Does Anyone Impress Pujols?
October 13, 2006 by Geoff Young
Filed under Personalities, Playoffs
Apparently not. From the New York Daily News (via Baseball Musings), Albert Pujols had this to say about Mets starter Tom Glavine after the latter shut down Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the NLCS on Thursday night:
I say he wasn’t good at all. We just didn’t get some opportunities and that’s it. . . . (Glavine did the) same thing that he always does. Throw a changeup, fastball and that was it. I just think we should’ve done a better job than we did.
This sounds a lot like what Pujols said after the San Diego Padres’ Chris Young gave him fits in the NLDS:
He’s not difficult at all. He’s just a pitcher, like everyone else.
It’d be nice to see Pujols give the opponent a little credit for a job well done. Then again, Pujols is such a great player that probably everybody he faces seems inferior. Plus, he’s not getting paid to be classy; he’s getting paid to knock the snot out of the baseball, which he generally does.
On a related note, is it arrogance if you can back it up?
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