The Bryce is Right, Bitch

[Sammy Sofa]

[17 Seconds]

i just went through the same youtube process as you and almost posted that

 

i wonder if he is still passionate about jacque jones

[cl smooth]

slightly off my just thought up brand, but this might need to be included

 

 

and here we have a pair of shaved balls putting its hands on barney gumble and ted cruz.

[NonProfitCow]

I still can't believe the Milton Bradley saga was a thing that actually happened.

I was pissed when the Cubs signed him. horsefeathers hit .316 .425 .557 .982 over the 2 years before.

[biittner77]

Jacques Jones or Delino DeShields? Those were the days my frent.

[Sammy Sofa]

I still can't believe the Milton Bradley saga was a thing that actually happened.

I was pissed when the Cubs signed him. horsefeathers hit .316 .425 .557 .982 over the 2 years before.

 

I was a big time scumbag and very clearly remember thinking, "Who cares how nuts he is? He's figured it out!"

[SouthSideRyan]

I still can't believe the Milton Bradley saga was a thing that actually happened.

I was pissed when the Cubs signed him. horsefeathers hit .316 .425 .557 .982 over the 2 years before.

 

I was a big time scumbag and very clearly remember thinking, "Who cares how nuts he is? He's figured it out!"

 

I feel like all any of us were worried about were injury concerns...

[David]

I was pissed when the Cubs signed him. horsefeathers hit .316 .425 .557 .982 over the 2 years before.

 

I was a big time scumbag and very clearly remember thinking, "Who cares how nuts he is? He's figured it out!"

 

I feel like all any of us were worried about were injury concerns...

Yup

[Tim]

I would not want to revisit that thread.

[Bertz]

I'm willing to be shown wrong, but I don't remember his really bad off the field stuff being a known when he was signed. There was stuff like an altercation with an umpire and some fights with teammates, but I think the DV stuff came out at the end, possibly when he was already on the Mariners.

[jersey cubs fan]

It was known he had really bad off field stuff, it was just swept under the rug and considered unrelated to baseball by many at the time.

[David]

Apparently Bog Nightengale (heard this on a Score update) is saying that Harper is down to the Giants and Phillies, so hope is still alive.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'm willing to be shown wrong, but I don't remember his really bad off the field stuff being a known when he was signed. There was stuff like an altercation with an umpire and some fights with teammates, but I think the DV stuff came out at the end, possibly when he was already on the Mariners.

 

Wikipedia sources an article from 2005 that mentions the police were sent to his house multiple times that August about domestic violence, but he wasn't charged with anything, and especially given the times I don't think that was more than a footnote for most people. The stuff that got him arrested started in 2011, after his one Cubs season in 2009.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm willing to be shown wrong, but I don't remember his really bad off the field stuff being a known when he was signed. There was stuff like an altercation with an umpire and some fights with teammates, but I think the DV stuff came out at the end, possibly when he was already on the Mariners.

 

Wikipedia sources an article from 2005 that mentions the police were sent to his house multiple times that August about domestic violence, but he wasn't charged with anything, and especially given the times I don't think that was more than a footnote for most people. The stuff that got him arrested started in 2011, after his one Cubs season in 2009.

 

Yeah, like jersey said, there was definitely worse stuff than his baseball antics out there before the Cubs got him, but it was mostly ignored or brushed aside, as that kind of stuff typically was with pro athletes seemingly short of it escalating to horsefeathering murder.

 

Like, people were legitimately more furious about him trying to go after Ryan Lefebvre than his wife calling the police on him multiple times.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Oh, that old son of a bitch, Milton Bradley.

 

*checks internet*

 

This may be the oldest I have ever felt knowing he's 4 years younger than me.

[Sammy Sofa]

Oh, that old son of a bitch, Milton Bradley.

 

*checks internet*

 

This may be the oldest I have ever felt knowing he's 4 years younger than me.

 

I would have figured "old man" David Ross would have been more of a tipping point.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Oh, that old son of a bitch, Milton Bradley.

