Royals Milton Bradley: Angry Douchebag

**gblowfish** · 05-05-2010, 02:43 PM

Remember when the Mariners were here last week, and Milton Bradley was messing with the fans and acting a fool?

Story from last night's Chicago Tribune:

Milton Bradley pulls a Sammy Sosa on Mariners

Chicago fans can relate to Milton Bradley's latest episode in two ways. According to Seattle Times baseball reporter Geoff Baker, the former Cubs problem-child left the stadium in the middle of Tuesday's game after basically removing himself from the contest following a sixth-inning strikeout.

In his blog, Baker writes that Bradley returned to the dugout and told manager Don Wakamatsu something on the order of, "I'm done. I'm not helping the team." Baker reports:

Wakamatsu had Ryan Langerhans warm up immediately and followed Bradley into a tunnel between the dugout and clubhouse to talk him off the ledge and tell him not to quit on his teammates. At some point, Bradley was about to return to the dugout, but once he saw Langerhans playing left field in his place, left again and returned to his locker.

From there, he quickly packed and exited the stadium with the game still in progress.

Sosa's early departure from Wrigley Field during the final game of the 2004 season -- he wasn't in the lineup that day -- all but guaranteed his offseason trade from the Cubs. The Wrigley faithful still hasn't forgiven him. Bradley's troubles in Chicago last year culminated in his suspension for the rest of the season on Sept. 20.

He's hitting .214 with two homers for the Mariners, but was snapping out of his slump and in the cleanup spot in the lineup Tuesday. Meanwhile pitcher Carlos Silva, obtained by the Cubs in the swap of unwanted contracts, is 2-0 with a 2.90 ERA in five starts for Chicago.

Hoover · 05-05-2010, 02:52 PM

Best Trade Ever for the Cubs. I'll take Carlos Silva and Cash any day

Marcellus · 05-05-2010, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Hoover

Best Trade Ever for the Cubs. I'll take Carlos Silva and Cash any day

Unless you factor in that the off season they signed Bradley they traded Mark DeRosa who was their club house leader so they could go after Bradley because they wanted a LH bat.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

POND_OF_RED · 05-05-2010, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Hoover

Best Trade Ever for the Cubs. I'll take Carlos Silva and Cash any day

Definitely. I'm loving the Marlon Byrd pick up as well. If Ramirez and Lee can find their strokes this is going to be a damn good offensive team. They're just so incosistent right now. I'm liking this years team though.

Frazod · 05-05-2010, 03:20 PM

I sure was bummed when Chicago traded him.

siberian khatru · 05-05-2010, 03:21 PM

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**Tribal Warfare** · 05-05-2010, 03:21 PM

Did someone sink his battleship?

Taco John · 05-05-2010, 03:22 PM

Carlos Silva absolutely sucks.

seclark · 05-05-2010, 03:24 PM

bradley is nuts...
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ChiefMojo · 05-05-2010, 03:33 PM

When Bradley was acting like a a$$ during the Royals game the other week you could tell Ryan Lefebvre was just biting his lip. Frank White was just sitting there laughing about the situation. Frank wasn't laughing because he thought Bradley was being cute, but because Milton was and always has been one big douche bag that is horrible for baseball!

Demonpenz · 05-05-2010, 03:50 PM

he's one of the few people on earth that can hit a baseball. for that everyone puts up with his shit. dumb.

OleMissCub · 05-05-2010, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Taco John

Carlos Silva absolutely sucks.

98% of the time yes. Although this year he is 2-0 with 2.90 in 5 starts.

**gblowfish** · 05-06-2010, 10:59 AM

Mike Sweeney.....goes all Ted Haggard on us.
We love Milton, he's beautiful dag nab it!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-marinerslineup

SEATTLE (AP)—Milton Bradley(notes), baseball’s self-described bad guy, has asked his Seattle Mariners for help in dealing with what manager Don Wakamatsu says is “emotional stress” from personal issues.

Wakamatsu and general manager Jack Zduriencik said Wednesday that their fiery slugger is out indefinitely until he receives an outside assessment and a plan to address his issues.

“It’s come to a head,” Zduriencik said.

A day earlier, Bradley became angry for striking out twice and Wakamatsu removed him from a close game in the sixth inning because the manger thought he wasn’t fit to play anymore. Bradley left the stadium soon after. Several Mariners players described his mind set Tuesday night as “not good.”

Wednesday morning, Bradley called Wakamatsu to ask for a face-to-face meeting with him and Zduriencik. The 32-year-old then arrived at Safeco Field and told the leaders of his eighth team in 10 seasons, “I need your help.”

