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Bidders on Bonds Ball: Thanks, But No Thanks

OK, so there are still 16 days left in the battle to win Barry Bonds' steroids-tainted record ball from Sotheby's Auctions, but Darren Rovell notes an extremely interesting development in the sell-off: no one -- not one person -- has listed a bid yet.

Matt Murphy had a chance to sell the ball for $500,000 outright, the real-world equivalent of Ebay's "But It Now" feature. It's looking more and more like Murphy should have taken the bait; with a starting bid of $100,000, and no one driving the price up at all in the first few days, Murphy could be cashing in on considerably less than half a mil. Ouch.

Sure, we all expected the Bonds ball to be held in disregard, but did anyone think it would get the toxic treatment? Plenty of people seem disgusted with Bonds, but plenty of people seem apathetic too. There's no one in the Bay Area interested? No money where the keys to the city are?

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