Has the world gone mad???
- Thread starter Tortoise-Licker
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Anyone remember Rainblo chewing gum? it was.68 caliber!
You really don't want to know how I know this.
You really don't want to know how I know this.
i even had one of those dispenser things for them
if i remember correctly they are very hard, never shoot it at me
You think that's pricey? How about $10,000 for a wad of pre-enjoyed gum?
Click here for the AP story, if you want to.
Or, if you're lazy, a quick version. Luis Gonzalez, a major league hitter, spit out the gum at a practice game last March. It was scooped up, put up for bid on the internet, and eventually sold for $10,000. Wad of pre-enjoyed gum. Yep. Then again, a toothpick once sold for $440 that may or may not have shared molar space with Tom Seaver. And Ty Cobb's false teeth sold once for $8,000.
The punchline to all this is that the site selling the gum (http://www.nocontraction.com/) also had a baseball signed by Gonzo from the world series in '01. That ball sold for $500. Pre-enjoyed gum with Gonzo-slobber, $10,000. Signed ball from the world series, no slobber, $500.
Must be somehting about baseball player spit?
-Tyger
(Bud Selig can still kiss my tail)
Cheers Tyger up until the last lines I wasn't any the wiser to who Luis Gonzalez was.
Why is it called the world series anyhow??? I can only see American teams in it. Or did the foreign teams get knocked out in the qualifiying phase of the competition?
Why is it called the world series anyhow??? I can only see American teams in it. Or did the foreign teams get knocked out in the qualifiying phase of the competition?
Well, there ARE Canadian team in the MLB. So, technically, it IS an international series. But seeing as there's no euopean teams, and Japan has it's own league....
Oh, BTW, that sig .gif is WAY too big bro.
-Tyger
Baseball isn't that, that rounders rip off were everone wears armoured gloves cos there to scared to catch the ball with there bare hands?
Must have been a boring morning where-ever el padre was today.
8 months between posts oh dear. Look even the author of the first post no longer frequents these boards.
8 months between posts oh dear. Look even the author of the first post no longer frequents these boards.