barry bonds hr, bad beat!

geormiet · #1 05-22-2006, 01:27 PM

I am hardly what you would call a baseball fan, but somehow I ended up at the A's giants game on saturday. After drinking some beers and chowing down on carne asada at a tailgate party, we settled into our seats, in section 145-146.

I'm not so clueless that I don't know about Barry Bonds, so at his first at bat I whip out my camera to record. On the second pitch, pop, he takes his first swing and hits one right towards my section. I try to follow the ball with my camera, and do a pretty bad job of it. It's coming right towards me, so instead I try to focus on the people trying to catch it.

Some kid ends up getting it, and security immediately whisks him away. Everyone goes nuts for a while, and I don't really think about it.

Today in the paper, I read about this kid. Similar balls have sold for $700,000 (!!!!!) and the kid is going on talk shows.

I had NO IDEA that the ball would be worth anything, let alone this much!!! WTF?? I'm seriously depressed i wasn't sitting 5 seats forward or that I didn't make a grab at it.

Anyway, baseball is still a boring sport.

yasher · #2 05-22-2006, 01:30 PM

It must be really cozy under that rock, man. Real cozy indeed. Do you have cable under there?

mosuavea · #3 05-22-2006, 01:32 PM

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I'm not so clueless that I don't know about Barry Bonds,

I had NO IDEA that the ball would be worth anything, let alone this much!!!

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geormiet · #4 05-22-2006, 01:38 PM

If you didn't have the option to resell it, how much would you pay for that ball?

MrMon · #5 05-22-2006, 01:39 PM

Five rows off is as much as a mile, don't kill yourself.

On the other hand, not to know what was going on is definitely pretty lame.

jaydub · #6 05-22-2006, 01:39 PM

geo,

$1.50

But in the real world, reselling is an option.

J

faded · #7 05-22-2006, 01:41 PM

I was watching Sportscenter and I believe they said #614 will only be worth about $70k

geormiet · #8 05-22-2006, 01:43 PM

yeah, i think it was a mcguire ball that fetched 700k, forgot which one.

I also read that some people offered the kid $50k right then and there at the game and he refused.

dustybottoms · #9 05-22-2006, 01:44 PM

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I was watching Sportscenter and I believe they said #714 will only be worth about $70k

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Yeh, your heart has to go out to that poor schmuck.

Dids · #10 05-22-2006, 01:55 PM

Barry had some great quote about "giving people the opportunity to better their standing" by hitting home runs.