Pujols To Angels

[jah]

I'm with you, Snap. Seriously, I know he was a charitable donor to many in need. However, he could STILL have done that with the Cardinals offer. You're telling me that he's going to donate the extra $50 million from the Angels to charity? He's going to donate MORE? I doubt it. I bet a dollar to donuts that his charitable contributions do not increase, given the high California tax rate and cost of living. It'll be a wash. Oh well, he was getting fat anyway, and his production was down over the last 3 years. Still great numbers, but with the HGH testing next year, they will decline even more.

[Gavin]

Maybe they can afford to build the "Ballpark Village" now !

[eric1978]

I've never seen so much talent packed into a bigger money-grubbing turd.

My buddy worked at his restaurant, and Pujols made the staff BUY t-shirts to wear at work that he got for FREE from his sponsors...boxes of them. See ya later you disloyal scumbag . Good riddance.

[moguy1973]

For such a "Christian", he sure has an inflated ego and a love of money.

And one that just committed one of the Seven Deadly Sins...

[stlfisher]

I heard the Cardinals may only have offered 7 years and they did try to engage him several years ago. They were told it would take Arod type money to open negotiations. Lot's of speculation, but if true, 7 years is kind of weak and wasn't going to get it done. Would have been good for the Cardinals though.

As others have said good riddance...should be very interesting to see how management responds the rest of the winter. Beltran might be a possibility in an outfield rotation with Holliday, Craig, and Jay. Fielder might be a possibility if he would take a 5-7 year deal. .

[flyfishmaster]

Albert... it was nice having you around for the prime of your baseball career. But it has been a struggle the last two years seeing you hit into a record # of inning ending Double Plays.

Enjoy that DH role buddy.

Later,

FFM

[Smalliebigs]

" He was a fraud"

LOL!!!!!!! ha ha you guys sound like the biggest bunch of jilted lovers. I played baseball from age 5 to now and played division one basball in college, although I was red shirted and transfered the next year to a juco school but, I was still recruited division one. I have played baseball at a ton of different levels and if you don't understand why the mvp of your team dosen't run out all of the mundane ground balls through out a season of at bats well you just don't understand professional baseball. They aren't playing in little league, millions of dollars hinge on stupid injuries that keep your mvp out of the line up. If anything Albert was to agressive on the base pads and pushed it to much.

Also for everyone that keeps saying the cardinals are going to spend 22 million somewhere else????? I will believe it when I see it......I don't see Jimmy Rollins with the birds on the bat on his chest yet.Show me what they are doing.......Matt Holliday could possibly be the most overpaid player in the league, the World Series MVP,David Freese, is more than injury prone and suspect at best for a whole season, your best young hitter, Allen Craig is also injury prone and just had surgery and won't even start the season next year. So you better go do something.... but, I doubt that much will actually happen in free agency as it has almost all but dried up......Fielder??? you couldn't pay Albert how can you do him??? A washed up center fielder like Beltran????? sorry but, Jon Jay is not a bonafied major league center fielder he can't hit!!!! I s Mike Matheny going to let Tyler Greene play short stop???? 2012 will be way different than 2011 thats for sure but, Albert Pujols is not a fraud and will hit over 300, drive in over 100 runs, score close to a 100 and hit over 30 home runs for the next 5 to 6 years for sure. The Cardinals have nobody that you can count on to do that for the wole season with out beeing injured, so it bums me out to see him go but, I will always laugh at people from St.Louis who think that we are the Mecca of baseball and players should take less maney to play in the holy land......pathetic, get over yourselves

[KCRIVERRAT]

Great. Now my Royals will have to get through the Angels to reach the World Series...

[snap]

smallie...I ain't disagreeing with all you are saying, but, he did say "it is not about the money"....that is what I am having trouble with!!!!

[Justin Spencer]

Great. Now my Royals will have to get through the Angels to reach the World Series...

I had the same thought.

"it is not about the money"....that is what I am having trouble with!!!!

When you are getting his kind of money I don't think it is as much about the money as it is about where your money ranks among the other players. What the Cards offered him a few years ago would have made him the 4th highest paid first baseman at the time. As the best player in baseball at the time I think he was probably offended at the offer as any of us would be if we felt we were being paid less than our co-workers that weren't as productive. Anyone with any self worth wants to feel appreciated for what they do, and while I think they are all being WAY OVERPAID, as someone who has felt like I was being paid less than inferior co-workers, I understand where he is coming from. For me it had nothing to do with making another dollar an hour, it had everything to do with going to work everyday and doing more work for less money than the people I was propping up. If you can't understand this then you must not have much pride in yourself.

I've never seen so much talent packed into a bigger money-grubbing turd.

Bunch of haters that are jealous of his success and heartbroken at his departure. Terrell Owens, and Randy Moss come to mind as pretty big turds, and I bet even they have done more to help society through charity than we have.