Before tonights game media addressed Tony Larussa about the Albert Pujols situation. Larussa commented and hit the nail on the head.
"You get a guy who's a hot competitor as soon as it's over, he's not happy about losing," La Russa said. "So he makes a statement. It's not a good statement. Glavine deserves credit. Now it gets blown up like he's some sort of disrespectful pro."
La Russa had a simple solution.
"The answer is, that player does not talk," La Russa said. "And he'll never get embarrassed, right? And they'll complain, say, ‘Oh, he won't talk to the press.' Somebody takes the guy right after the competition. They're very vulnerable to saying something."
Asked whether Pujols should have known better than to demean Glavine, La Russa shouted at a pair of reporters.
"No," he said. "You guys should know better than to make a big issue out of it. This guy is a great pro. That's what the answer is. Use common sense."
This is exactly what we were talking about earlier. Ask any competitor a question like that after a tough loss and your bound to get a knee jerk answer. I'm sure Pujols regrets the comments. But they were said. Deal with it and move on. Nice to see the Cardinals skipper stand up for el hombre.