So, lets get right into it today. This story involves an all-time great in the world of baseball, but has nothing to do about sports. This is straight up fucked. The short version is the world of cryogenics ain't what you hoped it'd be. Again, this is fucked.

The last .400 hitter in baseball, Ted Williams, died in 2002. Family and interest groups quarreled over what to do with the poor guys body, and after what I believe was about a month of him corpsing it up, it was agreed, freeze the head in cyrogenics in hopes future scientific generations can do.... uh, something. And I thought people fighting over a dead guys head was bad....

"[Larry Johnson, former Alcor Life Extension Foundation executive] writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors' last .400 hitter" - WithLeather.Uproxx.Com

So, essentially, people with about as much medical training as me took like, regular saws and sawed his fuckin head off. DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...... WHAT? We're just getting started. As the Patron Saint of Infomercials Billy Mays would say, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! You know what, I'm just going to copypasta this whole section of the story before I interject more.

"Johnson writes that holes were drilled in Williams’ severed head for the insertion of microphones, then frozen in liquid nitrogen while Alcor employees recorded the sounds of Williams’ brain cracking 16 times as temperatures dropped to -321 degrees Fahrenheit.

Johnson writes that the head was balanced on an empty can of Bumble Bee tuna to keep it from sticking to the bottom of its case.

Johnson describes watching as another Alcor employee removed Williams’ head from the freezer with a stick, and tried to dislodge the tuna can by swinging at it with a monkey wrench.

The technician, no .406 hitter like the baseball legend, missed the can with several swings of the wrench and smacked Williams’ head directly, spraying “tiny pieces of frozen head” around the room" - WithLeather.Uproxx.com

I think solid white albacore is about to take a pretty big sales hit. Jesus Christ, dude. I mean, its bad enough to be an asshole that doesn't care so you're prying shit with wrenches and not caring about what you're doing, but..... that's just being lazy, careless and stupid. Putting microphones in hi head to hear the brain crack? Erhm..... EXCUSE ME WTF U DOIN

So, that's what 120 grand gets you nowadays. Yep, that's what was paid for this treatment. I don't really got a lot to add to this that anyone reading the story isn't already thinking. The book is in the image above, it's going to sell well, and a lot of people are going to be in deep shit. Including the author, I speculate. He might want to think about grabbing a bodyguard or four.