Rodriguez, the "Inevitable" Home Run King

For all those keeping score at home, the other day, I posted this:

http://ph4h.blogspot.com/2007/07/bogus-ultimate-home-run-derby.html

"Furthermore, how do you rank A-Rod so low? He's got 494 homeruns at age 31. Hell, at age 31, Bonds had like 50!!! Not really, but in all seriousness, if A-Rod gets out of New York, with all its distractions, then I think there's a good chance Bonds doesn't stay on top of the career homeruns list for very long. If A-Rod played 6 more seasons until he was 38 or so and averaged 35 homeruns a year (plus the 20 more I'll give him credit for during the rest of this season), he'd finish his career with 724. But if, like Bonds, he doesn't actually start hitting with power until he's 35 . . . well, then I think he finishes his career with like 1000 homeruns!"

Today, ESPN weighed in, stating that "The talk will be about Bonds as long as he hits home runs or, in Selig's best-case scenario, the feds come to the rescue. But eventually Rodriguez will overtake Bonds in national attention and, of course, home runs. It's inevitable . . . Rodriguez already has 494 career homers. Six more and he becomes the youngest player to reach 500."

http://http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2932348&sportCat=mlb