Pujols Signs With Angels

[JackofDiamonds]

Brutal. Cheering for laundry. $40 million is a lot of money though, and yes, even on top of $220 million, $40 million is a lot of money.

G'luck you Albert. I am not going to boo you, but I am not applauding you anymore. Hope you stay healthy and you get your individual milestones, but I hope you languish while watching the Cardinals succeed without you.

[Bo Hart]

Nice to know it was all about the money and that all of that other talk was mainly lip-service/lies. Whatever. Happy trails, Albert. Enjoy getting paid tons of money to not play when you're 40 (or is it 50?).

I keep hearing comments like this, and I simply don't understand it. Saying "I want to retire a Cardinal" to me says, "all things equal, St. Louis is where I want to play." It does not mean, "I am willing to stay in St. Louis, even if I'm playing for $40-60M less."

[Numbers]

So is this payback for snatching the rams?

[Fan_In_NY]

And this is why they have the competitive balance picks...

Apparently the Angels TV deal is jumping from 50M a year to 150M a year. The Cards being in St Louis will never get a sniff of a 150M a year contract deal even if the Cards are World Series champs every single year.

[TheoSqua]

So is this payback for snatching the rams?

They can have the Rams back if that's the case.

[Donnie Ebert]

Nice to know it was all about the money and that all of that other talk was mainly lip-service/lies. Whatever. Happy trails, Albert. Enjoy getting paid tons of money to not play when you're 40 (or is it 50?).

I keep hearing comments like this, and I simply don't understand it. Saying "I want to retire a Cardinal" to me says, "all things equal, St. Louis is where I want to play." It does not mean, "I am willing to stay in St. Louis, even if I'm playing for $40-60M less."

Well said.

[MrSaigon]

Lots of people turning on the guy. I'm not going to be mad at him until he says something stupid at his presser.
Pujols was how I made peace with the Theriots of the world. Hope the new team doesn't have holes like that.

[cardsfansince82]

300 page thread, coming right up!

[heyzeus]

Glad my dad just bought my son a red "Pujols 5 foundation" jacket that is sized for a 3 year old. That'll be nice to have.

[Cronos]

It is what it is, so moving on: the new CBA kind of confuses me. What does this mean in terms of compensation picks, etc?