Albert Pujols should be embarrassed

[Big Pimpin]

Since he's obviously such a big jerk, I'm dropping him to like #15 on my draft list. Take that Albert.

[Strasil42]

Something tells me if this story was about A-Rod, the bias of this article would go un-noticed...

While I know you are obsessed with the Yankees, lets try to keep this thread on topic.

[Tavish]

Something tells me there's more to this story than meets the eye.

Like Pujols's comment was in sarcasm or something.

You couldn't be more right.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/14630353.htm

Its a complete hack job by Wright Thompson taking things that were quoted in a laughing and joking context and making them out to be scathing attacks.

“He said I wasn’t going to make the big leagues,” Pujols said, laughing, in the Cardinals clubhouse. “That’s why he got fired.”

Why did he get fired, if it wasn't for making Pujols upset?

“We made some decisions to go into a different direction in our scouting,” said Cardinals general manager Walt Jocketty. “We rearranged some of our scouts, we let a few go, we hired a few ones, and Dave was a casualty of that restructure of our scouting. There were some scouts who were less productive than others.”

[DK]

Thanks for the real story, Tav. God, I hate sportswriters sometimes...

[GotowarMissAgnes]

What a stupid story. EVERYONE pass on Pujols; no body saw his dominance coming. If anything, it should be a cautionary tale about how even today's modern, SABRmetric methods can still fail to predict something as great as Albert Pujols.

Very nicely put.

Except that it shows nothing of the sort. "Today's modern SABRmetric methods" weren't even being used to evaluate players for the draft at this time.

[acsguitar]

Pujols plays baseball thats his job

[bigh0rt]

Something tells me if this story was about A-Rod, the bias of this article would go un-noticed...

While I know you are obsessed with the Yankees, lets try to keep this thread on topic.

You're a classy guy.

What I was doing was pointing out that because this article was about Albert Pujols, people are quick to jump about it being one-sided and biased (which Tavish seemed to later prove) -- however, if it were about Alex Rodriguez, people would simply be replying with "What a jerk!" and not considering any other side to said story.

Man, ya lose in the ALDS and things start gettin' a little crazy...

[wrveres]

Pujols plays baseball thats his job

[acsguitar]

Pujols plays baseball thats his job

I'm just saying. Thats his job his job isn't to be nice to people. Its to play baseball.

If the press wants to talk to him about things outside of his play on the filed so be it.

He can be a jerk. He's a ball player I pay to watch him playbaseball not to hear about how he made a Walmart employee cry

[soxfan364]

Speaking of Albert, it sure seems like he is having a quiet World Series. He had the HR in game one, and is always being walked it seems.

I just had to look at the stats, he's 2 for 12, 1 HR, 2 RBI. Not that I blame Leyland for walking him, I'd do the same....