To his credit, in the press conference afterwards he skillfully side-stepped the questioners attempts at baiting him into comparing himself to Ruth, Aaron and Mays, saying that each has their accomplishments that they can look at with pride and that was all that mattered.
Also, later in the game, when the opposing team's outfielder dropped a pop-fly, he hustled in to 2nd base, which would go against the commonly used case against him that he never runs for pop-outs.
I agree that generally the media seems to really dislike him, but I have a hard time believing(after all the standing ovations) that he's anything but loved by the Giants fans. Incidentally, the fan that got the ball out of the water decided to give it back to Bonds, so no court case this time.
