It seems Albert Pujols is rather upset about not getting in the All-Star game last night in San Francisco. His own manager Tony LaRussa didn’t put him in the game last night with two outs and the bases loaded down 5-4. LaRussa opted to have Aaron Rowand bat for the second time in the game and he flied out to right field to end the game. Pujols said after the game, “It’s the All-Star Game. He can do what he wants.” “He does whatever he wants. If I wasn’t expecting to play, I wouldn’t have come up here.” Ouch Albert! Tony has pissed players off before…(coughing Scott Rolen)…so we will see what happens with this ordeal. I don’t think you want to piss off one of the top five players in Major League Baseball do you Tony?

Alex Rodriguez doesn’t appear to be cooling off any time soon. A-Rod hit his 13th and 14th home runs of the season last night in a 10-8 loss against Tampa Bay. Rodriguez tied Albert Pujols record for the most home runs in the month of April and it’s possible he could contend with the overall record of 20 in a month by Sammy Sosa. A-Rod is on absolute fire, but his 8-10 Yankees aren’t at all.

The St. Louis Cardinals suffered a huge setback today after Albert Pujols strained his right oblique muscle. The injury occurred in the second inning today against the Chicago Cubs when Pujols was chasing a pop fly ball off the bat of Aramis Ramirez. Pujols will be reevaluated tomorrow, but is expected to go on the DL and could be gone for up to six weeks. Pujols is having a MONSTER year with 25 home runs and 65 rbi’s to date. It’s a shame this had to happen because I want so bad for someone to break Bonds home run record and Albert is just the man who could concur such a record. Hurry back Albert!

Albert Pujols broke the record for most home runs in April yesterday in a win over the Washington Nationals.  In the eighth inning Albert blasted his 14th home run in April and put the Cardinals in the lead for good 2-1.  The St. Louis slugger hit the 411 foot bomb off Jon Rauch.  Pujols also tied the St. Louis team record for April with his 32 major league leading RBI’s.  Call me crazy, but I suspect Albert will hit another bomb today against Zach Day to further enhance what has been one hell of an April.