Barroid is 10 home runs away from Hank.
Q: Should Bud Selig be there when he breaks the record? Henry, who is 72, won't be there.
A: No. Bud shouldn't go. The Commish wasn't there (was that Bowie Kuhn?) for Aaron back in the day, when he connected off Al Downing. Why should Bud be there for this tainted record? Should be interesting to watch.
Beer in the clubhouse. Since Josh Hancock's death, drunk driving, there's been a move in baseball to remove alcohol from the clubhouse. The Yanks have followed the A's who had already done this. The Rox are mulling this over. (Would save them money; so I think it's a no brainer).
Big overreaction I think. Having a few beers after the game, talking about what went right and what went wrong is an American tradition. If you make the millionaire ball players drive across the street to buy beer you will lose the comraderie, the fans will annoy the players, they will have to spend their own hard earned money, and so forth. All bad.
LaRussa should have recognized Hancock's problem and gotten him into a rehab program. People that can't handle their beer should not punish the rest of us who can. Hancock was well known in the clubhouse as a big partier.
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