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MacArtist wrote:
Big Business can do anything under the umbrella of "it's just good business". Like outsourcing jobs, declaring bankruptcy, mass layoffs, etc.
A person is expected to "do the right thing".
I'm a little jaded. I think in this case I would have auctioned the ball off.
If it means so much to Jeter, let him place the highest bid.
Rather than think of the people who lost their jobs, think of the majority of people who kept their jobs. I know that doesn't help the unemployed, but every forgets that if a business doesn't make a profit, everyone there is unemployed.
I think everyone expected him to sell the ball.
You aren't the only one.
I agree.
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August West wrote:
I haven't been following any of that so really don't care. I'm just amazed that someone would pay 250 grand for a used baseball....
There's my +1
When something out there is a rare commodity, because of it's rareness, many aficionados and collectors of that rare item can drive up the value due to their coveted desperation to obtain it. The more people that desire the item, the higher the value. Thus, when a baseball player of Derek Jeter's accomplishments coupled with his extreme popularity becomes only the 28th player in the 150 odd year old history of the game of baseball to hit the ball safely 3000 times, it's within the realm of possibility that the value of that 3000th hit could reach the quarter million dollar mark.
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What does Jeter's salary have to do with it? Or any other player? Do you honestly think Jeter is going to sell the ball? No. It's value to him is a completely different animal. More than sentimental value. Honestly! The young man's actions were spot on. Jeter's salary is irrelevant.
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You need to eliminate the "away" games . . . about roughly half of the 75 you estimated.
I am selling those tickets too and since you brought up my error error error I am charging you and your friends double Whip *(:>*
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Put me in the "sell it for as much as I can get" group. Or take it to the popular TV show pawn store in Vegas, Pawn Stars (just to get a few bucks and get my 15 minutes of fame).
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