All The Rage

At long last.

Barry Bonds sensed that he would finally catch up with Hank Aaron, baseball's all-time leader in home runs. I never dreamed that it would take several games to accomplish his latest feat. But on Saturday night he did just that, hitting his 755th homer, hushing up plenty of doubters & haters who felt he wasn't even worthy of making this milestone in baseball history.

And yet he did it again. But this isn't to say he hasn't left a trail of anti-Bonds sentiments floating around. Some say his latest home run should have an asterisk attached to it, implying that this 755th home run (& some of the homers leading up to it) is & will always be a moot subject to delve into. "If only (MLB commissioner) Bud Selig banned Barry Bonds from ever playing in a Giants uniform again, we wouldn't have this fiasco, this heated debate on whether or not Bonds' latest accomplishment is even legitimate to begin with." "How many homers did that dude hit when he was roided up? You tell me why he deserves all these accolades - to be honest with you, he doesn't."

Of course, they feel this record should be challenged like everything else in the world of professional sports or even in the NCAA, if they feel it's questionable or raises the slightest air of misgivings/suspicions. Why shouldn't it be? For those folks who are anti-Bonds at heart, the very reason why it should be contested is simple: drugs. The very people who felt Selig wasn't doing enough to ban Bonds from baseball feel that one of their favorite sports has been tainted forever by one home run, one hit, one man who they feel is way past his playing prime.

And yet his 755th homer still stands for the moment, written down in the record books. There's not much else we can do but hope that Barry surpasses Hank Aaron as baseball's all-time home-run king. And the battle rages on, controversy & all.