By Paul Doherty Sports Editor The active all-time home run
record is dynamic for newspapers, radio and television stations and
the great American pastime, and the story is only developing.
By Paul Doherty
Sports Editor
The active all-time home run record is dynamic for newspapers, radio and television stations and the great American pastime, and the story is only developing.
San Francisco Giant’s famous and controversial slugger Barry Bonds hit his 756 home run in the fifth inning off of Washington Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik Tuesday night, breaking the home run record before 43,154 fans at AT&T Park.
 Statements of congratulation and speculation have quickly cut through the bureaucratic red tape, keeping the controversy crackling and the media ablaze with all things Barry Bonds.
 From the local, to the statewide, to the national government, all eyes are on Bonds.
After the historic shot San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared Wednesday Barry Bonds Day.
Despite alleged use of steroids, Congresswoman and Hose Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D California expressed her wonderment of Bonds’ breaking the record in an issued statement.
 “Barry Bonds etched his name into baseball’s history books and took his rightful place among the sport’s immortals,” Pelosi said. “It was a great night for baseball and a great night for San Francisco — the crowd went wild … as a season ticket holder, I am particularly glad it happened on the Giants’ Italian night.”
 She wasn’t at the historic game yet she is commenting on the crowd. Thanks for the play by play Madame Speaker.
 President Bush, in a Fox News interview, gave what actually sounded like a coherent and educated analysis of the controversy.
 “There is a lot of speculation about Barry Bonds, and my only advice for people is to just let history be the judge,” Bush said during the interview. “Let’s find out the facts, and then everybody’s opinion – one way or the other – will be verified or not verified.”
If it’s later proven that a lot of Bonds’ strength came from drug use, Bush said, there will be a lot of disappointed people.
“Baseball and the baseball writers will have to make the determination as to whether or not he would receive the highest accolade of all, which would be to be admitted into the baseball Hall of Fame,” Bush said.
Bush said he loved baseball, but was “dead set” against steroids. “I think it’s bad for the game,” he said.
In his State of the Union address in 2004, Bush called for a crackdown on steroids.
“I put it in there, because it’s part of a larger context, and that is, how we behave as adults will influence how children behave,” Bush said. “And I was very concerned that it would be viewed as OK to use steroids if you are a high school kid or a junior high kid. And it’s not. It’ll hurt your body.”
If the Hall is in Bonds’ future, it is my guess that it won’t be for a long, long time.
The millennium baseball revival that Barry Bonds created has made fans out of spectators, and brought baseball back to the forefront of American culture, however it has not been done single handedly.
New York Yankees’ Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez has eclipsed another grandiose MLB home run milestone, being the youngest player to hit 500 home runs.
At 32, and in his 13th season, Rodriguez, a Dominican American infielder, has 500 career home runs, with more than 40 games left in the 2007 season.
In comparison, Bonds had 411 home runs at the end of his 13th season in 1998 at the age of 34.
 With an average of 38.46 home runs per season Rodriguez, or A-Rod as he is affectionally known, will need to average more than 32 home runs per year for the next eight years to reach Bonds’ status.Â
 Whether Rodriguez makes continues his run for the active home run record or not, I am happy that Barry Bonds is continuing to make history in the Bay Area, and I’m sure all of us will continue watching, talking, and writing as he obliterates Hank Aaron’s old record and builds upon the active one with the asterisk.
