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Before Sunday's game in St. Louis, the Chicago Cubs sent outfielder Milton Bradley home for the rest of the season.
Bradley, according to Cubs GM Jim Hendry, was suspended for the remainder of the 2009 season because the way he was speaking to the media about the Cubs' fans was becoming increasingly intolerable.
What surprises me more than Bradley's suspension is that there are people defending him.
There are readers and writers on this site that will undoubtedly spill hellfire onto the comments board below this story, like Marco Radenkovich, saying Bradley never got a fair chance as a member of the Cubs. The fans never ...
Oh, Milton. Here we go again. More drama.
And this time, it's serious. Bradley has been suspended for the remainder of the season a la Jose Guillen a few years back (minus the playoffs). Not good.
"The last few days became too much for me to tolerate," Hendry said. "I'm certainly not going to let our great fans become an excuse. I'm not going to tolerate not being able to answer questions from the media respectfully. Whether you feel like talking or not, it's part of all of our jobs."There's a right way to do it and a wrong way. I'm ...
You thought this season was bad? Wait 'til next year.
Every year, an average Major League Baseball team turns over around twenty percent of its roster.
Chicago Cubs fans looking toward 2010 are hoping that that number is more like eighty percent. The core of this roster has gelled and played well together over the last few years. This year, however, this roster's shortcomings have finally caught up with them. If you ask Jim Hendry or Lou Piniella, they will tell you that this year was not short lapse.
Sadly, the Cubs' problems are much more serious from a structural standpoint, and they ...
You thought this season was bad? Wait 'til next year.
Every year, an average Major League Baseball team turns over around twenty percent of its roster.
Chicago Cubs fans looking toward 2010 are hoping that that number is more like eighty percent. The core of this roster has gelled and played well together over the last few years. This year, however, this roster's shortcomings have finally caught up with them. If you ask Jim Hendry or Lou Piniella, they will tell you that this year was not short lapse.
Sadly, the Cubs' problems are much more serious from a structural standpoint, and they ...
Well, it looks as though Milton Bradley may not only be done for the season, but done as a Cub. The season has less than half a month left of is looking more and more like a playoff-less Cub’s team, and the front office may decide it is in their best interest to shut Bradley down. As Lou Pinella himself said, “''Look, we're not going to play people that are hurt. If they're hurt, we're not going to play them.''
Bradley’s three year, $30 million contract includes a third year which could be nullified if he finishes 2009 on the DL ...
According to ESPNChicago.com, the Chicago Cubs have suspended OF Milton Bradley for the remainder of the season. The Cubs suspended Bradley because of comments he made about there being too much negativity in Chicago.
Is it me or did everyone on the planet see this coming except for Cubs’ GM Jim Hendry? Even my sister, who knows as much about baseball as the table I am writing this post on, saw this coming.
Sorry Jen, but it is true.
Bradley said, “It’s just not a positive environment. I need a stable, healthy, enjoyable environment.…It’s just negativity.” Really Milton? When are you going ...
The 2009 Chicago Cubs season is winding down.
This means two things: It's time to look forward to football full-time (most of you already have) and it's time to evaluate the worst members of the 2009 Cubs.
Nothing went right for this bunch in 2009. They were picked by nearly everyone to run away with the National League Central Division.
They were picked by many to represent the National League in the World Series.
Some brainiacs even said, "This is the year" that the Cubs would win the World...I'm not even going to finish that sentence.
As we stare at our September calendars we see ...
Something is terribly wrong with the sports people inhibiting the city of Chicago these days.
Not only are teams from the Second City displaying abysmal performances as of late but they are also trying to keep their fans entertained with some pretty hefty performances during press-conferences.
On Sunday night, after the Bears suffered a loss in their season opener in Green Bay, Jay Cutler showed the media how much respect he has for them. It is time someone tells Cutler that his theatrical behavior could only bring him headaches in the future.
Athletes often forget that they get paid millions not because they ...
Today in the Philadelphia Daily news, writer Paul Hagen offers an intriguing point of view on the Phillies' World Series victory from 2008: It might not have happened if they had signed outfielder Alfonso Soriano.
He points out the truckload of talented younger players the Phillies have been able to lock up since Soriano was a free agent in the winter of 2006, and mentions that the lack of Soriano's albatross contract has also given the Phils the flexibility to made trades for players like Cliff Lee.
Intriguing, even if the cynic in me says "of course hindsight is 20-20."
Soriano has been ...
Unless you have been living under a rock for the 2009 MLB season, you know that the Chicago Cubs have failed miserably to live up to expectations. If you ARE living under that rock, you have probably still heard Milton Bradley’s constant complaining and overall bad attitude that has done anything but help the team’s situation.
Bradley signed a three year, $30 million deal this off-season after completing one of the best seasons of his ten year career in Texas the season before. The switch-hitter batted .321, got on base at a career-best .421 clip, hit 22 home runs, and drove ...
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