715: Barry Bonds to Overtake Babe Ruth

The buzz within the San Francisco Giants is Barry Bonds.

Always was, always has been. Ever since Bonds' steroids issue, this Giant became the talk in all of baseball. Will the Major League Baseball (MLB) delete all those milestones Bonds accomplished with those steroids?

Is it fair and just to take all those away from a man who was cheating in the first place?

Now, Bonds is about to come up with the biggest highway robbery of them all. Overtake the legendary George Herman ''Babe'' Ruth using the illegal drug. Yes, and exactly that will happen sooner than many baseball pundits think as Bonds bid for no.715 this season.

Babe Ruth is only six homeruns ahead, while Bonds don't have any homeruns to show for yet, it's STILL a very young baseball season. Bonds may even surpass baseball's all-time homerun leader, Hank Aaron. Aaron, with 755 baseballs he rocketed out of the stadium, is merely holding a 47 homerun lead over the steroid-powered Giant.

The reason the media keep statistics, and the reason they care about statistical milestones, is that they assume some sort of emotional experience will accompany their creation and obliteration.

These moments are supposed to embody ideas that transcend the notion of grown men playing children's games, these moments are supposed to be a positive amalgamation of awe, evolution, inspiration, admiration and the macrobiotic potential of man. But the recent success of Bonds contains only two of those qualities, and maybe only the first.

Nevertheless, Barry Bonds will definitely overtake Babe Ruth this year. No matter what they say about Bonds, they can't delay the inevitable. And as this year's MLB baseball season heats up, the inevitable is only six homeruns away.

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