[Chi-townChief]

The Sun-Times today should just be called the Chicago Barry Bonds; first, the steroid controversy and then, Jesse Jagmo wanting to get all baseball records prior to 1947 tossed off the books.

[weegee]

''They're excited about it. Omar [Vizquel, his San Francisco Giants teammate] came up to me after I pinch-hit [Tuesday] and he said, 'Did you see all of those flashes that went up?' I said, 'No.' And he said, 'Man, it was like a concert out there.'''

Flash photography at a baseball park results in a nice photo of the back of the heads of the people sitting right in front of that photographer.

[Chi-townChief]

Actual Sun-Times front page:

[arderkrag]

Hmm...whether people like him or not, it’s a fantastic record.

[LetsRok]

Teams could walk him at every bat as a protest of the title that he has not earned.

[discostu]

I’m enjoying all the angst surrounding Barry breaking the “most holy” record. It’s funny. I especially like how the mighty commissioner’s “investigation” that was supposed to save the record book has come up pointless. Everybody loved it when the long balls started going out at a huge rate, got attendance back up, ratings back up, revenue back up. And nobody bothered to look at whether MLB’s complete lack of steroid policy might have anything to do with that, until Barry started threatening the most holy record. Now all of a sudden it’s a terrible tragedy, well you gotta sleep in the bed you made people, this is the price you pay for looking the other way 10 years ago.

[True Republican Patriot]

We will know that He really does’nt have the record, that he cheated and lied and treateed the Fans like Trash. The record will always be Aaron’s. Barry Bonds is a freak.

[Weeedley]

The bond HR total is to be dismissed by all true fans as being bogus. The rash of home run records that fell in the 1990’s roid era are invalid.

For decades men have been trying to break The Bambino’s total. The Babe was fueled with hot dogs, booze and babes; so his marks are legit. Maris did his 61 legit and Hank did his total legit.

Bonds is a fraud and he should have been drummed out of baseball; if the figurehead comish’s had any balls.

[IndyTiger]

I'm not too worked up about Bonds breaking the all-time HR record, because I think he will only hold it for about 7 or 8 years.

I think that A-Rod will break the record by then. A-Rod is only 31 and will hit his 500th HR within a few weeks. He's about 150 HR ahead of where Bonds was at age 31 (of course, Bonds had his monster years in his late '30s).

[pogo101]

I’m far from alone in predicting Bonds never will be in the Hall of Fame, at least not as a MEMBER. *He will be discussed, along with other cheaters, on a wall devoted to displays about the steroid scandal.)

Cheater.

[So Cal Rocket]

''I was just hoping they would throw the balls back like they said, but I guess they lied,'' Bonds said. ''I was going to put them in my trophy room, but they lied.''

Instead of throwing the balls back, per tradition, they should have thrown giant Asterisks on to the field.

[trisham]

It’s a travesty of a sham.

[GSWarrior]

Where’s that air horn when you need it?

[SoldierDad]

Convicted without every having been arrested or tried. What a great country!