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Milton Bradley News & Rumors

Milton Bradley calls wife a liar, denies death threats
October 26
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"Former Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley said he never threatened to kill his wife, Monique, and that she's an attention-starved liar. Last month, Milton Bradley was arrested after a Sept. 27 argument at the couple's Los Angeles home. During the argument, he is alleged to have picked up a picture of a gun and said, "This is the gun that I'm going to kill you with." He also allegedly threatened Monique Bradley with a baseball bat during the exchange, which he denies."
Milton Bradley to wife: 'This is the gun I'm going to kill you with'
October 14
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"Former Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley allegedly threatened to kill his wife, Monique, before his latest arrest. According to court documents obtained by TMZ.com, Milton Bradley picked up a picture of a gun during the Sept. 27 argument at their Los Angeles home and said, "This is the gun that I'm going to kill you with." He also allegedly threatened Monique Bradley with a baseball bat during the exchange. Bradley was arrested on suspicion of felony battery by Los Angeles police. It was his second arrest of the year. He is set to appear in court Oct. 18. Monique Bradley called 911 about 2 p.m. to report that her husband was chasing her and swinging a bat, police said. Milton"
The Milton Bradley shuffle
May 10
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"In a move that seemed destined to happen, the Seattle Mariners ended their relationship with Milton Bradley by designating him for assignment Monday. In another move, outfielder Ryan Langerhans was also designated for assignment. Mike Wilson and Carlos Peguero were recalled from Triple-A Tacoma to take their place on the 25-man roster and give the team a new look in the outfield. Bradley's tumultuous tenure in Seattle comes to an end far short of the limited expectations the team had for him. Bradley, 33, was hitting .218 with two home runs and 13 RBI in 28 games this season. "We just felt that Milton was not part of our future and not part of our present," Mariners general manager Jack"
No hits, no mulligans: Why Milton Bradley's career is over
May 10
Seattle Times
 columnist Jerry Brewer
"This time, it wasn't about Milton Bradley's bad attitude. He was just bad, period. Bradley, the mercurial and tormented outfielder, spent 101 games over two seasons with the Mariners and left the saddest impression of his controversial career. The problem wasn't his notorious temper, though. The problem was his skills, which had allowed him to get opportunity after opportunity despite his emotional problems. He can't play anymore. Therefore, he is done. With the Mariners. And, likely, with Major League Baseball. Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik said it best in a news conference explaining why the team cut ties with Bradley: "We just felt that Milton was not part of our future, and"
Mariners cut ties with Milton Bradley
May 10
Seattle Times
 
"The disappointing, tortured tenure of Milton Bradley with the Mariners finally came to an end Monday after an embarrassing series of events that occurred over the weekend. Bradley was designated for assignment, along with outfielder Ryan Langerhans, as the team called up outfielders Mike Wilson and Carlos Peguero to replace them in time for a series that starts Tuesday in Baltimore. As for Bradley and Langerhans, they must be released, traded or outrighted to the minors within 10 days. The moves come after the Mariners scored just two runs their final two games — both losses — against the Chicago White Sox, while Bradley generated negative headlines during all three days of the series. On"
Close your eyes and pray when a ball's hit to Bradley
May 9
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"Anybody who doubts the high degree of skill required to play baseball competently should pay attention to Mariners left fielder Milton Bradley. Although left field is considered the least demanding outfield position, Bradley reminded Safeco Field fans Sunday that no defensive task is routine. There are balls to chase, and walls to face, and homeward-bound throws to make - throws that can prove the difference between a rally-snuffing out and a gift-packaged run. After the Mariners closed their homestand with their second listless effort in 19 hours, manager Eric Wedge put blame for the 5-2 defeat to the Chicago White Sox on his team's inability to produce key hits. Wedge had a point - the"
Milton Bradley suspended for one game
May 4
Seattle Times
 
"Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley served a one-game suspension Tuesday for an incident at Boston's Fenway Park last Saturday. Bradley was also fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball. Bradley originally planned to appeal his suspension, and was in the starting lineup posted by Mariners manager Eric Wedge. However, just before batting practice, Bradley decided to drop his appeal. Ryan Langerhans replaced him in left field. "It was his call," Wedge said. The Mariners called the commissioner's office and got it cleared for Bradley to serve the suspension Tuesday. Bradley was ejected Saturday in the third inning while he was a base runner at second base. He was ejected by"
Bradley is all about baseball
March 2
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"Milton Bradley came to camp with the Seattle Mariners intent on leaving the outside world and its dangers and complications behind, but the best of intentions only go so far. "For me here, it needs to be about baseball. Baseball is what I do best," Bradley said Tuesday. "I'm 100 percent focused." Which isn't to say he's deaf. On Sunday, in the annual charity game between Seattle and San Diego, Bradley was introduced prior to his first at-bat of the spring and a fan down the first-base line booed. Did Bradley hear him? "Yeah, I heard him. One guy, and no one joined him," Bradley said. "Today there was one guy in the outfield, yelling 'Drop the ball' and 'Nice baserunning.' When self-doubt"
Bradley won't face charges in threats case, attorney says
February 12
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley will not face charges in connection with alleged threats he made against his wife in Los Angeles, his attorney said Friday. Bradley, 32, was arrested Jan. 18 in Encino, Calif., after police were called to his home by a woman who claimed he had threatened her. He was booked into the Van Nuys jail on felony suspicion of making criminal threats. Friday, Bradley's attorney, Harland Braun, released a statement saying he would not face charges. "The allegations against Milton Bradley were thoroughly investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office," the statement read. "Both agencies determined there was no basis to"
Mariners' Milton Bradley will compete for playing time at spring training
January 26
Seattle Times
 
"The Mariners are planning to have Milton Bradley compete for a starting job in spring training despite his arrest last week, Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik said Tuesday. The Mariners open their spring camp in Peoria, Ariz., with pitchers and catchers on Feb. 13, followed by the full squad reporting on Feb. 18. Before that, however, Bradley has a court date on Feb. 8 in Southern California pertaining to his arrest for allegedly threatening a woman, a felony charge. "Obviously, there's a legal process that Milton has to go through," Zduriencik said. "As of right now, he's a part of the organization, and we're planning on him coming into spring training and competing for a job.""
What to do with Milton Bradley?
January 20
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"News of outfielder Milton Bradley's arrest in Los Angeles on Tuesday only intensifies a question that was already being asked: What should the Mariners do with him? Bradley was arrested for allegedly threatening a woman, The Los Angeles Times reported. Not many details of the incident are available, but Bradley is no stranger to run-ins with police, managers, fans, teammates, umpires and reporters. He also has a history of emotional problems that led to a two-week leave from the team last season. The Mariners knew what they were getting when they traded Carlos Silva to the Cubs for Bradley before the 2010 season, and they knew it could get ugly. What they have now is even more"
Mariners' Milton Bradley arrested on suspicion of making threat against woman
January 19
Seattle Times
 
"A former major-league general manager said Tuesday night there would have to be specific language in Milton Bradley's contract for his arrest on suspicion of making a felony threat to alter his deal. Bradley was arrested Tuesday morning in Southern California after allegedly making a criminal threat against an unidentified woman. He was released on $50,000 bail late Tuesday afternoon and will have to appear in court on Feb. 8. The Mariners owe Bradley $12 million this season, even though he is not expected to land a starting job in either left field or at designated hitter. That is for the final season of a three-year, $30 million contract Bradley signed with the Chicago Cubs before being"
Piniella on Bradley: 'I'd like to see Milton do well'
June 23
Chicago Tribune
 
