Same old Milton Bradley game
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley is at it again. He’s whiiining.
This time, it’s because Cubs fans have the audacity to boo him occasionally when he doesn’t produce.
They’ve had plenty of opportunities.
In his first season after signing a three-year, $30-million contract, Bradley took into Wednesday’s game a .259 batting average with 10 home runs and only 32 runs batted in.
Typically, he chose a bizarre time to air his grievances -- after he went four for four with a home run in Tuesday night’s game. He took the opportunity to tell reporters how difficult it was ‘when you don’t get a hit and get booed every time.’
He also talked about the ‘adversity and hatred’ -- some of it racist, he said, without providing examples -- that he faced on a daily basi in Chicago.
Asked Wednesday to elaborate with an example, Bradley said when he went to eat at a restaurant he had to listen to waiters bad-mouth him at another table.
Wow, life is tough when all you can do is stiff a guy on a tip.
But Bradley wasn’t through.
‘All I’m saying is that I pray the game is nine innings,’ he said, ‘so I can go out there the least amount of time possible and then go home.’
That kind of talk will surely endear him to his teammates, just as it has in the past.
Asked, though, if he regretted signing with the Cubs, Bradley found 30 million reasons to sidestep the question.
‘I regret that there are idiots in the world; that’s what I regret,’ he said.
Well, amen to that.
--Mike Hiserman
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