The Cloud

Forget the book and all you think you know. Let's go on the assumption that most people think Bonds is guilty because there is no way that anyone sets the single season home run hitting record without being on steroids. That being said, we paint McGwire with the same brush of suspicion and now, one has to wonder, if Pujols' attempt to break Bonds record doesn't also fall under this cloud of suspicion.

Pujols comes to San Francisco today with 21 home runs already this season and well on the pace to break Bonds single season record. Considering the rabid anger of non-partisan fans over Bonds this season, I wonder how long before Pujols also comes under the same cloud. There aren't many people "worthy" of breaking long held cherished records. Surely Bonds has proven not to be "worthy". But one wonders what Pujols credentials for being the new Poster Boy of Swat are? He might be wise to only break the record after having come close a couple of times. We wouldn't want anyone to suggest that his home run total of last year certainly didn't prepare him to hit 74 home runs this year. ;) And somebody better check those before and after pictures and maybe bulk up the former, just in case. We all know how telling those photos are. And the Cardinals would really do us all a big favor if they would just lock up all the local nosy reporters in the area, or make sure that Pujols never appears before a Secret Grand Jury where his testimony will Never Appear In Print Ever, We Promise.

(No, but seriously, just like McGwire and Sosa before Bonds, I'm rooting for Pujols. I hope that he doesn't hit any damaging homers against us the next three days. He could hit five or six and it wouldn't bother me at all so long as the Giants swept the series ;)