This is certainly the most we’ve heard about baseball this late in November for years. On a day where Barry Bonds was finally indicted on four counts of perjury and obstruction of justice by a federal grand jury, Alex Rodriguez cried for attention like it was Game 4 of the World Series.

A-Rod will not be coming to Philly this season nor will he be going anywhere. He apparantly signed with the New York Yankees for 10 years and $275 million where he could earn even more in bonuses if he were eventually crowned the home run champion. Am I the only one that appreciates the irony that the current* home* run* champion* shares the headline with him on the same day? Perhaps Bonds’ 762 career home runs will now be thrown out the window? I suppose that’s a stretch but it would help A-Rod’s cause. He has 518 career dingers.

Each of Bonds’ perjury counts carries up to five years in prison and three years supervised release. The obstruction charge could mean 10 years in prison and another three years of supervised release. Now that’s all well and good but come on, no one really thinks he’s gonna be in prison for that long, if he even does have to go behind bars. All this tells us is that all the people who kept crying that nothing had been proven yet and all his records* still stand, can now stop kidding themselves.

While the Bonds case surprised some because the investigation had been running for four years already, the A-Rod decision came to be less surprising as he had been talking to the Yankees throughout the week, despite Joe Torre advocating that it was possible to see A-Rod come to L.A..

As a Philadelphia sports fan it truly disgusts me to be writing about an overrated juiced up star* and the New York Yankees so I must mention that the latest Phillies rumors surround former Phillie Scott Rolen. The Phils have not commented on Rolen being available but here’s why they should.

Rolen has become a mediocre third baseman. He has shown flashes of his former gold glove self but has struggled recently. He has had three surgeries in the past two years and has three years and $36 million left on his contract. For how much Pat Gillick talked about the Phillies’ focus on pitching it surprised me that he wouldn’t speak on the subject of Rolen. Hopefully the Phillies won’t waste their money on Rolen because quite frankly its almost a toss up between him and Wes Helms anymore. There, I didn’t have to spend a whole article talking about Bonds and the Yankees…that was close. Oh yeah…Jake Peavy won the NL Cy Young Award but today, who cares?