In Wednesday’s edition of The New York Post my column colleagues and friends Mike Vaccaro and Jon Heyman wrote opposing pieces — Vaccaro holding his nose to call Barry Bonds the single-season homer champ, Heyman offering the reverse, that Roger Maris and his 61 homers remain the standard over the dubious 73 of Bonds…and 70 of Mark McGwire…and 66 of Sammy Sosa…and 65 of McGwire…and 64 and 63 of Sosa.
Jon would make that rogues’ gallery of juice-tainted homer hitters going, going, gone from the single-season record list. Vac cited that we cannot unsee what we saw and that the record book has Bonds first at 73 — asterisk free.
Both made fine arguments. If I had to pick one side or the other, I would go with Vac. I might not like the juiced-stained record book. But it is the record book.
But I don’t have to pick a polarized side. I can defy hot-take America by suggesting the world is often gray and not black and white and that — if we chose — we can hold more than one idea in our heads at a time.



