It's About Time

After 13 games, more than 50 at bats, Alex Rodriguez has finally, on a sunny afternoon in New York, joined the 600 home run club!

It came against Shaun Marcum in the 1st inning, with Derek Jeter on first base, on a 2-0 count. He sailed it high and deep to centre field where the ball eventually touched down in Monument Park. A-Rod, at age 34, is the youngest player ever to reach that milestone and is just the 7th in MLB history to cross the 600 threshold. All my Congrats go out to him but here's my two cents worth on the situation.

We know A-Rod doped. That he admitted. This milestone is yet another tainted one, something we have seen too often in recent years. It may be true that he may very well break Barry Bonds' record of 762 home runs but there will be an asterisk there always. His home run pace is also slowing, not surprising considering he is now clean. Why else would there be so many no hitters this season in the MLB-it's because hitters are actually clean. I hope it remains that way because after all, it kind of bursts the bubble when you see the asterisk beside everyone's name in the record books.

-D