the G sides

The Human Steroid is 10 dingers away from tying Henry Aaron’s all-time home run record and the intensity and opinions will just get hotter from here.

Curt Schilling popped off his mouth…then apologized.

Henry Aaron will NOT be at the ballpark Bonds breaks the record.

Bud Selig might.

We’re getting polls everyday telling us who thinks he should be honored and who doesn’t.

What’s ironic about the mess is the overall message it sends when on the brink of arguably the single most beloved record being broken, it’s divided the sport - not united it. And the apologists FOR Bonds sound just as bitter as those AGAINST him.

My favorite is Ortiz’s comments that he doesn’t think that steroids really gave Bonds an advantage in hitting the ball. That’s coordination. Yeah, that’s great insight there. Never mind that the ‘roids have probably allowed the injury prone Bonds to play 5 to 6 years longer than he normally would have…but other than that…no effect at all.

On the other side, the fact that Bonds is a jerk should diminish the career he’s had. But it will. And to some degree…it should. He’s been a jerk since he wore those ridiculous hats in Pittsburgh. Remember those things? Straight out of some Disney nightmare sequence.