Apparently $25M doesn't go as far as it used to.

The city of St. Louis and primarily the front office of our hometown Cardinals have had the national spotlight on them for the past 4 days now.  It's situations like this that will define John Mozeliak and Bill Dewitt's careers here in St. Louis.  This is what they will be remembered for, how they handled the greatest player in the game and J-Mo's facial expression didn't seem as confident as the words he spoke about signing the future hall of famer.  You can tell they're all under a lot of scrutiny and that definitely isn't pushing them any faster to get a deal done it's only leading to more confusion and unanswered questions.  People act like Pujols is a free agent already, I hate thinking about seeing him in another jersey but if being the highest paid player is more important to him than winning than he's no longer El Hombre, he's no longer a legend here, he's just like the rest of the greedy athletes out there.