Albert Pujols finally spoke to the media the other day about his “future” in St. Louis.  Did he give us any answers?  No.  But he said some very interesting things.  Albert is a very smart guy and he covers all his bases.  As some put it, you can pretty much hear what you want to hear.  But all in all, Albert didn’t give us much to go with.  The one thing he was confident about was that he wasn’t going to discuss his contract situation during the upcoming season.  Pujols is the definition of focus and attention to detail.  As Cardinal fans, we should be pumped that Albert wants to focus on the season and not on his contract.

So here were a few quotes from the evening.  This media discussion was from the Winter Warmup.

“When that time comes, if it’s taking a discount to make this organization better, I want to have a great organization to be in the playoffs every year if we can,” he said.

“Right now I still have a couple of years,” he said. “That’s something that I don’t need to worry about right now. When my time comes, I’ll deal with that. Right now, my job is to let my agent do the talking and I’ll go and prepare for baseball. We’re open. We’re open to talk about it. I can tell you one thing, when the season starts we ain’t talking anything about it. Because my focus is to help this organization to win, and that’s it.

“If it comes to that [free agency], then that’s fine. That’s the decision that they decide to make, and that’s it. Do I want to become a free agent? No, but if it happens, then I have to deal with it. I want to play baseball, so I have to deal with my free agency and go play either here or somewhere else.”

So what do you guys think?  With the addition of Matt Holliday to the Redbirds lineup for years to come, I have got to think El Hombre wants to stay a Cardinal for life.  He may take a small discount but the Cardinals have to know they can’t go small on Albert.  GO LARGE or GO HOME.  Hopefully the Cardinals will step up to the plate and give Albert Pujols the lifetime largest contract he deserves.