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<!--quoteo(post=64147:date=Sep 23 2009, 10:25 AM:name=1060Ivy)-->QUOTE (1060Ivy @ Sep 23 2009, 10:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Does anyone know if Milton's child is enrolled in pre-school in Illinois or is he back in California with the rest of his family?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't know for sure, but I would assume back in California. I believe he and his ex-wife have joint custody and it makes no sense to have a three year old traveling around with you and your baseball team.
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Not that it makes a difference if the child is in Illinois, California or Timbuktu but if the incident occurred outside of Illinois, I might be less understanding to the race card Milton is playing if the incident occurred in another state.
Yeah, I know that Milton has played the race card in other cities he has played in but I believe that this would be the first in which he plays the family race card.
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The mother of banished Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley said her son would consider returning to the team if it will have him back.
The Cubs suspended the volatile Bradley on Sunday for the rest of the season for what amounted to conduct detrimental to the team, one day after he criticized the franchise in a newspaper interview.
Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday, Charlena Rector said: "All the people on TV keep saying, 'Oh, Milton has played his last game for the Cubs.' " But, she added, that won't be the case if Bradley has any say with management.
"Milton eats, sleeps and drinks baseball. He loves it. That's all he wants to do," Rector told the newspaper.
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said he decided to send Bradley home after learning of the player's remarks in the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald of Illinois. Bradley, who was scratched from Saturday's lineup with a sore left knee, was quoted as saying "you understand why they haven't won in 100 years here."
As of Tuesday, the Cubs still hadn't filed any formal papers with Major League Baseball, the players' union or Bradley's agents outlining the suspension. He remains absent from the team and it is still unclear whether the suspension is with or without pay.
Bradley has two years remaining on a three-year, $30 million contract that he signed as a free agent last offseason. Hendry said Sunday he did not know if the relationship can be salvaged.
"Recently, it's become intolerable to hear Milton talk about our great fans the way he has," Hendry said. "We pride ourselves on having the greatest fans in baseball, so at this time we felt it was best to send him home for the rest of the season."
The Cubs haven't won the World Series since 1908 and, though they had high postseason hopes entering 2009, they are 78-72 through Tuesday and out of the playoff races.
<b>According to his mother, Bradley's unhappiness in Chicago stems in part from racism that his 3-year-old son has faced at school.
"When racism hit his 3-year-old baby in school, he couldn't take that," Rector said in a radio interview earlier this week, according to the Sun-Times. "Parents, teachers and their kids called him the n-word. He didn't even know it was a bad word until his mom told him."
When asked why her son shared the information only with her this season, Rector said, "Milton is a quiet person. Stuff like that, he keeps to himself. He doesn't want to talk about that because he doesn't think anybody cares. It is a heartbreaking situation."
She believes it affected his play. Bradley struggled at the plate, batting .257 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs this season, and was booed vigorously by home fans at Wrigley Field.
"I watched his swing, and I could tell what was wrong," Rector told the Sun-Times. "His mind wasn't on baseball. He was thinking about all of these other things."</b>
Information from The Associated Press and ESPN.com senior writer Jayson Stark was used in this report.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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What's not to highlight? That's the crazy from top to bottom.
And for what it's worth, a lot of what Obama is dealing with IS racism even if he's playing a political game and saying it's not. A ballplayer and the President are two vastly different things. I'm surrounded by people that are steaming mad that this country has a black president. These people are real...and in private not afraid to express their racism. Jimmy Carter is absolutely right but I totally understand why Obama isn't feeding the story.
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Interesting turn. Another blog has mentioned a rumor that Bradley is thinking of retiring from baseball.
I won't be surprised to hear that this gets reported and Bradley decides retire this fall but fails to send the paper work into the league office only to un-retire around February 2010 about time for players to report so the Cubs are back on the hook for his cash.
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Did I miss something? How the fuck did this thread turn into something to do with Obama? These are 2 completely separate things.
I'm 100% fine with this. I'm just glad there's an actual plan in place that isn't, "Let's load up on retreads and hope we get lucky." I'm a little tired of that plan.
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<!--quoteo(post=64162:date=Sep 23 2009, 11:16 AM:name=Lance)-->QUOTE (Lance @ Sep 23 2009, 11:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Did I miss something? How the fuck did this thread turn into something to do with Obama? These are 2 completely separate things.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
HemisFear brought it up. Seemed to be suggesting that Bradley BS'ing about acts of racism that most likely never occurred as evidedence that racism is a myth....or something.
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The mother of banished Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley said her son would consider returning to the team if it will have him back.
The Cubs suspended the volatile Bradley on Sunday for the rest of the season for what amounted to conduct detrimental to the team, one day after he criticized the franchise in a newspaper interview.
Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday, Charlena Rector said: "All the people on TV keep saying, 'Oh, Milton has played his last game for the Cubs.' " But, she added, that won't be the case if Bradley has any say with management.
"Milton eats, sleeps and drinks baseball. He loves it. That's all he wants to do," Rector told the newspaper.
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said he decided to send Bradley home after learning of the player's remarks in the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald of Illinois. Bradley, who was scratched from Saturday's lineup with a sore left knee, was quoted as saying "you understand why they haven't won in 100 years here."
