That's the point. He was old and broken, knowing he was going to a perennial also-ran team. Blame the Angels for not building a very good team, if you want, but it was a clear money-grab situation for Pujols.
Especially in the World Series years from 98-2000.
Okay, but Ripken's streak was impressive enough to at least give voters something to talk about. Jeter was merely one small, yet fairly constant cog on a stacked Yankees team (dynasty).
10 years 240 million (+ 10 million for a "service contract") versus 8 years 200 million. Again, he knew full well that he was doing a money grab, so blaming the Angels organization doesn't fly. It's not like Pujols knew they weren't a badly run team- despite a massive payroll, were 10 years removed from a world title at the time, and hadn't gotten past the first round of the playoffs more than twice. Since then, the payroll has mostly still been bloated, but only one playoff appearance.
Lol. It was a money grab either way bud. At the end of 2011, the Moz AP relationship was toast. Lot of details you don’t know and the 8 year 200 million offer was in spring training 2011. That offer wasn’t there after the World Series in 2011. He asked for it
No, not the same. In one version, he stays with a perennial contender, a fanbase that adored him, contributes to a good lineup and makes a ton of money. In the other, he leaves to go play for a mismanaged dog of a team, have his stats all drop... and makes a ton of money. Blame the GMs, blame the DH, blame the records department of the Dominican Republic- it was still a bad contract. I remember at the time, thinking the Cards had overextended far past what they normally would've, so great was Pujols's reputation.
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sure, you can at least make an argument for Ripken being a first ballot guy.
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Lance Berkman, Holliday, Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina on that team but no one, especially not {gasp} Albert Pujols were doing 'roids.
Come on.
Yes, but anyone with common sense knows it wasn't any of these: Lance Berkman, Holliday, Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina, Albert Pujols
I've never pretended that his or any other professional athlete's success hasn't been dependent on PEDs.
His motivations really don't matter. And money certainly looked like the issue. Pujols's legacy has been tarnished by his mercenary ways and I'm glad I'm not a Cards fan so that I'd have to make that "choice". Perhaps he had gone somewhere that had a shot at winning a pennant or world title, it'd be different. But the Angels, other than the first half of Scioscia's tenure, are a historically crappy franchise -- largely because of deals like Pujols's.
Maybe. But I've never heard mention of PEDs / roids about any of these players, including Pujols. Carlos Beltran was later proven to be a filthy fucking cheater, when he was the ringleader in Houston with the super sign-stealing operation.LOL
Lance Berkman, Holliday, Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina on that team but no one, especially not {gasp} Albert Pujols were doing 'roids.
Come on.
Carlos Beltran used PEDs and there's less doubt about it than Barry Bonds. All the writers know about it and they know where he got it (Toronto) and who he was getting them from and for.
Yes, but anyone with common sense knows it wasn't any of these: Lance Berkman, Holliday, Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina, Albert Pujols
You're like my buddy the Angels fans who'll fight anyone to the death that Tim Salmon and Troy Glaus were clean.
That's just it, man. You don't know. Pujols has that shit buried under so many layers of deception that unless someone very very close to him sings, we'll never know.