Get That Man Some Cheese!

Albert Pujols needs some cheese to go with his whine! The latest? Pujols is whining about not winning the Most Valuable Player award. He says the MVP award should go to someone who made the playoffs. Pujols is quickly becoming one of the more annoying, whining professional athletes.

First he starts his whining after Game 1 of the NLCS where he criticizes Tom Glavine for not pitching well in the game. Glavine threw seven shutout innings, giving up only four hits and got the win. Pujols went 0-for-3 with a walk in the game. Clearly if Glavine didn’t pitch well, Pujols flat out sucked. For him, it was just whining – or, really, being a bit too arrogant.

Then, a few days later, after game four, Pujols started saying he had a sore hamstring. He said he wasn’t 100% and that was hampering his swing, which is why he didn’t play well. Sounds to me like some more whining and a major excuse. By the way, at that point in the series (which was tied 2-2) Pujols had still failed to drive in a run. He ended up with one RBI in the entire series.

Now, he is complaining about not winning the MVP. He says Ryan Howard doesn’t deserve it because he didn’t make the playoffs. That’s crap. If it wasn’t for Ryan Howard, the Phillies probably wouldn’t have won more than 70 games and wouldn’t have sniffed the playoffs down the stretch. While that was going on, the Cardinals were doing everything they could to miss the playoffs. Howard’s team actually finished with a better record than the Cardinals.

Pujols is one of the best players in the game. He is a multi-millionaire at the age of 26. He just won a World Series. Get a clue man. Your life is pretty good. Quit the whining and play baseball. It’s a team game. Who cares if you weren’t MVP this year? You won the World Series. I mean, isn’t that what playing is all about?

Two words for Pujols…GROW UP!

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