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Backe wakes the sleeping Pujols

I’m going to officially nominate Brandon Backe for Cardinals MVP now. What a fool. So if you hadn’t heard, before last nights game in batting practice, Backe and Pujols had a little ‘confrontation’ regarding the play at the plate from the game before. Backe apparently is not a member of the Albert Pujols Club,

“[I was] coming off the field and he approached me,” Backe said. “I don’t know. It’s apparent that we don’t like each other. That’s OK. There’s plenty of people I don’t like in this game. It doesn’t matter. It’s baseball. It’s the way it goes. The competition between he and I just escalated and it’s OK. It’s no big deal. This is what makes it fun.”

Competition? What competition? Albert is 3-10 lifetime off of Backe with 3 HR’s and 3 Walks… Albert owns you Brandon.

So everyone in sports knows that the worst thing you can do to a “superstar” of Albert’s caliber is fire him up. He awoke the sleeping giant. Pujols looked to be on a mission the entire game and drilled 2 bombs in the final few innings. They were no doubters. The Astros bullpen is thanking Brandon Backe I’m sure. Take a look at this slide, looks clean to me.

Ok, so moving on. Albert and the Cardinals improve to 7-2 and in 1st place in the Central. Pujols now is on pace for another career year. Keep on hitting AP! What are the odds that this little “situation” isn’t over.