It's clear that none of you work in TV. On-air personalities have their hands severely tied by the producers and their agendas for a show. I'm sure it's immensely frustrating for a guy like Reynolds to not be able to voice his true opinions about stuff because he'll get reprimanded at the next production meeting. As such, it's no surprise that they put guys like Kruk out there. The guy doesn't have an original thought in his head, so he'll just spew whatever the producers want him to. Phillips is happy just to have a job at this point, so I'm sure he complies as well. What I'm saying is this: ESPN clearly has an unreasonable amount of love for Barry Bonds, and they clearly favor Boston over the Yankees. As such, they steer their "talking heads" to voice those biases during the broadcasts. In this case, it sounds like the producers wanted the boys to dump all over A-Rod and Reynolds refused to do it.