"Lou Piniella's homecoming to Seattle brought out a boatload of media on Tuesday, and one of the topics he was asked about was his former player, Milton Bradley. "I'm glad that he's gotten some good help," Piniella said. "I'd like to see Milton do well. He was with us a year in Chicago and he did what he could. He came here to Seattle, and we like to see our ex-players do well, and Milton is no exception." Piniella was asked if he would speak to Bradley during the series. "If I see him," he replied. "But I'm sure he's doing the best that he can and I wish him the best." Bradley is in the lineup tonight at DH, batting third. After taking batting practice, Bradley went back into the Mariners"
Milton Bradley's bat lifts Mariners, 5-3 over Tigers
May 26
Seattle Times
 
"Rarely does a baseball player get to execute a victory lap in the middle of a game, but Milton Bradley accomplished something akin to that Tuesday after delivering the biggest hit of a 5-3 Mariners victory at Safeco Field. Bradley had just driven home Chone Figgins from second base with a one-out single off Justin Verlander to break a 3-3 tie in the eighth. When Tigers manager Jim Leyland pulled Verlander from the game, Bradley ran to the Seattle dugout during the pitching change and "gave everyone a little love," as manager Don Wakamatsu would later put it. The love was returned by Bradley's ecstatic teammates as he went down the line of players, receiving backslaps and handshakes before"
Grounds-crew veteran loosens up his arm to toss BP to Milton Bradley
May 25
Seattle Times
 
"A ballplayer will sometimes take any help he can get when prohibited by baseball rules from working out with his team. In the case of Milton Bradley, who spent 15 days on baseball's restricted list before rejoining the Mariners last week, it took a member of the Safeco Field grounds crew to help keep his bat sharp enough during his prolonged absence. Kevin Dvorak, a former college baseball player in his fourth season with the grounds crew, wound up throwing batting practice to Bradley on a handful of occasions during the final stages of the player's preparation to return. Bradley had been doing indoor hitting work with the team's mental performance coach Steve Hecht, a former professional"
Bradley talks about self-examination
May 23
ESPN.com
 
"Buried under a mountain of pressure and the constant buzz of a $30 million contract, Milton Bradley says he pondered getting help in 2009 during his short and controversial stay with the Chicago Cubs. "I wanted to take some time out, get my thoughts together, and just speak to someone and get an understanding from somebody unbiased," Bradley said. "But you can't really do that in Chicago. There's just too much going on." Bradley, who returned to the Seattle Mariners lineup this week after two weeks on the restricted list, told ESPN.com he is seeing a counselor in town who has an athletic background and "dealt with anger himself.""
Bradley returns to Mariners
May 20
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"Milton Bradley isn't guaranteeing anything. He won't say he's beaten the personal issues that forced him to leave the Seattle Mariners and seek outside help for the past two weeks. He won't say exactly what those issues were. But he will say that he's happy to be back with the Mariners. Bradley was activated from the restricted list before the game and in the starting lineup Tuesday night, playing left field and batting sixth. To make room for him on the 25-man roster, reliever Sean White was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma. The Mariners also needed to make space on the 40-man roster, and placed left-hander Erik Bedard on the 60-day disabled list. Bedard will be eligible to come off the DL"
Milton Bradley returns to M's lineup in loss to Jays
May 20
Seattle Times
 
"Failing to achieve real victories these days, the ones that appear in the win column, the Mariners are having to fall back on the moral variety. "I thought it was a great effort by the ballclub," said manager Don Wakamatsu, after a 3-2 defeat to Toronto Wednesday night at Safeco Field. "We came up short, but coming off a devastating road trip, these guys came to play." The season may be spinning toward oblivion, but evidence lately suggests the Mariners will at least try to slow its momentum. As Wakamatsu said, they battled, coming back from a 3-0 deficit, getting a gutty effort from emerging right-hander Doug Fister, and taking Jays closer Kevin Gregg down to the final pitch with the"
Bradley back in uniform for Mariners
May 19
MLB.com
 