It was a startling admission from a player who publicly blamed Chicago’s fans and media for running him out of that city following his failed season with the Cubs in 2009.

“The fact he has stood up and asked for us to help him, I think, is an extremely important step for him as a young man,” Zduriencik said.

Bradley is batting .214 with two home runs and 12 RBIs in 21 games.

Wakamatsu called him in last month after he flipped off a fan during a game in Texas in the midst of a 1-for-21 start. Also last month, the slumping slugger admitted to Wakamatsu he feels enormous pressure to produce in Seattle.

His final strikeout Tuesday came looking at a pitch down the middle with the bases loaded in what became Seattle’s fourth consecutive loss.

He told the Mariners’ leaders, and then his teammates in a clubhouse meeting later, that his issues have put him in a position where he can’t compete the way he expects, and that “it’s been a long time coming.”

Zduriencik said he spoke to Bradley’s agent and “they are happy and are on board with this.”

Ryan Langerhans, called up from Triple A on Tuesday, was in Wednesday’s lineup for Bradley in left field against Tampa Bay. The Mariners are exploring roster options to possibly deactivate Bradley for a short time.

“He’s going through some things in his life right now that are very personal and very emotional,” Zduriencik said. “We firmly believe that we manage people first. Certainly we are about winning baseball games … but most important is the employees that work with us. We will join together and help him receive the assistance that he needs.”

Two hours earlier, Bradley revealed yet another emotional side.

Joined by fellow speakers Wakamatsu, Ichiro Suzuki, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Sweeney, Bradley stood before students and teachers at Lakeridge Elementary school in south Seattle and openly discussed what motivates him.

The man who in March told The Associated Press he was baseball’s Kanye West interrupted himself at one point because he was getting overcome with emotions during an impassioned five-minute talk to students on the Mariners’ annual education day.

“I grew up in Long Beach, Calif., me and my mother,” Bradley said softly through a microphone while in front of a stage in the school’s lunchroom. “She worked in a grocery store, checking out groceries every day, 40 hours a week. Every day she’d come home, get the mail. She’d get in the same chair with the bills. She’d put in one pile the bills she could pay. In another pile she’d put the ones she couldn’t pay. Bill collectors would call. I saw her fall asleep in that chair.

“I saw that every day. That was my motivation,” to reach the major leagues.

Then, Bradley—who recently complained that no one ever asks him where he’s from, what he’s about—shrugged. With a previously buzzing student body nearly silent and teachers watching intently, Bradley said through glistening eyes: “I’m kind of getting a little emotional right now, because this is my heart.”

Then he waved his hand over the kids.

“The whole world’s ahead of you,” Bradley said. “Someone in here might change the world. Motivation is what’s most important.”

As Bradley sat down, Sweeney hugged him. The five-time All-Star then gave Bradley’s back a comforting pat. The slugger smiled.

After the school event, Sweeney said the Mariners are going to help Bradley.

“The way we’re going to do that is just, to love on him,” Sweeney said. “His track record shows he’s had some ups and downs. But we can embrace him and get him to click the way he did in Texas (in 2008, Bradley’s All-Star season).

“He’s a beautiful man, with a beautiful heart.”

