Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:25PM3 comments ›
Tue Jan 27, 2009 — by Glenn Hauman
Compare and contrast...
From Salon:
A Wall Street retiree wearing a red latex bodysuit and a black hood is strapped to a table.... Talking to Daniel Bergner in his new book, "The Other Side of Desire," the man compares his masochistic ecstasy to having onion skins stripped off his psyche.
"Is this a weird way to deal with life?" he asks Bergner at one point. "Consider the man who bought Mark McGwire's seventieth home-run ball for three million dollars. Who's weirder?"
Let's see, who bought that home-run ball? Oh yeah... Todd McFarlane.
No doubt about it. Todd's much weirder.
And this quote comes on the day when Neil Gaiman wins the Newbery. Hey, does Neil own Todd's balls yet?
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Comments (3)
Tom Fitzpatrick (4:21 PM on Wed Jan 28, 2009)
Speaking of Gaiman owning Todd's balls yet, what I really want to know is this:
When is Miracleman coming back and who's publishing it?!?
Peter David (8:29 PM on Tue Jan 27, 2009)
Todd spent three million on the ball and the result was millions more in publicity and a lucrative toy deal with major league baseball.
It's called "spending money to make money."
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Glenn Hauman (2:22 PM on Fri Jan 30, 2009)
He also bought Sosa's 33rd, 61st and 66th home run balls, McGwire's first, 63rd, 67th, 68th, 69th, and Barry Bonds' 73rd. He bought the last at $450K, assume he bought the rest at $250K each, guessing low. That's $5.5 million in balls, which have lost-- 50% of their purchase price? 75%? 90%? He's got to clear millions extra to make up for those marketing expenses.