Sitting in my living room late last night, I watched Barry Bonds make history. You would have to be living under a rock this morning to not hear about him hitting his 756th home run. Even last night after it happened, I flipped the channels to see how many stations were covering it. Almost every station had gone to it. CNN, Fox News, all the local channels, the world stopped.
My entire life I have seen the clip of Hank Aaron rounding the bases as he broke Babe Ruth's record at 715. It was strange to think that when I have kids one day and they see footage of when the home run king broke the record, it won't be that clip of Hank Aaron they see. It will be what I watched last night. But who knows? It may not be the clip of Barry Bonds either. When I'm 32 I may be sitting in my living room watching Alex Rodriquez hit # 800 to break Barry's record.
Steroids or not, it's a pretty amazing feat. Maybe I'll get the chance to see it shattered a few more times in my lifetime. Or maybe I'll even break some kind of record one day. We don't have to live our lives vicariously through sports figures.
I agree with you on this one! Seth & I were discussing it yesterday. He just feel sick about it because of the steroid controversy. I told him pretty much the same thing you said. Regardless of the steroids, the man did hit 756 homeruns. I really hope he didn't use steroids and it does bother me if he did, but we did see history made!
Posted by: Debra Graybeal | August 09, 2007 at 11:17 AM