"Two weeks after leaving the Mariners to get professional help in dealing with his mental state-of-mind, outfielder Milton Bradley was back in uniform for Wednesday night's series opener against the Blue Jays. The lineup card posted before the game had Bradley batting sixth and playing left field, indicating he would be activated from the restricted list before the game. An angry exchange with manager Don Wakamatsu following a strikeout in the sixth inning preceded Bradley's departure. The organization assured Bradley that his request for help would be granted and took the first step the following day."
Milton Bradley remains a complicated figure
May 17
Oakland Tribune
 columnist Gary Peterson
"The occasion was the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's major league debut. The irony was there were relatively few African-American major leaguers around to celebrate the moment. The decline of blacks on major league rosters continues to this day. In 2007, there were only two options in the A's clubhouse for someone seeking an authoritative take on how Robinson's legacy resonates among members of his own race. Shannon Stewart was a natural. Easygoing, approachable, chatty, he was known as one of baseball's good guys. Milton Bradley? Hmmm. We're all guilty of making snap judgments about people we don't know. The temptation to prejudge Bradley is almost irresistible. By the time he"
Bradley making progress
May 13
MLB.com
 
"Left fielder Milton Bradley could rejoin the team at some point during the Mariners' next homestand, manager Don Wakamatsu said on Wednesday. Bradley has been on the restricted list since May 5 with stress-related issues. "I think everything is going well," Wakamatsu said. "Tentatively, we're hoping that at some point in the [next] homestand, he'll be able to rejoin the team.""
What about Milton? Rainiers are perfect fit
May 7
Tacoma News Tribune
 columnist John McGrath
"How do you salvage the nearly wrecked baseball career of a helmet-throwing, bat-smashing, ump-baiting, middle-finger-flashing outfielder whose latest snit was to walk out on his teammates during the middle of a game? You exercise patience and understanding. Milton Bradley's meltdown Tuesday night was less a surprise than an explanation about how a talented athlete with the ability to hit from either side of the plate has become a big-league Nomad Man. The surprise came Wednesday when Bradley asked the Mariners for help. "Milton said it was a long time coming," general manager Jack Zduriencik said of Bradley's acknowledgement that personal issues are a source of stress. "He said, 'it is"
Time to forget Milton Bradley for now
May 7
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 columnist Larry Larue
"The 48-hour news cycle has run full speed, and now it's time to turn down talk radio - and tone down the blogosphere - and forget about Milton Bradley for awhile. Certainly, he's going to have to forget about baseball. By now, everyone knows Bradley has issues. He's going to deal with them, and anyone who's ever dealt with hardcore problems that can seem overhwhelming should wish him good luck and God speed. Bradley insisted he and his manager, Don Wakamatsu, never had a angry confrontation. Wakamatsu agrees and said he took Bradley out of the game and talked with him afterward. For now, however, let's forget Milton. When he comes back, there will be the rest of the season to backtrack."
Milton Bradley placed on the restricted list, Saunders called up
May 7
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"With their bench already frighteningly thin, and the status of Milton Bradley still up in the air, the Mariners were forced to make a roster move, placing Bradley on the restricted list and and calling up Michael Saunders from Triple A Tacoma. "We had a few options and if you put a player on the DL, it's a minimum of 15 days," GM Jack Zduriencik said. "We chose to put him on a restricted list because in our estimation he'll be away from the club probably for five, six, seven days, something like that for sure." Saunders wasn't at the ball park pregame, and manager Don Wakamatsu anticipated he would be at the stadium by 6 p.m. Bradley was in street clothes and met with Wakamatsu and"
Bradley isn't worth the trouble
May 7
Chicago Tribune
 columnist Phil Rogers
"Albert Belle was one of the most anti-social players imaginable. He could divide a clubhouse and turn a great job into a nightmare for the people charged with supervising him or playing alongside him. He also could hit like very few others of his era. Belle's 1995 season was epic. His second half in 1998, with the White Sox far from a playoff race, was one of the most impressive displays of hitting, day in and day out, I ever have seen. There was no mystery to why multiple teams put up with his behavioral issues. But Milton Bradley? Does his possible impact on a lineup really justify all of this? The Mariners went to great links to assimilate Bradley, 32, into their clubhouse after bravely"
M's move on without troubled slugger Milton Bradley
May 7
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"The Milton Bradley saga inched quietly on Thursday, when the troubled Seattle Mariners outfielder met with a counselor and was placed on baseball's restricted list – a move that will keep him out of uniform indefinitely. "Milton probably won't go on the trip with us," manager Don Wakamatsu said. "As long as he's on the restricted list, he's not allowed to work out with the club." The trip that begins Monday makes stops in Baltimore, Tampa and Oakland, an eight-game swing. Bradley won't start with the team, and whether he joins it at any point during that trip is unknown. General manager Jack Zduriencik said the team won't comment in detail on Bradley's issues, other than what has already"
Milton Bradley's personal demons need to be squelched
May 6
Seattle Times
 columnist Jerry Brewer
"Milton Bradley grabbed the microphone Wednesday afternoon, stone faced, jaw clenched. Staring back at him was a gym full of elementary school students. First thought: Uh oh. Just 17 hours earlier, Bradley had quit on his team in his latest angry meltdown. He had a heated exchange with Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu, was pulled from Tuesday night's game and then fled the clubhouse before the game ended. And now, in a bizarre coincidence, he stood at a pre-scheduled team function, advising impressionable youth. It felt apocalyptic. And then Mad Milton turned into Moving Milton. He talked to the Lakeridge Elementary School students about motivation. He told them his mother's struggle inspired"
Milton Bradley to Mariners: "Can you help me?''
May 6
Seattle Times
 
