Bonds Ball HOF Bound after all

It appears Barry Bonds may have to boycott the Hall of Fame after all.
After initially refusing the Barry Bonds asterisk-branded 756th home run ball, the Hall of Fame has now accepted the donation from Ecko Unlimited founder and PR stuntman Marc Ecko.
Ecko bought the ball for $750,000 last September, wanting to brand the historic pearl with an asterisk in response to the allegations of Bonds’ steroids use.
Initially, the HOF was hesitant about accepting the ball.
“The owner's previous commitment to unconditionally donate the baseball has changed to a loan. As a result, the Hall of Fame will not be able to accept the baseball,” the Hall told The Associated Press early Tuesday.

That vague statement left us at WCBias.com scratching our heads. So we did some digging and came up with some reasons Cooperstown might not want Bonds’, make that Ecko’s ball in the Hall:

10. Bonds said he’d boycott the Hall of Fame if it accepted the ball, and the Hall doesn’t want a class act like Bonds on the outside looking in.
9. The crusty old men at the HOF think Ecko’s clothes are "too hippitty hop."
8. Innocent until proven guilty – a failed drug test, hundreds of media reports linking him to performance enhancers, Game of Shadows and the Mitchell Report aren’t nearly enough proof.
7. Who needs the ball when you have Bonds’ size 22 cap?
6. Ecko got flaxseed oil on his hands and dropped the ball in McCovey Cove.
5. The Hall was afraid Ecko might tag their hallowed walls worse than Air Force One.
4. The Hall is holding out for the real Bonds’ souvenir – the syringe.
3. Jane Forbes Clark, Chairperson of the Hall’s Board of Directors, is hoping to sign the free agent Bonds to the company’s co-ed softball team.
2. There isn’t enough room for a ball with that ginormous bronze bust of Bonds’ dome on the way.
1. Because of steroid use, the ball has since shriveled up into the size of a raisin and is now useless.