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Great man and great player. Can't wait to see him play against Lithuania.

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I love him for this. The asterisk is wrong for Cooperstown.

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THANK YOU GILBERT ARENAS, THE ONLY QUESTION IS WILL ECKO HAVE ENOUGH CLASS TO SELL YOU THE BALL AND DO THE RIGHT THING. THE BALL BELONGS IN THE HALL OF FAME IN PRISTINE CONDITION AND NOT DEFACED BY SOME FOOLISH ASTERICK. ECKO'S MOTIVES ARE SELF SERVING AND MISGUIDED, HOW DARE HE INTERJECT HIMSELF AND TURN HISTORY INTO SOME SILLY INTERNET POPULARITY CONTEST. BARRY BONDS HAS NEVER FAILED A DRUG TEST OR HAS BEEN PROVEN GUILTY OF ANYTHING YET, ECKO WANTS TO DESTROY HISTORY BASED ON ALLEGATION AND INUENDO. IT SOUNDS LIKE HE JUST HAS A PERSONAL, DEEP SEEDED DISLIKE FOR MR. BONDS. IF HE DECIDES TO DEFACE THE BALL WITH AN ASTERICK IT WILL BE DESTROYED FOREVER, WITH HIS NAME FOREVER ATTATCHED TO BASEBALL HISTORY IN A VERY BIZARRE WAY. I THINK THAT IS HIS REAL MOTIVE. BIG THUMBS UP GILBERT, MUCH RESPECT, I APPRECIATE YOUR STEPPING UP AND TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

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get rid of that dam ball send it to space and let it burn up on reentry just like bonds

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Hey B.R.V.,

He may not have failed a drug test, but he has admitted using performance enhancing drugs. He just maintains it was an accident. I know, I hate when I accidentally take steroids, happens all the time.

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ASTERICK THE BALL PERIOD! END OF STORY!

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I say blow the ball up

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Put a big ASTERISK you cant take off so everyone who visits Cooperstown sees it!

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If Bonds' ball gets an asterisk, there are scores of other balls in the HOF that deserve the same branding. Pick one, pick all.

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It's mostly white people complaining about Barry Bonds! He NEVER test positive but they still HATE!They're just jealous because a Black man sits on top of another history setting sports record!! Mark Mcguire was tested positive for steriods and was laughed out of baseball!! Don't forget ignorant fools... who CREATED STERIODS in the first place??? ummhh...........

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Idiot. Hank Aaron is black.

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"N4ever failed a drug test?" Neither has Marion Jones. It would be a shame to waste all that money on designer drugs that can't be detected!

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Marc Ecko has done what Bud Selig has been afraid to do. He has brought this issue to the forefront.
He did a great service, at his own expense mind you, to baseball fans everywhere.
To those who say this is a racist issue, I am speechless.
Hank Aaron, took so much abuse while chasing Ruth's record that it gave him ulcers, he recieved death threats and he said he didn't enjoy a minute of it.
Mr Aaron is the true home run king in baseball. All races, most importantly those of color, should gaurd his record with pride and fire.
If you truely want to protect and defend because of race, where is your loyalty to MR. Aaron? All the things he went through simply because of his race and you are willing to push him aside.
It's a shame...a dirty rotten shame.
I apologize for us all Mr. Aaron

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Agent Zero, I had some respect for you as a ball player. But with this recent gesture, to purchase the home run ball, my respect for you as a person has increased exponentially!

You the Man, do the right thing!

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It is no coincidence that part of the Ecko Unltd Brand logo is an asterisk. This is nothing more than a publicity stunt dressed up to be some crusade against pro athletes' steroid use. Marc Ecko should be ashamed of himself.

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Don't apologize to Mr. Aaron for me...........

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Gilbert buy the baseball and get rid of the that asterik on that baseball that is going to Cooperstown. The baseball Hall Of Fame has had its share of players whose character was shady.

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Donald Crosby, Marion Jones STILL asserts her innocence or lack of knowledge about having gotten those kinds of enhancers. It has been proven that even certain PROTEIN bars have contained traceable levels of banned substances! I also find it strange how such "investigative" reporting comes out the wazoo when blacks are STILL competing, while WHITE sports figures are IGNORED while they are committing all kinds of infractions and have to write books THEMSELVES if anyone is to know about THEIR transgressions! John Daly, anyone?
Verily

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I'm with you, BRV. That sissy designer has NO right to mar Bonds' ball regardless of WHAT the rabidly racist public says. That is an example of what what Thomas Jefferson meant by his phrase, "the TYRANNY of majorities." The designer defacing Bonds' ball also has the unmitigated GALL to bring up the problem with "baseball looking the other way for so long!!" If THAT is how he really feels, why didn't he buy MCGWIRE'S ball and do the same thing since everybody knows WHITE Mark McGwire was on the stuff LONG before Barry Bonds allegedly was?! Why not? Because the sissy designer, like most whites in this country is RACIST. That is the ONLY reason Barry Bonds is made to be the poster boy for something the main PUSHER of the stuff in MLB, Canseco, says NINETEEN HUNDRED baseball players were taking Disgusting. Shaking my head. THAT many players were taking enhancers but only ONE hit 756 homeruns. Looks like the playing field was pretty much even - particularly since nearly 50% of the players PROVEN to have been on steroids are PITCHERS!! So cut the racist crap. Let Arenas buy the ball and do the right thing by Barry. Or take all the mementos from good white players and do the same THING!
Verily

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I agree, Jon, Ecko SHOULD be ashamed of himself for his wacko publicity stunt. He is playing with a man's life's work! Evil, sheer evil.
Verily

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