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Pujols Insulted

  • Albert Pujols' wife on why he did not re-sign with St. Louis.

    She indicated the key moment was the Cardinals' initial offer of five years and $130 million. "When you have somebody say 'We want you to be a Cardinal for life' and only offer you a five-year deal, it kind of confused us," Diedre Pujols said. "Well, we got over that insult and felt like Albert had given so much of himself to baseball and into the community ... we didn't want to go through this again."

    Maybe she doesn't realize the Cardinal's offer works out to $26 million per year and the 10-year deal from the Angels averaged $25.4 million per year.

    If any of you business owners on the board would like to insult me to the tune of $26 million per year I'm willing to listen to your offer.

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    This post was edited by dena_terp_fan on 12/12/2011 at 5:21 PM

    Albert Pujols' wife Diedre explains why Los Angeles Angels slugger left St. Louis Cardinals - ESPN

    Albert Pujols' wife Diedre, in an interview with a radio station with ties to the former Cardinals slugger, said the couple was prepared to take less money to stay in St. Louis, but were greatly disappointed by the team's initial offer.

    espn.go.com

    dena_terp_fan ●

  • I'd rather have 250 million total.

    bkmalik

  • From that quote it seems clear that he wanted years, so the fact that he might be making slightly less per year as an Angel is less important.

    neal990

  • I'm not as concerned with the numbers as I am the complete lack of any sense of reality that would lead one to consider $130 million/5 years an insult.

    dena_terp_fan ●

  • From his perspective if he takes a 5 year deal for 26 a year he gets to age 36. At which point he is not nearly as valuable and probably makes way less mony to be a dh for 5 years.

    If I was prince fielder I would look at this take a 3 to 4 year deal now and then get myself an 8 or 9 year deal at age 30 or 31. Maximize that cash.

    Pic Sigs are for losers.

    jgdomino ●

  • of course that's an insult. who the hell offers pujols 5 years right now?

    AlphaOmega said... im sorry i was confusing...your "Superbowl" was the Redskins losing since you know that the Ravens cant win it all.

    TheHugeManatee

  • Is it that unreasonable to expect a better offer than 5 years when a team says it wants to be there "for life"?

    neal990

  • This is going to be one of those threads where someone posts "how can he make that much money when TEACHERS ARE GETTING LAID OFF?!?!" isn't it?

    neal990

  • dena_terp_fan said...

    Diedre Pujols

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    Chip Kelly --> NFL --> Fired --> Maryland

    Hogie ●

  • neal990 said...

    Is it that unreasonable to expect a better offer than 5 years when a team says it wants to be there "for life"?

    He'd be 37 when he starts his next contract, which is old in baseball terms, especially in the NL where you cannot DH. If he was still a productive player, he could certainly be offered another contract at that time in order to remain with the team "for life". Besides, if he really wanted to stay in St. Louis, he would have put this "insult" behind him and accepted the Cardinals' 10-year deal. He certainly would have had enough to pay a shrink to help him get past the hurt.

    dena_terp_fan ●

  • What is the point of this thread? To complain about a guy taking the most money?

    strOterp ●

  • dena_terp_fan said...

    I'm not as concerned with the numbers as I am the complete lack of any sense of reality that would lead one to consider $130 million/5 years an insult.

    The thing is though, is that IS his reality. Just not the one we are living in, but reality nonetheless. When your initial offer is for half as much as what he eventually signs for, I'd probably be a little pissed too.

    GunnerOne 84

  • i don't blame the cardinals for not offering 10 years. pujols is already 43 and by the 7th year of this contract he won't be able to play any defense

    stangs25

  • Don't you think it's insulting for a team to offer you 5 years at 26M when other teams are going to offer you 25M for 10 years? Were the Cardinals going to offer him another 5/130M contract when the first one ran out?

    This post was edited by jsh on 12/12/2011 at 8:32 PM

    jsh

  • Good job giving 120M to Matt Holliday, idiots!

    Tabe

  • god i miss tags

    02terp

  • Well it was an insult...

    Players I'm driving the bandwagon for: Kevin Gregg

    cowboy4eva

  • No. I'd assume the cardinals offered what they thought I was worth. Where is the insult? They are saying you will be the highest paid player for the next five years. The angels and marlins think he will be a great player in his late 30s and early 40s. So if the cards disagree on something six to ten years into the future that is an "insult"? Don't see that.

    BCiB ●

  • Pujols probably believes he will be a great player in his late 30s and early 40s. He's almost certainly wrong, but it's that kind of belief in himself that made him great to begin with. If someone essentially tells him they're not so sure they agree with him, of course he'll take it as an insult.

    aschaefe ●

  • BCiB said...

    No. I'd assume the cardinals offered what they thought I was worth. Where is the insult? They are saying you will be the highest paid player for the next five years. The angels and marlins think he will be a great player in his late 30s and early 40s. So if the cards disagree on something six to ten years into the future that is an "insult"? Don't see that.

    The insult is that they say they want him to retire a Cardinal and then offer him a contract that won't last that long while other teams will.

    Baldwin

  • Baldwin said...

    The insult is that they say they want him to retire a Cardinal and then offer him a contract that won't last that long while other teams will.

    The real insult is they didn't try to get a long term extension done last year, or the year before.

    bkmalik

  • BCiB said...

    The angels and marlins think he will be a great player in his late 30s and early 40s

    LOL no they don't, they are just willing to pay for his old years to get his remaining good years

    oralterpitude43

  • oralterpitude. said...

    LOL no they don't, they are just willing to pay for his old years to get his remaining good years

    Clearly. Which is ludicrous.

    BCiB ●

  • BCiB said...

    Clearly. Which is ludicrous.

    Not if you can afford like the Angels can.

    Simple fact is the way MLB is set up there aren't that many consequences to having bad contracts if they don't impact your budget.

    If the Angels can compete while paying Vernon wells 90 million for 4 years they can do the same thing with Pujols for the next decade.

    bkmalik

  • strOterp said...

    What is the point of this thread? To complain about a guy taking the most money?

    No I'm cool with that. However I would like to make fun of his clearly crazy wife. First, perhaps in the world where they live there might be reason to feel slighted by a five year offer, I don't know. But if she thinks the argument that they were insulted by a $130 million offer will resonate with the masses in St. Louis, then she is nuts. Just keep that shit to yourself.

    But she's so insulted that she got made at God, because clearly God has forsaken the Pujols family.

    "When it all came down, I was mad. I was mad at God because I felt like all the signs that had been played out through the baseball field, our foundation, our restaurant, the Down Syndrome Center, my relationships, my home, my family close"

    Say what? I'm sure the good folks of St. Louis took time off their $10 per hour jobs to attend a Solemn Novena for the forsaken Pujols family. And it appears to have worked.

    "It's just like God," she said at the end of the interview, "to put us on a team called the Angels."

    Yeah, that's just like God. He's such a silly prankster. So it's all good now between Deidre and God. That's a load off my mind going into the holidays and I'm sure that brought peace to the folks of St. Louis.

    VousGoo

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