This is a bonus post since I meant to write it a couple of days ago but didn't seem to make the time.
I was driving to work on Thursday and 'Someone like You' by Adele came on my Google Music. I really like this song and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Adele has some wicked pipes.
I had just read some articles regarding Albert Pujols heading to the Angels the previous day and they must have been still churning in my head. As the song played, I realized that the lyrics almost perfectly describe the feelings of Cardinal Nation after AP left. Many Cardinal fans are genuinely angry, but I think the heart of the matter is that we were in love with "El Hombre" and his legacy and we weren't ready for it to end. Not now, not ever.
Not that Pujols is perfect or even worth the money, but the legacy he could have had - to stand with Stan Musial forever in Cardinals lore and restore some character to pro sports which has been missing for a long time - was absolutely priceless.
In retrospect, the Cardinals will ultimately be better off without that ridiculous contract. They can resign Wainwright and Molina and the next great farmhand or two because of it. But for me, and the rest of Cardinal Nation, it wasn't over. And though we will try, we cannot hope to find someone like him.
Read the lyrics and think of Albert. If anyone has the skills to make this into a sideshow montage, I'd love to see it.
