Albert Pujols Career Implosion Accelerates During 2013 Season - 7 Years Too Soon For Pujols ad The Angels $240 Million

The ugly downfall and implosion of Albert Pujols's career is in full swing in 2013!

Albert hit an embarrassing .115 in the past 7 days, with only 3 hits and no homeruns, and hasn't even been playing in the field most of the year. He blames his early move to DH on a case of bad plantar fasciitis, but we think that Albert's advanced age and declining skills have forced the Angels to make the decision to make Pujols the most overpaid Designated Hitter in the history of the game, in only his second year of a 10 year $240 million contract.

Pujols definitely regrets his decision to leave St Louis, and says that he is still "bitter" about the way the front office handled Albert leaving (stabbing the Cardinals team and fans in the back), saying that the Cardinals front office made him look like the bad guy, when in reality, it was Albert's greed that made him look like the bad guy. He told St Louis that "it wasn't about the money" then called the Cardinals' (more than generous) $200 million offer an "insult", before taking the huge contract in LA.

If Pujols would have just told St Louis the truth, that it actually WAS ALL about the money, then Cardinals fans would not have been as angry with him, but he lied to us, so if anyone has the right to be bitter, it is St Louis Cardinals fans.

Albert may say that he is still bitter, but I bet if Albert actually could take it all back, and still be playing for the Cardinals, he would do it in a second.

I think the only thing I'm bitter about is the way the front office handled it a little bit. I think they should have handled it a little better. I'm bitter about that. They tried to make me look like I was a bad guy. But that's OK. I'm a big boy. Besides that, I also understand there's nothing I can do. Even if I could take it back, I'm happy where I am right now. My goal is to focus and concentrate on what I need to do to help this ballclub win.

Albert has even been trying to get the LA Angels to Wear a Stan Musial No. 6 Patch on their jerseys, probably to try and regain some of the mojo he had while playing in St Louis, which has disintegrated into thin air since leaving the Cardinals.

As a Cardinals fan, we loved Pujols while he was here, but we knew hat his skills were on the decline the last couple ears he played in St Louis.

If Pujols would have stayed in St Louis, Cardinals fans would have stuck by him during his decline - only because of what Albert had already given to St Louis baseball fans. We would have kept him on a pedestal, despite a large contract with not much return, and he would have retired as Cardinals royalty, and a legend in St Louis - and definitely would have even had a statue outside Bush Stadium.

Ever since Albert spit in the face of St Louis and Cardinals fans everywhere, and signed a huge contract with the Angles, that even Albert himself knew he wouldn't be able to fulfill in his wildest dreams, he insulted St Louis and will soon be forgotten by the best fans in Baseball, with no statue, no retired jersey, not even a plaque on the wall to remember him by.

All of the great players that the Cardinals continue to develop and bring to the Major League every year will soon overshadow the memory of Albert Pujols, and the accomplishments he had while here. Albert Pujols legacy will be that of an overpaid, under producing, greedy baby who played for the Angels - and not very well at that.

Angels - Pujols Hex: Pujols Stinks So Angels Release Bobby Abreu?

That makes a lot of sense.. Release the player who is not the problem.. The Angels released Bobby Abreu to make up for how bad they (mainly Albert Pujols) are playing. At the time of his release by the Angels, Bobby Abreu had a better batting average, more RBI's, and less strikeouts than Pujols, all while playing in around half the games that Albert had played in up to that point. The LA Angels would be fer better off getting rid of Albert Pujols, especially with all of the negative energy that will continue coming from the midwest, and the hundreds of thousands of the people hoping that Pujols fails - badly. We have seen people around St Louis burn their Pujols jerseys, and completely turn on the money-grubbing Pujols. We have even spoken with one convinced former Pujols fan who says that he put a strong hex on Albert Pujols and his entire new ball club, as the former Pujols fan tuned in to catch the Angels play in the first game of their season against Kansas City. Each game the hex on Pujols and the Angels is renewed with a wild pre-game ritual, and we would have to agree that the Pujols hex seems to be working very well! Albert Pujols is playing so terribly that the Angels already have him batting DH, or maybe Albert just wants to get used to the role he will play for the next 3 years. (We all know Albert Pujols will not last another 9 years, and will most likely be out of the game in 3 years)

When a team with a $151 million payroll and World Series aspirations starts the season eight games under .500 after 20 games, it's only a matter of time before something like this happens. Yeah, you can preach patience for a while, trust in your players' track records, but at some point you're obligated to step in. Friday, it was general manager Jerry Dipoto who had seen enough. In conjunction with manager Mike Scioscia, Dipoto made two bold moves, acting more quickly -- but no less decisively -- than you would have expected after a start this absurdly bad. The bombshell came after Friday's 3-2 loss in Cleveland, the team's second walk-off defeat in a row, when the Angels promoted speedy outfield prospect Mike Trout and bid goodbye to veteran Bobby Abreu, swallowing more than $8 million in the process. Before that, the Angels shuffled a couple of key roles in the bullpen, swapping youngster Jordan Walden for veteran lefty Scott Downs at closer. We still don't know how that will work out, because other members of the Angels' bullpen blew yet another game before their roles arose. We'll begin to learn Saturday how the bolder move plays out. Last year, the Angels waited until June to swallow a bitter, multi-million-dollar pill, releasing pitcher Scott Kazmir after getting virtually nothing for the $12 million it paid him. The fact they waited only three weeks to part with Abreu tells you a little something about expectation levels around this team. You rarely see shake-ups of this magnitude in April, but you rarely see teams with this kind of talent play this poorly for this long. Was Abreu the reason the Angels couldn't get on base or move a runner to save their lives? After just 24 at-bats, he had virtually nothing to do with it. Angels fans have long since turned on Abreu, but let's not forget, he was a good -- borderline great -- player and was one of the few Angels willing to take a walk for years. Will Trout resurrect this team's hopes all by himself? This team had better hope the 20-year-old doesn't think that's his role. The Angels were so upset at Albert Pujols' slump, they released one player and demoted another. But sometimes the journey from 1,000 games back -- or, at least, it feels like it -- begins with a single step. Add up the Kazmir and Abreu moves and former general manager Tony Reagins effectively burned more than $20 million of Arte Moreno's money in less than a year, but Moreno has no one but himself to blame. It was his decision four years ago to go with a two-party system in which he and manager Mike Scioscia shared power while the GM, Reagins, served largely as a figurehead. Dipoto didn't create this situation, but he's charged with cleaning it up. The task might prove more difficult than he originally thought.