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Here's an Idea...

With the Ecko website stirring up debate on Bonds and the 756 ball, apparently the owner of 755 is copying Ecko with a website of their own, called End The Debate, which offers a vote to, what else, "end the debate" and voters can vote just Hall of Fame or destroy it.

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Call me naive but I still think it's unproven whether Bonds deliberately took steroids or not.  It appears that he might have been fed them but was not aware - it could also have been a nudge-nudge-wink-wink type of deal as well.  Nobody knows.

No matter how you feel about the situation, as baseball fans, we should at least feel that these balls are part of history, good or bad, else we should go out and burn Shoeless Joe Jackson's collectibles, and probably all the racists and 'nare-do-wells who populated the league before the Babe made everything legit.  Heck, if we take the logic far enough, we should blot out the history of baseball pre-Jackie Robinson, as players could have fought to include non-whites, just as much as owners could have, so even if they weren't racist, they were supporting racist behavior.  But that won't make it go away.

So I've been voting to save Bonds's balls and encourage anyone reading this to do likewise.  Again, good or bad, they are a part of baseball history and we should preserve them, as destroying them would not remove what happened in history, anymore than, say, destroying Nazi artifacts would make their blot on history go away.

Plus, obviously both sites are trying to make money off of their investment in the balls.  At least Ecko's site provides two ways of saving the ball - the Hall of Fame could always position the "*" away from the viewer.  The other site is clearly commercial, and by making it a yea or nay vote, clearly it will be smashed since there are a lot of anti-Bonds fans out there.

Preserve baseball history, vote for the Hall of Fame:

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

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Ball to HOF
Call me naive but I still think it's unproven whether Bonds deliberately took steroids or not.

Naive.

Both balls should be in HOF. History will write its own story.

by wilriv21 on Sep 20, 2007 10:07 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Balls for Halls
I wouldn't call you naive for saying it hasn't been proven that Bonds took steroids. Of course that outlook is correct -- there has been neither a trial, nor an admission from Bonds.

However, if you are saying you don't believe he deliberately took steroids, I wouldn't call that a matter of naivete.

It approaches the realm of hardcore denial.

by Moggeee on Sep 20, 2007 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Ball to HOF
wilriv is absolutely correct. Put the ball(s) in the Hall; history will take care of the rest.
The SF Giants: agressively promoting young talent since 2008.

by Lyle on Sep 22, 2007 6:52 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Here's an Idea...
Hi, we're the choir.  You're preaching.
Steve Kline: Pretty okay, but only on a whole season basis and not based on what he's doing now.

by groug on Sep 20, 2007 10:09 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Re: Here's an Idea...
If I were Ecko, and I had already started this blasphemous cry of hatred, I would keep the real ball and pay someone to make a really good look-alike...and do with it whatever the "people" wanted.  

And if I were a hacker I would ensure that the ball went to its rightful place with no dirty whore markings on it.

Brian Wilson for Closer!

by BawLa on Sep 20, 2007 10:11 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Re: Here's an Idea...
I didn't have to wait and hear about the "holdup" in a Las Vegas casino by one O.J. Simpson to form an opinion on the world of collectibles.

How will I remember the moment he hit 756, you ask?  Through the stories I tell the young ones about where I was, what I remember, and how I was nearly crying with joy as I called all the family I could, telling them of the news.

What I'm trying to say is that I don't need a ball, jersey, bat, or scorecard to still cherish the event.  All I need is that memory and a story or two to go with it...that's something you can't put a price on.

I adopted Omar and have nothing good to say about this team. Footy season has kicked off, so I don't watch the Giants much anymore.

by PacBellBoozer on Sep 20, 2007 10:20 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Re: Here's an Idea...
Booze , I'd gladly trade my story for yours.
Waiting breastlessly for the Resurrection , hoping I didn't just kill it. Again.

by victor frankenstein on Sep 20, 2007 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Here's an Idea...
Would you really?  I was half-naked, alone, and on my couch the moment he hit it.  The only thing that could make that any more pathetic would be the presence of a stale bag of Cheesypoofs at my side.

Thank god I'm a Tostitos fan, eh?

I adopted Omar and have nothing good to say about this team. Footy season has kicked off, so I don't watch the Giants much anymore.

by PacBellBoozer on Sep 20, 2007 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I really would.
About the third inning my landlady told me the kitchen sink was stopped up and had I dumped anything down it?
  Because I had , I then sprang into Plumbermode and began the fun process of hand - snaking a drain set wrong  (backgrading) in brick.
  Upon my return to MLB - TV (sixth inning?)I noticed the score had changed...and I began to frantically search for that damned Wayback machine Mr. Peabody had left me...
Waiting breastlessly for the Resurrection , hoping I didn't just kill it. Again.

by victor frankenstein on Sep 20, 2007 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Here's an Idea...
You could have been completely naked and alone.

Half-alone doesn't sound so bad.

Dave Righetti: You don't know him. / Read My Blog, Because I Write It

by howtheyscored on Sep 21, 2007 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Here's an Idea...
Dangit, my grammar joke doesn't follow from your construction. I played it too soon! Should have double checked before I hit post... stupid grammar crap...
Dave Righetti: You don't know him. / Read My Blog, Because I Write It

by howtheyscored on Sep 21, 2007 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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