"Interesting day down at the ballyard, as the Mariners announced that Milton Bradley will sit out at least the next few days to deal with what general manager Jack Zduriencik termed "some very personal and very emotional things in his life right now.'' Bradley addressed his team in a closed door meeting and explained that he had issues he had to work out. Zduriencik said the team is going to get Bradley the help he needs and give him time to get himself right. This morning, as the team was preparing to head off into groups to speak to various local schools, Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu received a phone call from Bradley, who several team sources confirmed had stormed out of Safeco Field"
Bradley seeks help from team after getting yanked during Tuesday's game
May 6
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"An unusually large media crowd showed up before Wednesday's Rays-Mariners game at Safeco Field. While the night's pitching matchup between Seattle's Cliff Lee and Tampa Bay's Matt Garza was a good one, that wasn't what drew the coverage. They came to ask about Milton Bradley and the swirling reports of a possible incident between him and manager Don Wakamatsu during Tuesday night's 5-2 loss to the Rays. Bradley struck out looking with the bases loaded in the sixth inning. What happened after that is still a little unclear and neither Wakamatsu nor general manager Jack Zduriencik would say much about it. "There was a lot of speculation of what happened yesterday," Wakamatsu said. "I think a"
Milton Bradley packed up, left stadium during game after being benched
May 5
Seattle Times
 
"There were a lot of things we did not have time to verify after last night's game, mostly because of tight deadlines and the late hour. But piecing it all together this morning, through some further conversations, it's become clear that Milton Bradley packed up and left the ballpark while last night's game was still going on. Bradley was removed from the game after a sixth inning strikeout. It was not a particularly good at-bat, with Bradley hacking away at some less-than-quality pitches early to get behind in the count, then, after battling back a bit, staring at a third strike down the middle. But that's not why he got benched. From what I'm told, Bradley came back to the dugout and told"
Lady Luck and Milton Bradley key end to four-game losing streak
April 28
Seattle Times
 
