Barry Bonds Boycotting hall

Some news came out a few days ago saying that Barry Bonds has announced that he'd boycott the hall of fame if they accept his 756th home run ball marked with an asterisk.
If you were not aware, the ball was purchased at auction by fashion designer Marc Ecko, who then put it to vote whether the ball would be launched into space, marked with an asterisk and sent to the hall of fame, or sent to the hall of fame as it was. Ultimately the asterisk option won out. The hall of fame said that they would accept the ball, since it is a piece of baseball history, but didn't make any specific promises as to how it would be presented, if at all.
I don't really understand why Bonds would think that boycotting is the way to go, but honestly I wouldn't mind if that's how it went down. Obviously I'm not alone on that either.
Bonds has said that you can't have an asterisk in baseball. I'm not entirely sure what he meant by that, but the idea seems to be that he doesn't feel that baseball history should be marked with qualifiers, and should be left pure.
I saw one interesting article that pointed out the irony of his sudden distaste for impurities in baseball.
Not surprisingly, there are some people who would side with Bonds on this.
Ultimately I don't have a problem with the ball being marked or being shown with the mark. I think it signifies the state of baseball these days, and the feelings that many people have about Barry Bonds.

To use an extreme comparison, it's not entirely unlike the Negro League displays in the Hall of Fame.
It may be tempting to pretend like that dark period of segregation never existed, but it's dishonest and important to remember.
If it turns out that Barry Bonds has never used any performance enhancing drugs, then it's unfortunate that he would become the symbol of the steroids era of baseball. At the same time, however, he has brought this upon himself to some degree, by making himself one of the most inaccessible and unlikable characters in baseball for the duration of his career.