Dale Murphy On Bonds: 'A Terrible Example for Our Kids'

Now that Barry has finally passed Hank Aaron-congratulations, Barry-we can all just go back to watching baseball. Just to make things clear on my feelings towards Barry and this record, I don't like Barry, but I don't hate him either. Am I upset that he's broken Hank's record? Not really. I never saw Hank Aaron play, and I have no personal connection to his record.

It doesn't cause me great pain to see the record broken by Bonds, because in my lifetime I haven't seen many players better than Barry Bonds. You know who doesn't quite feel the same way about this as I do? Former Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy. He's not particularly happy.

"Barry's a great player, there's no question about it, but he put an asterisk by his name on his own," 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."

Gee, Dale. How do you really feel?

Murphy went on to say during the interview that Hank Aaron would have hit 855 home runs had he been doing the same things that Barry Bonds did. So I guess in a way, we can say it's all Hank Aaron's fault that Bonds broke his record, because Hank was never smart enough to use steroids.

Wow, Hank, you really dropped the ball on that one.