About 10 minutes ago, the journey finally ended and Barry Bonds hit his 756th career home run, finally surpassing Hank Aaron as baseball’s all time home run champion. It came in the bottom of the 5th inning off of the Washington National’s Mike Bacsik. Ball 1 up and away, ball 2 down low, strike 1 down the middle, strike 2 fouled away, ball 3 down and away, then another pitch fouled away and finally a 3-2 pitch muscled to center field.

When Barry passed Ruth, I was certainly not happy. However last season I finally came to terms with the fact that absolutely nothing was stopping Barry from passing Aaron; he was on a mission. So I came to terms with it. I accepted it. I’m a lifelong baseball fan and something big and exciting just happened in baseball. I didn’t leave after the strike and I’m not going anywhere after… or during… steroids. The all time home run records is the most hallowed record in all of sports and whether we like Barry or not, Barry’s hit a lot of home runs.

I’m really not sure what bothered me so much about this anyway. Ruth has always been my home run king and he wasn’t even the king when I was born. Not even close. It’s probably that I just don’t like change. It took me a while but I’m finally ready to give this record to Bonds. Records are meant to be broken and this one’s broken folks. We’ve had many different generations of baseball and there will always be tons of speculation about not only steroids, but lengthened seasons, segregation, park sizes, missed time due to wars, the talent pool, yadda, yadda, yadda. The one thing we can’t argue about though is the fact that 756 is larger than 755. That’s it.

I’m currently watching: MLB Baseball: Washington Nationals at San Fransisco Giants