The asterisk

Barry Bonds is right.

Unlike his earlier statements against Mr. Ecko and other critics of his home-run record, which they say is tainted by steroid use, Mr. Bonds’s remarks in the television interview go directly, if tersely, to Mr. Bonds’s position against the asterisked ball. From :

“I don’t think you can put an asterisk in the game of baseball,” Bonds said, according to a release from MSNBC, “and I don’t think that the Hall of Fame can accept an asterisk in their Hall of Fame. You can’t, you cannot give people the freedom, the right to alter history, you can’t do it. There’s no such thing as an asterisk in baseball.”

If fashion designer, self-proclaimed Rhino savior, and graffiti champion, Marc Ecko wants to pay three quarters of a million dollars for a baseball and deface it, it's his money to waste and his self-absorption to polish to a sheen. But Cooperstown shouldn't be a party to it.