LUNCH TIME RANT

Lots of yammering this morning about the selection of former Senator George Mitchell to investigate and solve the "Barry Bonds Steroid Problem." The issue is baROID is close to passing Babe Ruth in career home runs and may eventually pass Hank Aaron's 755 all time record. baROID currently has 708 home runs after twenty seasons and he will be 42 years old in July.

Obviously, the record keepers can no longer test Barry for steroids he may have taken in the late 90's and early 00's (and may still be taking).

Even if they could, the testing will not detect human growth hormone or other high level performance enhancing drugs because the CBA agreements do not permit blood tests. In addition, the players and their suppliers are far ahead of the testers with their masking agents and undetectable cocktails.

Therefore the answer is clearly with the guy in the picture, AROD. He is 30 years old and has hit 429 home runs in his first 10 full seasons. It is my opinion that the non ROID using AROD can reach the 800 mark if he stays healthy. He would need to average about 40 home runs a year for the next nine years to reach the 800 mark and pass however many Bonds may hit. That is the solution to the Bonds problem and not George Mitchell or Bud Selig. If that happens, baROID will become a laughable, forgettable asterisk in the annals of Baseball History.