EPSN The Magazine columnist Bill Simmons recently wrote an article about the first Bonds-Free Major League Baseball season in twenty-two years. (The article can be found here.)

In this article Simmons brought to light an extremely relevant but historically forgotten footnote to Barroid's distinguished career: a guest spot on Beverly Hills 90210 in 1994. Below is an excerpt from the article recounting this watershed moment in television.

I, for one, will have this memory: that 90210 in which Steve Sanders was roped into playing in a father-son golf tourney with his dad, Rush, against Rush's country-club nemesis …that's right, a father with a wisecracking baseball-player son named Barry Larson. (The casting of Bonds wasn't even the biggest leap of faith here. C'mon—we were supposed to believe Rush would ever belong to a country club that allowed black members?) As the tourney starts, Rush is cranking his longest drives in years, and that prompts Steve to confront him because, after all, nobody was allowed to cheat, engage in premarital sex, get drunk or use diet pills on 90210 without serious consequences.

When Steve (played with Emmy-worthy zeal by Ian Ziering) threatens to quit and take his blond curls with him, Rush breaks down and admits to using—wait for it—souped-up golf balls! Why, you ask? As Rush explains, he's past his prime and wants to become a club champ once more. In other words, his fear of getting old has forced him to artificially enhance his performance in an athletic competition against a character played by Barry Bonds! In 1994! I can't stop using exclamation points! Someone stop me!

Ah, the prophetic wisdom of 90210. If there was a better TV show during the 90s I have yet to find it.

And now, to further cement the notion that YouTube is the greatest invention in the history of this nation, I present to you a brief look back at Barry Bonds on 90210.