Not at all. I've respected Pujols for pretty much ever. Dude is not only one of the 10 best baseball players ever, but also does tremendous community work. I felt much worse cheering for Edmonds. Like I said, it's just seems odd. No doubt he is one of premier players of all time. I also have a concern (and probably way off base here) that he will lose the fire now that he won his second title. He really does not have much left he needs to accomplish from a personal standpoint. way off base Yeah, Albert Pujols has a lot of pride in everything that he does. And as Tim mentioned, his charity work is something he's extremely passionate about and I doubt he'd let his reputation on the field go to crap. He's a role model and he knows it, and at this point I'm pretty sure he (humbly) knows he's arguably one of the greatest hitters in history and probably would like to stay that way. If he's going to fizzle out, it's lunacy to think he does it intentionally.