The Angels’ fans at our house are thrilled. I’m looking forward to going to a game or two this season.
When Pujol’s elbow blows out once and for all in August, it’s going to be regrets for the next 9 years...
“...the best player of his generation, and perhaps one of the absolute best the game has ever seen...”
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No “perhaps” about it.
AP’s numbers for the first part of his career exceeded everyone in the entire history of the game.
That said, he is already 31 years old and showing an inevitable decline, albeit mild at this point, in his prowess. The Angels will be very fortunate to get 5 years of Pujols production at 75% of what he put up as a St. Louis Cardinal.
10 years for 254 million. Utter insanity.
“He’d already given them one hometown discount when, in winter 2004 and eligible for salary arbitration, he accepted seven years and $100 million in exchange for his first five free-agency seasons.”
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That is incorrect.
Pujols himself said at the time that there was no hometown discount.
Additionally, no one at the time, while AP was still young and ascendant thought the contract unfair.
A seven-game series is a wipeout..?
Frankly; I'd be tickled to see Ian Kinsler park one in the left-field seats on the first pitch from C. J. Wilson when the Angels come to Texas in May...comedy gold.
There was discussion of Pujols´s Christianity on Frank Pastore´s show yesterday. That makes me excited, and I´m not even Christian.