When the Giants Come to Town, It's Bye-Bye Baby

09.18.2007
Planet Ecko

You’ve heard by now that famous hipster fashion dude Mark Ecko* bought the Bonds 756 ball, yes? And that Ecko is holding a poll to determine the fate of the ball? The choices: 1) Give it to Cooperstown. 2) Brand it with an asterisk. 3) Shoot it into space.

A space shot is intriguing, but I’d like a few more options. What say you? Get to it: the most creative entry that doesn’t include insertion into a bodily orifice wins an official El Lefty Malo Root Beer Cozy hand-knitted by my 92–year-old grandma.

* Maker of one of the most comfy pairs of shoes I’ve ever worn.

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PM UPDATE: Time for my fourth Challenge to the Giants: Pitch Scott Munter in every game the rest of the year. As you might know, Munter is one of my least favorite Giants. He has one pitch, a sinker, that often doesn’t sink, and he’s stunk nearly every game he’s pitched since his call-up. But the Giants don’t seem convinced. If the team needs to make absolutely sure that he sucks before removing him from the 40–man roster this winter, fine. Let him pitch in the next 12 games and prove it incontrovertibly so.

Previous challenge: win four of six from L.A. and make them memorable. That one is working out well, as the Giants took two of three from L.A. last weekend, and both wins were classics, to be known from here on out as the Ortmeier Walk-Off and the Durham Pinch-Homer games.



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[September 18, 2007 5:35 PM]  |  link  |  reply
Gordo said

Give it to Aaron -- let him decide its fate.

[September 18, 2007 7:39 PM]  |  link  |  reply
trilljester said

ELM: Are you sure you're not confusing Mark Ecko with the Danish shoe company Ecko? I could've swore that Mark Ecko makes "urban" type clothes, didn't know he also made shoes.

[September 18, 2007 7:41 PM]  |  link  |  reply
trilljester said

Scratch that last comment, I mixed them up. ECCO is the Danish company, Ecko indeed does offer shoes.

[September 18, 2007 11:28 PM]  |  link  |  reply
obsessivegiantscompulsive said

I would also note, since I had the same wrong initial impression, that Ecko is suggesting branding it with an asterisk THEN give it to the Hall of Fame. So either of the first two choices means it ends up at the HoF.

He also noted that the HoF was not picky, they would accept any pieces or parts of the ball, should something like that happens (like how the Bartman ball got blown up, I guess). So if he really wanted to be creative, he could cut off the MLB identifying logo, give that to the HoF, then blow the ball to space dust in the upper atmosphere so that the ball really will belong to the world.

I have nothing against Munter but if there are other choices for the 40 man, I think he's the one to go too. But he was so good that one year, I still hope he can figure it out again, someone like that would be very useful if he can perform like that. Hopefully like Niekro, no one will claim him and he can stick around and see if he can recapture the magic somehow. Didn't he have serious surgery, don't that take a while to recover from, a year or two? I think Nathan took two years to finally figure things out.

[September 19, 2007 5:26 PM]  |  link  |  reply
trilljester said

Barry's now saying that Mark Ecko is stupid. I have to say that for once, Barry has said something intelligent to the press.