this is just a bit about the way i feel about albert, but i think most dont give credit where it is due

derrick goold linked to a column by jonah keri detailing how people take albert for granted, and he also felt this was the same thing that happened with musial, they are so consistent that when they do extraordinary things they become ordinary

this totally expresses the way i feel about both, i feel musial always has received less recognition than he deserved, and i am seeing the same thing happen with pujols

i do feel it is their metronomic excellence that plagues them both

their is a movie that reminds me of pujols, and though i am sure this movie may remind many of pujols, it is only a certain part that always makes me think of albert. the movie is the natural (big surprise there huh!), but the scene in question may not be as simple to think of. it isnt him knocking the cover off the ball, or hitting the game winner, but instead is in the locker room.

Standing at the sink are manager pop fisher and his coach, with pop saying he wanted to win the pennant more than anything in his life, and if he had he would have been a farmer

you then see roy hobbs, and he talks about how great life on a farm is, pop looks at roy and said his mother thought he should be a farmer, roy says his father wanted him to be a ballplayer

pop says, "Well, you are better than any player I ever had," then pauses, and says, "and you're the best goddamn hitter I ever saw. Suit up."(and this part always makes me think of pujols, and maybe to a bit less extense musial)

if their has ever been a player more close to that scene than pujols, i havent seen him (granted, i never saw cobb, hornsby, ruth, gehrig, williams, musial, mays, aaron, mantle, robinson, banks or mccovey) but having seen schmidt, ripken, griffey jr, bonds, arod, ichiro, and gwynn, only pujols fills that for me

some of you may be older and feel aaron was the guy, or williams, or dimaggio, or if even older maybe josh gibson, but i will take albert over all others