Barry Bonds is threatening to boycott the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY if his home- run record baseball #756 is inducted before him with the much hyped asterisk. Fashion designer Marc Ecko bought the ball in an online auction, and based on fan input, it was decided to send the ball to Cooperstown with an asterisk.
”I won’t go. I won’t be part of it,” Bonds said in an interview with MSNBC that aired last night. “You can call me, but I won’t be there.”
“I don’t think you can put an asterisk in the game of baseball, and I don’t think that the Hall of Fame can accept an asterisk,” said Bonds, who called Ecko “an idiot.”
“You cannot give people the freedom, the right to alter history,” Bonds said. “You can’t do it. There’s no such thing as an asterisk in baseball.”
Bonds also said he won’t talk to George Mitchell’s staff looking into steroids use in baseball while he is under investigation in the BALCO case. [LINK TO STORY]
Ahhhh. Bbbbaarrrryyyy Waaarrrry…..I’m soooo sorry you’re upset by this! I know, I know….deep breaths. Thoughts of puppy dogs, clean white sand beaches with no hypodermic needles washing ashore, and remembering how frickin’ cool you are will get you through all of this madness. The public and media can be cruel….we can callously read into the fact that you hit 298 home-runs past the age of 37 and that you weigh sixty lbs. more than when you came up to the big leagues in 1986 and make it into this nebulous ’steroid thang’.
But do I read into it? Nah. You’re the greatest! Ali who? Please. You’re Barry Bonds! We all betta recognize!
