It Is Done

And so, it is done. Barry Lamar Bonds is now the all-time home run king of Major League Baseball. He jacked a pitch out to deep right centerfield in the bottom of the 5th inning off of the Washington Nationals' Mike Bacsik.

I can't say a lot that hasn't already been said, or will be said in the hours ahead. Bonds has shown himself to be a first-class jerk throughout his career. He has also been implicated in investigations regarding performance-enhancing drugs.

The sad thing is, he was a great player before he allegedly started using the juice. He was on a collision course with the Hall of Fame. He outperformed his father Bobby Bonds, who was a fine player in his own right. It is so hard to know how much of this record is bloated by performance-enhancing drugs. However, his statistics have advanced during a point in his career when they should have declined.

This is Barry Bonds' night. Tainted or not, he is the all-time home run king, for at least the next several years. Alex Rodriguez just hit his 500th home run, and he's only 32 years old. In a few years, we'll be watching A-Rod go for the record. Hopefully, A-Rod has been clean, and will restore credibility to the baseball record book.