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Bradley article
This should be required reading. This paragraph, in particular, had me in tears:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Anyone who ever defended this lowlife (myself included) should be ashamed. If you’re like me, you go to a job every day which you might not particularly care for. You have to tolerate people who might not be QUITE as annoying as Ryan Dempster, but they’re not your favorite people. You make a living, but you’re almost definitely not making $10M a year to go to work 124 times. Yet you manage to find happiness. You find it in an unseasonably warm day during a long Chicago winter. You find it in the smile of a beautiful girl (or boy; no judgments). You find it in the drumming of the rain, the irresistible wagging of your dog’s tail, the beauty of a new snow, a baby’s laugh, or the smell of cut grass. You find happiness in your friends, your family, your God. Now, imagine if every time you thought of those things, Milton Bradley was fucking them in the ass. That’s how he chooses to feel EVERY DAY. And he plays baseball for a living. Fuck him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--quoteo(post=83213:date=Mar 18 2010, 12:03 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Mar 18 2010, 12:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--> Bradley article
This should be required reading. This paragraph, in particular, had me in tears:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->Anyone who ever defended this lowlife (myself included) should be ashamed. If you’re like me, you go to a job every day which you might not particularly care for. You have to tolerate people who might not be QUITE as annoying as Ryan Dempster, but they’re not your favorite people. You make a living, but you’re almost definitely not making $10M a year to go to work 124 times. Yet you manage to find happiness. You find it in an unseasonably warm day during a long Chicago winter. You find it in the smile of a beautiful girl (or boy; no judgments). You find it in the drumming of the rain, the irresistible wagging of your dog’s tail, the beauty of a new snow, a baby’s laugh, or the smell of cut grass. You find happiness in your friends, your family, your God. Now, imagine if every time you thought of those things, Milton Bradley was fucking them in the ass. That’s how he chooses to feel EVERY DAY. And he plays baseball for a living. Fuck him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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And yet, KB think we should have kept him....
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<!--quoteo(post=83213:date=Mar 18 2010, 12:03 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Mar 18 2010, 12:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--> Bradley article
This should be required reading. This paragraph, in particular, had me in tears:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->Anyone who ever defended this lowlife (myself included) should be ashamed. If you’re like me, you go to a job every day which you might not particularly care for. You have to tolerate people who might not be QUITE as annoying as Ryan Dempster, but they’re not your favorite people. You make a living, but you’re almost definitely not making $10M a year to go to work 124 times. Yet you manage to find happiness. You find it in an unseasonably warm day during a long Chicago winter. You find it in the smile of a beautiful girl (or boy; no judgments). You find it in the drumming of the rain, the irresistible wagging of your dog’s tail, the beauty of a new snow, a baby’s laugh, or the smell of cut grass. You find happiness in your friends, your family, your God. Now, imagine if every time you thought of those things, Milton Bradley was fucking them in the ass. That’s how he chooses to feel EVERY DAY. And he plays baseball for a living. Fuck him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I enjoyed that.
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<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->The Texas Rangers are, to this date, the only team that has ever said anything good about Bradley. Perhaps because they fear him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I agree with everything but the Dempster part. I'd rather be around him than about anybody in the league.
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What a picture that was painted! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/spit.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/spit.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/spit.gif[/img]
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Holy shit, it's tommy!!!!
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Milton's really worked hard to grow up and control his emotions.
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley was ejected from Friday night's game against the Reds at Goodyear Ballpark, marking the second straight spring contest from which he's been tossed.
On Friday night in the top of the fourth inning, Bradley, who started in left field and hit an RBI double in the first, appeared to dispute a third strike called by home plate umpire Jon Merry and was immediately tossed. He was replaced by Joseph Dunigan.
It was a similar incident to what happened in Bradley's last start, Wednesday night in Peoria, when the outfielder was ejected by home plate umpire Dan Bellino for dropping his bat and taking off his gloves after being called out on strikes in a game against Texas.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--quoteo(post=83377:date=Mar 19 2010, 11:06 PM:name=Clapp)-->QUOTE (Clapp @ Mar 19 2010, 11:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Milton's really worked hard to grow up and control his emotions.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley was ejected from Friday night's game against the Reds at Goodyear Ballpark, marking the second straight spring contest from which he's been tossed.
