Carlos Delgado for MVP

[HoustonGM]

oops I was thinking you ment Pujols is probably a decent guy

They probably both are.

[TheNamelessPoet]

then again... Jeff Kent did always fight with him

[HoustonGM]

then again... Jeff Kent did always fight with him

Jeff Kent fights with everybody.

[TheNamelessPoet]

Jeff Kent fights with everybody.

HE we can safely say... is NOT a nice guy

I never really notice but has he ALWAYS been a jerk

[justanewguy]

...all we know about players, unless we personally know them, is what the media tells us, and what the media tells us is greatly influenced by the relationship the media has with the player, and just because a player has a bad relationship with the media doesn't mean that the player is a bad guy.

I was about to say almost the same thing. I always catch myself conjecturing about a player's personality or where he falls on the "good guy/bad guy" scale and realize it's a media thing. My point about Pujols was, though, while he does avoid the media, he doesn't post blogs ripping the media (like Bonds did), he doesn't engage in standoffs with the media (like Bonds did), and he's certainly not known (through the media) as being a guy with an ugly personality (like Bonds was).

There's very few players (Mark Grace is an example) whose personality is more or less visible with or without the media. With practically EVERY guy in sports, we don't really have a very good idea if they're good, bad, or whatever. Some players tend to be vilified to the point that people begin to honestly believe that they're evil. I'm sure very few players are anywhere near as bad as some of us would like to believe.

Sidney Ponson seems like a pretty bad character, though.

[TheNamelessPoet]

Sidney Ponson seems like a pretty bad character, though.

funny lol I never really got that impression

[dps]

A lot of reporters seem to be such big jerks that sometimes I think more highly of players that don't get along well with them.

[HoustonGM]

A lot of reporters seem to be such big jerks that sometimes I think more highly of players that don't get along well with them.

I'd tend to agree.