Pujols

[GYBE]

24 hours away from his supposed deadline, Pujols might be starting his last season in St. Louis.

With NY and Boston having star 1st basemen already, I have to think we'd be one of the favourites to land Albert. Jon Heyman had a tweet where a rival executive expected a 10 year, $275 million contract offer from the Cubs if he hits free agency.

Thoughts?

[SportsWorld]

Jon Heyman said the Cubs were preparing to give Pujols "the A-Rod deal" as soon as he hits free agency (10 years, 300 million). I know we have a s***load of bad contracts but I'd still be all for this. Pujols will be 32 next season and is still the best player in the game and doesn't look to be declining anytime soon. Only concern I have is if Pujols is really 31 right now like he claims. If he's actually 35 or something like this right now, this contract becomes an abomination.

[Jeffster81]

My guess it will take something like 10/300 to get it done with Pujols. King Albert wants to be the highest paid (after so many years of giving St. Lou a "hometown discount".)

I want Albert Pujols in a Cub uniform, but I cannot allow myself to have the thought. Mike Hampton (I'm glad the Rockies save the Cubs on that) Mike Piazza are a couple of names that were close to being Cubs that ended up going elsewhere at the last second. I do not want another heart break.

With that said the Cards have acquired guys like Brock, Ozzie Smith, McGee, McGwire, Rolen, Carpenter, Wainwright, Edmonds, Holliday and the list goes on in the past for little to nothing of note. To potential watch them having to like the best and most complete hitter of the past 50 years walk for nothing more then a couple of draft picks would be beyond beautiful to me.

With that said I still expect to see the Cards somehow re-sign King Al.

[SportsWorld]

Yep I don't see Pujols going anywhere but if he does, Chicago makes the most sense for him. We have an opening at 1st base and it's quite the situation. A chance to end a 100 year drought.

[Howling Mad]

Even Pujols can recognize that winning one in Chicago with the Cubs is 100x better than winning all ten years of that, would-be, 10 years - 275 million in St. Louis.

[Howling Mad]

...and Yes, I'd love to have him. Love. To. Have. Him. I'd take him at 10 years - 300 million. Heck, we gave Soriano the dump truck, give Pujols the cargoship.

[ChronicKerr]

As long as he leaves St. Louis all together, I'm happy. As far as 10 years/300 mil, I don't see Ricketts making that kind of crazy offer but we do need a 1B. I can definately see us making some sort of an offer but 300 mil? I don't think so.

[Howling Mad]

I really don't see money as an object here. Chicago is Chicago. It's not St. Louis and its not Kansas City. The money is there.

Besides the money we're talking about the potential best-player-to-ever-play-the-game. Not a 5 tool prospect, not a good player, not a franchise player, not an MVP player, not just a HOFer, but THE BEST. Does that have a price?

I know he's 31, but 30HR and 100RBI is do-able for another 7-8 years. Heck Ripken was hitting 15 HR into his 40's.

[ChronicKerr]

Has Rickets shown us anything that makes you believe he is willing to pony up massive money like that? He's slashed payroll (slightly) the past 2 seasons. Perhaps he's waiting for next year to throw his coming out party, who knows. I would love to steal him away from St. Louis and would hope at the very least we could drive the price up to them.

[Howling Mad]

Actually everything I've seen from Ricketts and the fam, both public and behind the scenes, suggest a strong move to increase profit. But the Cub fan in me believes his fandom will come around. Somewhere in there he realizes winning is the biggest catalyst to more profit.

[SportsWorld]

What other team that can pony up the money that we can is in need of a first baseman? The Yankees have Tex and A-Rod locked into the 1B (and soon DH) positions. Boston has Adrian Gonzalez. The Mets have Ike Davis. Phillies have Ryan Howard. This just makes too much sense. We have an expiring Pena and money to spend. I think it's either Pujols stays in St. Louis or comes here. I'm leaning towards him staying just because I can't see him in anything other than a Cardinals jersey. This is like LeBron 2.0 so I'm not about to get my hopes up though.

[mattbulls]

After a Summer of dealing with the LeBron drama, I don't even want to pay attention to the Pujols drama until it's time for stuff to happen.

[Posey H8er]

Pujols is probably the only guy in the league who you even consider giving this kind of money. he is consistently a top-3 players every season and hasn't slowed down.

[GodkimNoah]

#PUJOLS #CUBS #ISHAPPENING

[Fukudome1]

After a Summer of dealing with the LeBron drama, I don't even want to pay attention to the Pujols drama until it's time for stuff to happen.

thank youuuuu

[IbreakNeckZ101]

After a Summer of dealing with the LeBron drama, I don't even want to pay attention to the Pujols drama until it's time for stuff to happen.

well said.. however i really don't think we're getting pooholes.. hes a cardinal for life