On Friday night in the top of the fourth inning, Bradley, who started in left field and hit an RBI double in the first, appeared to dispute a third strike called by home plate umpire Jon Merry and was immediately tossed. He was replaced by Joseph Dunigan.
It was a similar incident to what happened in Bradley's last start, Wednesday night in Peoria, when the outfielder was ejected by home plate umpire Dan Bellino for dropping his bat and taking off his gloves after being called out on strikes in a game against Texas.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Some folks just stay classy their entire lives. And then there's Milton Bradley.
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<!--quoteo(post=83385:date=Mar 20 2010, 12:08 AM:name=1060Ivy)-->QUOTE (1060Ivy @ Mar 20 2010, 12:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83377:date=Mar 19 2010, 11:06 PM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Mar 19 2010, 11:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Milton's really worked hard to grow up and control his emotions.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley was ejected from Friday night's game against the Reds at Goodyear Ballpark, marking the second straight spring contest from which he's been tossed.
On Friday night in the top of the fourth inning, Bradley, who started in left field and hit an RBI double in the first, appeared to dispute a third strike called by home plate umpire Jon Merry and was immediately tossed. He was replaced by Joseph Dunigan.
It was a similar incident to what happened in Bradley's last start, Wednesday night in Peoria, when the outfielder was ejected by home plate umpire Dan Bellino for dropping his bat and taking off his gloves after being called out on strikes in a game against Texas.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Some folks just stay classy their entire lives. And then there's Milton Bradley.
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He's got a consecutive game streak going. I wonder what the record is.
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<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec--> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mari...n_wakamats.html
Reds 6, Mariners 2: Don Wakamatsu rips umpire over Milton Bradley "witch hunt"
Posted by Geoff Baker
Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu just went off on Class AAA umpire Jon Merry for ejecting Milton Bradley in the fourth inning.
"To me, it's almost like a witch hunt,'' he said. "I mean, it's almost embarassing to me when egos get involved to the point where they don't even give a guy a chance.''
Hear audio of everything Wakamatsu said about the umpire by clicking the link. ( http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ma...on0319.mp3)
Merry ejected Bradley for arguing a fourth-inning strikeout call on a full-count pitch that seemed high. Wakamatsu admitted that Bradley did say something to Merry as he walked back to the dugout -- he couldn't tell what -- but added that the umpire's trigger was too quick.
"Again, I think it's pretty blatant that some guys have it out for him.''
Wakamatsu rarely gets this critical of an umpire -- at least in public. This is the second time in a row that Bradley has been ejected by a AAA umpire. Last time, two nights ago, he didn't even say anything, but was tossed for dropping his bat and peeling off his gloves, thinking there were three outs in the inning instead of two.
Doug Fister got evaluated by a doctor here and has what Wakamatsu termed a "soft tissue bruise". The manager added that this is "good news" but that Fister will still have x-rays in the morning.
Tonight, he clearly said something. Guys do get tossed for that. But yeah, Bradley's reputation probably isn't helping.
By the way, the game ended with Jack Wilson apparently forgetting how many outs there were. He took off from first base with one out on a routine flyball and was rounding third when the throw came back in to double him off the bag.
Many Mariners fans in the crowd weren't happy, some of them booing Wilson as he jogged back to the dugout.
The Mariners once again did little offensively in this one. Pitching-wise, Wakamatsu was pleased with the work by Jason Vargas, who threw four scoreless innings before yielding four home runs to the next seven batters he faced.
But Wakamatsu let him know he was happy with the 75-pitch outing, which stretches Vargas out and probably makes him the odds-on favorite to be the No. 5 starter.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I can't decide if it helps or hurts that his manager is calling out the umps. On the one hand, it shows he really supports his player. On the other hand, it feeds the crazy.
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There's really not much he can do at this point in time but defend him. But if you're already defending a guy during spring training it's going to take some miracle for this to not go south again.
If he brings <i>half</i> the tsuris to Seattle that he brought to Chicago, he's completely out of fingers to point and his career may be effectively over.
I'm envisioning some brilliant move where before the trading deadline the Mariners deal Bradley to a divisional rival for a bag of peanuts so he can disrupt <i>their</i> clubhouse.
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