Well, whaddya know: Baseball really is a metaphor for life. American life, anyway.

You don't have to care one whit about the game of baseball to consider the fate of the little white orb that made Barry Bonds sort-of-kind-of-maybe the greatest home run hitter of all time.

In August, Bonds hit his 756th home run, breaking Hank Aaron's record. It wasn't a crystal-clear conquest, however, in the wake of wide speculation that Bonds had used performance-enhancing drugs for years.

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