Bradley Suspended for the Rest of the Season

[hardcorecubfan]

Jim or whoever in the mlb article said that several teams have called and expressed interest in Bradley

 

What teams might these be?

[Moises a loo]

Jim or whoever in the mlb article said that several teams have called and expressed interest in Bradley

 

What teams might these be?

http://assets.hulu.com/shows/key_art_the_a_team.jpg

[NCCubFan]

Jim or whoever in the mlb article said that several teams have called and expressed interest in Bradley

 

What teams might these be?

http://assets.hulu.com/shows/key_art_the_a_team.jpg

If they ever do a remake Bradley should take Mr. T's role as B.A., since Bad Attitude describes Bradely perfectly.

[biittner77]

I'm actually more than a little surprised that no one has made an A Team remake. Michael Strahan could play BA Barracus, Jason Lee could be the pilot. The guy that played faceman could probably still be the faceman and Chuck Norris would be Hannibal.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'm actually more than a little surprised that no one has made an A Team remake. Michael Strahan could play BA Barracus, Jason Lee could be the pilot. The guy that played faceman could probably still be the faceman and Chuck Norris would be Hannibal.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429493/

[Tarver]

I'm actually more than a little surprised that no one has made an A Team remake. Michael Strahan could play BA Barracus, Jason Lee could be the pilot. The guy that played faceman could probably still be the faceman and Chuck Norris would be Hannibal.

 

Rights issues. That's why none of Cannell's projects have been made into films.

[biittner77]

I'm actually more than a little surprised that no one has made an A Team remake. Michael Strahan could play BA Barracus, Jason Lee could be the pilot. The guy that played faceman could probably still be the faceman and Chuck Norris would be Hannibal.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429493/

 

Liam Niesson??? FTH are any of them thinking?

[Moises a loo]

"I pity the foo that give me a 3 year deal"

[illiniguy]

Lou keeps talking about getting an RBI guy and Theo says this (speaking about JD Drew)...

 

http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/10/03/theo/

 

 

“That’s not true. With RBIs, yes. Based on his skill set, he’s always going to have underwhelming RBI totals. I couldn’t care less. When you’re putting together a winning team, that honestly doesn’t matter. When you have a player who takes a ton of walks, who doesn’t put the ball in play at an above average rate, and is a certain type of hitter, he’s not going to drive in a lot of runs. Runs scored, you couldn’t be more wrong. If you look at a rate basis, J.D. scores a ton of runs.

 

“And the reason he scores a ton of runs is because he does the single most important thing you can do in baseball as an offensive player. And that’s NOT MAKE OUTS. He doesn’t make outs. He’s always among our team leaders in on-base percentage, usually among the league leaders in on-base percentage. And he’s a really good base runner. So when he doesn’t make outs, and he gets himself on base, he scores runs — and he has some good hitters hitting behind him. Look at his runs scored on a rate basis with the Red Sox or throughout his career. It’s outstanding.

 

“You guys can talk about RBIs if you want, I just … we ignore them in the front office … and I think we’ve built some pretty good offensive clubs. If you want to talk about RBIs at all, talk about it as a percentage of opportunity but it’s just simply not a way or something we use to evaluate offensive players.”

 

 

Maybe I shouldn't have put this in the Bradley conversation because this isn't even about him, but I was just catching up here and saw yet again Lou was talking about wanting a "RBI guy."

 

I think a lot of the "RBI" talk is based on the fact that Bradley will be traded. I'm sure Lou would learn to love Bradley and his OBP if Bradley wouldn't be such a jerk. I guarantee that if Drew acted like Bradley (dissing the city, the front office, the fans, teammates, and the manager), Theo would trade him in a second.

 

I wonder what Theo would do if he had someone much better than Bradley, like a Manny Ramirez type?

 

He'd trade him for a comparable player who made less money and was signed for more years?

Yeah that's good and all, but Jim will trade him for a couple of career minor leaguers. Beat that Theo.

