Who says you can’t re-write history?
Posted By Jeff Fletcher on September 29, 2009 7:48 pm
A couple weeks ago I wrote about how we had an issue with our record-keeping on the Giants Good Guy Award, which goes to one player for his cooperation with the print media. Rich Aurilia insisted that he had won the award twice, but our perpetual plaque only had him down once, in 2003.
Aurilia insisted that he could come up with the proof, emailing a photo of the two awards in his office back at home in Arizona. Not necessary, I believe him. Besides, anyone who feels that the validation of reporters is worth enough to lie to get it, probably ought to get it.
Also, the guy who we thought won in 2000 was Jeff Kent. Honestly. As I wrote before, Kent could often be prickly, but he was better with the beat writers than people just passing through. Also, in the 2000 playoffs, he was the stand-up team spokesman when the Giants lost to the Mets.
However, when we were debating it recently, Aurilia was there to plead his case, and Kent wasn’t. Good enough for me. Today I removed Kent’s name from the plaque and replaced it with Aurilia’s.
I’ll keep the Kent one, just in case.
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