I don't agree...

The following link leads to an article arguing about Barry Bonds and his eventual breaking of Babe Ruth's home run record. The writer discusses how baseball, its fans, and the record books have been cheated.

I don't agree. I believe the writer is simply failing to let go of the past. Merely not wanting to accept that this is the future of sports. Someone was going to break the record. Someone will break Bonds records. In the long run, it doesn't matter. They don't practice in the past techniques, so they won't perform with the past results.

If you don't believe in the way the players play, then don't give them the millions of dollars they get for doing it. Just deal with it. Because in the end, its not going to change. There's no point in making Bonds a scapegoat for your inability to accept the inevitable.

Just be happy for Bonds that he is setting a record, that by no means was easy to get, even "juiced". Be happy that the sport is progressing. Be happy that you were able to witness an event like this. And if you are still bitter, just keep hoping that someone will break his record too. Because when that happens, no one will even remember all this.

The breaking point

"It's hard to feel good about that. Bonds is a self-absorbed, unlikable person who has an adversarial relationship with the world at large, and he has (almost certainly) used unethical, unnatural means to accomplish feats that actively hurt baseball. His statistical destruction of Ruth is metaphoric, but not in a good way. It's an indictment of modernity, even for people who don't give a damn about the past or the present."