Originally Posted by
Eric
Kranz quit his job on Wall Street to trail the slugger across the country and watch him play baseball. He schmoozed with Bonds in phone calls and on visits to the Giants dugout. He bought him gifts and paid him tens of thousands of dollars...
... he found them particularly hurtful because he had done so much to ingratiate himself with the slugger.
"Barry should appreciate a person like me," Kranz said when interviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle. "Personally, I felt betrayed."
Kranz says he met Bonds in a Cincinnati hotel room and paid him $40,000...
In the years that followed, Kranz says, he had "many personal conversations and many phone conversations" with the Giants star.
Rains said that "Kranz has been unhappy with Barry because Barry didn't take the time to offer the personal touches, to call and thank him, to pose for pictures.
"My experience is nothing like the one I had with Barry."
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