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Originally Posted by chaddurbin
pujols gave st louis an awesome discount the last contract...brought the team a couple ws and made larussa a better manager than he actually was. instead of showing him the respect and courtesy he deserved, they signed holliday to a big contract w/o re-upping pujols first. and now they tried to lowball him for a 2nd time because of this bullshit "hometown discount" thing.
people wanting to be paid accordingly to their performance level is not greedy. pujols would be stupid for not taking the angels deal.
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Actually, this "Home Town Discount" thing with his first contract is a myth.
He got $105 million for 7 years, $15 million a year. At the time it was the biggest contract ever for a player of his amount of years of service and guaranteed him security for life. He could have chanced it and taken 2 more one year contracts, and signed a huge deal at age 25 or 6, but he took the security of $105 million at age 25.
And the Cardinals last offer of 9 years was a fair offer as well, Albert merely was offered more and took it. I don't blame him either way. It seems it's not the Cardinal fans who are upset but everyone else.