  We argue that for a Higgs boson mass M_H ~125 GeV, as suggested by recent
Higgs searches at the LHC, the inclusion of electroweak radiative corrections
in the relationship between the pole and MS-bar masses of the top quark reduces
the difference to about 1 GeV. This is relevant for the scheme dependence of
electroweak observables, such as the rho parameter, as well as for the
extraction of the top quark mass from experimental data. In fact, the value
currently extracted by reconstructing the invariant mass of the top quark decay
products is expected to be close to the pole mass, while the analysis of the
total cross section of top quark pair production yields a clean determination
of the MS-bar mass.
