[Lefty Noob]

Interesting story over at Yahoo! Sports about the Dale Murphy "I Won't Cheat" Foundation.

Murphy's message - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports
April 30, 2007

The name didn't sound familiar. And Dale Murphy is the type who remembers acquaintances, first names and last, so he was fairly certain he never met Kirk Radomski. He wishes he had.

Murphy would like to talk with the people at the center of the performance-enhancing-drug world and ask them: Is this necessary? His question would be simple because, to Murphy, handling steroids, human growth hormone and the other wares peddled – and for 10 years, Radomski admitted in a plea bargain with the federal government released Friday that he sold them to dozens of players throughout Major League Baseball – is a very simple issue.

Players who use illegal drugs are cheaters whose thirst for money and records and glory is ethically reprehensible.

"I wonder what would happen," said Murphy, the longtime Atlanta Braves star, "if we challenged people ethically?"

Well, he might get laughed at. Which is more than fine with him.

Otherwise, Murphy would not have started his new foundation, I Won't Cheat, which aspires to keep children from using performance-enhancing drugs. The name is blunt, the aim Pollyannaish. And still, sanguine as it sounds, it just might succeed. Because what is the decision to use performance-enhancing drugs – to flout the game's rules and risk your own integrity – if not an ethical one?

Nothing else seems to be working.

Good for Murphy. A lot of people are talking the talk, but Murphy seems to be one of the few former players trying to do something to stop the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. His goal? "Help the kids... I know how that sounds. I understand it might be a cliché. But it's true. They see guys making a lot of money and getting a Division I scholarship, and then they hear whispers that if only they had 20 more pounds or if only they could throw 94 or 95 instead of 90 or 91. Of course it's tempting... It's almost like we're protecting, as an industry, those who are cheating. There's no disincentive to stop."

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

Interesting story over at Yahoo! Sports about the Dale Murphy "I Won't Cheat" Foundation.



Good for Murphy. A lot of people are talking the talk, but Murphy seems to be one of the few former players trying to do something to stop the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. His goal? "Help the kids... I know how that sounds. I understand it might be a cliché. But it's true. They see guys making a lot of money and getting a Division I scholarship, and then they hear whispers that if only they had 20 more pounds or if only they could throw 94 or 95 instead of 90 or 91. Of course it's tempting... It's almost like we're protecting, as an industry, those who are cheating. There's no disincentive to stop."

My favorite players in the 1980-90's squeaky clean, nicest guy you want to meet...set down the bat at +390 instead of going the ways of drugs...I always thought he belongs in the Hall...

[Lefty Noob]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

My favorite players in the 1980-90's squeaky clean, nicest guy you want to meet...set down the bat at +390 instead of going the ways of drugs...I always thought he belongs in the Hall...

If the writers are as anti-steroid guys as they seem, this just might entice them to put Murph in the Hall of Fame.

[vincesanity82]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

If the writers are as anti-steroid guys as they seem, this just might entice them to put Murph in the Hall of Fame.

Kudos to dale murphy,he is a class act.
He definetly deserves to be in cooperstown, this foundation will definitley help someone..if not a lot of someones..

[Nuke]

If Murphy could change people ethically somehow he should run for office.