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Bradley - VanSlawAndCottoCheese - 12-10-2009
From someone who was delightfully bereft from being exposed to the daily Chicago sports media last year, I ask all of you just how untenable you feel the situation with Bradley is. Is the relationship irreparable? Because, quite frankly, I believe the only deal Hendry could make now would not just leave a bad taste in our mouths, it would take a Cleveland Steamer over the collective chest of cub fans (see: Carlos Silva). Just how important is it to get rid of him?
From my perspective, the math looks like this, where x>y:
X) Bradley's play + Bradley's kookycakes nuttiness + rest of underperformers = mediocre Cubs team
Y) Silva (Guillen/Hafner/Chavez) - $$$ for Bradley's contract + rest of underperformers =mediocre<b>r</b> Cubs team
Bradley - biggz - 12-10-2009
Yeah, Slaw, I think it's time to hire a great PR firm and a world renowned psychiatrist.
Oh, and,
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->"Not really," he said. "It's just not a positive environment. I need a stable, healthy, enjoyable environment. There's too many people everywhere in your face with a microphone asking the same questions repeatedly. Everything is just bashing you. You got out there and you play harder than anybody on the field and never get credit for it. It's just negativity.
"And you understand why they haven't won in 100 years here, because it's negative. It's what it is."
Asked whether he was talking about the fans, the media or even the Cubs organization, he replied: "It's everything. It's everybody."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bradley - Butcher - 12-10-2009
<!--quoteo(post=71323:date=Dec 10 2009, 11:25 AM:name=VanSlawAndCottoCheese)-->QUOTE (VanSlawAndCottoCheese @ Dec 10 2009, 11:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->From someone who was delightfully bereft from being exposed to the daily Chicago sports media last year, I ask all of you just how untenable you feel the situation with Bradley is. Is the relationship irreparable? Because, quite frankly, I believe the only deal Hendry could make now would not just leave a bad taste in our mouths, it would take a Cleveland Steamer over the collective chest of cub fans (see: Carlos Silva). Just how important is it to get rid of him?
From my perspective, the math looks like this, where x>y:
X) Bradley's play + Bradley's kookycakes nuttiness + rest of underperformers = mediocre Cubs team
Y) Silva (Guillen/Hafner/Chavez) - $$$ for Bradley's contract + rest of underperformers =mediocre<b>r</b> Cubs team<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have a new signature.
Bradley - SandbergMVP1984 - 12-10-2009
From the way things look, we'll end up worse off if we trade him. I'm still for keeping him and getting a pitcher.
Bradley - 1060Ivy - 12-10-2009
If the Cubs can't get a trade done before the start of the season, I don't believe the Cubs will release Bradley but I also won't be surprised if he gets an unidentified injury that puts him on the DL.
Finally, the Cubs will trade him for a hill of beans (couple of AA prospects) to a team that has a need sometime in May/June.
I just can't see Bradley play again as a Cub. Too much has been done and said for that to work. Unfortunately, all potential trading partners know this so the only real market out there is for teams with their own garbage contracts that are looking to unload.
Bradley - rok - 12-10-2009
I'm warming up to the idea of keeping him. He may need to be lobotomized beforehand in order to make the relationship work, but next year will most likely blow ass regardless, so why take on another team's burden when it doesn't improve the team whatsoever and actually makes us worse?
This entire situation stinks.
Bradley - VanSlawAndCottoCheese - 12-10-2009
<!--quoteo(post=71326:date=Dec 10 2009, 12:50 PM:name=biggz)-->QUOTE (biggz @ Dec 10 2009, 12:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->"Everything is just bashing you."
"It's everything. It's everybody."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Somehow, when reading these quotes, I get the image of Bradley running down the street like Steven Carrell in <i>The 40-Year Old Virgin</i>, seeing negative coverage of him on the side of a bus (C'mon, bus!) and running past two dogs who are--instead of humping, as in the movie--barking "racist comments" at him (C'mon dogs!). When you start believing that "everything" is out to get you, you need to find inspiration in another of Carrell's character's, Brick Tamland, and profess love for those inanimate objects that you may otherwise feel hostile toward:
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Bradley - BT - 12-10-2009
bob nightengale twitter:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->#mlb #cubs Cubs officials say they are close to trading OF Milton Bradley, and all indications are that he'll be going to Tampa Bay.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bradley - ColoradoCub - 12-10-2009
Same thing that we've been hearing all week. Whatever. I'll believe it when I see it.
Bradley - Clapp - 12-10-2009
He also says once that deal is done, we'll try to sign Cameron or Byrd. "That's who they want."
Bradley - Coach - 12-10-2009
Nightengale is usually spot on, but we will see.
Bradley - rok - 12-10-2009
I hadn't thought of this possibility.
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/ra...icle1057766.ece
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Now this doesn't mean there is no room for negotiation. I could see a scenario where the Rays are willing to throw a minor-league prospect or a marginal major-leaguer in the deal in exchange for Chicago picking up the bulk of Bradley's salary. Or maybe they work a deal where the Cubs assume Dan Wheeler's $3.5 million salary in 2010, and his $1 million buyout in 2011.
But the financial risk is non-negotiable for Tampa Bay.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bradley - savant - 12-12-2009
What about getting a third team involved with the Dodgers and bring Juan Pierre back as a center fielder? Although I hate Juan Pierre, he might be the best option on a list of terrible options.
Bradley - Butcher - 12-12-2009
<!--quoteo(post=71478:date=Dec 12 2009, 02:35 PM:name=savant)-->QUOTE (savant @ Dec 12 2009, 02:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->What about getting a third team involved with the Dodgers and bring Juan Pierre back as a center fielder? Although I hate Juan Pierre, he might be the best option on a list of terrible options.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Fuck. No.
I'll take Cameron over Pierre any day. No Juan Pierre. NO.
Bradley - savant - 12-12-2009
I new you'd love that. Just remember we are taking it up the ass on this deal, so who do you want up your ass? The slender Piearre, or the broad Cameron?