Albert Pujols: “I’m Suing NotGraphs Too.”

Piggybacking on Albert Pujols’s decision to sue former host of “American Bandstand” Jack Clark for declaring on the radio that he “knows for a fact” that Pujols used steroids, the Angels star has decided to sue NotGraphs as well, for this post by Carson from last October, which stated:

[I]t’s entirely within the realm of possibility that Pujols played a not insignificant portion of the 2012 MLB season sans an effing knee.

Indeed, the NotGraphs post showed an enhanced photo of Pujols’s lower body, where you could see that his knee was entirely missing. Said Pujols:

I’ve said time and time again that I have two knees. I’ve been tested hundreds of times throughout my career and never once has a test come back showing that I have only one. It was irresponsible and reckless for Carson Cistulli to have falsely accused me of missing a knee. My faith in Jesus Christ, and my respect for this game are too important to me. I would never be able to look my kids in the eye if I only had one knee. Because they are short and I need to kneel and people with one knee can’t really kneel.

I am currently in the process of taking legal action against NotGraphs. I am going to send a message that you cannot act in a reckless manner, like they have, and get away with it. My hope is mostly that they stop posting about people’s mustaches. Only Jesus Christ can judge the quality of people’s mustaches.

NotGraphs is vigorously defending the action.