We can all sit and argue numbers and #### our pants about Barry’s steroids or propose Babe wasn’t facing black pitchers.  Whose the best?  Each home run these guys hit stands as a performance.  It’s a piece of art.  You can stack them into numerals and line them up against each other all you want but there is nothing but opinion.  The stage changes each season and the countless variables of varying degrees of effect continue to fluctuate.  Babe had a short porch!  Barry hit a juiced ball!    

I don’t like Barry.  He’s never been an appealing character to me.  That dangling cross especially sucked.  I’ve heckled the man from the left field bleachers of Busch with reprehensible fervor but I’m not freaking out that he’s passing the Babe.  It’s time to stand against steroid use but it’s also time to accept a past era.  It happened.  And many authorities knew it was happening.  Barry’s not the only guy who benefited.  Let it go.  If you want to list Babe better than Barry in your head, do it.  But let’s let Barry finish up his show.  Go on and give Barry Bonds a thumb down but enough about artificially penalizing his numbers or banishing him before passing Babe.  Baseball had a steroid problem and Barry was in baseball.  Take a deep breath and let it be.