As of Tuesday, the Cubs still hadn't filed any formal papers with Major League Baseball, the players' union or Bradley's agents outlining the suspension. He remains absent from the team and it is still unclear whether the suspension is with or without pay.
Bradley has two years remaining on a three-year, $30 million contract that he signed as a free agent last offseason. Hendry said Sunday he did not know if the relationship can be salvaged.
"Recently, it's become intolerable to hear Milton talk about our great fans the way he has," Hendry said. "We pride ourselves on having the greatest fans in baseball, so at this time we felt it was best to send him home for the rest of the season."
The Cubs haven't won the World Series since 1908 and, though they had high postseason hopes entering 2009, they are 78-72 through Tuesday and out of the playoff races.
<b>According to his mother, Bradley's unhappiness in Chicago stems in part from racism that his 3-year-old son has faced at school.
"When racism hit his 3-year-old baby in school, he couldn't take that," Rector said in a radio interview earlier this week, according to the Sun-Times. "Parents, teachers and their kids called him the n-word. He didn't even know it was a bad word until his mom told him."
When asked why her son shared the information only with her this season, Rector said, "Milton is a quiet person. Stuff like that, he keeps to himself. He doesn't want to talk about that because he doesn't think anybody cares. It is a heartbreaking situation."
She believes it affected his play. Bradley struggled at the plate, batting .257 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs this season, and was booed vigorously by home fans at Wrigley Field.
"I watched his swing, and I could tell what was wrong," Rector told the Sun-Times. "His mind wasn't on baseball. He was thinking about all of these other things."</b>
Information from The Associated Press and ESPN.com senior writer Jayson Stark was used in this report.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Ok so let me get this straight.
Milton's mom comes to his defense. In that defense, she claims that Milton is basically a good guy who eats, sleeps, and dreams about baseball 24/7. She then goes on to say that Milton's concern is about his 3 year old child who is under a racial onslaught in school. Furthermoore, that somehow people in IL are racially bias and that this is the reason why Milton's brain hasn't been focused on the game and why he is having a bad year.
Ok...let's counter that. Barrak Obama was voted into office just recently by the VAST majority of Americans (not me though), and has been having to fend off the notion that somehow people who oppose his policies are racially charged. The president of the united states realizes that this isn't reality and laughs it off. This is the most powerful man on the planet, who has the hardest job on the planet, and he can shrug off nonsense like this but somehow Milton fucking Bradley is dealing with racial slurs that are SO intolerable, that over the course of a 6 month season, he can't get his head right to play a GAME? I'm not even remotely close to an Obama supporter but I admire how the guy has handled this situation. Perhaps Milton, and his mom, should take a clue from Obama.
I'm to the conclusion that until the day comes when we don't even discuss race, focus on it AT ALL, we will always have this piss pour excuse hanging over our heads.
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I don't think this makes any sense. Also, I'm not down with a piss pour, it's messy and wet.
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Maybe the Bradleys misconstrued the word "nap" or "nappy time" to mean to something else in preschool.
I hate my pretentious sounding username too.
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Boo.
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The mother of banished Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley said her son would consider returning to the team if it will have him back.
The Cubs suspended the volatile Bradley on Sunday for the rest of the season for what amounted to conduct detrimental to the team, one day after he criticized the franchise in a newspaper interview.
Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday, Charlena Rector said: "All the people on TV keep saying, 'Oh, Milton has played his last game for the Cubs.' " But, she added, that won't be the case if Bradley has any say with management.
"Milton eats, sleeps and drinks baseball. He loves it. That's all he wants to do," Rector told the newspaper.
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said he decided to send Bradley home after learning of the player's remarks in the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald of Illinois. Bradley, who was scratched from Saturday's lineup with a sore left knee, was quoted as saying "you understand why they haven't won in 100 years here."
As of Tuesday, the Cubs still hadn't filed any formal papers with Major League Baseball, the players' union or Bradley's agents outlining the suspension. He remains absent from the team and it is still unclear whether the suspension is with or without pay.
Bradley has two years remaining on a three-year, $30 million contract that he signed as a free agent last offseason. Hendry said Sunday he did not know if the relationship can be salvaged.
"Recently, it's become intolerable to hear Milton talk about our great fans the way he has," Hendry said. "We pride ourselves on having the greatest fans in baseball, so at this time we felt it was best to send him home for the rest of the season."
The Cubs haven't won the World Series since 1908 and, though they had high postseason hopes entering 2009, they are 78-72 through Tuesday and out of the playoff races.
<b>According to his mother, Bradley's unhappiness in Chicago stems in part from racism that his 3-year-old son has faced at school.
"When racism hit his 3-year-old baby in school, he couldn't take that," Rector said in a radio interview earlier this week, according to the Sun-Times. "Parents, teachers and their kids called him the n-word. He didn't even know it was a bad word until his mom told him."
When asked why her son shared the information only with her this season, Rector said, "Milton is a quiet person. Stuff like that, he keeps to himself. He doesn't want to talk about that because he doesn't think anybody cares. It is a heartbreaking situation."
