{"id":5620,"date":"2011-12-08T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:10:39","slug":"breakups-broken-hearts-and-baseball-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/5620","title":{"rendered":"Breakups, Broken Hearts, and Baseball Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let me start by saying one thing: Watching the face of the 11 year old that wrote the following piece as he found out Albert Pujols <\/a>stuck it to the Cardinals<\/del>\u00a0signed with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim<\/a> was the saddest. Thing. Ever. \u00a0The mix of emotions that ran across his face ranged from shock to pure contempt. \u00a0After he read the news, he simply walked to his desk, head hung low, put his head down and pulled his hood over his head. \u00a0He never spoke a single word.<\/p>\n

I instantly understood where he was coming from. \u00a0Even though I am more than double his age, I too suffered devastation this off season when I found out that the Astros<\/a> were leaving the National League<\/a>. \u00a0I can only imagine the feeling inside of the young boy’s chest was the same as mine- an explosion of the heart muscle.<\/p>\n

The following was written by Brendan “Bubba” Anderson. \u00a0He is an 11 year old, die-hard St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> fan. \u00a0Through the school year we have forged a bond through the highest baseball has to offer- His Cards and their World Series victory- as well as the lowest- My Astros and their franchise worst 106 losses. \u00a0After watching him struggle with coming to terms with what Albert did, I encouraged him to put his thoughts to paper. \u00a0These are his words. \u00a0And before you try to shrug this off as, “just a little kid who doesn’t understand baseball” I think you need to remember why it is you love baseball.<\/p>\n

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BREAKUPS, BROKEN HEARTS, and BASEBALL CONTRACTS<\/p>\n

By: Brendan “Bubba” Anderson<\/p>\n

A couple days ago some baseball franchises were trying to get Albert Pujols. Those teams were the Miami Marlins<\/a>, Chicago Cubs<\/a>, and St. Louis Cardinals.\u00a0 The two teams that were most interested in Albert Pujols were the Marlins and Cardinals. Miami\u2019s offer was $220 million over 10 years. St. Louis\u2019s offer was over that offer and the Miami Marlins were already leaving the Pujols negotiating table.\u00a0 From that point on it looked like the St. Louis Cardinals had Albert Pujols back. But…then the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim came in on the bidding\u00a0and offered him $250 million over 10 years.\u00a0 And a day after that offer came out, Albert Pujols went and signed with the Angels on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Considering that I\u2019m a St. Louis Cardinals fan, it wasn’t a good day. I have always been a St. Louis Cardinals fan and I\u2019ll always be a St. Louis Cardinals fan. But I\u2019ll always be a Albert Pujols fan, too. Though I thought that he was going to stay with the Cardinals I guess I was wrong. I also thought he wasn’t in it for the money; guess I was wrong about that, too. I guess there\u2019s nobody in baseball that isn’t in it for the money. I thought Albert Pujols was different.\u00a0 I thought he was in it to play baseball, not to get paid. I thought baseball was supposed to be a sport- not a job. I thought baseball was for fun, and not about worrying to get paid 25 million a year. I believe that Albert Pujols will do well as an Angel; I just really wish he was still a Cardinal.
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  Let me start by saying one thing: Watching the face of the 11 year old that wrote the following piece as he found out Albert Pujols stuck it to the Cardinals\u00a0signed with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim was the saddest. Thing. Ever. \u00a0The mix of emotions that ran across his face ranged from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1780,6,11,13],"tags":[2974,2975,2976,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}