Barry Bonds' Home Run Totals: Records Are Meant to Be Broken the Right Way

 The one record that fans should be upset that it was broken has to be the home run record. Barry Bonds should not have claim to the record since he is linked to using steroids. 762 should not have an asterisk beside; it should not even be in the record books.

Barry has never been proven to take steroids, but come on now you have to be naive to believe that he did not take them. All you have to do is look at the man's physical body shape to say he was on something. I know everyone gets bigger throughout life but not that big that fast. Another way to tell was look at his home run totals per year. He only hit 40 or more home runs three times before 1998 (his high was 46 in 1993).

After 1998 when Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa made history by belting out more than 60 home runs Bonds totals started to go up. In 1999 Bonds came into spring training bigger than ever and more power than he had ever had. Over the next six seasons he averaged 48.6 home runs (with a single season record of 73 in 2001).

Bonds then ran in to trouble with his health. The next several seasons were shortened because of injuries. He finished his long career last season with the San Francisco Giants.

With all that being said fans of the game would not have been upset if he would have broken the record cleanly. All fans now are hopping that someone else comes along hits 763 so that Barry Bonds will no longer have the record.  

The most likely person to break this now infamous record has to be Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod). A-Rod now has 582 only 180 behind Bonds. On average A-Rod hits 35.2 home runs per year. Seems low but in his rookie year he didn’t hit any and that is including this year so far. If he hits his average every year it would take him only six more years to break the record.

If, A-Rod does break the record baseball fans would have a record they can believe in because he has done it the clean and rite way. That’s all fans want to see. And what baseball needs to have happen so that they can get out from under the steroid cloud.