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Originally Posted by Dom1
It doesn't matter if Bonds breaks Aaron's record or not. Pujols will shatter it. The guy is amazing. In the second half of the 04' season, they said that he only swung through a total of nine pitches in the last 70 games. The true sign of a great player is that they make everybody else around them better, and he does that. I will have to say that my favorite is Eckstein though. Everybody underestimates the 5'8" shortstop. He simply makes plays and gets on base anyway he can.
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My feelings are the same about Pujols, he is other worldly; the guy is not mortal, it is scary. And the interviews with him are fantastic (he is so humble) and he spends a lot of time doing charity work. Not only does he make his team look better but he makes the city of St. Louis and this region look better. You should see the 'Pujols' jerseys at even the Redbirds games, it is very cool.

I love to see it. He needs to be the record holder and make all this contraversy about bad attitudes and steriods go away, all that just sucks to watch (but I know it is a reality). Every kid should be watching Pujols in my opinion.
Why did the Angels (who I followed for years) let Eckstein go? I am all that much happier to have him here with the 'good guys,' but I am not sure why the Angels with normally a good managment team let him go.
I have ALWAYS (since I was a kid) seen the Cards as the 'guys in the white hats,' the good guys even against the Dodgers. I think I was a Lou Brock and Bob Gibson fan very early. the Cardinals 'play by the rules' unlike how I think Steinbrenner and other owners do not. The Cards maybe the best franchise in all of baseball in my humble opinion, if not one of the best pro franchises ever. I really hope they can do it this year, it is time. The last two years have made me so sad the way it turned out for them after having such incredible seasons, and I was aboslutely torn when the Red Sox beat them (Sox are one of my top two with Cards). But, I was VERY happy to see the Sox do it. For me it was a very fun run for 2/3 years to see some teams win things that I actual watched and cared about...Texas Longhorns (BaseB and FB), White Sox, Red Sox, Pistons...blah blah blah...