I'm a certifiable baseball junkie. I play, coach and watch every chance I get. I coach indoors when it's snowing and frigid in February even.

That said, this Barry Bonds issue has me irate. Hank Aaron's home run record of 755 is arguably the single most coveted record in any sport. Think about that number and consider that Willie Mays only came within 90 of it. To see Bonds break it last night made me sick. No, not because he' plays for the hated Giants or the fact that he's black that has been thrown around without thought, it is pure and simply the fact that Bonds cheated.

Granted, everything is allegation at this point but when a guys foot size increases 2 1/2 sizes and his hat size goes from 7 1/8 to 7 3/4, you have to figure there's something to these allegations. The fact that he has been widely implicated in the BALCO scandal just ices it for me. The fact that Hank Aaron was not on hand says all you need to know about how he feels getting beaten by a man who is enhanced by chemicals.

It stinks that a major event such as this can't be enjoyed by young people as well as old. My eleven-year-old son should have been following this day-by-day but said to me; "Dad, the guy used steroids, he cheated" and that made me doubly sick.

Let me know your thoughts in comments and just to steer this around to politics, Nancy Pelosi cheered Barry on:

"Tonight, Barry Bonds etched his name into baseball's history books and took his rightful place among sport's immortals," Pelosi said. "It was a great night for baseball and a great night for San Francisco -- the crowd went wild..."

Thank you Speaker Pelosi. You should have just said nothing and been done with it. Bill Clinton forced us all to a discussion about a sex act with our children we had hoped to wait until they were at least 12 to have and now Pelosi comes out and praises a man who is nothing but a drug abuser, liar and a cheater.

President Bush, on the other hand, refused to call Bonds and congratulate him.

I've come to expect nothing else.

Finally, the NY Post sums it up with the best cover they've had in years: