I guess you can look at this “Bonds mess” and get angry.  Me… I choose to focus on Hank Aaron.  In my mind, until someone legitimately breaks the record, Aaron will always be the home run champ.  And, that moment of him hitting 715 and rounding the bases with the 2 fans following him …. well, that stands as one of the greatest moments in baseball history.

This article speaks volumes about Aaron and what kind of man he is:

Aaron previously recorded a video congratulating Bonds, and it was played on the scoreboard at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

“I’ve gotten a lot of calls saying that was the right thing to do, and these were from people who know a little bit more about this situation than just the average person,” Aaron said.

He heard from many people suggesting what he should do.

“It really got to the point where a lot of people started wanting to give you advice about what you should do, and they didn’t know what the hell the situation was,” Aaron was quoted as saying. “I mean, these were people that you had been knowing for a long time, but they couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting involved in this thing. Then they would come forward and say things like, ‘Well, you need to do this. You need to do that.’ They wanted to give you all of this advice, and they didn’t know what was all involved in it, really.

So, even though Bonds is a fraud who failed to break Aaron’s record, legitimately, Hank still was gracious enough to shoot a little congratulatory video… a class act from a classy guy.

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