Barry Bonds is about to break baseball's most hallowed record - the all-time home run record.

This should be a moment that would surely rival the great home run race of 1998 and bring Major League Baseball back to the level of prosperity the sport had in the '60s and '70s when it was still America's Pastime, right?

Well, sort of.

Sportswriters, sports radio hosts, and fans are calling for Commissioner Bud Selig to do "something" about Bonds breaking the record.

Meanwhile, MLB most assuredly does not need or want an alleged steroid user to break Hank Aaron's record.

What is this "something”" that Bud Selig should do?

Most Bonds critics would like nothing to be done. They just do not want to make a big deal over it and want the entire moment to just carry out of the minds of the fans… and history.

I say make it the biggest gala in sports history. Bring in the clowns, the circus… heck, bring in the flying Elvis group. Make it the most memorable event in the history of sport.

I know what you are thinking… Why should MLB celebrate a record that was broken by a self-centered cheater like Barry Bonds?

I'll tell you why… to become America's Pastime again.

How hypocritical would it be for MLB to shun an alleged steroid user when it was MLB who knew about and cultivated the steroids era because "chicks dig the long ball."

MLB should make the "steroid era" bigger than life. Start a huge advertising campaign for it. Make a whole new section in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. 

There would no longer be a question of whether these players should be in the Hall of Fame or not. They would be welcomed in with open arms.

Start giving the steroid era catch phrases like, "The Steroid Era - They cheated, but they still own all the records," or, "The Steroid Era - Muscles over Morals."

Staging such a gala for a player so loathed by the fans would make the hatred for Bonds and the Steroid Era "cheaters" grow even more, which would set the stage for the second "something" Selig should do… Start a new era.

Selig could promote the era of the naturally trained athlete. The fans would buy it, even though we all know that there will always be some sort of undetectable performance enhancing drug out there. The era would star the "good guys," the players with white hats and an all-American image.

They would be pitted against the players of the steroid era, the players with the black hats and bad boy image. Those players of the big muscles, big heads and little morals.

It would all come to an electrifying climax… the day Alex Rodriquez breaks Bonds all-time home run record. The ultimate triumph of good over evil.

MLB will have come back from the pits of the steroid era to become, once again, the American Pastime.