It's Understandable That Fans Are "Suspicious" of Albert Pujols and His Stats

The American League defeated the National League 4-3 in the 80th All-Star game Tuesday night at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

The 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, tossed the ceremonial first pitch to the St. Louis Cardinals hometown slugger and leading All-Star vote-getter, Albert Pujols, to celebrate the Midsummer Classic.

St. Louis is a rabid baseball city, and no one player is more beloved in the “Gateway to the West” than the 29-year-old Pujols.

“Prince Albert,” an eight-time All-Star selection and four-time Silver Slugger Award winner, has dominated the 2009 season to date and numerous baseball analysts believe that he is a legitimate contender to become the first batter to win the Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski achieved the feat in 1967.

Unfortunately, because steroids have utterly ravaged the diamond for more than two decades, many onlookers are suspicious of Pujols and the numbers that he has compiled at the midpoint in the season.

“I can understand people being disappointed with A-Rod and Manny,” said Pujols of the New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Manny Ramirez, the most recent elite players pinched for using performance enhancing drugs. “But just because Manny made a mistake, now I have to pay? Just because A-Rod made a mistake, now I have to pay? Oh, guilt by association? That’s wrong.”

The two-time NL MVP, and the man that the Sporting News nominated last month as the “Greatest Player Today,” continued to voice frustration toward his blind detractors.

“For people to be suspicious of me because of the year I’m having and for people to say I just haven’t been caught, that makes me angry and disappointed. I would never do any of that crap. You think I am going to ruin my relationship with God just because I want to get better in this game? You think I’m going to ruin everything because of steroids?”

Pujols is currently hitting .332 and he has recorded 32 home runs and 87 RBI in only 307 appearances at the plate.

Baseball desperately needs a clean superstar who can help restore integrity to the sport.

Sadly, because fans have been lied to by the players’ ad nausea and letdown by their cheating ways time and again, it is understandable that many fans presume “The Machine's" numbers are as real as Pam Anderson’s tits.

“I want to be the guy people look up to,” said Pujols, who doesn’t booze or smoke. “I want to be the person who represents God, represents my family, and represents the Cardinals the right way. So many people can’t wait until I do something negative. I can’t understand it.”

If Pujols wants to vent his grievances, he should chastise the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Donald Fehr.

Fehr, a disgusting weasel who is the man most responsible for the cancellation of the 1994 World Series, enabled the steroid culture to prosper and grow, and because of his negligence the reputation of every current ballplayer has been compromised.

“I want to be the poster boy in baseball,” stated Pujols. “Just give me the chance.”

Thanks to Fehr and the dreaded steroid era, Pujols will never receive that “chance.”

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