{"id":2961,"date":"2010-01-21T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2010-01-21T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:36:10","slug":"pujols-new-contract-with-be-huge-mcgwire-didnt-tell-us-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Pujols New Contract With be Huge; McGwire Didn’t Tell us Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Randy Gardner<\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem\u00a0 that the St. Louis Cardinals are\u00a0 having any problems, getting players and keeping them. This team is willing to shell out the bucks to put a winning team on the field and that showed with the $120 million deal\u00a0 for\u00a0 Matt Holliday.<\/p>\n

Remember, Albert Pujols will be coming up for negotiation soon and I can see that deal going in the $150 to $200 million range. That is unreal but that is what these guys generate in terms of attendance and money for these franchises. They would not be getting paid that kind of money of they didn’t generate it.<\/p>\n

What are your feelings\u00a0on the whole Mark McGwire\u00a0coming out? I have mixed\u00a0emotions. I am glad that he\u00a0finally came out and said that\u00a0he did it but I don’t think he\u00a0came all the way clean. Also, he did this because of the timing of having to face he St. louis fans and media.<\/p>\n

Maybe he was waiting for this moment but it just feels like he had to do it. Even though he said he was sorry, it doesn’t make it right. He should have just been honest from the beginning and explained what he did it, I think many more people would have been forgiving of his actions.<\/p>\n

Professional sports are a hard thing and to keep up at that level or to keep your body in every day game shape, you have to take care of it. The whole ideal of the drugs not helping him perform is crap.<\/p>\n

If you go from hitting one home run every 14 at bats to one every 7, its helping you, and if it only gives you a 1 percent advantage over someone else, that’s still an advantage\u2014especially in\u00a0 statistics.\u00a0 I look at it as cheating and all of his records should have an asterisk besides them or taken away. People cannot cheat in life, this is what will crumble society.<\/p>\n

Rams Should Go for Offense<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, the Rams season has come to an end and it could not have come soon enough. Like I had said near the end of the season, play for last place and get that number one draft pick.<\/p>\n

In a way, I was just kidding but in another way I was completely honest, and I think with the talent this team had this year it wasn\u2019t hard for them to lose. Now what will they\u00a0 do? Do they go offensively and get a Quarterback or a receiver or a lineman that can protect our QB or do they take the best player in the draft which is probably a defensive lineman.<\/p>\n

I say go offensively, like I said in my last column, with defense you can hold another team to no points but if you cant score what is the point, the score can only be 0-0. No matter what this team does, it has to be an improvement over this year. From what I can gather from all of the fans I have talked to so far, they are willing to give this team one or two more years of growth before they totally give up on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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