Mr. Tirade himself is at it again. This time, Milton Bradley got so mad about the Royals' announcer Ryan Lefebvre's comments that he stormed up four levels at Kaufman Stadium most likely to yell at or fight him. Lefebvre had contrasted Josh Hamilton, who has come back from a bad history (drugs) to Bradley who he portrayed as clinging on to his bad history.Bradley reportedly got within about 20 feet of Lefebvre before Rangers GM, Jon Daniels "interceded". Yea and Alfonso Soriano (broken hand) is out with a contusion (sarcasm emphasized).
After being escorted back to the clubhouse by Daniels, Bradley yelled at teammates and broke down into tears saying,
"I'm tired of people bringing me down. It wears on you. I love you guys, all you guys. I'm strong, but I'm not that strong. All I want to do is play baseball and make a better life for my kid than I had."Aww. We're supposed to feel bad for the millionaire because he is never the one that is wrong or is obviously facing severe mitigating circumstances that somehow get him out of control, despite all those anger management courses.
As for the better life than your kid part. That is just grasping. Enroll your kid in a sign language course, take him to gynastics, sign him up for piano lessons or take him to church. The idea that Lefebvre's valid comments are tearing apart a family, just shows how much of a victim and misunderstood personality, Bradley will always think he is.
We understand Milton. We understand that you are immature and disrespectful towards other people and then always bring it back to how you've been wronged, instead of apologizing. Examples include calling Jeff Kent a racist despite any discernible proof, justifying an injury-induced tirade on an umpire using one solitary profanity (but leaving out all the times you ever swore at umps), slamming a plastic bottle at a fan's feet and vehemently arguing with him (needing to be restrained as usual).
By the way this is just the highlights and nowhere near an all inclusive list of his antics. Lefebvre based the relevance of his comments on just things he saw that series. He said Bradley dropped his bat (bad attitude display), walked from right-field to the dugout, and argued and taunted fans in right field and in the dugout. He was acting out in a way that no other player he knows acts out, Lefebvre recounted.
On top of everything, Bradley validated Lefebvre's comments. Lebfevre recounted the his comments on the broadcast saying,
"It was a conversation about how Josh Hamilton has turned his life around and has been accountable for his mistakes. Right now, it seems like the baseball world and fans are rooting for him. … It doesn't seem like Milton Bradley has done the same thing in his life."Bradley certainly is not the inspiration Josh Hamilton is. Milton Bradley could have disagreed, but instead Mr. Hothead went to business as usual.
Lefebvre was not aware until afterward that the event had taken place. The next day Bradley came up with the story that he just wanted to "introduce himself." Daniels played the equally insincere PR man saying,
"It's a situation you want to avoid, but I don't see where disciplinary action is warranted. I was there the whole time. There was no aggressive action. There was no foul action, nothing of the sort. We move on."Folks you've all just experienced a 'happening!' Nothing to see here. We will now all sing 'A Friendly World.'
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