This isn’t an article about the deficiencies of Albert Pujols. This isn’t an article about the career of Albert Pujols. There are plenty of those. This is an article about the player he is now, and what that means to the Los Angeles Angels.
Tuesday night, I watched an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm. Throughout the play, I repeatedly saw the connection to the Angels. The White Horse, a symbol frequently mentioned. Traces of death. Confusion, not knowing where to turn or what to believe. Most important, no conviction.
Conviction is a word that largely has positive connotations, even though it essentially means the same thing as stubbornness.