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Originally Posted by barrysloate
The concept of destroying a valuable artifact to make money is deplorable.
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I found this sentence to be amusing and ironic because of the adjective "valuable."
We ought to be getting a little more philosophical in this thread:
Why is it okay to cut down a tree to make a few bats, but not okay to cut up a bat to make a few cards?
If only 1 person can enjoy the bat, but 10 people can enjoy the splinters, why not make 10 people happy?
If the bat was going to sit in a closet, but the card will be on display at a museum, does it matter?
Is Cobb's bat more important than an unknown player's bat? If so, why?
I have loads of questions about what really makes people tick about this particular "atrocity."
Mostly, I see a card like that and think (a) the price of Cobb bats just went up because there are fewer of them -- good thing I don't collect Cobb bats; and (b) hey, neat card, but I wouldn't pay more than $10 for it.
There is more than enough tragedy and art in the world to mourn the loss of anyone's baseball bat.