Home Run Derby

This might be the ultimate Father’s Day gift for the Mets fan who has everything. 

Or maybe somone who just REALLY hated Shea Stadium.

Available right now on eBay … is the wrecking ball that brought down Shea Stadium.

All for the low starting bid of $35,000.  At three tons, that’s only $5.83 a pound!  What a Bargain!!  Mind you – they only take Paypal.  So that huge bag of pennies you’ve been saving since you were 3 years old … not gonna cut it.

Now HRD is a big fan of stadium demolitions (lots of videos right here) … but these hard economic times might be the wrong time to peddle an expensive (yet one of a kind) piece of sports memorabilia like this.  So I wonder who the target market might be.

Chipper Jones’ son Shea probably doesn’t want it. 

The Philly Phanatic springs to mind.  That guy’s loaded. 

Maybe Conan O’Brien … he’s made lots of fun of Mr. Met over the years.  And he’s got a brand new budget for the Tonight Show.

But personally, I bet  Ron Santo buys it.  Yeah, Santo probably has the coin and the desire to own the thing that finally eliminated his annual trip to his persoanl Hell on Earth … Shea Stadium.

H/T:  Sporting News

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