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Posted By: jay behrens

Glen, did you forget your meds today? Saying that fans of Bonds also think Saddam is a great leader is even more over the top than anything Rush Dimbulb says. I guess Bonds must have done something personally to your Wheaties one morning to develope the hatered you seem to have for Bonds. Take a chill pill, sit back and enjoy what Bonds is doing. If steroids makes it so easy for Bonds to be great, than why aren't the other juice freaks playing just as well as Bonds?

And I'm not sure just how much of Bonds personality problems are a creation of the media and how much is actually Bonds. I've watched as much baseball as most of you over the years and I never picked up on this personality problem outside the typical writer not getting what he wanted from Bonds. And I've watched him closely since he came to SF. Maybe it was something that developed on the East Coast and with their media. Take a look at Steve Carlton. The media hated the guy, mainly because he refused to cooperate with them. I've met Carlton on several occasions and always found him to pleasant. Don't forget, sports writers make thier living off these players and if they don't get what they want from them, they are likely write something nasty about if that player.

As for "his strike zone", give me a break. All the elite players, batters and pitchers, get preferential treament when it comes to balls and strikes. The top hitters get a smaller strike sone, the top pitchers getting a bigger strike zone. How many fewer strikeouts would Clemens and RJ have if they got the same strike as Jason Jennings or some other bum?

Jay