I have always believed that booing a disliked player/team gives him/them more credit than he/they deserve.  You want to make a statement: do not react to their presence at all.  Honestly now, can you envision anything more powerful than a perfectly quiet stadium as a hated player/team steps on the field???  If you wanted to punctuate it, stand up and turn your back.  Booing, name-calling and hatred serve only to fuel the phenomenon that you dislike.  Now, on to the HR record.

We live in an age of advanced statistics, and yet we insist on glorifying a counting record like all-time HR.  This tally has as much to do with longevity as it does skill and/or dominance.  Aaron might have hit more HR than Ruth, but the Babe did his in almost 4,000 (about 33%) fewer at bats.  In a recent book by Baseball Prospectus, they speculated that Bonds would have hit 450ish career HR in Ruth's era, but the Babe would have sent 900+ over the fence in modern times; this was done via a complicated statistical translation of their stats, not just guesstimating.  Another book claims that, adjusting for modern times (rules, parks, trends, etc.) the Babe would have hit over 100 HR in a single season.  So much for Barry's steroid-fueled 73, huh?

All I'm saying is this: the record shouldn't matter as much as it does and, by consequence, neither should Barry.  If you still want to make a big deal out of it, just IGNORE Bonds' "accomplishment" and treat Aaron as the HR King.  Heck, many do this for Marris or even Ruth when it comes to the single-season HR record.

Baseball is full of liars, cheaters, and people with lax moral standards.  Sure, Barry probably cheated, but we have no way of proving it.  Hundreds of other baseball players have taken steroids, HGH, and/or amphetamines, and we don't blast them.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.  If you're going to flame one player, you need to flame them all.

I voted for the ball to go in with the asterisk, not specifically for Barry, but to remind future generations what a crazy time this past decade has been.  You can't trust anyone anymore.

"Sure, Barry probably cheated, but we have no way of proving it." Well, if you turned your back to him every time he came to the plate, you wouldn't. 8-) Sure baseball has been full of liars and cheaters, but Barry was the "biggest," and best at it. I'm not going to lose any sleep over Bonds's attaining the record, or even get in a bar room argument about it, but anything that gets Bonds's goat even the slightest bit (as the ball stunt evidently has) is aces by me.

You people?

I guess the people who watched the cheater's career and are fully aware of how he got to where he is aren't a part of history.

The public voted -- everyone had their say.  Nearly five million people wanted to see it branded and put into the HOF.  That's huge.

This ball matters today.  It won't matter nearly as much when Bonds retires and we put his last home run ball in the HOF.

With any luck, A-Rod will be the new home run king before 2015.  The asterisk will still be there, but it won't be the focus of anyone's attention.