the spliff committee
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Bonds HR Ball to be "Branded" with Asterick


One week and ten million votes later the people have spoken, and they have said that Bonds' 756th HR ball will be branded with an asterick.

As most of you know, Marc Ecko, Spliff Comm fav/fashion designer/magazine editor/etc. purchased the ball on Sept. 15 for $752,467 on an online auction and then setup a web poll to allow the fans to decide the record breaking ball's fate, which was ultimately to brand the ball; the other options were to bestow it to the Hall as is or banish it to outer space. The fiasco drew major attention from all media outlets over the past week. Even Bonds himself chimed in calling Ecko and "idiot". In the end the fans had their say.

Amazingly, the Hall of Fame is going to accept the ball and they are going to help Ecko come up with a method to do the "branding".