We have all lived long enough to have seen records made and broken. But I cannot recall a day when three historic moments all happened at the same time. First and foremost is Barry Bond hitting Home Run 755.

While there were many fans opining that it is not a real record, I have blogged over the past month that baseball had an opportunity to stop Henry Aaron’s record from being broken and the powers that be either chose not to intercede or did not have the information to intercede. In either case the record is now shared by two of the best baseball players ever to have played the game. And Barry Bonds should be revered for this record (and his future record) as well as his lifetime achievements in so many other aspects of Baseballs annals. He has gold gloves, most valuable player awards, and a world series ring. He is and has been the best outfielder of this era. If it turns out that he has cheated by using illegal drugs or performance enhancing therapies, then there will be time to review the accomplishments from that new light, but until then, congratulations, Mr. Bonds. We were happy to see you achieve another plateau. We look forward to 756 and then 800.

Alex Rodriguez hit is 500th home run, and was the player to do so at the youngest age. If he continues to average his home run pace for the next dozen or so years (Bonds is about a dozen years older) he will certainly eclipse Barry Bonds in the record book for most home runds. But nothing is certain, so right now it is just a time to congratulate A-Rod for getting to a place that only 22 players have accomplished in the history of baseball. We look forward to passing all those players from the 60’s (Ernie Banks, Eddie Matthews, Mickey Mantle and Harmon Killebrew) to name a few on his way to 600. Hopefully when ARod hits 600 this blog site will be the most important blog site in the world. But there is more of a certainty that ARod will hit 600 than there is that this site becomes a world class site.

Finally hats off to Tom Glavine who won his 300th game. He is the 23rd pitcher to accomplish that goal, and the first pitcher to do so in a Mets uniform. I think the historic significance is matched by the statistic of lifetime achievement. 22 men have hit 500 home runs and 23 men have won 300 games. It would seem that such proximity in statistics would signify that both feats are equally matched. For that we say congratulations and thank you to Tom Glavine and Alex Rodriguez.

But I do not want to end this piece without reminding the viewing world that Barry Bonds continues on his quest as does ARod and Tom Glavine. So we’ll keep watching baseball to follow the inning by inning fun, the game by game drama and the lifetime awards that may yet to come.