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Lets offer Fielder 10 yrs $265 mil and see if he bites.

wart57 wrote:Lets offer Fielder 10 yrs $265 mil and see if he bites.

heyzeus wrote:

jagtrader wrote:Rough day for Cardinals fans. We lost a legendary player, the defining player of our generation. That's the nature of the game now. Sad but true.

Exactly. Time to wrap our heads around the notion that there is no more mythological True Cardinal like Stan Musial. He was the last of that mold. The players we love today will be gone tomorrow for the right price. Even ones that seemed to care about this legacy stuff, like AP.

"seemed to care"....perfectly stated.

dmarx114 wrote:Thanks for 10 great years Albert.

Now, how am I going to explain to my 5 year old that Pujols isn't on the team anymore?

Yeah, I've been pointing out AP to my kids, explaining to them they're watching history. To them, Cards and AP were synonymous. I guess I get to explain to them the business side of pro sports. Joy.

The sentimental idiot in me hoped the Stan picture would melt him down, of course I've never been offered a quarter billion so foolish sentimentality is all I've got.

wart57 wrote:Lets offer Fielder 10 yrs $265 mil and see if he bites.

Just stuff the check in a funnel cake.

wart57 wrote:Lets offer Fielder 10 yrs $265 mil and see if he bites.

Only if he changes his name to Pujols.

KyCardinalFan wrote:

albertmvpujols wrote:I'm not sure why, but I'm not really upset at this.

Prolly because it's crazy money.

He'll still be in red, tho.

But will his undershirt be red?

Toss aside sentimentality, best thing that can happen for Cardinal fans. We've seen the team be in the postion before of paying a few players the majority of the payroll, and surrounding them with Pedro Feliz and the like. The team will still be good, with room and money to add pieces that will make it better. We won't find ourselves in 2020 with an aging, disgruntled, overpaid, beaten up, falling apart, 40 year old first baseman.

I can't blame him for taking the cash. I can't blame him for asking for it and filing for free agency. I don't blame STL for not matching. But I still can't help but feel less...charmed by him.

I had this kind of romantic notion of having one of the greatest careers ever for one team in a time that no one stays with one team. I suppose it was unrealistic, but it cheapens Pujols to me a little.