Saw it on TV

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m going to see the San Francisco Giants take on the Washington Nationals tonight. It would have been truly memorable to be there in the stands when Barry Bonds hit home run #756.

The bad news is that Barry did the deed last night. The good news is that my wife and I were watching the game in HDTV at home. It was truly a spectacular moment, and the video tribute by Hank Aaron and on-field presence of Willie Mays made it even better.

So, tonight maybe we’ll see Barry hit #757. That would be nice. Not as nice as #756, but there you are.

The shame is that there will always be an asterisks next to Barry’s name. As a story on Major League Baseball’s own Web site says, “Bonds has had his dark moments. In recent years, his on-field heroics have been played out under the shadow of the investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, widespread speculation about his part in the use by Major League players of performance-enhancing drugs, and a grand jury continuing to consider an indictment against him for perjury relating to his testimony in the BALCO case.”