Barry Bonds hit his 756 home run last night and whether or not you cheered, booed or simply didn’t watch, there’s not much you can do about it.
Personally, I’m indifferent on the actual record other than that I feel for Hank Aaron. By all accounts, he did it the right way – the honest way. He didn’t need the record like Bonds did, at least, not the way Bonds did. Hank had to deal with so much more as far as racial tension in the game, so much more than Bonds would ever know. But Hank still played the game and it so happened that he hit a ton of home runs. He would never have tried to hit the long ball for the sake of himself like Bonds obviously did the past month or so. Henry Aaron was all about the team – he seemingly cared less about personal records.
What’s interesting in all this is that every single baseball fan could have celebrated this amazing feat as one of the single greatest moments if Bonds would have just stayed clean. The frustrating thing is that Bonds was already an amazing athlete, an amazing baseball player. I don’t know if he would have hit 756 home runs, but he certainly would have been a respected figure and really, shouldn’t that carry more weight than a personal record? It would have for Hammerin’ Hank, but I guess not for Barry Lamar Bonds.
