Pujols on Steroids
Pujols to world: I’m clean
Devout in his inspiration for why he plays the game and proud of the perspiration he has put into how he plays the game, Albert Pujols says his record-setting power this season is a welcome testament to the type of player he is:
A clean one.
“You’re not going to find anything out about me,” the Cardinals first baseman and reigning National League MVP said Wednesday during a far-reaching interview with several members of the media. “They can test me every day if they want. I don’t care.”
“At the same time, yeah, you feel happy to do (this),” Pujols continued. “I know a lot of people have approached me - friends, (and) I heard about it - that people thought that I was on steroids and some stuff like that. Now that they do the testing and I put up these numbers, it’s good. It’s good to prove that because I work hard for it. I don’t need any type of things like that to help me out with my game. I just take the blessing that the good Lord has given me to perform, to glorify his name and to help out my team to win.”
Pujols online Bonds seems to be the real thing. Also with Major Leauge testing for steroids now, Pujols is confirmed to be steroids free.
He said Wednesday that he had watched Bonds’ television program on ESPN and that it is “really sad the life that he is living.” Pujols went on to say he never wants “to live that life like that. If I had to live a life like that better to quit this game because that’s not what it is all about.”
He went on to explain how he plays the game for God, for family and for team, and therefore is steeled against accusations and other arrows. His aspirations not to be detoured, nor achievements undermined.
“I want to be the best player that ever plays baseball,” Pujols said at the conclusion of his talk Wednesday. “Is that going to happen? I don’t know. … I don’t read the future. God only reads the future. I want to be in the Hall of Fame. I want to do that. I also want to win 10 championship rings if I can do that.”
[tags]Albert Pujols, Pujols, steroids, Bonds[/tags]
It’s ashame that everyone is under suspicion now in baseball. Pujols just flat hits everything. He’s like V. Guerrero in that they golf homers or hit them in their eyes. I’ve got nothing bad to say about Pujols.
Comment by sf49ers80 — May 28, 2006 @ 7:13 am
It is terrible what Steroids and Bonds have done to sports and the players that pour hours of sweat into being the best.
Comment by CrimsonLight - Blogs — May 28, 2006 @ 4:13 pm
There has never and will never be another player like SIR albert pujols…he is a leader and loves the game of baseball, because of this i believe there is no way he used steroids. Bonds should be ashamed of what he has done to baseball. Just because one man who needed steroids to become what he is today doesn’t mean a person can’t be what Albert Pujols is. Pujols defines the word baseball
Comment by biegel — June 14, 2006 @ 7:22 pm
Please, Pujols is a juicer. Get over it. Just follow the line of cheaters, and it leads right to him. Canseco>Giambi>McGwire>Pujols. Coincidence that he came along just as McGwire the Cheater was retiring in St Louis? I think not. Coincidence that his personal trainer was named by Jason Grimsley as someone giving steroids and HGH to other players? I think not. Open your eyes!
Comment by Tom — October 24, 2006 @ 1:01 pm
Oh get over yourself Tom. Got any evidence, or just loose speculation? Open YOUR eyes, please.
Comment by Stu — December 10, 2007 @ 9:15 pm