This could simply be an unsubstantiated observation on my part, but when Mark McGwire was chasing the home run record, it was ALL OVER the place, and I mean everywhere. CNN.com, as I recall, was keeping a running tally of his home runs on the CNN home page. It lead off every edition of ESPN Sports Center. Now with Bonds on pace to equal or surpass McGwire's record, I wonder why there doesn't seem to be an equally overindulgent fixation on his home run count. It's not on CNN's home page. It doesn't lead every Sports Center broadcast.

Is it because the home run record (once considered "unbreakable"), is an easier target because baseball now has so many mediocre pitchers due to expansion? Is it because Barry Bonds gives few interviews and is (admittedly) nowhere near the most personable player in the sport? Is it because he's not the All-American White Boy that Mark McGwire is? I don't know the answer, but I wonder...