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gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $17686178 VARSITY	Milton Bradley: Angry Douchebag Remember when the Mariners were here last week, and Milton Bradley was messing with the fans and acting a fool? Story from last night's Chicago Tribune: Milton Bradley pulls a Sammy Sosa on Mariners Chicago fans can relate to Milton Bradley's latest episode in two ways. According to Seattle Times baseball reporter Geoff Baker, the former Cubs problem-child left the stadium in the middle of Tuesday's game after basically removing himself from the contest following a sixth-inning strikeout. In his blog, Baker writes that Bradley returned to the dugout and told manager Don Wakamatsu something on the order of, "I'm done. I'm not helping the team." Baker reports: Wakamatsu had Ryan Langerhans warm up immediately and followed Bradley into a tunnel between the dugout and clubhouse to talk him off the ledge and tell him not to quit on his teammates. At some point, Bradley was about to return to the dugout, but once he saw Langerhans playing left field in his place, left again and returned to his locker. From there, he quickly packed and exited the stadium with the game still in progress. Sosa's early departure from Wrigley Field during the final game of the 2004 season -- he wasn't in the lineup that day -- all but guaranteed his offseason trade from the Cubs. The Wrigley faithful still hasn't forgiven him. Bradley's troubles in Chicago last year culminated in his suspension for the rest of the season on Sept. 20. He's hitting .214 with two homers for the Mariners, but was snapping out of his slump and in the cleanup spot in the lineup Tuesday. Meanwhile pitcher Carlos Silva, obtained by the Cubs in the swap of unwanted contracts, is 2-0 with a 2.90 ERA in five starts for Chicago.
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gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $17686178 VARSITY	Mike Sweeney.....goes all Ted Haggard on us. We love Milton, he's beautiful dag nab it!! http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-marinerslineup SEATTLE (AP)—Milton Bradley(notes), baseball’s self-described bad guy, has asked his Seattle Mariners for help in dealing with what manager Don Wakamatsu says is “emotional stress” from personal issues. Wakamatsu and general manager Jack Zduriencik said Wednesday that their fiery slugger is out indefinitely until he receives an outside assessment and a plan to address his issues. “It’s come to a head,” Zduriencik said. A day earlier, Bradley became angry for striking out twice and Wakamatsu removed him from a close game in the sixth inning because the manger thought he wasn’t fit to play anymore. Bradley left the stadium soon after. Several Mariners players described his mind set Tuesday night as “not good.” Wednesday morning, Bradley called Wakamatsu to ask for a face-to-face meeting with him and Zduriencik. The 32-year-old then arrived at Safeco Field and told the leaders of his eighth team in 10 seasons, “I need your help.” It was a startling admission from a player who publicly blamed Chicago’s fans and media for running him out of that city following his failed season with the Cubs in 2009. “The fact he has stood up and asked for us to help him, I think, is an extremely important step for him as a young man,” Zduriencik said. Bradley is batting .214 with two home runs and 12 RBIs in 21 games. Wakamatsu called him in last month after he flipped off a fan during a game in Texas in the midst of a 1-for-21 start. Also last month, the slumping slugger admitted to Wakamatsu he feels enormous pressure to produce in Seattle. His final strikeout Tuesday came looking at a pitch down the middle with the bases loaded in what became Seattle’s fourth consecutive loss. He told the Mariners’ leaders, and then his teammates in a clubhouse meeting later, that his issues have put him in a position where he can’t compete the way he expects, and that “it’s been a long time coming.” Zduriencik said he spoke to Bradley’s agent and “they are happy and are on board with this.” Ryan Langerhans, called up from Triple A on Tuesday, was in Wednesday’s lineup for Bradley in left field against Tampa Bay. The Mariners are exploring roster options to possibly deactivate Bradley for a short time. “He’s going through some things in his life right now that are very personal and very emotional,” Zduriencik said. “We firmly believe that we manage people first. Certainly we are about winning baseball games … but most important is the employees that work with us. We will join together and help him receive the assistance that he needs.” Two hours earlier, Bradley revealed yet another emotional side. Joined by fellow speakers Wakamatsu, Ichiro Suzuki, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Sweeney, Bradley stood before students and teachers at Lakeridge Elementary school in south Seattle and openly discussed what motivates him. The man who in March told The Associated Press he was baseball’s Kanye West interrupted himself at one point because he was getting overcome with emotions during an impassioned five-minute talk to students on the Mariners’ annual education day. “I grew up in Long Beach, Calif., me and my mother,” Bradley said softly through a microphone while in front of a stage in the school’s lunchroom. “She worked in a grocery store, checking out groceries every day, 40 hours a week. Every day she’d come home, get the mail. She’d get in the same chair with the bills. She’d put in one pile the bills she could pay. In another pile she’d put the ones she couldn’t pay. Bill collectors would call. I saw her fall asleep in that chair. “I saw that every day. That was my motivation,” to reach the major leagues. Then, Bradley—who recently complained that no one ever asks him where he’s from, what he’s about—shrugged. With a previously buzzing student body nearly silent and teachers watching intently, Bradley said through glistening eyes: “I’m kind of getting a little emotional right now, because this is my heart.” Then he waved his hand over the kids. “The whole world’s ahead of you,” Bradley said. “Someone in here might change the world. Motivation is what’s most important.” As Bradley sat down, Sweeney hugged him. The five-time All-Star then gave Bradley’s back a comforting pat. The slugger smiled. After the school event, Sweeney said the Mariners are going to help Bradley. “The way we’re going to do that is just, to love on him,” Sweeney said. “His track record shows he’s had some ups and downs. But we can embrace him and get him to click the way he did in Texas (in 2008, Bradley’s All-Star season). “He’s a beautiful man, with a beautiful heart.”
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