John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle asks whether Jeff Kent gets extra credit, if you will, when he’s up for the Hall of Fame next year due to the fact that he was an outspoken critic of baseball’s lack of drug testing:
Perhaps more than any other ballplayer, Kent lobbied for testing when it wasn’t trendy, when the union and much of its membership fought against it. In a clubhouse in which Greg Anderson once had free rein as a drug runner for Bonds and other Giants, Kent often stood at his locker and called for Major League Baseball and the union to iron out a legitimate steroids policy.
Shea details more of the ways in which Kent demonstrated his disapproval of PEDs in baseball.
Which is well and good, but I also wonder why, given the lessons of recent history, any athlete is to be take at his word with respect to PEDs, either positively or negatively.
