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Despite Barry Bonds record breaking homerun, slugger Barry Bonds has always seemed to have a contentious relationship with both the baseball-loving public and the baseball establishment, which administers the rules and are the official record-keepers. Bonds states that he "will not be there" if and when he is ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and the ball that caused Bonds record breaking homerun is displayed with an asterisk next to it that casts the legitimacy of Bonds into doubt. As Bonds said to sports reporter Jim Gray in a videotaped interview: "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 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...I will never be in the Hall of Fame. Never. I will never be in the Hall of Fame...I won’t go. I won’t be part of it, I won’t be there, you can call me but I won’t be there." Apparently, when it comes to Barry Bonds homeruns, the petulant slugger doesn't want anyone calling his integrity into question. If that happens, then Bonds will take his ball from Bonds record breaking homerun, and his bat, and just go home. So there!
