So many Americans are upset that Barry Bonds passed Babe Ruth on the homerun list. They say the stats of Barry and contemporaries like Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa should come wed with asterisks. Bull-oney.

The truth is for some stupid reason, many Americans view Babe Ruth and others of his generation as gods. Now, with Barry and others, steroid gives people the opportunity to speak out against their onslaught of "hallowed" records. But with Hank Aaron, there were no such dimension, leaving ugly racist people no other choice but to spew monstrous hatred.

Okay, so Barry doesn't have a particularly good personality. There are many people with less than savory personalities. Who's to say that some of you hypocritical critics don't have great personalities yourself. If Barry is indeed egomaniac, he is far from the only one. Half of the sports columnists I read are egomaniacs. Many actors and actresses are.

Ty Cobb was not a nice man in his own right. A bigot and everything else. If you folks really want asterisks, let's go all the way. Let's put an asterisk on Babe Ruth's records. After all, he played in an era when dummies like the dishonorable Landis prevented blacks from playing baseball. The same time that the Sultan was belting out 61 homeruns, Josh Gibson was slamming 84 homeruns in the Negro League. Sure, some of you say. The Negro League was inferior. Well, in many exhibition games between the Negro League and MLB, the latter won the fair share of games.

In fact, let's put an asterisk on all the records up to Jackie Robinson's barrier-breaking at-bat in the late 1940's. If Americans are really concerned with upholding the dignity of baseball.

So far, the Detroit-Cleveland matchup is going according to script. Detroit has won its two home games, for the most part handily. At times the Cavs have been playing scared. By now everyone knows Donyell Marshall's infamous comment about the team having not a chance against the Pistons.

As a Cavs fans since the Daughtery, Nance, and Ehlo days, it pained me to see a player almost handing in the town after only the first game. So while the term moral victory is cliche, following the Cavs furious albeit futile comeback in Game 2, it gave me and other Cavs fanatics hope that  yes, the team still has a chance.

Cleveland now knows it can play with Detroit. What it needs to do now is seize upon the momentum and protect its home turf and bring a kill or be killed mentality to the game. That is the only way to beat Detroit.

It won't be easy. Earlier this week, tragedy struck the team, as Larry Hughes' brother passed away.  Hughs will probably miss the third game and maybe even the fourth game. The rest of the team may find it hard to perform up to task themselves. Who knows? Maybe the team decide that they have accomplished much this year and decide to fold in, resulting in a Detroit sweep.

Or Cleveland may dedicate the remaining games of the series to Hughes' brother and play in the mold of Loyalta Marymount when they went to the Big 8 after losing Hank Gathers in 1989.

Regardless of the outcome, this has been a great season for Cleveland. just the 4th 50-win season in team history. the first time in the second round since 1993. The first time in the playoffs in 8 years. Not even a Detroit sweep can lesson the Cav's achievements this year. And we can say without a doubt that Clevland will be a force to reckon with for a long time.