Still waiting for the records to fall

Still reaching for the records

By Geoff Walter / SNY.tv

 

Tom Petty was right -- the waiting truly is the hardest part. Every day Alex Rodriguez seems to get one yard closer to blasting No. 500 over the outfield fences, Barry Bonds inches closer to surpassing Hank Aaron's record and Tom Glavine gets nine innings closer to win No. 300. Why is it that it's always the round numbers that are so hard to attain? Or the ones that will break the records? The other 99 seem so easy when compared to the various century marks. If it were that easy, there would of course be more players in those various clubs instead of the two dozen or so who have hit 500 home runs or achieved 300-plus wins.

 

With all that's going on in terms of the three respective races, you'd think that the baseball gods were having some fun with the three men who dare to dream of being modern-day versions of Prometheus, of stealing fire and staking a claim of their own atop the sports world's version of Mt. Olympus. For the time being they are cast beside Cub fans in the sandals of Sisyphus, cursed to continually roll a boulder up a hill only to have it escape once the summit is in sight.

How else do you explain the explosion of homeruns in the Bronx the past two nights, matching an all-time Yankee high set almost seven decades ago in the process Tuesday while A-Rod matched a career high 0-21? How else do you explain that Glavine lasted six innings giving up only one run to the Brewers only to turn over his gem to a bullpen that subsequently crushed it to dust? How else can you explain the utter futility dealt to Bonds via the strikeout? The gods must be crazy.

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