I'm not defending today's players by any means. It's obvious to everyone that there's a problem, with 5% of the random drug tests coming in positive, but before you go dumping on Kent, did you even read the article?

The point that Kent was trying to make was this:

- The media and historians are up in arms because today's potentially chemically enhanced players are shattering records set by players of old. They decry that the game and the records are being tarnished and that today's players should be ashamed of themselves.

- What Kent was saying was that these people are looking at baseball's past with rose-colored glasses. He DID NOT say the Babe or Gehrig were on steroids - what he said that no one knows for sure. He's implying that the media should start recognizing the reality that yesterday's players were human and imperfect, just like today's players.