George Will thinks the steroids scandal is a "stain" on baseball and framed the issue this way:

"Probably sometime late in the 2005 season or early in the next one, Barry Bonds, who already has 703 career home runs, will begin a game with 754, one short of Henry Aaron's record. Would you cross the street to see Bonds hit number 755?"

To which I answer: put down your beer and let's cross the damn street! What numbnutz wouldn't? Hello, George Will, what planet are you on? Even if you loathe Bonds and loathe him even more for cheating -- sentiments I understand even if I don't totally share -- who wouldn't want to be at the game where he hits #755, if just for the spectacle of it? I talked about this at length with my brother last night over several pitchers at a local sports bar and we just don't get what Will is talking about.

Anyway, the most annoying comment of late comes courtesy of my favorite sports writer, Tom Boswell.

"For Bonds, the number 73 will only loom larger. Even as, for the rest of us, it moves toward the horizon of memory and shrinks until it finally takes its place, remote but still distinct, next to that other sad number that never entirely fades: 1919."

That number was the year of the Black Sox scandal. But the comparison is asinine. The Black Sox conspired to lose games on purpose. The juice-heads conspired to take 'roids -- so that they might help their teams win games. This difference is critical.