Cory Lidle isn’t playa-hatin’ - seriously.  Lidle is just concerned about high school players and college players having the temptation of taking steroids, thinking they don’t have a shot in making the big leagues.

It’s sad,” Lidle told the Philadelphia Daily News. “I’m not a player-hater. I like to see players get paid as much as they can. But without friggin’ cheating. What he could have done without performance-enhancing drugs—which he hasn’t been proven guilty of [using], which I’m not buying—you can maybe take what he had done in his prime, before his head started growing at an enormous rate, and just make those projections. Say that, ‘This is what he could have done.’ Maybe it’s 550 home runs. I don’t know. It definitely wouldn’t have been anything close to 700.”

Expect Barry to knock a homer against Cory Lidle, the next time the Giants play the Phillies.  Or maybe his line-up protection mate Moises “Pee on my hands” Alou will take offense to these comments.

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