The Cardinals may be able to make up his bat in multiple ways. They may be more agressive on the basepaths. They hopefully will have Freese available for the whole year. Wainwright coming back helps but he may not be full strength. They should use some of the money they are saving with Albert to improve starting pitching.

Eh, I wouldn't say that.

Favre held the Packers hostage for a few seasons. Saying he would or wouldn't retire, then came out of retirement.

The troll is strong.

totally disagree

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...s_mlb&c_id=mlb

With Pujols getting a billion dollars over in California, I think it is a good time to talk about what Pujols does that sticks out to me. I first saw Pujols back as a rookie, where he hit one into the Royal Bullpen. Deep into the bullpen. I am talking Tim Salmon Territory. That was of course only the beginning. Pujols balance is what sticks out first and foremost. He has the ability to generate insane bat speed while not seeming to over swing. He has a great eye, he hits the ball to all fields, and he hits the ball to all fields with IRON MAIDEN type of awesomeness. His homerun off of Brad Lidge has made for many of internet MEME's. He worked hard on his fielding skills and has played LF, 3rd, and of course 1B. He has put up eye popping numbers year after year and he is a tought guy to hate. I remember Buddy Bell talking about how the most important thing in the upcoming series is to "keep Pujols in the ballpark" Albert hit three homeruns, one on a slider low and away where he seemed to poke it over the right field fence. Where Belly Butler seems to throw all his grits and tits into a swing only to have the ball come up 20 feet short. Pujols nice easy swing seems to always have the ball go 100 feet over the wall.

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Fairness, the Angels are 5th in attendance the last two years.

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/2...Attendance.htm

They will prolly be first next year...

The state income tax rates are different by 4-5%, as Cali has a 10% rate for rich folks. That eats away 10-12 million of the salary bump. As far as cost of living, that really doesn't matter when you are making reeruned amounts of money. Once he buys his house (which will be much more expensive in Cali), the living expenses, unless he lives like Mike Tyson or MC Hammer, will be such a small percentage of his overall income that it doesn't really matter if he is in the midwest or Cali.

Big picture, with either contract he was making enough money to set up generations upon generations of the Pujols clan. Christ, he already has that amount of money after being "underpaid" for the last ten years.

What do you think, Cards fans? Do you issue #5 to someone on the team, or to someone you bring in, right away?

I do the same thing they did with Rolen's number after they unceremoniously dumped him:

Issue it to a castaway LH reliever.

I'll never really forgive the front office for giving #27 to Ron !@#$ing Villone.

i don't see why they shouldn't/wouldn't give it to someone else.
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I would, but they probably won't.

Another thing that just occurred to me - now the ****ing Angels have him AND Haren. :#

anyone know if ap has made any public statements yet? i haven't seen anything.
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Not yet, but who cares? Bullshit excuses from a greedy liar. I'd personally prefer it if he just left and that was the end of it.

Just where is Mark Mulder these days?


*ducks*