[CUBZ99]

From the Suntimes.com

 

"I never thought so, but this year it's kind of obvious.''

 

-- Shortstop Ryan Theriot, on whether one player can disrupt the clubhouse chemistry for an entire team

 

Guess we can give up any hope that Bradley will be back.

[Cubs Fan Dan]

From the Suntimes.com

 

"I never thought so, but this year it's kind of obvious.''

 

-- Shortstop Ryan Theriot, on whether one player can disrupt the clubhouse chemistry for an entire team

 

Guess we can give up any hope that Bradley will be back.

 

 

If this is really true than Piniella did not have any control over this team, everything we heard prior to this season was Bradley had never been anything but a great teamate. Chalk this one up to the Chicago Media and Lou Piniella. Bradley is many things but I do not believe he "ruined" the atmosphere to the point of losing the division. Maybe Theriot's lack luster base running and bad defense had as much to do with this team as Bradley.

[illiniguy]

Awesome scrappy feels secure enough in his job to attack a better player. Milton has taken dumps with more talent than Ryan Theriot.

[TruffleShuffle]

how do you take a talented dump?

[Tarver]

The right of combination eggs, cabbage, beans, and beer would do the trick.

[Backtobanks]

From the Suntimes.com

 

"I never thought so, but this year it's kind of obvious.''

 

-- Shortstop Ryan Theriot, on whether one player can disrupt the clubhouse chemistry for an entire team

 

Guess we can give up any hope that Bradley will be back.

 

 

If this is really true than Piniella did not have any control over this team, everything we heard prior to this season was Bradley had never been anything but a great teamate. Chalk this one up to the Chicago Media and Lou Piniella. Bradley is many things but I do not believe he "ruined" the atmosphere to the point of losing the division. Maybe Theriot's lack luster base running and bad defense had as much to do with this team as Bradley.

 

Did you really think there was any hope of Bradley returning? Nobody is saying Bradley "ruined" the atmosphere to the point of losing the division, just that he disrupted the team chemistry. I agree with Theriot, it is pretty obvious that Bradley was disruptive inside and outside of the clubhouse.

[davell]

Tim Brown from Yahoo tweeted that the only way Tampa would consider adding Bradley would be if we ate SO MUCH of the contract, that they could release him at any point basically without taking a hit.

[SouthSideRyan]

From the Suntimes.com

 

"I never thought so, but this year it's kind of obvious.''

 

-- Shortstop Ryan Theriot, on whether one player can disrupt the clubhouse chemistry for an entire team

 

Guess we can give up any hope that Bradley will be back.

 

I don't even have it in me anymore.

[Tyrant]

Awesome scrappy feels secure enough in his job to attack a better player. Milton has taken dumps with more talent than Ryan Theriot.

 

It's fun that people still think Bradley is a good baseball player. His body is shot. He's done. And he's crazy.

[SouthSideRyan]

Awesome scrappy feels secure enough in his job to attack a better player. Milton has taken dumps with more talent than Ryan Theriot.

 

It's fun that people still think Bradley is a good baseball player. His body is shot. He's done. And he's crazy.

 

Well this is new.

[Rob]

"I never thought so, but this year it's kind of obvious.''

 

-- Shortstop Ryan Theriot, on whether one player can disrupt the clubhouse chemistry for an entire team

 

Obviously it wasn't all the losing that effected the chemistry. It was Bradley.

[loukycub]

If this is really true than Piniella did not have any control over this team, everything we heard prior to this season was Bradley had never been anything but a great teamate. Chalk this one up to the Chicago Media and Lou Piniella. Bradley is many things but I do not believe he "ruined" the atmosphere to the point of losing the division. Maybe Theriot's lack luster base running and bad defense had as much to do with this team as Bradley.

 

Did you really think there was any hope of Bradley returning? Nobody is saying Bradley "ruined" the atmosphere to the point of losing the division, just that he disrupted the team chemistry. I agree with Theriot, it is pretty obvious that Bradley was disruptive inside and outside of the clubhouse.

