"In all fairness to everybody, I just don't see how you really can do a thing like that and just say somebody isn't the record holder anymore, and let's go back to the way that it was," Aaron said Friday, referring to the controversy involving the legitimacy of sluggers Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez and their artificially enhanced peers. ...

"Really, it's sort of a tricky call when you start going down that road of who is legitimate," Aaron said. "I don't know if Barry would have hit as many home runs or hit them as far -- if that's the case that he did use steroids -- but I still don't think it has anything to do with him having the kind of baseball career that he had.

"He could have had an excellent career, regardless of what he did. So it would be something that I don't think the commissioner would like to get involved in, really. There are things out there besides worrying about a home run record that somebody now holds. Barry has the record, and I don't think anybody can change that."