Baseball's Major Headache with Barry Bonds and the Homerun Record

The re-signing of Barry Bonds to a one year deal worth 16 million dollars was treated with a shock by baseball people around the country. Forget the fact that the contract signing by the Giants for Barry Bonds was absolutely ridiculous. Baseball has other matters on its hands concerning Barry Bonds. Let's start with the Bonds contract. Absolutely no team and I mean no team with the exception of maybe the Oakland Athletics wanted to sign Barry Bonds.

Baseball was breathing a sigh of relief and hoping that no team in their right mind would want this injury plagued, steroid taker, selfish player who cares only about himself. When the Oakland Athletics signed catcher Mike Piazza to be their designated hitter, it seemed like Bonds was running out of options for teams to go to. Then the Giants offered him a 16 million one year offer. That is utterly ridiculous because no team was offering him more than 10 million. The Giants could have used that extra money to sign better players because right now after they lost All Star pitcher Jason Schmidt, their team is horrible on paper.

The issue that major league baseball has with Bonds is that they don't want to see him break Hank Aaron's record. Everyone in the world knows that Barry Bonds took steroids even though he will be the last one to admit it. Heck, he didn't even admit it in front of a Congressional jury and when he was publicly asked about it. He rather plead the fifth and take his silence just like Mark McGuire who was denied entry into the Hall of Fame.

Bonds will have to answer the same questions as Mark McGuire about taking steroids and baseball does not want to see the most selfish baseball player ever and a guy who has taken steroids with plenty of evidence to prove it, break the all time home run record.

All kinds of controversy will swirl about putting an asterisk next to his name in the record books. Trust me folks, it will not be pretty.

Hank Aaron publicly stated that he will not go to the game that Bonds breaks the record. He does to want to see him break the record because he is a fake.

Some baseball people are hoping that he is washed up and that Bonds injuries his leg again. However, this is probably false hope and Bonds will be on pace to break the record this season. Baseball will have to decide if they honor Bonds' achievement. Right now major league baseball refuses to comment on the situation. Bud Selig will be in a very interesting position this coming season.