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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
Like when Lebron left Cleveland, Cards fans acted the same way about "Pujol$" leaving. It was nasty. It seems everyone is now pretending that never happened.
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I was pretty pissed at the time, mainly because at one point he said he'd stay and obviously had no intention of doing so. That sucked.
But unlike James, he got paid, and that was it. He began to decline almost immediately, and has never even sniffed the success he had in St. Louis. Anaheim is basically a place where superstars go to waste their careers; he's been irrelevant since the day he left, other than the occasional milestone achievements he's reached. And he also never actively participated in a game that hurt the Cardinals. There was no Bronco Neil moment where he gleefully ****ed us over. I'm sure he wouldn't have received a standing ovation and curtain call had his first home run in Busch been one that cost us a World Series.
Mainly it's just kind of sad. He could have been like Brett, Rivera or Chipper Jones, but instead he took the money and ran. I'm all sure that extra money is great, but they don't cheer him like that in Anaheim, and there's no way he doesn't miss it.
Oh well. At the end of the day, the Cardinals got the best years of his career, and the Angels paid for them. Thanks for the memories.