[Charles Henrickson]

Photos up in a minute!

[RWR8189]

Cubbies are going all the way this year!

Holy Cow!

[GeronL]

We're using a combination of pressure, heat and explosives in this bulletproof tank to destroy that ball so it will not resemble a ball at all when we're finished," Lantieri said earlier

bulletproof tank was to make sure snipers were discouraged.

These people are crazy.

[Charles Henrickson]

The ball caught (or not caught) in the act:

[mhking]

It blow'd up real good!

[mikrofon]

'Bartman' is long gone...

[rvoitier]

[SJackson]

I very much hope that thing about the National League championship is going to play out the way you want it to

Darn, it's almost a tagline

[Prodigal Son]

I wonder how much that ball would've been worth in ten or twenty years?

[js1138]

Now if they can just convince the Cubs not to blow themselves up.

[KangarooJacqui]

"It's like the ring from 'The Lord of the Rings' and we're kind of like Frodo, trying to get it over with,"

As I recall, Frodo hurled the ring into the fires of Mount Doom. Wouldn't the more symbolic thing to do in this case, then, have been to hurl the ball into the icy depths of Lake Michigan?

That way, they might have been able to retrieve it in 100 years... or when the Cubs finally win, whichever comes first... hehe

[Polybius]

Bartman had not been expected to attend the event.

Wise choice...................

[Sabertooth]

Here's the pic taken right down the fou line that conclusively shows that Bartman committed fan interference, and that the ump blew the call...

[BaBaStooey]

Now that the ball is in shreds, they need to chop up the pieces, feed it to a goat, and bury the goat's crap in center field at Wrigley.

That should do the trick