The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

p> HOT CORNER br> The San Francisco Giants were already uncomfortable on Tuesday night when former president Bill Clinton showed up at Shea Stadium wanting to meet Barry Bonds . Bonds is currently at war with the media over comments he made during the All Star break in which he claimed we would eclipse all memories of Babe Ruth. Initially, according to a member of the San Francisco Giants staff, Bonds did not want to meet with the uninvited former president, in part because it would open him up questions from the press. But Giants officials prevailed upon their star, and Bonds spent several minutes listening to Clinton prattle on about his apparently expansive knowledge of Giants baseball lore. /p>

"His visit complicated things for us because they had to basically shut down the clubhouse, delaying our meals, and with the heat it was hot as hell in there," said a Giants beat reporter.

Clinton may have been working for the home team in that regard. The visitors' clubhouse at Shea Stadium has only one air conditioner: the relic brought over to Shea from the Giants' old stomping grounds before their escape to California, the Polo Grounds, which was torn down in the mid-1960s.

p> CIRCUS ANIMALS br> It's remarkable what the Democratic presidential candidates will endure for an endorsement -- apparently ever sort of indignity. In order for Andy Stern 's Service Employees International Union to make an endorsement, its boss has designed what has to be the most arduous process in organized labor history.

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