"If there's one player I'm sure never took steroids, it's Tony Gwynn," said Kevin Kernan of the New York Post. "He had his problems with KFC. Tony is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, a first-ballot person. There should be no question about it."
"Since I doubt Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn would test positive for anything stronger than Krispy Kremes, this one's a no-brainer," echoed Jim Alexander of the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
These guys just couldn't resist. In an article outlining Gwynn's superb career and talking about his chances of being unanimously voted into the Hall of Fame a couple guys just needed to get in a few back handed compliments.