Albert Pujols Is The Worst Player In Baseball

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InvincibleCakeEater wrote:
Socnorb11 wrote:Weird how we're dogging current Cardinals legends, and wishing nothing but the best for former Cardinals legends.
Wainwright isn't half the legend Albert is.
Well, nobody is.

He's still a good guy, been a great teammate, and a huge contributor to a bunch of successful Cardinals teams. Where is the line drawn between "screw this guy" and "I'll worship this guy forever"?

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Socnorb11 wrote:
InvincibleCakeEater wrote:
Socnorb11 wrote:Weird how we're dogging current Cardinals legends, and wishing nothing but the best for former Cardinals legends.
Wainwright isn't half the legend Albert is.
Well, nobody is.

He's still a good guy, been a great teammate, and a huge contributor to a bunch of successful Cardinals teams. Where is the line drawn between "screw this guy" and "I'll worship this guy forever"?
Somewhere between Adam Wainwright and Albert Pujols.

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I disagree, but alright.

I don't care of Pujols succeeds or fails at this point. I enjoyed and appreciate what he did for the Cardinals. Waino is still part of my team. I got his back.

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People would hate Pujols if he was on the Cardinals right now.

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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:People would hate Pujols if he was on the Cardinals right now.
Especially if the Cardinals were still on the hook for 87 million.

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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:People would hate Pujols if he was on the Cardinals right now.
I agree. They'd probably be praising Waino if he played for someone else, too.

I think that's just the way it goes.

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Socnorb11 wrote:Weird how we're dogging current Cardinals legends, and wishing nothing but the best for former Cardinals legends.
It's because Wainwright is white.

Pitchers are a bit different from position players, because you need so many of them. You can't hide horse [expletive] pitchers, but merely mediocre ones aren't a problem. Wainwright seems like a great guy, who arguably has enough talent to be given the last spot on a pitching staff. They need to find some pitchers who can get high leverage outs still, but for example if Wainwright had been a healthy (and bad) reliever a year ago, the narc story about Bud Norris and Jordan Hicks doesn't happen, because you've got a non-jerk veteran in Wainwright making sure Hicks doesn't go Ankiel or Taveras on you. If Wainwright ends up pitching in the 8th inning of a tie ball game though, then the BFIBs drop the façade.

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greenback44 wrote:
Socnorb11 wrote:Weird how we're dogging current Cardinals legends, and wishing nothing but the best for former Cardinals legends.
It's because Wainwright is white.
Are you saying there's some kind of reverse-racism among baseball fans, in which the traitorous Dominican gets a longer leash and more fond sentiment than the All-American looking white guy who stuck around?
Socnorb11 wrote:Where is the line drawn between "screw this guy" and "I'll worship this guy forever"?
I don't know exactly but for me it doesn't have anything to do with where or how the guy chooses to pursue his career or what laundry he wears.

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Hoping to be there in June. He should get one hell of a standing O.

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33anda3rd wrote:

I don't know exactly but for me it doesn't have anything to do with where or how the guy chooses to pursue his career or what laundry he wears.

I don't really care where he chooses to play either. I definitely root for players who wear the birds on the bat though. I don't have a particular beef with Pujols, but I want him to make an out every time he plays the Cardinals this year, because I'm a Cardinals fan.

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