Milton Bradley

[E.J.]

Wow. Did anyone just see what Bradley just did? He was on first base and wanted the balk call on the pitcher, but the 1st base umpire didn't call it. Bradley went absolutely nuts and had to be basically tackled by his coaches to keep him away from the umpire. Bradley ended up injuring his knee after being tackled by the coaches. That dude is nuts. :shock:

[soccer10k]

Haha. Yeah, just saw this and was coming here to post about it.

[nilodnayr]

Milton Bradley-OF- Padres Sep. 23 - 6:36 pm et

 

 

Milton Bradley was ejected and left with a right leg injury in the eighth inning Sunday against the Rockies.

 

This might be the most bizarre incident of the season. First, it wasn't clear at all what he was arguing about after he singled with the Padres down 6-1 in the eighth. It looked like the game would proceed without incident, but with a 1-2 count on the next batter, Bradley kept jawing with first-base ump Mike Winters and then he decided to go after him. The first base coach held him back initally, and manager Bud Black went out to restrain him. Black ended up having to almost throw him to the ground, and he collapsed to the ground holding his right hamstring. It looked like a serious injury, one that could keep him out if the Padres reach the playoffs. Scott Hairston would get the majority of the playing time in left field.

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

I think he is bipolar

[anabiono]

and that is why picking up bradley would have been a stupid idea

[Hairyducked Idiot]

He's always been a jerk. He's always been injury prone.

 

But to combine the two? Classic.

[C.C.]

I could not stop laughing. Only Baseball players have injuries like this,,,

[Sammy Sofa]

Hasn't he been hitting well? Sucks if he was and now he's out against the Brewers.

[Lockes Eye Scar]

guess he forgot to take his meds before the game

[Mizzou]

This is great. What an idiot. He really got what he deserved.

[OleMissCub]

I don't know. I think this is another example of an umpire being bigger than the game itself. Check out what the Padres' first base coach said:

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070923&content_id=2226621&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

"Everyone is going to make a twist that Milton Bradley blew up again," Meacham said. "This kid [bradley] is doing a great job holding it together. He's not going to get thrown out because he knows his team needs him. But there's no possible way a man is going to stand there and take what he said to Milton.

"In 26 years of baseball, I couldn't believe my ears the way that he spoke to Milton. [it] was so disrespectful, so angry, so vindictive. The boiling point is when he called Milton a name. Milton did not saying anything to him to get him to do that."

[Slugger_16]

Just saw the highlights on ESPN. Apparently someone's lying about what really happened.

 

Meacham said that he was incensed further when the rest of the umpiring crew came over to where the incident occurred and Winters explained to Froemming what had happened.

 

"When he explained it to the other umpires when Buddy came out [it was a] straight lie," Meacham said. "I heard what he said and asked him why he was lying. He explained it to me again what he said and I said, 'That's a lie. You're wrong. You made a mistake. You lied.'"

[jjgman21]

Froemming's crew?

 

how shocking.

 

 

 

 

I curse the thought, but something tells me Brucy's last year is going to include having a say in the Cubs playoff run this year.

[erik316wttn]

Froemming's crew?

 

how shocking.

 

 

 

 

I curse the thought, but something tells me Brucy's last year is going to include having a say in the Cubs playoff run this year.

 

Froemming is a fat piece of crap and I hope he gets what's coming to him.

[Prior4CyYoung]

Ya was not surprised to see this coming from Froemming's crew.

[IowaCubsFan]

Ya was not surprised to see this coming from Froemming's crew.

 

That was a real 'a-ha' moment for me as well, as soon as Froemming was mentioned as the crew chief.

[IowaCubsFan]

Froemming's crew?

 

how shocking.

 

 

 

 

I curse the thought, but something tells me Brucy's last year is going to include having a say in the Cubs playoff run this year.

 

Froemming is a fat piece of crap and I hope he gets what's coming to him.

 

You'd think after all these years of carrying around the weight of his enormous gut and his enormous ego that he would have gone the way of John McSherry or Eric Gregg already.

[OleMissCub]

Y'all remember the umpire who threw his gum at Barrett.

 

What is with some umps these days?

[TruffleShuffle]

mlb needs to find out what happened here... if it turns out that the ump said something completely out of line to bradley, then suspend the ump for at least the playoffs, and force him to go to counseling* in the offseason if he ever wants to call another game.**

 

 

* - yes i'm aware that anger management counseling is useless, but if you're going to make players do it, make umps do it too

 

** - yes i'm also aware that MLB has no balls and will probably just end up suspending bradley for a few games

[jam1975]

Is it me or does anyone else feel that umpires have become more demonstrative over that last several years? I remember watching "Naked Gun" and laughing at Leslie Nielsen's over the top gestures as an ump but now notice some of the ridiculous gestures being used to punch guys out. Am I alone on this?

[jjgman21]

Is it me or does anyone else feel that umpires have become more demonstrative over that last several years? I remember watching "Naked Gun" and laughing at Leslie Nielsen's over the top gestures as an ump but now notice some of the ridiculous gestures being used to punch guys out. Am I alone on this?

 

Leslie Nielson was mocking the umpires as they already existed. seems to me the problem is not the demonstrativism of Leslie Nielson, it is the want for the attention that Leslie Nielson got in the movie.

 

 

anyone else wish another scene from that Naked Gun were true. I'm thinking a media with fewer things to whore themselves on here.

[OleMissCub]

mlb needs to find out what happened here... if it turns out that the ump said something completely out of line to bradley, then suspend the ump for at least the playoffs, and force him to go to counseling* in the offseason if he ever wants to call another game.**

 

 

Yes, I agree. My first reaction was to go "oh god, what did he do now" but the more I look into it, I think Bradley was in the right here. I can't imaging standing there at first and having an umpire harass me like that. This is one of those situations, in my opinion, that proves that sometimes bad things happen to bad people.

[snoodmonger]

bradley's post-game interview is on espn motion. he's fuming. pretty interesting stuff.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3033666&categoryId=2378529&n8pe6c=1

 

It's the last video on page one of the video clip options.

[TruffleShuffle]

Is it me or does anyone else feel that umpires have become more demonstrative over that last several years? I remember watching "Naked Gun" and laughing at Leslie Nielsen's over the top gestures as an ump but now notice some of the ridiculous gestures being used to punch guys out. Am I alone on this?

 

I think it's safe to say that Lieutenant Frank Drebin is primarily responsible for the arrogant showboating of today's umpires.

[Rob]

and that is why picking up bradley would have been a stupid idea

 

.305/.403/.537

 

That'd only make him the best hitter on our team this year. Yeah, it's a real good thing we didn't pick him up. He wouldn't have been better than the crap we've had from CF or RF a good chunk of this season.