{"id":106,"date":"2006-07-24T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-07-24T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T17:07:00","slug":"how-much-for-715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/how-much-for-715\/","title":{"rendered":"How much for #715?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bidding on the Barry Bonds homerun ball #715 started this afternoon <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=250011277695\">on eBay<\/a>.  The bidding starts at $10,000.  The last Barry Bonds &#8220;milestone&#8221; ball (#700) <a href=\"http:\/\/auctions.overstock.com\/item\/47042\">went for $804,129<\/a> back in October 2004.  Something tells me that this ball won&#8217;t go for anywhere near that amount.  My prediction: $50,000.  In unrelated news, Mr. Bonds turned 42 (!) today.7\/25 Update:<\/p>\n<p>The bidding is off to a very slow start.  6 bids so far and the latest offer is only $11,500.<\/p>\n<p>7\/26 Update:<\/p>\n<p>OK, so much for my prediction.  42 bids now and the price is up to $125K with 8 days left on the auction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/196266990\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/69\/196266990_513971a597.jpg\" alt=\"Bonds\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/san%20francisco%20giants\" rel=\"tag\">San Francisco Giants<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/barry%20bonds\" rel=\"tag\">Barry Bonds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mlb\" rel=\"tag\">MLB<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ebay\" rel=\"tag\">eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bidding on the Barry Bonds homerun ball #715 started this afternoon on eBay. The bidding starts at $10,000. The last Barry Bonds &#8220;milestone&#8221; ball (#700) went for $804,129 back in October 2004. Something tells me that this ball won&#8217;t go for anywhere near that amount. My prediction: $50,000. In unrelated news, Mr. Bonds turned 42 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-san-francisco-giants","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}