OT: Pujols to sign with Angels

[the-illini]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

I find it a little odd that we as fans, should think that we are entitled to keep our star players for the rest of their career. I've worked at a LA Casino since 1987. So if a Vegas Casino offered me twice my income, I shouldn't take it?

How about when I get older and they boot me in favor of a younger guy who'll work for less money but has little or no knowledge of the business. Where would the loyalty lay there?

The Cards had there chance last spring and they BLEW it! Tough shit! They should have signed him then, instead of playing hard-ball with him!

We will see how you feel about this contract in about 4 years. As a Cardinals fan, I am sad he is gone but that is silly money for a guy who is going to be 32 when he steps on the field for the first time next season.

I would have loved to have had him retire as a Cardinal, but part of me is relieved that the Cards don't have that contract to deal with

[HRBAKER]

As a Cardinal fan I HATE to see him go. On the other hand he helped to 3 WS appearances and two championships in his time there. He was paid handsomely for what he did and you can't overpay or overspend based on what he has done already - you owe him nothing for that. If you pay one player to the extent that you can't field a championship caliber team otherwise, what have you accomplished?

Wish him the best in LA. Most likely will go down as one of the all time greats and certainly the highest paid DH in MLB history by the time the day is done.

[David W]

Originally Posted by the-illini

We will see how you feel about this contract in about 4 years. As a Cardinals fan, I am sad he is gone but that is silly money for a guy who is going to be 32 when he steps on the field for the first time next season.

I would have loved to have had him retire as a Cardinal, but part of me is relieved that the Cards don't have that contract to deal with

Die hard Cardinal fan and I am also relieved it is over.

Good luck in California from year 2016 on. You're paying $25 million per for not much production, when .250 with 20 homers is a good year at the back end....

The Cardinals will be fine, we'll replace Albert eventually, and they've got lots of good young hitters coming along.

[HRBAKER]

Albert and the Cardinals both made good business decisions here.

[chaddurbin]

i just heard locally that the angels are in the process of re-upping their tv deal. with albert it could be 800mil-1bil during that 10 years...so don't feel too bad for arte moreno on whether he'll get a good roi in years 6-10 from albert. i know i feel better having heard that piece of news.

[Danny Smith]

Im bummed to see albert leave. Left a bitter taste in my mouth since all he said was that he wanted to be a card for life. I get that its a business and about the money though.

On the other hand, I really feel bad for all the special needs kids here that his charity supported who absolutely love him who more than likely got home from school today and saw that their hero has left town. That truly sucks.

[gashouse34]

Do I want to be in STL forever? Of course. People from other teams want to play in STL and they are jealous that we're in STL because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like STL to go somewhere else and make 3 OR 4 MORE MILLION A YEAR? IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY. I ALREADY GOT MY MONEY. IT'S ABOUT WINNING, THAT'S IT." - Albert Pujols.


It was always about the money(and could give a crap about winning)....

You should've been honest Albert it would have been easier to accept.

I actually like the Angels a lot and glad he went there as opposed to other teams. I hope he and the Angels are successful. I just have a hard time understanding the greed side of it.

Thank goodness for Vintage Baseball!

[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.