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Chicago Tribune Rick Morrissey column: Baseball's future hinges on cleaning up steroids.(Column)
Byline: Rick Morrissey
Sep. 12--A lot of words have been devoted to explaining why baseball has to clean up its steroids mess, even if that means tracking down evidence to prove that what we watched five years ago or 20 years ago was a fraud.
Some have called it a witch hunt.
Others have said they're into baseball for the entertainment value and don't care what players ingest or inject as long as it produces home runs in bulk. Give them a pro wrestler with a baseball bat. They're fine with that as long as there are enough oohs to go with the aahs.
In these dark times for baseball, it's easy to get worn down, to feel like it's all useless, to believe that the fight to eradicate performance-enhancing drugs from the game we love is a lost battle.
Then Dodgers second baseman Jeff Kent--ornery, difficult Jeff Kent--comes along and puts things in proper perspective.
"Major League Baseball is trying to investigate the past so they can fix the future," he told the San Francisco Chronicle. "They're not trying to investigate the past to fix the past. That won't happen."
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