Baseball

If you haven't heard, Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's career home run record a few days ago. It's mostly disappointing to me, with all the controversy surrounding it (steroids and such). It's very different from 1998, when Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' single season record. That was exciting and I was paying close attention to it, and I even have home runs 60, 61 and 62 on videotape yet. Looking back, everyone was pretty blind to the steroid thing then and we were enjoying the comeback of baseball after the 1994 strike. This year, I made no effort to watch Barry Bonds, although I'll admit that part of the reason why is that we don't have ESPN.

Meanwhile, the Tigers are quickly going down the toilet, although they're still in it. If the season ended today, they'd be out of the playoffs. Meanwhile, the yucky, disgusting Yankees have surged back and would just barely miss the playoffs today. They're only 5 games back of Boston and percentage points behind Seattle for the wildcard spot. All my dreams of a Yankeeless postseason may be dashed. Sigh. No team is all that great this year, actually - based on today's records, no team will win 100 games.

We'll see what happens. And there's only three weeks until Notre Dame plays Georgia Tech!