Fifth Avenue Forum

He probably died.

Also, on the McGwire bit, how is Sammy Sosa getting more votes than him?

Because manny tested positive?

There wasn’t just one PED era, in my mind. There were really two. There was that era with no testing, no discipline and no way of knowing who the heck was doing what. But then there was that era that began in 2005, when baseball finally implemented testing, suspensions and a legitimate effort to grapple with its darkest scandal in a generation.

If our friend Manny had just done what he’d done — by which I mean compile numbers that rank him among the greatest right-handed hitters who ever stepped into a batter’s box — in that first era, I’d vote for him, for exactly the same reasons I vote for Bonds and Clemens. But that isn’t Manny’s story. He didn’t merely get himself suspended twice in that second era. He racked up more PED suspensions than everyone else on this ballot combined. So … no check for him!

Kent, like McGwire, needed more great years.

Jeff Kent was an unlikable dadhole who didn’t get along with teammates or the media. He never had a shot regardless of numbers.

Saw something similar that discussed Yu Darvish getting LIT THE **** UP in the WS against the Astros, which played a role in him getting less than expected on the open market and really messed with his head, confidence, and mechanics because he believed he was tipping his pitches and tried changing things up, and then completely sucked when he got to the Cubs.

The counterpoint to that is he still got paid a **** ton and **** the Cubs.