Breaking News: Bonds=756

A truly sad day in baseball history.

This summer is going to hell.

SportsCenter is going to be hard to watch.

It is just another record that has had to be passed. There will be another to pass Bonds.

You've got to like Bonds' final statement saying that was for his dad.

It was sad because Dave O'Brien made the call and not Gary Thorne.

His son's reaction was priceless.

Sad day?...No...The GREATEST day in baseball history. Congratulations Barry! You earned it!

I've got an article in me about this (whoa! Tyler's gonna write something!), but I'll give you a teaser here. I was watching, I wanted him to do it, I'm glad I saw it, and all in all, I'm happy for him. Besides, I loved Aaron's statement that "this will inspire others to continue chasing their dreams." Read: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ALEX RODRIGUEZ

The question now becomes - does Barry immediately go on the DL or retire?

He won't retire, he's close to 3000 hits

So at what point does the Devil appear and take Bonds away?

Scratch that, Bochy pulled a double switch and took Bonds out.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! You Stink!

Congrats to Barry. Damn, this page already has 30 comments, in ten minutes.

I soooooooo wish I had caught that ball... I had this whole elaborate plan:

Step 1: Take a Sharpie into the park. Step 2: Catch the ball. Step 3: Sign the ball and throw it back.

Classic, right? If only I was in San Fran tonight...

Whatever he did or did not use, he still had to hit 756 home runs. Congratulations, Barry!

Hey, Bonds showed his human side didn't he?

How can this get 13 votes? WTF did he do besides break a news story that every other broadcasting agency knew about? Gimme a break, guys, this is weak...

My grammar has been suffering as of late!

Watching that really made me want to Vomit, im emberassed to be a baseball fan, im emberassed for Hank Aaron, you know Hank Was wanting to Throw up trying to make that little congratulations speech, Bonds was purly over dramatic, he cried, give me a break, The Record Might have been Broken Illegally but Barry Bonds will Never Be the Player Hank Aaron Was!

I would like to congratulate Barry Bonds for being the HOME RUN KING. It is a great accomplishment and I for one believe that we must look past steroids in baseball and embrace the fact that we had a chance to see one of the greatest records in sports set. If you chastise Barry Bonds for steroid use then you also need to chastise all of baseball and ignore any records set during this era, because every player in the league falls under the same cloud of steroid suspicion. CONGRATS

Before 1920 was the dead ball era, when offense was very low. In the 1930's, hitters played in bandbox ballparks. Before the 1950's, baseball was segregated, so the best white players didn't have to play against African-Americans or dark-skinned Latinos. The segregation continued to have an effect through the 50's as baseball slowly became integrated, and probably still had an effect into the 60's (think about it - a black 15-year-old in 1945 knows he can't make a living playing baseball, so he may give it up to do something else...that kid could still be pitching in the late 60's). In the mid-to-late 60's, pitchers had the edge as the mounds were really high. In the 70's and 80's, practically everybody used amphetamines to gain an edge. In the 90's and early 21st century, the majority of players (if we are to believe what players were saying) used steroids to gain an edge, until they began testing. My point? The steroid era was just another part of baseball history. So why should we choose to invalidate this particular record because of when it happened? Do we put an asterisk by Bob Gibson's ERA record because he got to pitch on 15+ inch high mounds?

Congrats to bonds! On to 800!

Today is a sad day. Not for the reasons that most of you list. Not because it was Barry Bonds who chased and caught Aaron. Not becasue of anything to do with expanding hat size nor chest size. It would not have mattered to me today if it was Barry Bonds that broke the record. Wouldnt have mattered to me if it was A-Rod, Ken Griffey, Sammy Sosa or even Jim Thome for that matter. TOday, part of my childhood died. For all my life, the magic number in the game was always 755. When talking about the hallowed number in sports growing up, it was never DiMaggios hitting strak, Gehrigs iron man mark (since broken) or even the total number opf TDs in football history. I knew some of those numbers. Not all of them. Couldnt tell you what half the records are in baseball. One thing I could have told you was that THE number was 755. That died last night. And as a result part of my childhood died.

For the next couple of years the number is going to be in flux. Always changing. With every homerun that Bonds hits, the number will change. No one knows where it will settle. It might be 770. It could be 795. Hell, it might even creap over the 800 mark. But until it settles, we have no number. That number will always be changing. There is somethign a little unsettling to me about that. For the first almost 30 years of my life there was always that number. Now there is a bunch of numbers. I know it happened when Aaron hit 715 and for 40 more after that. But that was before me. That is before my youth. Last night, part of my youth died.

When I get older and have children, I will be able to tell him that yes, I was alive when Bonds broke Hank Aarons record, but it wont mean much to me. It might to my child but to me it means nothing. That number isnt the one that I remember. It will always be 755. Seven hundred fifty five homeruns. Its magical how it almost seems to roll off the tongue even. But my child wont rever that number. Not like I revered 755. He will be revering some number that has yet to be determined. No matter what everyone things of the guy, remember that no matter what till it is broken, it will be THE number for someone. But not for me. Not for me. For me the number will always be 755 and I can say that I know for a fact where I was on the evening that Bonds broke the record on August 7th, 2007. I was in a cemetary burying part of my childhood.

now that Bonds has done it, can we get back to more important matters, like how the Yankees are going to win the AL East?

Pean, the Yankees have no chance in hell of winning the east, Red Sox are too good this year, i would like to see somebody who hasnt taken steroids like Ken Griffey Jr, just completely destroy this record.

the sadest day in baseball as a phillies fan was the 1993 world series when mitch williams threw a homerun to end the game 10/23/93 never again

its is truly sad day as it was said above

the natinals pitcher said he was trying to pichj him good but the truth is he is just plain bad

nationals

the black sox scandal was relly bad i think mre then this beacuse it was a team not one person