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Milton Bradley vents on Billy Beane

Bradley vents: Billy Beane betrayed him

This article is a must read, it's got all kinds of juicy gossip about near fights, race cards and pure front office evil.

"I ran into him in the hallway when I came in for treatment," Bradley recalled. "He points his finger in my face and tells me, 'I need to talk to you in my office, and if I don't see you before you leave, your bags are packed.'

"Prior to that meeting with Billy the last day, the way he talked to me in that hallway was reason enough for him to get his teeth knocked out," Bradley added. "So I told him and everybody else before I went in there, 'You better get your paramedic on duty, because if he talks to me crazy again, we're going to have a problem.' I'm a man. Nobody's going to talk to me that kind of way."

I get where Milton Bradley is coming from because I'm also a man, some would say the man and if anybody, and I mean anybody sticks a finger in my face, I bite it off.  That's just what I do.  I bite it off and spit it in their face.  Depending on how mad I am I take that finger stick into an unpleasant place of my attacker.  The reason why is simple: I make a living with this face.  Milton and I are pretty people and we cannot risk you putting a blemish on our flawless skin.  

We also expect to be treated like the men we are.  GM's need to treat their players as people and not some equipment or an organizational asset.  I think at times they get so busy looking at the numbers that they forget that they are dealing with human f'n beings who have feelings too.

Sometimes I wish Billy Beane didn't write his science fiction romance novel Money Ball because in a way we lost our humanity when nerds took over baseball.  

I encourage you to read the entire article.

Thanks to Drama who posted this article link in the diaries. Here's an AN diary with their point of view

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Which one of you....
... was it who insisted to me that Bradley had "no problems" in Oakland?  

Milton Bradley is the Ron Artest of MLB, with delusions of greatness and persecution.  

He whips out that race card whenever he doesn't get his way.  He is a pretty pathetic individual.

by Spec20 on Aug 4, 2007 5:45 PM PDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That's weird
I always thought you liked Milton Bradley.

by jbox on Aug 4, 2007 6:14 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Seriously...
The guy has one out-spoken interview and all of the sudden you just turn on him?

by Drama on Aug 4, 2007 7:00 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Don't the bad feelings sort of happen
around the trade...so maybe he'll just be a problem to us if we trade him.  At that point, he's out the door.

by bktabinga on Aug 4, 2007 7:12 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That Artest comparison....
...has gotten "oh-so-tired" to me.

I say he's the Tim Duncan of MLB, with realities of victory and clutch performances.

He whips that bat out and pitchers never get their way. He is a pretty awesome individual.

Ah, for the days that we complained about our two hit victories...

by TheThirdGonzalez on Aug 4, 2007 7:11 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

If I hear that Ron Artest comment one more time
I'm going to stick my cyber foot up your ass, for real.
"At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria." - Jerry Coleman

by TheGrandHatching on Aug 6, 2007 11:32 AM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

"your ass"
I just realized that my comment could be construed as being directed toward you, TTG.  Obviously, this is NOT the case.
"At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria." - Jerry Coleman

by TheGrandHatching on Aug 6, 2007 3:57 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

????h
is that a joke? ron artest of mlb?

by LF Lurking on Aug 6, 2007 2:34 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I guess not to him.
It's his favorite stand-by. Every time he starts slagging Parker Bros, he busts it out. I swear he's gone to it at least a dozen times.
Ah, for the days that we complained about our two hit victories...

by TheThirdGonzalez on Aug 6, 2007 3:01 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Lets give Spec20 a new one...
he's the John McEnroe of Tennis.  That should give him some ammo for the next year.

by bktabinga on Aug 7, 2007 8:10 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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