It's not easy being Alyssa Milano...

Getting that much attention and being paid to try to be attractive and have baseball opinions can't be easy. She recently called a certain Nationals slugger as "built for comfort" and "cuddly." Dimitri Young has been accused of choking, scratching, and pulling the hair out of a female acquaintance in a hotel room, among other criminal charges in separate incidents.

Oops. It's not her fault at all, someone has asked to comment about players in sport she enjoys and she can't be asked to read everything about the players. She's a pretty busy actress who also happens to be dyslexic. It's a pretty big faux pas to make considering she is intimately connected to a few major leaguers, but it's understandable.

There are many moments over the past few years where people would have listed Mike Vick as the one athlete they would like to have a beer with. Now you'd be strung up for such an idea. I absolutely loved Schilling going into the World Series a couple of years ago, and then he opened his mouth about politics, and I'm afraid I would the beer in his face if we went for drinks.

Larry Bird had a daughter he never saw, and Derrick Thomas had several illegitimate children running around that I didn't know about when I idolized them. Ben Coates was accused of beating his mistress, and Mark and Sammy juiced. All of them did this when they were being idolized by hundreds of thousands of young people who just wanted to emulate them.

It makes me understand why Charles Barkley said he's not a role model. Nike used to run that commercial, Be Like Mike. Mike seems to have had a gambling issue, but I don't think we were supposed to be like that Mike. I imagine everyone has looked up to someone who turned out to be a big turkey that was blessed with some sort of talent.

With this in mind, it's fine for Bonds to a whole bunch of willfully ignorant fans who hoist him up as an idol. I have had my share of turkeys, and no one could convince me otherwise. Only the future will tell us who Bonds was in the history of the sport. I imagine the record (758 and counting) will mean slightly less to most of America. Everyone who loved Hank Aaron doesn't have to love him any less, much like Babe Ruth kept all of his fans when Roger Maris made his charge. Did anyone forget Babe Ruth was the home run kind even when his records were overtaken? It doesn't seem that way.

Hank Aaron will always be remembered for power, class, and dignity. The heroes who earn the title seemed to be remembered in every era. The others seem to be forgotten on time, no matter what the accomplishment.