Marc Ecko and the $750,000 Bad Idea

Marc Ecko, the man behind the Ecko line of overly baggy shirts featuring rhinos and other random graffiti crap, purchased the Barry Bonds record-breaking home run ball for $750,000. He appeared on the Today show yesterday to inform the world what he was planning on doing with the ball.

Fashion designer Marc Ecko is allowing Internet users to vote to either give the ball to the Hall of Fame, brand it with an asterisk before sending it to the Cooperstown (N.Y.) museum or place it in a rocket ship and launch it into space.

Pardon me for injecting my own opinion into the matter, but if you blast the ball into space, you should be trampled by a fucking rhino. Sending a baseball into outer space isn’t eliminating the record, or destroying Bonds, or giving me back the last year of my life I spent listening to shit about the record — it is a waste of a badass rocket ship and a perfectly good baseball (that commemorates one of baseball’s biggest records).

The ball should goto Cooperstown untouched as a part of MLB history and to not give Marc Ecko any more publicity. It would probably be more appropriate to brand the ball with the asterisk and send it to the hall of fame to not only recognize the actual record, but also recognize the the non-stop controversy that came with it (true or un-true). Then again, the asterisk would officially write in the record books that Bonds is a cheat and put Marc Ecko’s name in history of Major League Baseball, where it does not belong.

Vote. [Vote756.com]
Public to decide fate of 756th home run ball [Reuters]