No Way Around it ... Jeff Kent's a Dick!

I was a fan of the Dodgers' Jeff Kent for a long time. On the field, he reminds me a lot of my favorite player -- the Chicago Cubs' Ryne Sandberg. He's a great hitter and plays for the team and not for himself. He's not as good in the field, but he's above average.

The only problem I have with Jeff Kent is that he's not a mute. If someone could just take the power of speech from him, he'd be a decent guy -- instead he uses his words to take down baseball's icons and to say things that can only be described as moronic.

A couple of years ago, during the height of the steroids scandal, a reporter was speaking with Kent about it to get his thoughts -- big mistake. Rather than talk about what was happening at the time, Kent decided to unleash his genius. Paraphrasing here, but he basically said that baseball players might have been using steroids for a long time, and to support his asinine analysis, he said that people should look at Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. They put up monstrous numbers, so they probably did steroids.

Good theory, dumb ass. I guess that's why Gehrig ended up getting ALS and Ruth died early from throat cancer -- so I guess Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and everyone else suspected of doing steroids over the past ten years should worry.

Both Ruth and Gehrig were just great ball players and didn't need anything to enhance their ability -- just a stupid comment.

Before this genius comment, Kent's mouth got him into trouble when he was in violation of his contract. He broke his wrist in the off season, saying he did it while washing his truck, but it later turned out that he was doing wheelies and other stunts on his motorcycle (so cool!), even though his contract required that he not drive his motorcycle.

The latest round of Kent stupidity involves Hall of Fame Dodger announcer Vin Scully. On his radio show, Scully observed that Kent was doing better at the plate since the Dodgers acquired Manny Ramirez. To anyone else who knows anything about baseball, that would make sense, because if you have one of the best hitters in the game hitting behind you, you're going to see better pitches because pitchers won't want to walk you with Manny on deck (you get it?).

To Kent, though, this was an affront to his athletic ability and the years he put in to improve his game, so he went after Scully verbally, saying he talks too much. Yeah, I guess he does. Since he has served as the play-by-play guy and color commentator for virtually every Dodger broadcast for the last 50 years, that does take a lot of talking. But guess what, Jeff, when he talks he actually makes sense and people are interested in hearing what he has to say. Because, unlike you, he's right most of the time and he's entertaining.

Kent, for the sake of all of us, please keep your trap shut and just play the game. I don't want to hear any rants from you about why Willie Mays and Ted Williams sucks.

Kent, you suck!

RoadRage