Is the ball juiced, too?
Andrew Morbitzer sold the Barry Bonds 715th home run ball that fell into his hands while he was buying a beer at AT&T Park on May 28, and he stands to get a huge chunk of the $220,100 that someone just spent on an eBay.com auction that ended today at noon.
We kept track of how the auction winded down at the Website established for the sale. Check it out to see how the 69 bids went as the clock ticked down to the deadline.
Winning bidder Marc Chase is an exotic car merchant who owns dealerships in La Jolla, Las Vegas and Silicon Valley. He plans to use the ball to show off at his car businesses.
Morbitzer, a 38-year-old marketing director, said he might use the proceeds from the ball to place a downpayment on a home in San Francisco. He also said he planned to donate 10 percent of the proceeds to the charity Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America.
Experts predicted that the ball would fetch around $100,000 at auction, far less than the $500,000 some experts say it could have commanded absent the controversy surrounding Bonds.
And in a related note, the reporters at the Onion have news for you: Bonds isn't the only one roided up.