By: Brett

This weekend was an awesome time to watch some of the future hall-of-famers break milestone records. I will be the first one to admit that I don’t like Barry Bonds and the whole did he or didn’t he take steroids. To me it’s obvious that he did and I believe there were a lots of things that have happened in the last year or two to make sure he never tested positive for them. It would make the league look like a joke, so I think they helped cover it up. But..

With all of my differences aside, I found myself glued to the TV watching his every at-bat to break Hank Aaron’s records. It was an amazing thing to see him crush that pitch, that was 1 foot outside, over the left-field wall. I think the fans in San Diego for the most part shared in that experience and were grateful to have witnessed it. There were thousands of people with Asterisks shirts, but Barry was classy through the whole thing and thanked all of the fans afterwards. If you’re a fan of baseball, I think putting the steroids issue aside, you had to be a fan of tying the records. Now my friend John Lannan has the job of not being in the record books for the wrong reason.

The other milestone was Tom Glavine getting his 300th win last night. In an era of power hitters, big home-runs, 100 mph fastball, and Tommy-john surgery, I don’t know if that feat will ever happen again. Getting 300 wins in this day and age, means a pitcher would have to win 20 games for 15 years. If a pitcher seems to get 20 wins they are automatically named the Cy Young as well.. so I don’t know how long it will be before we see another pitcher reach such a milestone. It truly was a great accomplishment.

Finally we are brought to an another accomplishment that has happened before and will most likely happen several more times. It’s not what the milestone is or who did it, but how fast this person did it. Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th homerun of his career on Saturday, just hours before Barry hit his. The most amazing thing about this no-doubter, was how quickly he reached that mark. They showed comparisons to Barry at the same age and A-rod had 180 more homeruns, 500 more RBIs, .30 points higher Batting Average. If A-rod continues this pace of setting a 100th homerun mark every 2 years, he could easily break 850 homeruns by the time he is 40. There are a lot of factors that go into challenging the record and we don’t know what the record will be after Bonds is done, then there is also the risk of injury, i.e. Ken Griffey Jr.

I think baseball had a great weekend in general and hopefully, or maybe not, a great Monday celebrating Bonds’ 756th homerun to actually become the leader. There are not many times, besides the playoffs, where I’m rushing back into the living room to watch an at bat or the last half of an inning but this weekend gave me many opportunities to do that.

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