# Best way to destroy the Bartman (Cubs) ball **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 20, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132 "2003-12-20T06:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![terd\_ferguson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@terd\_ferguson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terd_ferguson)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/1 "2003-12-20T06:36:09Z")
So guy paid $106,000 for the ball deflected by Steve Bartman so he could destroy it at his restaurant. Any suggestions on how he should go about it? [Here is a link to the story](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1689926) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/2 "2003-12-20T06:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by terd\_ferguson \* > \*\*So guy paid $106,000 for the ball deflected by Steve Bartman so he could destroy it at his restaurant. Any suggestions on how he should go about it? > > [Here is a link to the story](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1689926) \*\* Well I don’t know about the actual destruction, but I think it’d be fitting for someone to choke on it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/3 "2003-12-20T06:52:54Z")
Make Bartman eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Anaclaidiabhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Anaclaidiabhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaclaidiabhal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/4 "2003-12-20T17:45:50Z")
Throw it into the fire from whence it came. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/5 "2003-12-20T18:10:59Z")
Agreed. It must be destroyed by fire. The ashes must be disposed of in some final way as well. All traces of the ball must be obliterated, and its energy purged from the Greater Chicago Area. Perhaps the ashes should be dumped in Lake Michigan? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/6 "2003-12-20T20:26:27Z")
Have a goat eat it. And then kill the goat. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/7 "2003-12-20T20:50:50Z")
Huuge amount of High Explosive + Long, reinforced barrel, +Trajectory toward sun. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/8 "2003-12-20T21:47:09Z")
There is an opening on Bartman that the ball could be shoved in (or up). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/9 "2003-12-20T22:51:14Z")
Such negative energy being espoused here. There is only one thing to do with “The Ball:” send it to the Red Sox. ---
**Author:** ![JaxBeachBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@JaxBeachBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaxBeachBoy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/10 "2003-12-21T01:23:08Z")
Hit groundballs to the shortstop who made the following error until it disintegrates. ps Go Marlins ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/11 "2003-12-21T02:52:06Z")
Send it to me. I’ll deal with it. I saw on Robbie the Reindeer tonight that they were going to destroy something, then feed its ashes to the wolves, then destroy the wolves. That seems a little harsh, but I’ll figure something out. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/12 "2003-12-21T03:07:26Z")
1920’s style. . . ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/13 "2003-12-21T03:41:14Z")
Just get up, say Goodbye and walk away without looking back. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/14 "2003-12-21T06:04:09Z")
I favor buring it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/15 "2003-12-21T06:25:53Z")
That misspelling can be interpreted two ways, **Saint Zero**. As the Monty Pythons lads asked, bur **n** her or bur **y** her? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/16 "2003-12-21T09:10:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Such negative energy being espoused here. Hey, my suggestion wasn’t negative energy. If the baseball was sent into the sun it would burn, causing a positive energy output. Actually I don’t care about the ball, I just want to see _something_ sent into the sun to be destroyed, I have been promised it by sci/fi writers for years since before I was born. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-destroy-the-bartman-cubs-ball/220132/17 "2003-12-21T23:33:29Z")
Perhaps turn it over to [Steve Dahl](http://www.dahl.com/)? He’s got a way of [destroying things](http://whitesoxinteractive.com/History&Glory/DiscoDemolition.htm) at baseball games. The spirit of [Billy Sianis](http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/100303_ns_cubs_goatcurse.html) would appreciate the goat bit, though.