The Asterisk Party Comes to Boston
Meet Tom Wilson. He hates Barry Bonds, just like me. But he is taking his loathing for the Giants superstar one step further, and you should see the fruits of his labor this weekend in Fenway Park.
We’ve all seen the giant foam fingers reading #1 (or making an obscene gesture in some cases) but this time, its not a finger, but an asterisk instead. Yes, this is a direct protest of the possible breaking of the all time home run record. It says asterisk on one side and steroids on the other. Look out for it at the game, but don’t expect to see it on TV as the MLB feels differently about this situation.
The Asterisk Party Creed
We make no attempt to single out Barry Bonds. Barry just happens to be carrying the steroid banner presently. McGwire, Sosa, Fehr, Selig etc… all of them, in our opinion are guilty of drinking from the steroid trough.
We protest the “steroid era” and like good custodians we do not accept the “everybody did it” excuse… the integrity of the game is at stake.
Future baseball fans will certainly look back on this time… the steroid era… and they will wonder why no one took a stand and called foul.
So this year, we stand up for the past, to show the future, that the now matters. And we will make our stand… in the stands… at the ballpark… for all to see. We knew what was going on and we did not stand by and ignore it.
Our little piece of foam does not attempt to change the record book or right a wrong. That would certainly be beyond our ability and would only add to an already convoluted tangle of words and facts. This little foam asterisk simply allows the fans to demonstrate, in a peaceful simple way, that we were not blind. We were not fooled. And we did not stand by and look the other way while the integrity of the game was ground into the dirt.
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