stadium. He ate it up. Similarly, I don't think handing him this baseball would make him the designer's best friend. The same goes for when that fan gave the baseball to Mark McGwire in 1999 as a gesture. McGwire already had it made as an athlete. The fan that gave the ball back could have made a nice profit and practically bought a house or had a party for his friends or invested that money and improved his life. Instead he made a single nice gesture to his hero. It's quaint and sweet, but probably didn't move McGuire as much as it would have moved anyone else had he donated the profits to them.

**Adolf Allerbush** · 09-19-2007, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Gerome

I have yet to understand why this would be considered that special. The great thing about Barry is that he isn't fazed by people's opinion. Such as when he was booed by the entire Dodger stadium. He ate it up. Similarly, I don't think handing him this baseball would make him the designer's best friend. The same goes for when that fan gave the baseball to Mark McGwire in 1999 as a gesture. McGwire already had it made as an athlete. The fan that gave the ball back could have made a nice profit and practically bought a house or had a party for his friends or invested that money and improved his life. Instead he made a single nice gesture to his hero. It's quaint and sweet, but probably didn't move McGuire as much as it would have moved anyone else had he donated the profits to them.

I see where you are coming from...but I would give the ball back to him because I don't feel like we should gain off some one elses triumphs. Barry took the roids to hit the homers and IMO can have the ball. If he doesn't want it then I'm sure he'd just be like "sell it man" in which case I would.

**TeleHoar** · 09-19-2007, 12:37 PM

one word:

Nuetical

**doublediamond223** · 09-19-2007, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by woodstocksez

Yeah, I read somewhere that he decided he had to sell the ball in order to be able to pay the taxes that would due.

What's the basis for taxing the acquisition of this ball? I feel like I must be missing something obvious ... but what?

Whatever the basis is, that is a load of bullshit. Being taxed for catching a ball that is valuable is absurd.