Anybody watch the Bonds on Bonds eps?  I tuned in for the first three and found them rivetingly boring.  It was contrived, uninteresting, and yet I didn't want to miss any of it.  The entire steroids issue is fascinating.  JUICED Canseco's book of lies that all came true.  Read it and loved it.  Its the Foul Ball of our time - Jim Bouton must be proud.

*714 Bonds........ You got to asterisks these guys.  Once Selig's exhaustive PR/investigation of Bonds turns up with what we all already know - he is pumped with more muscle building drugs than a herd of future Big Mac burgers- you darn well better put the ol * next to his record and do it to Mcgwire and Sosa too. 

Is Bonds chase bad for baseball? Probably but I got to say I watch every at bat they update.  I am tuning in to see him break the record, see who gets the ball, how much it sells for on ebay, etc. etc. etc. I am interested in the entire STEROIDS chase.  I am sick of it and GLUED to it at the same time.  I am like baseball in that way a very confused transition period.

As far as the Babe... the gr8 Bambino, sultan of swat, the man the myth the legend.  His record had already been broken by aaron and it didn't put a scratch into his legend.  The Babe will always be the greatest homerun hitter that ever lived even if he wasn't.  Thats the beauty of legends.

JC                                                                              

Me personally, have never considered myself a fan of BB. Always respected his game, but never considered him one of my faves. Perhaps cuz I always considered Griffey, Jr as my #1 athlete in sports, and Bonds never had the charisma or pure joy for the game as Junior. 

That being said, I don't HATE on the man. Why single out Bonds among a generation of juicers?!? He is NOT the only one deserving of an asterisk. So what that he's about to pass up the legendary Babe? Is there any other record in any sport where we pay so much attention to being #2 in the history books? No one even knows who is #2 behind Wilt's 100 points, or Joe D's 56-gm hit streak. So no one will make a big deal of someone finishing runner-up to those hallowed marks. No need to make a big deal about 715 until the man approaches 755...and I just don't see that happening.

Haters all need to get a life. Stop hating someone as if he's the only guilty individual. Blame the system, blame MLB for pretending ignorance. Don't hate the  player. Hate the game.

D