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Baseball commissioner Bud Selig will try to be on hand when Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron’s career home run record. That’s the news.
But how Selig “defended” the slugger spoke volumes.
Like a second cousin to the dreaded “vote of confidence,” Selig said that Bonds, like all other Americans, was “innocent until proven guilty.” The commissioner didn’t suggest how long he thought that might be.
But if not forever, Bonds’ innocence seems like it will last at least until the San Francisco Giant clearly creams his 756th home run.
There’s an asterisk, though. Selig will be in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday for the Hall of Fame inductions of Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr.
Selig didn’t say whether he thought that would be a nice day for a record.
