A Walk into the Sunset - The Kid retires.

I'm not 1000% sure about anything in life, much less anything about a guy I've never met.

But using facts I can deduct that the evidence points to him being clean.

 

You may just be another naive sports writer who gets burned by his love of the "national pastime"

Any writer that definitively declares any athlete clean is a moron. It shouldn't even be part of the story

 

This is about as simple as it gets.

 

I'm all about the simple

 

So you think every writer on ESPN, Yahoo, MSN, CBSSports is a moron?

If I got burned by my love of baseball then I'd blindly defend Bonds, Clemens, and the rest. I'm defending one of the few who did it the right way.

 

But we have supporting evidence saying he was clean.

 

Sad that this thread is a pissing match.

Farewell to the greatest player I've ever seen in person.

(And Shannon Drayer was a joke on Sportscenter. "It later came out that he wasn't asleep." Really? You mean the Mariners denied it?)

 

Agreed.

 

Show me where every writer has made it part of the story.

 

There was a time when there was no testing, and a time that test results were private. And Alex Sanchez...skinny player, couldn't homer, definitely clean....oh, wait.

 

Olney - "From a dirty era, Ken Griffey Jr. came out clean."
AP - "And during the steroids era, his name was never linked to performance-enhancing drugs, a rarity among his contemporaries such as Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire."
Neyer - "Tomorrow, it will be said that Griffey was the best player of his era who didn't use steroids."
Brown - "As important, it turns out, his game apparently was clean. ...baseball would be lauding the Junior Era, rather than sweeping up after the Steroid Era. Griffey’s veins were sodden with Ken and Birdie Griffey’s blood, and their genes"

Need I go on?

 

Three of those four are columns, you know that, right?