"Milton Bradley drew the eighth inning walk that forced home the game's decisive run and engaged in enough theatrics with the crowd to provide a week's worth of entertainment. The inning would have been over had Royals reliever Robinson Tejeda not deflected what looked to be an inning-ending double-play chopper by Jose Lopez. But hey, every team needs a bit of luck. The M's had some tonight, finally. "That's the break we've been searching for,'' Bradley said. "It's one of those things that usually happens to us, but it's what we've been looking for.'' Mark Lowe closed out the eighth and David Aardsma the game, getting a double-play grounder after yielding a one-out single in the ninth. But"
Bradley clash with media proves non-event
April 24
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"Milton Bradley knew the Chicago media was coming to him Friday - and so did his teammate, Mike Sweeney. "I said in spring, when I was here I was a story. I'm not here anymore," Bradley said. After giving it a little thought, most of the thinking reaching back to last year with the Chicago Cubs, Bradley was ready to deliver a three-word greeting when the press arrived. "I was going to say, 'Kiss my ass,'" Bradley said. And then, Sweeney approached him and handed him a Bible passage - Philippians 3: 13-14, which says, in part: "... one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward"
Bradley talks, with an assist from Sweeney
April 24
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"Coming to the ballpark a little after 1 p.m. today, Milton Bradley knew the Chicago media was coming to him - and so did teammate Mike Sweeney. After giving it a little thought, most of the thinking going back to last year with the Chicago Cubs, Bradley was ready to deliver a three-word greeting when the press arrived. "I was going to say, 'Kiss my ass,'" Bradley said. And then, Sweeney approached him and handed him a Bible passage - Phillippians 3: 13-14, which says: "... one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Sweeney offered practical advice along"
Bradley on Chicago return: 'God bless Seattle'
April 24
Chicago Tribune
 
"Milton Bradley returned to Chicago Friday night as a member of the Seattle Mariners. The controversial outfielder was not in the starting lineup again, still nursing a sore calf muscle as the Mariners prepared to face the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. Asked if he had any message for Chicagoans, Bradley replied: "No." Then he added, " God bless Seattle." Bradley was listed as a possible emergency reserve for Friday night's game. Photo: Milton Bradley and Ken Griffey Jr. hug it out after Bradley homered against Oakland earlier this month. (John Froschauer/AP) "I am being real cautious with it," he said about his calf. "It is one of those things that could be three or four weeks if you"
Bradley: Misunderstood with Cubs
April 24
Chicago Tribune
 
"Milton Bradley returned to Chicago on Friday night as a member of the Mariners, interjecting a racial angle as a reason he was misunderstood as a member of the Cubs last season. Near the end of a tumultuous season last year in which he clashed with manager Lou Piniella, who called him a "piece of (expletive)," Bradley was suspended with 15 games remaining. Before that Bradley had made disparaging remarks about the organization and got into a vocal altercation with hitting coach Von Joshua after refusing to pinch-hit in a game in St. Louis. After general manager Jim Hendry told the team of the suspension, several players applauded after Hendry left the room, and Ryan Dempster told the media"
Chicago landlord wants Bradley to pay up
April 22
Chicago Tribune
 
"Former Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley is a player many fans would just as soon forget. But that's impossible for at least one Gold Coast man — the player's former condo owner. Pantelis Kotsiopoulos sued Bradley in Cook County Circuit Court in January for about $44,000 in unpaid rent on his one-year lease of Kotsiopoulos' 24th-floor North Michigan Avenue condo. The suit alleged that Bradley had agreed to pay up to $15,000-a-month rent. More recently, Kotsiopoulos alleged Bradley had caused $13,900 in damages to the condo before he split. The suit contended he left red paint on white silk draperies, water rings and wine stains on an ebony zebra wood credenza, food and juice stains on a silk"
Bradley, Gutierrez break through for Mariners, 4-2
April 15
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"Milton Bradley's broken-bat, two-run single in the fifth brought Seattle even and Franklin Gutierrez's splintering single an inning later gave the Mariners the lead for good in a 4-2 win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday night. Jason Vargas (1-1) pitched six innings for Seattle, following up on eight shutout innings from Doug Fister a night earlier, as the back of the rotation came through to give Seattle its first series victory of the season. Down 2-0 in the fifth, Bradley dumped the first pitch from Oakland starter Gio Gonzalez into left field, sending his bat barrel nearly to third base. The hit scored two and Gutierrez's hit an inning later scored Adam Moore with the go-ahead"
Follow Milton's example ...
April 15
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"No, keep your fingers down. And it would be nice if all Seattle Mariners interviews were just little less grumpy. But hitting? The Mariners could do worse - in fact, they have done worse - than following Milton Bradley's example. Through nine games, Seattle has four home runs. Rob Johnson and Casey Kotchman each had solo home runs. Bradley has two homers - one good for two runs, the other for three. Two swings, five RBI? This early in the season, with the entire team finding its way, that's production. Seattle's designated hitter, for instance, is batting .129 and has produced one RBI in nine games. Kotchman leads the team with six RBI, but isn't in tonight's lineup - Matt Tuiasosopo is."
Bradley homer beats his old team
April 14
San Francisco Chronicle
 
