Cubs suspend Milton Bradley for remainder of season
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/12237354
"The Chicago Cubs have suspended volatile outfielder Milton Bradley for the rest of the season, one day after he criticized the team in a newspaper interview."
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The quote that got him suspended:
“you understand why they haven’t won in 100 years here.”
by Zorakathura on Sep 20, 2009 5:42 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Must be the straw that broke the camel's back.
Because Lou said pretty much the same thing early in the 2007 season.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Sep 20, 2009 7:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Definitely the straw...
Horrible miscues in the outfield, terrible at the plate and now berating the organization.
Wow.
Who would have thought that signing Milton Bradley in free agency would be a bad move?
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Sep 20, 2009 6:45 PM CDT reply actions 5 recs
Try to trade him?
The fans will rip him apart if he is a Cub next year, they’ll have to eat most of his salary though.
Doubtful any team would trade for him... considering they know that the Cubs want to dump him.
They might just end up releasing him and letting him be a cancer with some other team.
Exactly
But I’m thinking something even more ridiculous, like cracking his coccyx falling off his chair during a rant about how everyone is against him and suspending him for the rest of the season proves it.
You know me Al.
but regardless
he’s still getting paid
by PagsBrewCrew on Sep 21, 2009 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Cot's has his 2010 salary at 13.33 million.
That’s a lot less crippling to the Cubs than it would be to some other teams, but it’s still 10% of their payroll for this season. While that’s a pretty big **** sandwich, that they can’t just shrug it off like the Yankees could, but it’s not a crippling blow by any means. If Soriano’s implosion this year isn’t an abberation, however, that’s 32 million they have sunk into corner outfielders without getting the kind of return they had in mind.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Sep 20, 2009 11:24 PM CDT up reply actions
The top eight salaries for the Cubs in 2010 total $111.125 mil, per Cots, not counting pro-rated signing bonuses
This is for Big Z, Dempster, Aramis, Derek Lee, Fukudome, Bradley, Lily and Soriano. Bradley is the only one of those eight without no-trade protection.
And they are dropping another $4 mil on Sweet Lou because they exercised his option, plus retooling the bullpen and finding a starting CF. I think Al Davis is jealous.
by Getting Yosted on Sep 21, 2009 8:54 AM CDT up reply actions
Scape ______ (insert Cubs' curse-related animal)
Milton Bradley 2009 WAR: 1.2
Milton Bradley 2009 Value: $5.3 million
Alfonso Soriano 2009 WAR: -0.9
Alfonso Soriano 2009 Value: -$3.8 million
Considering the crap he’s been given all year in Chicago, I don’t really even blame him for taking a poke at the team.
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
by SRB on Sep 21, 2009 2:10 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
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