Albert Pujols has been a member of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for a full five days now, but the fallout left behind because of his departure from the City of St. Louis and the St. Louis Cardinals organization continues.
Pujols, who spend 11 seasons in St. Louis, left for the sunny skies of Southern California and a lucrative 10 year, $254 million contract from the Angels and their owner Arte Moreno. Pujols said his decision to leave had little to with the money.
Some fans in St. Louis think otherwise, and Albert's wife Deidre took the radio air waves in St. Louis on Monday and did not hold anything back, suggesting that Cardinals fans were duped by the organization and the contract offers that were being reported were not correct.
Diedre insinuated that reports of a 10 year offer from the Cardinals were simply not true, saying they were not guaranteed, and referred to the five year offer the Cardinals made at the outset of negotiations last week as an "insult."
Speaking on 99.1 Joy FM, a St. Louis Christian radiot station, Deidre offered the below comments regarding her husband's decision to leave the St. Louis Cardinals.
Perhaps Diedre's anger is legitimate. Maybe we should feel sympathy for her.
Then again, any contract offer that attempts to give a player the second highest annual salary in baseball should not be something to feel insulted by. Any contract offer over $200 million should not be something to feel insulted by either.
Either way, that is a lot of money. And nobody, not even God, could disagree with that.
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Pujols, who spend 11 seasons in St. Louis, left for the sunny skies of Southern California and a lucrative 10 year, $254 million contract from the Angels and their owner Arte Moreno. Pujols said his decision to leave had little to with the money.
Some fans in St. Louis think otherwise, and Albert's wife Deidre took the radio air waves in St. Louis on Monday and did not hold anything back, suggesting that Cardinals fans were duped by the organization and the contract offers that were being reported were not correct.
Diedre insinuated that reports of a 10 year offer from the Cardinals were simply not true, saying they were not guaranteed, and referred to the five year offer the Cardinals made at the outset of negotiations last week as an "insult."
Speaking on 99.1 Joy FM, a St. Louis Christian radiot station, Deidre offered the below comments regarding her husband's decision to leave the St. Louis Cardinals.
"The offer that people have seen on television I want to tell you what, listeners especially, had that offer been given to us with a guarantee, we would have the (Cardinals) bird on our back."
"When it all came down, I was mad. I was mad at God because I felt like all the signs that had been being played out through the baseball field, our foundation, our restaurant, the Down Syndrome Center, my relationships, my home, my family close. I mean, we had no reason, not one reason, to want to leave. People were deceived by the numbers."
"When you have somebody say 'We want you to be a Cardinal for life' and only offer you a five-year deal, it kind of confused us," Diedre Pujols said. "Well, we got over that insult and felt like Albert had given so much of himself to baseball and into the community ... we didn't want to go through this again."
"The city of St. Louis has absolutely been deceived and I have never seen hatred spread so fast and I understand why. Let me say that Albert and I never, not one time, ever made plans to leave this city."
"It's just like God to put us on a team called the Angels."I'm not sure Albert necessarily wanted his wife spouting off on a St. Louis radio station in defense of their family's decision to leave St. Louis. Deidre came off like Brenda Warner, the wife of former St. Louis Rams legendary quarterback Kurt Warner, who famously called into radio stations to defend her husband.
Perhaps Diedre's anger is legitimate. Maybe we should feel sympathy for her.
Then again, any contract offer that attempts to give a player the second highest annual salary in baseball should not be something to feel insulted by. Any contract offer over $200 million should not be something to feel insulted by either.
Either way, that is a lot of money. And nobody, not even God, could disagree with that.
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