While he was a world-class prickly jerk, I don't think he moved around solely because he aggravated others, but it sure didn't help. He could very well make the Hall of Fame as one of the best-hitting second basemen ever.

A small dossier on Jeff Kent culled from interviews and comments from reporters and former players that might shed some light into how he may get along on 'Survivor'...

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Jeff Kent, who played second base for the Los Angeles Dodgers this season, has stepped into the emotional world of same-sex marriage, giving $15,000 to backers of the California proposition on Tuesday's ballot that would ban it.

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Jeff Kent once summed up his career goals during a spring chat with a teammate.

"I'd like to leave the game without a single friend," he told Jeff Bagwell in the spring of 2003.

Bagwell wondered how he was supposed to respond.

"I wanted to tell him he was doing a great job of reaching his goal," he said.

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The Astros made Kent’s personality part of the daily conversation.

"Hey, buddy, how’s it going?" Bagwell would say as Kent arrived for work.

At the end of the day, Bagwell would say, "I’ll call you later, OK?"

"Please don't," Kent would say.

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During a spring training game vs the San Francisco Giants on March 24th 2001 Randy Johnson threw a fastball that hit and killed a dove that was unfortunate enough to fly in the balls path. The bird literally exploded in a cloud of feathers.

Jeff Kent, the Giants second baseman picked up the dead bird with his bare hands and jokingly pointed toward Johnson before removing it from the field.

Kent, for morbid reasons known only to himself, later fished the bagged remains out of the trash and took it home.

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During spring training in 2002, Kent broke a bone in his left wrist, he says, after slipping from his pickup truck at a do-it-yourself car wash. Schulman later reports that Kent, in all likelihood, made up a cover story after doing wheelies on his beloved motorcycle, hitting the curb and falling off the bike.

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In the spring after Kent won the MVP, I ran into him at Scottsdale Stadium the day he showed up for camp. I got an exclusive interview in which he told me he was moving his locker to the other side of the clubhouse to be with all the prospects, so perhaps he could share some of his wisdom as a way of repaying the game.

I dutifully wrote it up and thought I had a nice little story. Next day, I mentioned it to a clubbie, who told me Kent actually wanted his locker there because he knew those kids would be shipped to minor-league camp after a couple of weeks and he’d have some lockers on either side of his.