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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
No, totally, totally different situations.
I like the Cardinals and hope Pujols stays. But how can you blame him for wanting more money at this stage in his career? He's earned that right. Lebron, on the other hand, promised Cleveland a championship and then chicken-shitted out so he can buy a championship. And unless Pujols makes some kind of a chicken shit announcement on national TV, he'll do it with more character than Lebron did too.
I could see why a Cards fan would be mad. But it's hard to mad at a guy who has done so much for the team and the city.
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Exactly.
The Cardinals front office got Pujols for 11 years at about 20% of this true financial value to the franchise. He was a
screaming bargain over that time period.
If they had a brain in their head, they'd hold that money in a sort of 'escrow' because they know this day is coming.
Well now it's time to pay the man if you want to keep him. Sure, you can 'sell high' on him, take your excess value and let the Marlins foolishly overpay for him. Or you could take that excess value, put it back into Pujols and essentially 'purchase' a legend. By re-investing the excess value of the previous 11 years back into Pujols, DeWitt and Co. will ensure that Pujols goes down as the 2nd greatest Cardinal of all time.
Pujols has every right to demand that re-investment from the franchise, IMO. He doesn't owe the Cardinals a hometown discount at this point; he already gave them one for his entire prime.