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  • Angels Land Pujols with 10-Year, $250M Pact ( Angels have a new TV Contract...will cover the cost)

    12/08/2011 10:28:32 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 47 replies · 1+ views
    NBC ^ | Thursday, Dec 8, 2011 | Updated 9:36 AM PST | By Greg Wilson and Olsen Ebright
    Baseball's best player is getting paid like it. The Los Angeles Angels swooped in to win the Albert Pujols sweepstakes with a quarter-billion dollar offer the superstar slugger just could not refuse. With his old team the St. Louis Cardinals and the Florida Marlins engaged in a bidding war for the first baseman's services, the Angels appear to have blown everyone out of the water with a 10-year offer that may be as much as $260 million. Pujols led his team to a World Series title this past season, but his longtime manager, Tony LaRussa, announced his retirement and...