Evanston: God and Deidre Pujols
Evanston: God and Deidre Pujols
This morning I chanced upon an article about an interview with Deidre Pujols, the wife of Albert Pujols, which regardless whether you believe in God or not or which one(s) is so egotistically warped it has stayed with me all day.
For those of you who do not live in the United States and Canada, which constitute the world as defined by baseball’s World Series, Albert Pujols is a baseball player of exceptional ability, probably the best hitter of his generation, who has played the ten years of his career to date for the Saint Louis Cardinals. Mr. Pujols became a free agent after the recently completed season during which he was instrumental in the Cardinals winning the aforementioned “World” Series.
Considering that you don’t live in the “World”, I’m not quite certain where the rest of you do live; but then England has something of the same problem these days knowing whether they are in Europe.
Being a free agent means that Mr. Pujols was able to offer his considerable talents to any baseball team; and after due consideration accepted $254 million dollars for ten years with the Los Angeles Angels rather than take $210 million to remain in Saint Louis.
These are not misprints. We’re talking about a quarter of a billion U.S. dollars, which amazingly is only the third biggest contract in baseball history. The other two both went to Alex Rodriguez, who performs pretty well with the New York Yankees.
Many in Saint Louis felt disappointed and betrayed by Mr. Pujols’ decision. Hence his wife talked about it on radio.
“When it all came down,” Deidre Pujols said, “I was mad. I was mad at God because I felt like all the signs that had played out through the baseball field, our foundation, our restaurant, the Down Syndrome Center, my relationships, my home, my family close. I mean we had no reason, not one reason, to want to leave.”
When you have happened to marry a man who makes a fortune playing a game, perhaps it is not unreasonable to believe that you are one of God’s chosen and become irritated when He tries to chisel you out of forty million bucks. Even though you aren’t exactly needy. I checked. Albert Pujols made $89,000,000 during his ten years with the Cardinals.
Mrs. Pujols concluded, “It is just like God to put us on a team called the Angels.”
Tuesday, December 13, 2011