Albert Pujols - El Hombre- Stan Musial
Check out this quote from Albert Pujols regarding his nickname, El Hombre. Apparantly Albert doesn’t want to be called El Hombre anymore out of respect for Stan “the man” Musial.
“I don’t want to be called that,” Pujols said. “There is one man that gets that respect, and that’s Stan Musial. He’s the Man. He’s the Man in St. Louis. And I know ‘El Hombre’ means ‘The Man’ in Spanish. But Stan is The Man. You can call me whatever else you want, but just don’t call me El Hombre.”
No dis-respect to Stan Musial, but Albert Pujols (el hombre) is the man around St. Louis now. Albert Pujols made this claim to the media asking them not to call him El Hombre. So what should we call him as a nickname? The Machine?