Yesterday Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke baseball's most hallowed record, the career home run mark held for the last 80+ years by only two people; Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. When the dust cleared from the scramble for the ball, Matt Murphy, a 22-year-old from Queens, New York, was holding the prize. The value of Bonds' home run ball is estimated at $400,000 and up.The value to me: $0. He, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and the other steroid sluggers have given the grand old game a black eye that taints every player's accomplishments.
If someone is dumb enough to fork over big bucks for this tainted trophy, I'd like to offer them a selection of other treasures, such as --
- Ken Lay's Bible
- Floyd Landis' pee cup
- Rosie Ruiz's running shoes
- Uri Geller's spoon
- Frank Abagnale's pilot wings
- Milli Vanilli's musical charts
- Jayson Blair's chair from the NYT
On second thought, perhaps the ball should be given back to Mr. Steroid. Then he'd at least have one larger than a peanut.
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