Commish Bud Selig announced yesterday there will be no official commemoration when Barry Bonds ties and passes Babe Ruth for #2 on the all-time home run list.
"Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record," Selig said. "We don't celebrate anybody the second or third time in."
Explained that way, it certainly sounds logical, right?
However, I firmly believe Bonds' current public image has everything to do with Selig's announcement. If Bonds still weighed 180 pounds and had not been splashed across the front page for the past 4 years in connection w/ illegal performance-enhancing drugs, I think there would be one heck of a fiesta for dinger 715.
It also strikes me that Selig would actually announce something like this. Perhaps he was asked about it, but you do have to consider just how embarrassed MLB is by this entire situation.
The homer record is the most hallowed in sports. Bonds' pursuit SHOULD be a cause for huge anticipation and celebration. I am really pissed and disappointed that both Bonds and baseball have forced us into this predicament, and have robbed us of what should have been the biggest sports story of the summer.
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