Griffin Changing Clippers' Image

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The second-year forward is already an NBA star even if he doesn't act like one

 

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Albert Pujols doesn't do much for me. He's already played 11 years and we missed much of that. Some folks go back to his time in high school wondering if he's older than what he claims. We might be getting him at age 39 for all we know, and what will he be like at 49 with the Angels still paying him?

 

OK, so he'll still be better than most of the Dodgers, but now his wife, Deidre, is on the radio. She says it was an insult that the Cardinals offered her husband only a five-year deal for $130 million. Who can live in St. Louis on $130 million after making probably as much the previous decade?

 

"When it all came down, I was mad," Mrs. Pujols told a St. Louis radio host. "I was mad at God because I felt like all the signs had been played out through the baseball field, our foundation, our restaurant, the Down Syndrome Center, my relationships, my home, my family close. I mean, we had no reason, not one reason to want to leave."

 

But they did for more money.

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