My main concern is the degree of legitimacy that his breaking of Aaron’s record would have.My personal opinion is that it would have none.If I were Aaron I’d be shouting from the rooftops that Bonds’ “record” means nothing.
Henry Aaron has stayed out of the issue to this point, and that's wise of him, because I fear what this is all leading to is a great muddled mess. Bud Selig, as angry as he clearly is at Bonds for what we all know he did, has been unwilling to publicly call him out on it, either through suspension, fines or verbal rebuke. For the Commissioner to do so would be to admit that Baseball has an official steroid "Problem", and that "Problem" could be detrimental to the sport's revenue stream enhancement strategy, which in this age of $15 million-a-year banjo-hitting shortstops could be an even Bigger Problem.
And if Bud calls out Barry, he would also have to call out...Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco, and - more to the point - all of the currently active players that Kirk Radomski is itching to finger as needle-users. Another name that might come up would be (dare I say it?)...the Yankees' new $28 million part-time partner from Texas who somehow seems to have more muscle mass at age 44 than he did at 34.
And then we'd really be in the "Steroid Era": all recent records tainted or at least suspect. And how would you know for sure where the asterisks belonged, and beside whose names, and for which records? You wouldn't - none of us would. And there would lie Major League Baseball: waist deep in the Big Muddle. And the big fool Bonds just tells us to push on.