Albert Pujols was the topic de jour on ESPN last week when the World Wide Leader wasn’t pumping its NBA playoff schedule. His season will continue to be a national story all season long as it either continues to devolve into his worst ever or resurrects itself into something that approaches being worth 24 million dollars.
Last Friday Mr. Pujols was 0-4 and after his last at bat he was booed by several thousand Angels fans in attendance witnessing his startling fall from super-duper stardom in person. This set into motion a chain of events: a racking of the brain by Cardinal fans to recall a time where Pujols was booed in St. Louis, a ‘mental health day’ for Pujols on Saturday where he didn’t play and eventually his first home run as an Angel on Sunday.
Pujols refused a curtain call. Publically because he wanted to concerntrate on the game. Privately because he knew it was mocking him and his season thus far.
No one can speak for Pujols and tell us for sure he regrets his move, bu...
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May 06, 2012
Albert Pujols has hit his first regular-season home run since joining the Los Angeles Angels, ending the longest drought of his 12-year career after 33 games and 139 at-bats.
Pujols' two-run shot into the left-field bullpen Sunday came in the fifth inning against Toronto's Drew Hutchison.
Pujols was playing his 28th game for the Angels since leaving St. Louis and signing...
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May 06, 2012
It's about time.Albert Pujols has had a rough year so far with the Los Angeles Angels after signing a record-contract with them this off-season. He has been a drought of not hitting a home-run. He was doing so bad that his own fans booed him on Saturday and his own manager pulled him out.Finally on Sunday, the slugger hit his first homer as a member of his new team against the...
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May 07, 2012
Booed and benched in the previous two games, first baseman Albert Pujols finally broke
out with his first home run as an Angel on Sunday. Pujols was booed as he went hitless in Friday's shutout by the Blue Jays. Angels fans
were frustrated with the sub-.200, 0-homer start by their $246 million man. After the
game, Pujols said he deserved it but promised there would be...
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May 07, 2012
Albert Pujols finally got the homerun monkey off his back. The all-star first baseman went yard for the first time in an Angels’ uniform, as Los Angeles defeated the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday, 4-3.
Pujols suffered through the worst homerless drought of his career – after signing a monster 10 year, $240 million contract – going an astounding 110 at bats without hitting the...
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May 07, 2012
The Albert Pujols sideshow finally ended on May 6, 2012, in the 111th AB of what has so far been a season of well-paid misery for the former King of St Louis. It ended with that long-awaited first official home run (although he hit seven in Spring Training) as an Angel; a wait that was so excruciatingly long and drawn-out, it reminded me of the similarly long...
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May 06, 2012
Struggling Angels slugger Albert Pujols predicts he'll bounce back,
shrugs off boos.
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May 07, 2012
Rob Lazlo and Adam Stevinson of GuysGirl debate on the week’s top storylines in baseball
We’re a month into the 2012 MLB season, and we’ve already seen a perfect game and a no-hitter. Albert Pujols is hitting .194 and has the same number of home runs as Jamie Moyer. The greatest closer of all-time, Mariano Rivera, tore his ACL and is done for the year, further weakening...
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May 07, 2012
@Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2-2) @ Minnesota Twins (7-20)Pitching Probables: LAA – Jered Weaver (12-17, 1.61 ERA) MIN – Francisco Liriano (0-4, 9.97 ERA)Game Info: 5:10 PM PT; TV - Fox Sports West; Radio - KLAA 830
First thing I want to address, this is something that's been itching in the back of my mind for some time, but HOLY HELL WHY IN THE WORLD DOES EVERYONE...
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May 09, 2012
If you’re like me, you’re thoroughly disappointed with your first round draft choice in this year’s fantasy baseball draft. Thankfully, the season is only a month old. However, it’s hard not to think that this nonsense could perpetuate… So who’s the biggest first round disaster?
Albert Pujols -Albert’s stats are absolutely grotesque. He’s done nothing. Absolutely...
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May 07, 2012
The May 7th, 2012 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels ...
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May 09, 2012
We are now into May there have been several surprises this baseball season. To the surprise of most people, the Dodgers are in first place in the NL West. This is almost as crazy as Albert Pujols not hitting a homerun in the month of April, but oh wait… that happened…
So how are the Dodgers having all of this success? Well, a large part of that is due to Matt Kemp. Most people...
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May 08, 2012
Photo Credit: Marianne O'Leary
Although baseball is well underway and the season is chugging along as usual, there are a number of absolute studs that have been seriously underperforming. Obviously everybody and their mother knows of Albert Pujols’ struggles, but Jose Bautista and Robinson Cano are also putting up duds on the regular nowadays. Moving down the totem pole a...
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May 07, 2012
I had a dream. In this dream, I negotiated a contract where I would be paid beyond my useful years for doing absolutely nothing at all. Once any talent I had was completely gone, instead of living off my pension or social security, I would get paid a ridiculously large sum of money for my “personal services,” but only if I chose to accept it. I mean, you never know. It’s...
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May 07, 2012
Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder, Mark Teixeira, Jose Bautista, Ryan Howard, Miguel Cabrera, Dan Uggla, Adrian Gonzalez, Paul Konerko.
Nice group, yeah? Those are 9 of the 10 leaders in HR from 2009-2011.
Pujols, Fielder, Teixeira, Howard, Cabrera, Uggla.
Listed there are 6 of the 7 players to hit at least 30 HR in every season from 2009 through 2011.
The player not mentioned in both...
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