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!   

The Alex Rodriguez situation with the New York Yankees got a little more catty and probably irreconcilable.  Major League Baseball and the Yankees lashed back at Rodriguez and agent Scott Boras for their ill timed annoucement they’d be opting out of the last three years of A-Rods contract.  The annoucement came via email and during the middle of game four of the World Series.  Good one, fellas.   

First the MLB clawed back at Boras/Rodriguez on the timing:

“We were very disappointed that Scott Boras would try to upstage our premier baseball event of the season with his announcement,” Bob DuPuy, baseball’s chief operating officer, said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.  “There was no reason to make an announcement last night other than to try to put his selfish interests and that of one individual player above the overall good of the game,”

Then Hank Steinbrenner joined the mauling, when asked if the Yanks would negotiate with A-Rod now, after the Boras/Rodriguez strategy bumble:

“No chance. Not if it’s made official.”  [LINK TO STORY]

Well, A-Rod,  ya kind of blew that “good faith” thing that happens when contracts end and are renegotiated with long-term business partners.  Can you really blame anyone for all the negativity?  I thought you had some serious leverage at first, but now I recant my lame perspective.   I don’t care how many home runs you can hit in the regular season, there has to be league-wide backlash due to your arrogance.  Plus, you’re no Derek Jeter and definitely no leader.

After the Boston Red Sox completed their little league dismantlement of the National League’s entrant into the World Series tournament, Alex Rodriguez apparently wasted no time to throw wind on the New York Yankees off-season wildfire by announcing his intent to become a free agent.   Rodriguez contractually had ten days after the end of the World Series to opt out of his contract, but apparently needed ten minutes:

Some details:

“I got a call from Alex tonight, and he is going to opt out,” Scott Boras, Rodriguez’s agent, told The Post last night during Game 4 of the World Series. “He was just too unsure with new ownership talking about a transition where the organization is going right now. He is not sure what is going to happen with [free agents] Mariano [Rivera] and [Jorge] Posada, and if Andy Pettitte is coming back. He needs more time to assess where the Yankees are going in the future.”  [LINK TO STORY]

Yikes.  Talk about leverage.  You’re Alex Rodriguez and stand to make $150 million over the next five-years.  You’re agent is a wolf in wolf’s clothing – Scott Boras. The dreaded Boston Red Sox just won their second series title in four years.  The Steinbrenner family ownership is in transition….

Umm….Yanks, you’re invited to a barbecue, the coals are all fired up, and we’re serving ridiculous contracts on a skewer.   With a side of scalloped GM Brian Cashman and Yankee pride.   BYOB.

Other A-Rod stories of interest:

Alex Rodriguez a husband and father, again

Will Barry Bonds break A-Rod’s record 800 home runs?

Alex Rodriguez’s wife has respect for Yankee Stadium

PARTMULE EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: 

A PartMule reader forwarded these photos of the post-division championship Boston Red Sox players gettin’ jiggy at a Boston watering hole!  Above is Dice-K gettin’ his freaky-deaky on with an unknown lady.  Hmm…isn’t DK married?  Oh, that’s only Pedroia’s wife.

Below are more photos from a lively Sox night in Boston.  They’re all there…Lowell, Crisp, Beckett, Pedroia, etc….and….you’ve seen Papelbon dance, but have you seen him rap?!  

These are beautiful….

Click on Thumbnails for More of the Sox Party:

Sorry, Schilling was missing from the party.  Although…you can see him HERE

SCHILLING: Ahhhhh…….let me lead you to sanctuary, my son!  

SOX FAN: Sanctuary?

SCHILLING:  Yes, my son.

SOX FAN: Denver?

SCHILLING:  No!  You idiot!  A win tomorrow night in the ALCS game six!

SOX FAN:  Ah.  Wicked one-game-at-a-time thinking, Father.  Ah, I mean your Schilling-ness.

SCHILLING:  Dominus vobiscum nabisco. Espiritu sanctum.  Me gustibus. You gustibus. Don’t miss the schillingbus. 

SOX FAN:  Word.   Under your wing, you make me feel like less of a wetard.

SCHILLING:  Summa cum laude.  Magna cum laude.  You betta cheer laude.

SOX FAN:  You betta believe it!  My bro’ lives in the basement of his pop’s garage.  He’s got a wicked arrangement of eight 19-inch RCA’s put together.   Wicked wall of Sox!  We’ll be at the game cheering in spirit.

SCHILLING:  To the Indians I say:  Post meridian. Ante meridian. Uncle meridian.  F*ck d’em Indians.

SOX FAN:  Your Schilling-ness?  Are you gonna do the bloody sock thing again….that was a play on Jesus’ bloody crown of thorns,  right?

SCHILLING:   If that what it takes for ye to keep your faith, then it shall be done.

Yanks’ Derek Jeter is a sex-God great host to his many whores house guests that he brings back to his bachelor bang shack lovely Miami penthouse in the off-season.  Apparently he even includes validated parking.  This from Page Six:

Our spy in the lobby of the Shore Club in Miami early Sunday morning spotted “two scantily clad women screaming at the front desk because they had spent the night at Jeter’s penthouse and were then charged for parking.”

“The girls were wearing what looked like the same clothes they wore the night before - a tight cocktail dress and a mini-skirt. They were making a huge scene because they were asked to pay for parking.

“Obviously, they’d spent the night there,” giggled the onlooker, who noted that one of the overnight guests was screaming into the phone, “After last night, he’d better [bleep]ing take care of it!”

After a bit of insistence, “they eventually left happy. I assume he paid for their parking after all,” said our snitch.  [LINK TO STORY]

This new and improved attitude toward woman is nice to hear.  I understand when he was dating Mariah Carey he would have her wash and wax his car before she could leave the premises.  This, mind you, after she returned from Starbucks with a delicious venti house-blend and pumpkin scone.

Note:  Photo above left is of Jeter’s family.   No, not some kinky four-way related to the story.  Sickos!  Photo above right is of a mutant plastic woman.  No, not a hot chick.  Sickos!