So Long Jeff Kent

With apologies to Jason Wilde, Richard Justice is the best sportswriter in America. He wrote a piece on chron.com about the retirement of Jeff Kent that will bring a tear to your eye.

Like most baseball players, Kent isn't a very nice guy. I'd use other words to describe professional baseball players, but this a family site. Most of them just aren't very nice guys. Maybe it's the years of bus trips to exotic locales like Clinton, Iowa and Erie, PA.

Kent is one of those types.

He's not a guy who's going to go out of his way to sign an autograph or, heaven-forbid, speak to the media.

Yet, when Justice talks about Kent at TCH, it makes your heart feel good - especially now that we're parents.

In case you forgot, here's a picture from one of the Astros greatest moments in 2004. Too bad Kent took off for LA before the 2005 season.




Read the Justice piece and you'll understand the importance of this picture.



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