Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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edabbs44
Pretty ridiculous comparison, imo.
I'm sorry, but if you do time for DUI, then you have character issues.
Hopefully he's gotten himself some help, but it is one of the reasons he wasn't asked to stay in Atlanta.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
I'm with Cyclone. Bradley is exactly the kind of player who would seemingly be a good fit with Dusty's personality type and managerial approach. And they could use his bat. 2 years, 18 million, I would be okay with that kind of offer and he absolutely would fill a need...
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Originally Posted by
Raisor
I'm sorry, but if you do time for DUI, then you have character issues.
Hopefully he's gotten himself some help, but it is one of the reasons he wasn't asked to stay in Atlanta.
I'm sorry as well, but there are major differences here. This guy has went after fans, umps and announcers. If Furcal had 5 DUIs, then I would agree. But one DUI is nowhere near what this travesy has rung up in his career.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Originally Posted by
edabbs44
I'm sorry as well, but there are major differences here. This guy has went after fans, umps and announcers. If Furcal had 5 DUIs, then I would agree. But one DUI is nowhere near what this travesy has rung up in his career.
Furcal has multiple DUI's
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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I would be very happy with this.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Originally Posted by
Raisor
Furcal has multiple DUI's
Multiple as in 2. Just to clarify.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Originally Posted by
edabbs44
Multiple as in 2. Just to clarify.
Yes multiple as in 2.
How many times do you think he didn't get caught?
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Raisor
Yes multiple as in 2.
How many times do you think he didn't get caught?
Now we are stretching it.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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edabbs44
Now we are stretching it.
Guy has 2 DUI's and we're "stretching it" by calling it a character issue?
Really?
Furcal is lucky he didn't kill anyone.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Originally Posted by
edabbs44
I'm sorry as well, but there are major differences here. This guy has went after fans, umps and announcers. If Furcal had 5 DUIs, then I would agree. But one DUI is nowhere near what this travesy has rung up in his career.
Oh come on now, that's blowing things out of proportion. Everyone in Texas loved the guy, he's not leaving there because they think he's a cancer. He threw a water bottle down on the warning track at the fan, but he didn't pull a Ron Artest and jump over the wall. He's yelled at umps, quite loudly, but who hasn't? He's went a little overboard, yes, but so did Pete Rose back in the day. And one time he went up to the broadcast booth to confront an announcer about a comment. We don't know what he would have done if he had reached him. It was a VERY unfair comment for the announcer to make, a blind shot out of nowhere. Bradley had turned it around in Texas to a certain extent, and was legitimately hurt that someone brought up the "bad" Milton image. He's a guy that cares, a guy that has strived to improve on the field and off, and I'd be willing to take a flier on him, especially in this clubhouse.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Highlifeman21
DUI shows immaturity and bad decisions.
You've painted the Milton Bradley picture as him being immature and making bad decisions.
Furcal's DUI seems like a pretty fair comparison to your Bradley picture, IMO.
Way too much of a pattern with this guy. Not what they need.
He would be the chalk if they posted odds on the instigator in the next Artest melee.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Raisor
Guy has 2 DUI's and we're "stretching it" by calling it a character issue?
Really?
Furcal is lucky he didn't kill anyone.
You are correct in calling it a character issue and you are even more correct in saying he is lucky he didn't kill anyone. But those issues don't impact a team like Bradley's sideshow would.
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cincrazy
Oh come on now, that's blowing things out of proportion. Everyone in Texas loved the guy, he's not leaving there because they think he's a cancer.
He will be on his 7th team in 10ish years.
I don't think they dedicated a monument to him in each city upon his departure.
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
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Ltlabner
May I just say that this new "tag" feature is both pretty groovy and likely to become completely out of control.
Unfortunately you can only out 2 tags to any one topic.
But..:D you can add to old topics
Re: Reds Rumored to be Interested in Milton Bradley?
Milton Bradley is actually a very thoughtful, intelligent, caring and well spoken man.
He has anger issues, but he's bright enough to understand that it's something he needs to work on, and by all accounts has made a genuine effort to do so.
We should all have our foibles on display for millions of people to cast stones at us.
Let's see how we'd like it.