The only thing this column cannot be is ignored. If it is, then I am out of a job. Got it? Good, because to me this position is easy to comprehend. However, it seems it is increasingly difficult to understand the role of pundits in our modern times.
If you want your voice to be heard amid the masses of bloggers and blowhards, then you had better say something of significance. If you are incapable of significant analysis, than you had better say something outrageous - and lately outrageous is carrying the day.
So I pause and give my fleshy head a good scratch and try to figure out what sort of responsibility I have here and this is the best I can come up with: we don't write history, we chronicle it. We can try to shape it and we can certainly analyse it, but in the end all we have is our words. The actions are left to those special few who make history.
I don't have to explain any of this to Barry Bonds because I am fairly certain he knows who plays what role in today's sporting scene. Bonds broke the most cherished record in American sports this week when he hit career home run number 756.
And according to a significant number of pious pundits, because Bonds broke it, it is no longer the most cherished record in American sports.
Babe Ruth once held Major League Baseball's record for home runs at 714. Although Ruth played 22 seasons in the major leagues, he never once saw a black man on the same field as him.