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Both players have had their own issues within the game. Bonds was indifferent and surly with the press, Harper uses the wide-eyed media members to push his agenda of changing the game. Bonds didn’t find out until late in his career how important a good relationship with the key people who follow the sport really was.
He always had the ear of the hometown fans, and even packed road games, if only to see history.
Harper, however, has the ear of the media, but is driving a wedge between himself and the fans who have passed “this brand” of baseball down for many generations.