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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
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