She believes it affected his play. Bradley struggled at the plate, batting .257 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs this season, and was booed vigorously by home fans at Wrigley Field.
"I watched his swing, and I could tell what was wrong," Rector told the Sun-Times. "His mind wasn't on baseball. He was thinking about all of these other things."</b>
Information from The Associated Press and ESPN.com senior writer Jayson Stark was used in this report.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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What's not to highlight? That's the crazy from top to bottom.
And for what it's worth, a lot of what Obama is dealing with IS racism even if he's playing a political game and saying it's not. A ballplayer and the President are two vastly different things. I'm surrounded by people that are steaming mad that this country has a black president. These people are real...and in private not afraid to express their racism. Jimmy Carter is absolutely right but I totally understand why Obama isn't feeding the story.
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I'll never understand that point of view. Yeah -- I get that you can't really "understand" racism because it isn't logical. But try and follow this logic:
"We've murdered, enslaved, exploited, and basically shit on these people for hundreds of years. How DARE one of them aspire *and be elected by a large majority* to the highest office in OUR country? Uppity n***er."
Sometimes I just want to bang my head against the floor.
Sorry to take this thread farther off course...
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The mother of banished Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley said her son would consider returning to the team if it will have him back.
The Cubs suspended the volatile Bradley on Sunday for the rest of the season for what amounted to conduct detrimental to the team, one day after he criticized the franchise in a newspaper interview.
Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday, Charlena Rector said: "All the people on TV keep saying, 'Oh, Milton has played his last game for the Cubs.' " But, she added, that won't be the case if Bradley has any say with management.
"Milton eats, sleeps and drinks baseball. He loves it. That's all he wants to do," Rector told the newspaper.
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said he decided to send Bradley home after learning of the player's remarks in the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald of Illinois. Bradley, who was scratched from Saturday's lineup with a sore left knee, was quoted as saying "you understand why they haven't won in 100 years here."
As of Tuesday, the Cubs still hadn't filed any formal papers with Major League Baseball, the players' union or Bradley's agents outlining the suspension. He remains absent from the team and it is still unclear whether the suspension is with or without pay.
Bradley has two years remaining on a three-year, $30 million contract that he signed as a free agent last offseason. Hendry said Sunday he did not know if the relationship can be salvaged.
"Recently, it's become intolerable to hear Milton talk about our great fans the way he has," Hendry said. "We pride ourselves on having the greatest fans in baseball, so at this time we felt it was best to send him home for the rest of the season."
The Cubs haven't won the World Series since 1908 and, though they had high postseason hopes entering 2009, they are 78-72 through Tuesday and out of the playoff races.
<b>According to his mother, Bradley's unhappiness in Chicago stems in part from racism that his 3-year-old son has faced at school.
"When racism hit his 3-year-old baby in school, he couldn't take that," Rector said in a radio interview earlier this week, according to the Sun-Times. "Parents, teachers and their kids called him the n-word. He didn't even know it was a bad word until his mom told him."
When asked why her son shared the information only with her this season, Rector said, "Milton is a quiet person. Stuff like that, he keeps to himself. He doesn't want to talk about that because he doesn't think anybody cares. It is a heartbreaking situation."
She believes it affected his play. Bradley struggled at the plate, batting .257 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs this season, and was booed vigorously by home fans at Wrigley Field.
"I watched his swing, and I could tell what was wrong," Rector told the Sun-Times. "His mind wasn't on baseball. He was thinking about all of these other things."</b>
Information from The Associated Press and ESPN.com senior writer Jayson Stark was used in this report.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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What's not to highlight? That's the crazy from top to bottom.
And for what it's worth, a lot of what Obama is dealing with IS racism even if he's playing a political game and saying it's not. A ballplayer and the President are two vastly different things. I'm surrounded by people that are steaming mad that this country has a black president. These people are real...and in private not afraid to express their racism. Jimmy Carter is absolutely right but I totally understand why Obama isn't feeding the story.
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I'll never understand that point of view. Yeah -- I get that you can't really "understand" racism because it isn't logical. But try and follow this logic:
"We've murdered, enslaved, exploited, and basically shit on these people for hundreds of years. How DARE one of them aspire *and be elected by a large majority* to the highest office in OUR country? Uppity n***er."
Sometimes I just want to bang my head against the floor.
Sorry to take this thread farther off course...
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I hate racism with a passion, but at the same time, I also hate the fact that if someone of a different skin color makes a mistake, and I criticize them for that mistake, I might be called a racist, even though my criticism has nothing to do with their skin color. I just wish we didn't have to deal with any of this shit....
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I wasn't all that surprised when he claimed to have heard racial slurs from fans, but I have a very, very hard time believing that his kid's teachers and other parents would direct racial slurs at a 3 year old student.
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<!--quoteo(post=64198:date=Sep 23 2009, 02:28 PM:name=dk123)-->QUOTE (dk123 @ Sep 23 2009, 02:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I wasn't all that surprised when he claimed to have heard racial slurs from fans, but I have a very, very hard time believing that his kid's teachers and other parents would direct racial slurs at a 3 year old student.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think Milton confused them with the voices in his head.
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