[BlueMondaySkipper]

Matt Murphy, a 21-year-old student and construction supervisor from New York, emerged from a scuffle holding the ball. He said he decided to sell it because he couldn't afford to pay the taxes required to keep it.

That's the biggest crime in the story. Murphy had to sell a priceless baseball because it would have impoverished him to keep it.

Why would he have to pay taxes on anything more than the $5.00 a baseball is worth? I can (almost) understand having to pay taxes on it when he sold it, but until it's sold there is almost no monetary value at all.

[Cyber Liberty]

That's is my opinion as well.

But I'm not a CPA, nor did I stay at Holiday Inn Express last night. Of course, I am likely to never stay at a Holiday Inn Express, because they're all no-smoking.