Barroid

I've been trying to figure out the best way to express the unmitigated disgust I've felt since waking up this morning to find out that the walking, talking arse ***** ***** cheated his way to the home run record that rightfully belongs to Hammerin' Hank, but I think I'll leave it to one of the class guys to ever play the game to say it for me:

"Barry's a great player, there's no question about it, but he put an asterisk by his name on his own," [Dale] Murphy said Monday on AM radio 1280 The Show. "He's deserved all the negative publicity that he's getting. I mean, people are calling up and complaining, I've heard the last few weeks, that that he's being treated unfairly. You know, life just usually isn't like that. You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve. This is what Barry deserves. He's a hard guy to like. He's a hard teammate to have and, you know, he's set a terrible example for our kids."

"Even in a court of law you can have ... a preponderance of circumstantial evidence to convict somebody," Murphy said. "Now, maybe I'm wrong, but when you get enough stuff on a guy, you can make a decision and it's just really a no-brainer. The guy would have become one of the great ones, anyway. ... But now, he sucked the fun and the life right out of it. I mean, there is enough evidence to me to say without a doubt he used performance-enhancing drugs. He hit 73 home runs when he was 37. I mean, Hank would have hit 855 if he had the same advantage."

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Comments

[Didi]

We are all becoming super humans. It is such a terrible thing to read this morning but it is true that America is becoming what we were conditioned to become - Bigger and Better. Think Wonder Bread.

Didi

[Pete]

Good old Dale Murphy. He was the only thing bearable about watching Braves games on WTBS during the 1980s. And always a class act.

[Robin]

A-Rod will erase the record in 10 years, and then we won't have to worry about it.

[Geoff Young]

The worst part is that Bonds is just one of an entire generation of players that will forever be linked with cheating. It's very difficult to view any accomplishments of the past 15 years or so without at least a little suspicion, which is a genuine shame to those who love the sport.