What should happen to #756?? You decide!

The_Dude · Post by **The_Dude** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:51 pm

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

I personally chose B just because it's the funniest. I really couldn't care less.

adam atherton · Post by **adam atherton** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:24 pm

voted B because it's the most appropriate.

Shaggydoo · Post by **Shaggydoo** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:40 am

B. So we NEVER forget.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:54 am

B. Same with the ball that ends up being Bond's final HR, whatever that number ends up being.

MrSpall · Post by **MrSpall** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:57 am

B for sure.

A is too easy and sends no statement. If we just put the ball in Cooperstown it tacitly implies that we're all OK with the circumstances surrounding the record.

C is funny, but it allows people in 70 years to say, "Hey, whatever happened to the ball? Why isn't it in Cooperstown?" No way I want to let them forget that Bond's record is corrupt.

B rocks.

jtkennedy9 · Post by **jtkennedy9** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:40 am

Another B vote....

WBOB · Post by **WBOB** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:59 am

B .......

Austin_Taunt · Post by **Austin_Taunt** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:22 pm

I dont think it will matter in a few years. I really believe my boy A-Rod will break the record and be the true home run king!!

The_Dude · Post by **The_Dude** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:31 pm

Austin_Taunt wrote:I dont think it will matter in a few years. I really believe my boy A-Rod will break the record and be the true home run king!!

I agree.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:22 pm

Austin_Taunt wrote:I dont think it will matter in a few years. I really believe princess A-Rod will break the record and be the true home run queen!!

Austin_Taunt · Post by **Austin_Taunt** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:54 pm

Yankees all the way!! Now if the Cubs can actually pull this out...NY-ChiC would be a great world series.

zenmandan · Post by **zenmandan** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:06 pm

Austin_Taunt wrote:Yankees all the way!! Now if the Cubs can actually pull this out...NY-ChiC would be a great world series.

Actually reading what the vote is for before posting is always a good thing.

I voted B also.

The_Dude · Post by **The_Dude** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:22 pm

Yuck the Fankees.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:02 am

The_Dude wrote:Yuck the Fankees.

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:39 am

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=a ... &type=lgns

NEW YORK (AP) -- The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame, its owner said Wednesday.

Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball's fate, and the decision to brand it won out over the other options, sending it to the museum unblemished or launching it into space.

We're going to be working with the folks at the Hall of Fame," Ecko said on NBC's "Today" show.

Ecko, whom Bonds called "an idiot" last week, had the winning bid Sept. 15 in the online auction for the ball that Bonds hit Aug. 7 to break Hank Aaron's record of 755 home runs. The final selling price was $752,467, well above most predictions that assumed Bonds' status as a lightning rod for the steroids debate in baseball would depress the value.

The asterisk suggests that Bonds' record is tainted by alleged steroid use. The slugger has denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. Fans brought signs with asterisks on them to ballparks as he neared Aaron's hallowed mark.

Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey, also interviewed on the show, said accepting the ball did not mean the Hall endorses the viewpoint that Barry Bonds used drugs.

"We're happy to get it," he said. "We're a nonprofit history museum, so this ball wouldn't be coming to Cooperstown without Marc Ecko buying it from the fan who caught it."

The Giants announced Friday they will part with Bonds after this season, the seven-time NL MVP's 15th in San Francisco and 22nd in the majors.