No, of course it isn’t. But that isn’t stopping people from pretending it is.

This baseball card (look, it’s important to keep in mind that’s what we’re talking about here), a one-of-a-kind 2010 Bowman depicting and autographed by Washington Nationals stud rookie Stephen Strasburg, is currently up for auction on eBay. Based on the description, it is more valuable than a “Superfractor,” which sounds less like a baseball card and more like something Lex Luthor has at his command. As of this posting, there have been 148 bids on the card, the latest of which has reached $501,000.

Oh, and it bears noting that the value of the card dipped from nearly a million dollars after the auctioneer began restricting bidders who were not pre-approved. A million dollars!

But this isn’t any regular baseball card, oh no — this has transcended the realm of the collectible. Jeff Sullivan, an editor over at SB Nation, has been quite piqued with the auction, so it’s only fair that he’s the man who nails the reason that this piece of Strasburgicana now boasts a higher appraisal than most people’s homes:

The bidding has taken on a life of its own. They say Paris Hilton is famous because she’s famous. This autographed card is a high-priced collectible because it’s a high-priced collectible. Unlike Paris Hilton, of course, the card had redeeming value before it got all this attention, but it’s no longer something someone wants to own because it’s a Stephen Strasburg autographed rookie card. Now it’s something someone wants to own because it’s the Stephen Strasburg autographed rookie card that sold for more than a commercial spot in the season finale of Lost. It isn’t a card. It’s a piece of internet history. And history has a cost.

The insanity auction ends on Monday at 9 p.m. eastern standard time. I guess the eventually winner should probably splurge on the postal insurance, eh? One wouldn’t want such a valuable piece of internet history to be damaged in transit, you know.