7 Back, 17 To Go: Cubs Nearly Done For Year After 7-4 Loss To Brewers

Would have to look through free agent lists. Also, do not discount the possibility of dumping a contract on someone, then using the money to make a deal for another contract.

Eat the contract? If necessary, yes. But I think they’ll find a taker without having to eat the whole thing.

his calf area and they also said he was lumbering running to get on base too.

And we couldn’t all be mad at Milton Bradley, which is obviously the only rational thing to do.

I wouldn’t count on this doing it.

and they still defend him. Oh well, to each his own.

I still want Bradley back, but I realize that the pitchforks are out in the media and in the stands.

I hope calmer heads will prevail, but I’m just a guy watching the team and Hendry will have to gauge how the team is made up for next year.

Are the same ones that claim Soriano is one of the best defensive LFs in the game. Must be nice to live life blinded by the flowers in the grass.

Why his power disappeared, I have no idea. Part of it could be his 19.9% LD rate, which is below his career norm. All of his peripherals are around his career averages, so I’m as baffled as anywhere else. But don’t act like Bradley hasn’t for the most part started playing better. If you think that he’s still playing as poorly as he was in the beginning of the season then you’re full of crap, I’m sorry.

I still want Milton back next season, I think it is hard for any free agent adjust to the Chicago environment and for some reason Milton has been made the face of failure here. Yes I do think his race has something to do with that, but I won’t get into that here.

The thing is almost all Milton supporters understand that he will be on a new team next season and that is a damn shame. It signals an organization listening to idiot fans who don’t know how to properly vent their frustrations about a disappointing team. Milton Bradley isn’t the problem, team chemistry isn’t the problem, people claim Z is a cancer yet he’s been on 3 Cubs playoff teams.

I wish Milton the best of luck on his new team, I look forward to the fanposts of his production next season and the hand wringing over his departure, I look forward to the Cubs giving away a productive right fielder for free while paying his salary. Trading Bradley does nothing but give you Micah Hoffpauir in right next season or Sam Fuld in center. I can hardly wait.

While i agree with you that he’s not the #5 that the Cubs needed (and that certainly isn’t his fault… blame Hendry & Lou for that misstep), he’s a productive dude who’s been largly injury and trouble free this season. He gets on base, plays defense well enough…

He’s a scapegoat at this point. Anybody looking objectively at this team and acting as if they’d be marching in to the playoffs if only we’d have gotten whoever else everyone was clamoring for instead of Bradly isn’t recognizing the real issues… Sori sucking, Rami hurting, Soto sucking, Miles existing…

There are more important things to take care of in the off season than ditching Bradley, but i’m guessing its all we’ll hear about. Oh well.

Any of the folks who claimed Bradley was an underappreciated salesman, or who claimed that their slide rules showed Bradley was due to come back.

Al’s made it abundantly clear that personal attacks on Bradley are encouraged from the top down, that trying to look at him and the rest of the team objectively is worthing of front-page mocking, and that question Al’s personal biases against the man is a bannable offense.

There’s been a pretty active campaign here to push out any kind of intelligent discourse on baseball. Most of the best posters have left either out of frustration or simply been banned. Turning on the spigot to Yahoo just tipped the scales well into the cro-magnon direction around here.

Bradley is like watching a perfectly conceived experiment to prove the existence of confirmation bias. Anything he does, no matter how big or small (he took himself out of a game with sore knees for christ’s sake) gets turned into the latest example of what a horrible person he is.

And honestly arguing with people like that is like trying to like arguing with a birther; sure it’s fun at first, but they’ll talk in circles, stringing together one offensively stupid comment after another, to the point that the only reasonable course of action is just to walk away with a little less faith in the human race.

That’s exactly what he did.

I honestly don’t care about zone ratings or any other statistical measures of Milton Bradley. He was a bad choice last winter, and he’s a bad choice to be on the team now.

Adam Dunn’s defense is awful. But his offense would have made up for it. Jim Hendry picked the wrong guy.

It took 50 game for Ramirez’s shoulder to mend.

In 2007 he had to dress at Batgirl and walk with the other rookies from Great America Park back to the hotel. Technically he is still a Rookie but it seems unfair to make him do this again. That said. first person who gets a photo of him as WONDER WOMAN can have a free bleacher ticket if you want to go to a game on the last weekend.

Didn’t you hear?

FWIW — I just wanted to note that your obsession with Sam Fuld, coupled with your Stalker username might someday lead to a restraining order.

Good luck with it though…

I appreciate your optimism but I think thats doubtful

I’d wear swimming trunks.

She is a shill for the Cubs……A giant excuse maker.

If he was hurting, why did he bat at all?

Truthfully, Al said this was the one that broke the camels back. Right, like in a couple of weeks he was going to say he wanted to keep Bradley.

The people that want Bradley outta here are looking for anything to use to get him outta here. The pitchfork brigade.

Media that says what you don’t — BAD!

If it had been an actual writer saying that, it’s one thing, but Carrie Muskat is the Baghdad Bob of the Chicago Cubs. I can still remember when Carrie compared Latroy Hawkins to Mariano Rivera.

if Milton had not gotten on base, would he have stayed in?

IF THIS IS TRUE what is it about Lou sending guys out there with obvious knee injuries?

And why the hell does MIlton himself go out of his way to make this a bigger story than it was. Someone asks him how long he thinks he’ll be out, and he freaks?

Good lord

to buy into conspiracy theories, but this really sounds like an attempted cover up to me.

When you look at the sequence of events – Lou skipping the post game news conference, and then when he finally did let reporters into his office, the first thing he referenced was the incident with Bradley, in an attempt to downplay it. Not the Grand Slam, not bringing in Patton when he did, just Milton, front and center. I don’t know how you can infer anything but the fact that he was pissed at Bradley and knew he would be asked about and wanted to cool off first, lest he throw Milton under the bus, again.

Lou has enough experience with Bradley now to know the press was going to jump all over this incident. He, Muskat and the Cubs organization has gone into damage control mode now. It is as plain as the nose on your face.

Whoever it was that pointed out that there is no way Lou and MB co-exist at Wrigley Field in 2010 hit the nail on the head. One or the other, or both, will not be back.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows everywhere.