 

*checks internet*

 

This may be the oldest I have ever felt knowing he's 4 years younger than me.

 

I would have figured "old man" David Ross would have been more of a tipping point.

Nah, he's older than MB.

[squally1313]

Milton Bradley was perfect for my dumb fandom at the time because I was still incredibly naive and/or had blinders to player's personal lives, but also thought I was a genius sabermetric fan who just discovered walk rates and assumed every hitter was basically a .270 hitter who just had good or bad BABIP luck. Between him and Fukudome I thought we were set.

[Sammy Sofa]

Looking at it from a strictly baseball standpoint, they completely botched a perfectly serviceable signing. The guy's power numbers were clearly inflated the year before by being in Texas, yet that, of course, was what Hendry and co. glommed onto instead of how good the guy was at getting on base. They had Fukudome and Bradley, who put up a .375 and .378 OPS respectively, yet Bradley had a whopping ZERO PA hitting first, and only 108 batting second. Fukudome at least had over 300 PA hitting first or second, but still had almost 300 PA further down in the lineup.

 

Meanwhile Ryan horsefeathering Theriot had over 600 PA that season hitting first or second.

[UMFan83]

Milton Bradley was another half ass move by this half assed franchise during their half assed 2000s. He was yet another OF meant to cover skipping on Beltran, and also the FO’s attempt to show they were hip to the fancy OBPs and OPSs the kids were going crazy for. I remember wanting to like the move because he could play, but not having a good feeling overall because he was a dick and made of glass.

 

I'm drawing a blank now but I remember there being several options for an OF who can get on base and hit lefties well and they picked the one with the least track record and the one with by far the most character issues. That said, I remember being happy about it because I think he had the best 2008 season out of the options and I was more tone deaf to social issues at the time.

[David]

i'm so horsefeathering glad ryan theriot is no longer a thing i have to care about

 

god damn did i hate him, and it was only made worse by what a fan favorite he was

[David]

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[NOLA]

i'm so horsefeathering glad ryan theriot is no longer a thing i have to care about

 

horsefeathers did i hate him, and it was only made worse by what a fan favorite he was

He is douching it up every Friday evening on the local drive time sports radio show here, aka "The Riot Radio Hour". It's a hodgepodge of hot takes on grittiness and winners, with lots of good ole boy redneck comedy relief about him drunk deer hunting or riding 4 wheelers in the woods. I do like the show but have to turn it off for that hour.

 

BTW, he regularly rails on Big Z, mostly thinly vailed comments on his intelligence.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

The Onion:

Bryce Harper Asks If Phillies Willing To Move To Another City

[UMFan83]

Milton Bradley was another half ass move by this half assed franchise during their half assed 2000s. He was yet another OF meant to cover skipping on Beltran, and also the FO’s attempt to show they were hip to the fancy OBPs and OPSs the kids were going crazy for. I remember wanting to like the move because he could play, but not having a good feeling overall because he was a dick and made of glass.

 

I'm drawing a blank now but I remember there being several options for an OF who can get on base and hit lefties well and they picked the one with the least track record and the one with by far the most character issues. That said, I remember being happy about it because I think he had the best 2008 season out of the options and I was more tone deaf to social issues at the time.

 

Just looked it up. Got it backwards...they wanted a lefthanded power hitting OF.

 

Options included:

 

-Bradley (0.7 fWAR in 2009, 0.2 total for the rest of his career, 3 years)

-Dunn (1.1 fWAR in 2009, 4.0 total for the rest of his career, 6 years)

-Ibanez (3.4 fWAR in 2009, 2.7 total for the rest of his career, 6 years)

-Abreu (2.7 fWAR in 2009, 5.1 total for the rest of his career, 5 years)

 

None of them were great long term options (Dunn and Ibanez both had -2+ fWAR seasons in either 2010 or 2011) but Bradley ended up the worst of the options for 2009. The Cubs finished 7.5 games out of a playoff spot so it likely wouldn't have mattered but we really f'ed that one up.