Ain't that the truth, at least our respective baseball teams are still worth talking about. :D

Now you just gotta hope that Pujols to the Angels isn't Griffey to the Reds.

This is true. Im going to stay positive and not think about those kinds of things.
;)

Boy, that would just break my ****ing heart. :D

I know, right? It'd hurt almost as much as when I heard we non-tendered The Riot. :D

Not mine.


I'd jump for damn joy. Especially if he started sleeping in the clubhouse when his elbow breaks down in 3 years.

Joe Posnanski: Really !@#$ing good writer -

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/12/1...albert-pujols/

Most people who achieve true "greatness" in a field do so because of a personality imbalance, there is absolutely no doubt about it. It's one of the things that scares me about getting a doctorate.

I like the security and salary bump that a Ph.D. can bring, but I've also observed those who have them for many years. The sad reality is that the most brilliant professors I've had are also terribly imbalanced people. They live lonely, isolated existences because their work consumes them.

How to you balance that drive with other things? It's something that worries me. I want to stay within shouting distance of a single digit handicap, and I like playing video games and bitching about football, and that's not to mention the fact that I'd rather not be an absentee parent. Although I love what I do, I can't imagine an existence where it could be all that I am.

Your sarcasm detector must be broken. :)

Nope I got that. Just stating that he left the Cardinals. I have no loyalty towards him anymore. He had that right to leave.


With that said he can take his 252 million and stick it up his ass. He's now a minor footnoot on the Cardinals epic ass.

I will say that I think that JoPo's piece is a little blah towards the end. He spends the second half of the column building up Pujols as someone driven to be the best at the consequence of nearly everything else, talks about what drove him to do so, and then never connects that drive to his decision to leave St. Louis.

It would seem, given the information he provided, that the conclusion to draw is that Pujols is an insecure person owing to his childhood and early baseball circumstances, and the larger monetary investment demonstrates the validation that helps to soothe that insecurity.

Or, as DJ put it earlier, to Albert, money=respect

If you don't mind me asking, what are you getting your doctorate in?

I'm getting my doctorate, sorta. I'm getting a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. I'm also contemplating trying to get accepted into an Oral Surgery residency program or an Oral Pathology residency which is 6 years of additional school after the 8 years I'll ahve done or 3 more years. Problem is 99 percent of the people I have met that have done those things are a different breed.

I was damn near a scratch golfer in high school and played in college. i haven't been able to pick up a club in 6 months. It's not getting any better either and it's killing me.

Anyway, the wife and I are contemplating having children soon and I was wondering how you balance the school stuff with that?

I don't think that was his point, though. Posnanski writes a lot of stuff where he's not trying to draw conclusions, but rather just give you things to think about.

I think his intention was to first provide some historical perspective, then set that off with something of a cautionary tale. I don't think he was seeking to either praise or condemn Pujols and I certainly don't think he was trying to explain Pujols' reason for leaving STL.

I think he's just throwing some ideas out there for conversation. He does that fairly often.

It's May 1st! Pujols finishes his first month as an Angel with:

.217 AVG, 0 HR, 4 RBI, 6 BB, 14 K, .570 OPS

Only 9 years and 139 games to go!

Ouch