Comments on: Pujols addresses Cardinals fans: “I respect them”

By: ispysomething7

ispysomething7 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:19:23 +0000

Now the St Louis fans can feel what its like to be a Cleveland fan after LeBron left. Well maybe not, at least Albert didn’t make his “decision” on a TV show, on an “independent” sports network. Just be thankful you won a ‘ship.

By: retrosimba

retrosimba — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:30:25 +0000

Albert should just shut up and hit the ball. That’s what he does: he hits a baseball well. Otherwise, he’s just a another ego-driven fraud. He showed his character when he disregarded loyalty and commitment in lieu of ego-stroking and money. The less attention that is paid to this dolt, the better.

By: bigharold

bigharold — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:09:57 +0000

“When the players treat MLB like a business…”

Because as fans we’ve too much invested emotionally. Players, even the greatest come and go. Even owners come and go but the team remains. And the fans too readily forget that what happens on the field is baseball and the rest is business. And, it was always that way it just that before FA the owners had all the cards. Pick any iconic player of the past, before FA, and realize that had they been able to play out their contracts mot would not have stayed with the one team they are associated with.

On the field it’s baseball, .. everything else is business.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:25:42 +0000

Property and property taxes are higher…$25M in California < $22M in Missouri

By: marshmallowsnake

marshmallowsnake — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:53:47 +0000

I doubt cost of living will apply with 25 mill a year for ten years. One year would set me and my kids and maybe their kids up for life… Easily.

By: marshmallowsnake

marshmallowsnake — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:51:20 +0000

In reality, we root for the uniform. The players just temporarily wear them.

By: lovesmesomeme

lovesmesomeme — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:05:56 +0000

You will not find a bigger baseball fan, I watch football in Nov, Dec and Jan just so i can kill time till Feb 15, and the reason i said what i did is because he went to another job for more money.

By: cintiphil

cintiphil — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:27:21 +0000

Love:

I see that you are not a sports fan. If you were, you couldn’t say what you did. Although the point about going to another job for more money is accurate.

By: cintiphil

cintiphil — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:24:46 +0000

The Supreme court declared that Major League Baseball IS A BUSINESS. That is why there is NO exemption to the labor laws. That may not be popular, but that is a fact.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:47:35 +0000

Obviously, that should have read “…is not so great a man as to *not* be bested by his own ego.”

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:19:17 +0000

Pujols is a great baseball player, but he is not so great a man as to be bested by his own ego.

He will be paid more money to play baseball, but he will take home less after figuring in tax differences, cost-of-living, and loss of endorsements (in StL, he was THE guy, in the LA area, he’s just one of hundreds of celebrities)….and not just during the next 10 years, he would have been marketable in StL forever. Now? No one would touch him. Hope these ego strokes are worth it.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:15:04 +0000

So…Albert is saying that the City of StL taught him that words don’t mean anything, caused his ego to grow so big that it was bruised when the FO didn’t kiss his ass and act like they had to keep him at any expense regardless of the effect it would have on fielding a competitive team, and taught him that greed was good?

….or was it Jesus that taught him those things?

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:30:44 +0000

Hell, Mr. Gator, we’re all reds.

By: steelerchicken

steelerchicken — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:24:47 +0000

@lovesmesomeme

Well said! Take the money and run.

By: lovesmesomeme

lovesmesomeme — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:21:40 +0000

I am amazed that even after 40years of players being able to move freely to any team they want to after a certain amount of years that fans who have little more than a rooting interest in teams are surprised when players up and leave for more money. I am tired of hearing “the greatest fans in baseball” cry why can’t he live on $20M. The reason he can’t live on $20M is because someone offered him $25M. Quit getting emotionally attached for god sakes.

By: metalhead65

metalhead65 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:03:15 +0000

maybe because they always say it is not about the money and how they love the city/fans they are in untill they are offered more money by another team. most of us would take the money to but at least we would be upfront about it.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:51:16 +0000

Perhaps because business makes money grubbing whores of us all.

By: surly1n1nd1anapol1s

surly1n1nd1anapol1s — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:32:24 +0000

When the players treat MLB like a business we treat them like money-grubbing whores. Why is that?