DOAT

Hats off to sportswriter Grant Brisbee who wrote what I believe is the dumbest column I’ve ever read in my life. The piece, “Jeff Kent is a deserving Hall of Famer, and so is Barry Bonds,” ran in The Athletic, 12-8-25. Brisbee made one obvious if not-too-dumb observation, that Kent’s offensive numbers benefitted from having Bonds in the same lineup. After which, Brisbee races to the dumbest of the dumb, wanting to know “did you see what Bonds was doing at the same time? It was alien. Absolutely alien. The sport will never, ever see anything like it again.” Why do you think that is, Grant? Because Barry Bonds was using PEDs bigtime, that’s why. What makes Brisbee’s argument pathetic as well as dumb is he doesn’t even employ the “it wasn’t banned at the time” defense that Ken Rosenthal and others trot out. (If it wasn’t banned, then why didn’t PEDs’ users admit to using at the time? Because they wanted to minimize the number of cheaters so everybody wouldn’t have inflated stats, that’s why). No, Brisbee goes full ostrich and doesn’t mention PEDs or steroids once. Instead of letting juicers into Cooperstown, I have a better idea—kick out Bud Selig, the commissioner who turned a blind eye to PEDs.