Jeff Kent announced his retirement yesterday.The 40 year old slugging second baseman may be set to head into Baseball's Hall Of Fame.Jeff's Stats are very good. They include:Jeff winning the 2000 NL MVP Award.Jeff is the only second baseman to have 100 or more RBIs in 6 straight seasonsHe is ...
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See ya in the Hall, Jeff!
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SAINT ANDREW’S NET: MEAT BIKINIS!
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Saint Andrew’s Net is With Leather’s daily link dump. There won’t be meat bikinis every day, but that sure would be nice.
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