This is just stupid. This whole business of blowing up the infamous Steve Bartman baseball from the NLCS--indescribable stupidity. Forget about the fact that over $100,000 was paid to acquire the ball and nevermind the cavalcade of cameras and personalities that will attend the hideous spectacle. I don't understand why people are willing to believe, or at least behave as if they believed that a mystical force can affect the fortune of a baseball team and that this power can be "exorcised" by destroying a particular fetish object. What is this? Are people over the goat now? After all the "goat curse" has been lifted about 40 times. Will a baseball have to be destroyed every year now? Or maybe next year it will be a corked bat, or perhaps a hypodermic needle.