Pujols to the Angels for 10 years, $250 million

[Dick Whitman]

It deserves its own thread.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/7330066/sources-albert-pujols-takes-10-year-deal-los-angeles-angels

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Agreed.

Now for the fun part: Delusional Cards fans convincing themselves they're better off without the best RH hitter of the last 50 years.

 

[YankeeFan]

Insanity.

The owners really do need to protect themselves from themselves.

 

[Gutter]

Now for the fun part: Delusional Cards fans convincing themselves they're better off without the best RH hitter of the last 50 years.

It's already started.

No more LaRussa or Pujols? The hatred for Carpenter and Molina just doesn't carry as much sizzle for me.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Insanity.

The owners really do need to protect themselves from themselves.

Regulate the market then?

 

[TigerVols]

Interesting side note to the Pujols-to-Disneyland story is that the Angels appear ready to release Kendry Morales.

The self-same first-baseman that just a month ago the Angels were telling us fans would be the team's big "free-agent" signing this offseason.

Maybe he hasn't healed after all?

 

[TigerVols]

 

[LongTimeListener]

Interesting side note to the Pujols-to-Disneyland story is that the Angels appear ready to release Kendry Morales.

The self-same first-baseman that just a month ago the Angels were telling us fans would be the team's big "free-agent" signing this offseason.

Maybe he hasn't healed after all?

You just got Pujols and you're complaining about a misdirection play?

(Psst. I bet they were thinking about Pujols then too. They just didn't want to say it. Just a hunch.)

 

[Gehrig]

That's one bad photoshop job.

 

[Rhody31]

That's one bad photoshop job.

My first thought as well.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Agreed.

Now for the fun part: Delusional Cards fans convincing themselves they're better off without the best RH hitter of the last 50 years.

Cards fans are some of the most passionate and informed in baseball. And the organization is one of the best.

They'll be fine.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Have the Angels announced how much they'll be paying his pharmacist?

 

[jr/shotglass]

Not saying you don't grab Pujols ... but what do you do now with Mark Trumbo, who had 29 homers in 2011?

 

[TigerVols]

Interesting side note to the Pujols-to-Disneyland story is that the Angels appear ready to release Kendry Morales.

The self-same first-baseman that just a month ago the Angels were telling us fans would be the team's big "free-agent" signing this offseason.

Maybe he hasn't healed after all?

You just got Pujols and you're complaining about a misdirection play?

(Psst. I bet they were thinking about Pujols then too. They just didn't want to say it. Just a hunch.)

I'm not complaining.

Of course it's a crap contract and of course he's really 33 and of course his bat speed and production are on the slide, but...

...I'm happy to see Arte acting like he's the owner of a major market club flush with cash.

From a business standpoint, it might not be such a bad contract, if you consider it a 3-4 year insurance policy against the local market's coming wave of Dodger mania, once the team gets sold. Especially if the Dodgers end up moving downtown, thus sparking 2-3 years of enormous buzz in SoCal.

 

[TigerVols]

Not saying you don't grab Pujols ... but what do you do now with Mark Trumbo, who had 29 homers in 2011?

You put him at third, where he played this fall in Arizona, IIRC.

 

[cranberry]

That's one bad photoshop job.

My first thought as well.

Looks like Torii's hat.

 

[YankeeFan]

Do the Angels have, or are they creating, their own RSN?

 

[Moose A. Moose]

Cardinals to leak his real age in 3, 2,....

 

[JakeandElwood]

I'm stunned he actually left St. Louis. And this contract will be an albatross for the Angels.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Not saying you don't grab Pujols ... but what do you do now with Mark Trumbo, who had 29 homers in 2011?

You put him at third, where he played this fall in Arizona, IIRC.

Didn't know that. Thanks.