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Originally Posted by ooo-ribay
I'm a huge Giants fan but would not be surprised at all if Kent took PEDs. How else can you explain his 37 HR (and Aurilia's 37) when no one other than Bonds has hit more than 27 since? Just like the finger wagger, Kent doth protest too much.
and I'm still pissed by Kent's no-show in the 2002 WS.  |
Don't get me wrong. I'm definitely of the mind that any of them could be (could've been) dirty. In my mind this includes iconic players from the pre- recognized steroid era (when I think plenty of guys did roids.. The old kind)... Ryan, Ripken, Schmidt, who knows??? This is one reason it drives me nuts to see Bonds/Clemens bear ten times the brunt of all other players. I think it's very probable there are roiders in Cooperstown, but they were just lucky enough to have played before baseball (and writers) grew a conscience toward such things.
The only reason I give Kent benefit of doubt is that he was so adamant about mandatory testing before anyone else was.. except maybe Glavine. Part of me wouldn't be surprised if he suspected or knew many of his teammates were juicing (Santiago, Rios, Estalella, Santangelo, Bernard... And yes, I've been suspicious of Richie, nice guy or not, as well as the super beefed up 2000 version of Ellis Burks) and was infuriated by it. Kent has never been known to be popular with teammates, and also didn't have patience for players he didn't like (see final years in LA playing with Matt Kemp and company).
If writers so condemn what would have been HOF worthy guys for doing what most of the league was doing, they may as well give brownie points for a guy who stood up to it. Seems like a fair trade to me. Especially when that guy has hall worthy 2nd base offensive stats.
(Love your username btw!)