 

i want to address the two quotes here:

@dan

if bradley was really this great teammate that you are claiming that he is, then why has he been on so many teams in almost the same amount of years? don't you think that if he was that great of a teammate he would have stuck around for longer than two full seasons in one place? you can say his teammates said he was a great presence, i'll say that he was so moody in the clubhouse that teammates are saying he was a great teammate to not get on his bad side. this is not on the media or management. this is on bradley. he is not in the soft media markets where the reporters would ask him hard questions. this is also not a management organization that won't tolerate any of his act as some organizations tolerated some before letting him go. if he went to new york or philly, i would expect the same kind of blowup he had here.

 

@b2b & rob

i really don't think it was any coincidence that they played as well as they did at the end of the season when bradley was not there as they did all of last season. is it far fetched to say that his attitude made it that we didn't get to the postseason. yes. is it far fetched to say that his attitude made it so that we didn't get to the postseason in the middle of the year when we had all of those injuries? that may have been possible. i think that chemistry is most visible in close games.

 

and just to clarify- i am not saying bradley's attitude caused us to miss the playoffs. that was a total team effort. i am positing that while aramis was out and soto was benched and and out and sori was gimping around in the outfield and at the plate, bradley's attitude caused us to not win those close games which in turn caused us to miss the playoffs. i have never said that we had a bad season because of bradley. bad closers, bad luck and injuries was the main cause for this season.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

i really don't think it was any coincidence that they played as well as they did at the end of the season when bradley was not there as they did all of last season.

 

The Cubs finished the season without Bradley 8-6, and were losing a rained out game by several runs when it was canceled. If they had played that well throughout the whole season, they would've finished exactly where they did, 2nd in the division and 5th in the wild card race.

[CUBZ99]

i really don't think it was any coincidence that they played as well as they did at the end of the season when bradley was not there as they did all of last season.

 

The Cubs finished the season without Bradley 8-6, and were losing a rained out game by several runs when it was canceled. If they had played that well throughout the whole season, they would've finished exactly where they did, 2nd in the division and 5th in the wild card race.

 

There were many reasons the Cubs didn't make the playoffs this year. Bradley's antics were just one factor.

 

And let's be honest, we don't know how well the Cubs would have played without Bradley. The 8-6 record was mainly a factor of Lou playing some incredibly pathetic lineups at the end of the year along with the insistence of pitching Shark and resting Harden for the rest of the year.

[SouthSideRyan]

i really don't think it was any coincidence that they played as well as they did at the end of the season when bradley was not there as they did all of last season.

 

The Cubs finished the season without Bradley 8-6, and were losing a rained out game by several runs when it was canceled. If they had played that well throughout the whole season, they would've finished exactly where they did, 2nd in the division and 5th in the wild card race.

 

There were many reasons the Cubs didn't make the playoffs this year. Bradley's antics were just one factor.

 

And let's be honest, we don't know how well the Cubs would have played without Bradley. The 8-6 record was mainly a factor of Lou playing some incredibly pathetic lineups at the end of the year along with the insistence of pitching Shark and resting Harden for the rest of the year.

 

Every loss without Bradley can be explained away. The losses with Bradley are all on him.

 

This [expletive] is driving me insane.

 

The Cubs went 27-26 in games Bradley didn't start. I know how well the Cubs would've done if they suspended him on day 1. Worse.

[Rob]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

 

I wouldn't begrudge anybody here if they said, "I know Bradley makes this team better, but I dislike him so much that I'd rather see this team lose an extra couple games if it means being rid of him."

 

What bothers me are the people who are trying to rationalize their hatred of him by creating a fantasy world where he somehow negatively impacts our chances to win. They just cant stand the thought they're rooting for us to do something against the best interests of the team, and make up ridiculous claims to defend themselves. It's extremely dishonest.