Jul 20, 2026 · 24 min · 11 segments
Move over, Dave Kingman. Aubrey Huff would like a word on being officially titled Baseball's biggest A**hole. Today, we're diving into the great baseball career - and not so great, tragic, homophobic…
Jeff PearlmanHost
So about two decades ago, I wrote a biography of Barry Bonds called Love Me, Hate Me, Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero.
And while I think I did a good job on the book, I also think there were some real shortcomings.
And my biggest flaw, the biggest flaw in the book is like, it's easy to say Barry Bonds is an asshole.
The harder question, and the one that I think a real journalist would answer, is how does one wind up that way? What happened in a person's life to make him the flawed figure that we see before us? And Aubrey Huff...
For those of you who don't know, Aubrey Hoff, longtime Major League Baseball player, a really, really good player, two-time World Series champion with the San Francisco Giants, a guy statistically you'd want on your team, a guy, you know, harkens back to a day of ballplayers who were like steak eaters and hard-nosed and they, you know, they just, they don't give a shit and they'll chew tobacco and like, you know, spit it out on your shoes like, old school, old school ballplayer.
And when Aubrey Huff was six years old, he had something happen to him that If you went to therapy and you sat down with a therapist, if Aubrey Huff went to therapy and sat down with a therapist, this would take up a ton of time.
And I have an article in front of me from the Abilene Reporter News, December 17th, 1983.
Aubrey Lewis Huff Jr. apparently saved the life of the manager of the Royale Orleans apartment before losing his own in Thursday night's double shooting at the apartment office.
Huff, 30, and Carrier Joe Hughes, 23, employees and residents of the Southwest Abilene apartment complex at 2701 Southwest Drive, were shot to death at about 3.30 p.m. after a confrontation between Mrs. Hughes and her estranged husband, Travis Ray Hughes.
So about two decades ago, I wrote a biography of Barry Bonds called Love Me, Hate Me, Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero.
And while I think I did a good job on the book, I also think there were some real shortcomings.
And my biggest flaw, the biggest flaw in the book is like, it's easy to say Barry Bonds is an asshole.
The harder question, and the one that I think a real journalist would answer, is how does one wind up that way? What happened in a person's life to make him the flawed figure that we see before us? And Aubrey Huff...
For those of you who don't know, Aubrey Hoff, longtime Major League Baseball player, a really, really good player, two-time World Series champion with the San Francisco Giants, a guy statistically you'd want on your team, a guy, you know, harkens back to a day of ballplayers who were like steak eaters and hard-nosed and they, you know, they just, they don't give a shit and they'll chew tobacco and like, you know, spit it out on your shoes like, old school, old school ballplayer.
And when Aubrey Huff was six years old, he had something happen to him that If you went to therapy and you sat down with a therapist, if Aubrey Huff went to therapy and sat down with a therapist, this would take up a ton of time.
And I have an article in front of me from the Abilene Reporter News, December 17th, 1983.
Aubrey Lewis Huff Jr. apparently saved the life of the manager of the Royale Orleans apartment before losing his own in Thursday night's double shooting at the apartment office.
Huff, 30, and Carrier Joe Hughes, 23, employees and residents of the Southwest Abilene apartment complex at 2701 Southwest Drive, were shot to death at about 3.30 p.m. after a confrontation between Mrs. Hughes and her estranged husband, Travis Ray Hughes.
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