In 1998 I cared about home run records. Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire made baseball so much fun too watch. It was like Mantle and Maris. At the time I cared about home run records. I locked in to my TV to remember and savor the most sacred of sacred records in sports, the Home Run record.
Several years later we had Barry Bonds breaking those single season records and than he caught Hank Aaron.
By the time Bonds broke Aaron's record we knew that Home Run records meant nothing because of steriods. Many of the players who broke records and hit milestone numbers in home runs were doing things to artificially enhance their performance. That means that I DON'T CARE about any home runs they hit. I don't care if they hit 1,000,000.
A-Rod's 600th home run made me yawn. I know that not all of his home runs were all of his hard work. He could hit 1,000,000 and I'd have no more respect for him than I do now. I also don't care about 600 because so many players have hit that many recently. I feel like everytime I turn around someone has hit 500 or 600 home runs. It used to be special because no one ever got that many.
There are two players who home run records I care about. Jim Thome and Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey retired, but the guy hit them clean to our best knowledge. Thome also has avoided my suspicions. He's always been a big and strong player and I hope that the home runs he has it are as squeaky clean as I think they are.
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