That Damn Yankee

Before yesterday, only 6 baseball players had ever hit 600 home runs.  Three are among the best players to ever play the game: Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, and Willie Mays.  Ken Griffey Jr. is another well-respected one to land that title also.  Then we move into the steroid era, and get Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, whose names will always implicitly be tainted by accusations of using performance enhancing drugs.  And now we have A-Hole.  Or Asterisk-Rod.  Or whatever you’d like to call him.  If you don’t normally follow baseball but do understand a sports milestone when it occurs, you may have thought the celebration seemed a little weak.  Besides the fact that for days, NL West baseball games and the other fans of uninterested sporting events were being interrupted on the off-chance this idiot could hit one out of the park, there wasn’t an overwhelming amount of craziness once it finally happened.  And it only took 46 at bats in 13 games and 104 specially marked balls used just for this occasion.  Now life can move on.