"Brett Anderson has mastered the Mariners in two starts, but his dominance didn't help the second-year left-hander get a victory Tuesday night. Instead, onetime A's outfielder Milton Bradley emerged from his season-opening funk with his new Mariners club and belted a three-run homer off Brad Ziegler in the eighth, all Seattle needed in a 3-0 victory. That ended Oakland's four-game winning streak against the Mariners, who have struggled to score runs all season, with 21 in eight games entering Tuesday. Seattle was hitting .212 going into the game, and Bradley - already a figure of controversy after making an obscene gesture at fans in Texas last week - came into the game with an .045"
Milton Bradley haunts ex-team with three-run homer in Seattle Mariners' 3-0 win over A's
April 14
Oakland Tribune
 
"The A's have done their share of late-inning damage against teams this season. But the tables were turned Tuesday night at Safeco Field, as former Athletic Milton Bradley crushed a three-run home run off Brad Ziegler to break a scoreless tie in the bottom of the eighth inning and give the Seattle Mariners a 3-0 win. The A's, whose 6-2 record entering the day tied Minnesota for best in the American League, came into Tuesday having scored an AL-leading 43 runs. Twenty-two of those, or 51 percent, were scored in the seventh inning or later. But a night after shutting out Seattle on two hits, the A's mustered just three hits of their own as the Mariners tied the three-game series going into"
Mr. Bradley shows off his bat, not a finger
April 14
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
"Eight shutout innings from Doug Fister - remarkable! - and the Seattle Mariners might have wasted them all had it not been for one swing from Milton Bradley. That swing produced his eighth-inning, three-run home run, and if it left him as cautious with the media as ever, it left Fister positively giddy. "We needed one thing to go right," Fister said. "We're on a roll now." Well, at 3-6, a win is something of a roll. And the way it came about certainly left a crowd of 18,043 happy. After the game, Mike Sweeney did his serious speech about team - then watched the Mariners dump beer all over Bradley's head."
Bradley, Wakamatsu have a talk
April 13
Everett Herald
 
"Wakamatsu said he spoke with Milton Bradley about the incident Friday in Texas, where cameras captured the controversial outfielder displaying his middle finger after he'd been taunted by fans. "He opened up and talked about the pressure," Wakamatsu said of their meeting. "We talked a lot about relying on us to alleviate some of that and he doesn't have to carry this club by himself. So, he responded to it and was open." Bradley's first day in Seattle as a Mariner began with a mild ovation from the crowd during pregame introductions, but he also received a mock cheer from fans near left field late in the game. That happened in the eighth inning after he fielded Ryan Sweeney's single to"
It's obvious: Milton's just being Milton
April 13
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 columnist Jim Moore
"About 15 minutes after I'd arrived at Safeco Field on Monday, I made my first error of the season, asking Don Wakamatsu a question about Milton Bradley that he'd already been asked. I chalk this up to not hearing as well as I used to, not that I wasn't paying close attention to the Mariner manager's press conference in the dugout before the home opener against Oakland. I was wondering -- and apparently someone else was too -- if Wakamatsu had talked to Bradley about his problems with the fans in Oakland and Texas. In his first game as a Mariner, Bradley was booed by Oakland fans, and he apparently glared at them or said something back to them. Then in the third game in Oakland, he failed"
Milton Bradley, Mariners teammates feeling the pressure
April 13
Seattle Times
 columnist Larry Stone
"The Mariners have so much camaraderie, they're even slumping as a team. As Jack Wilson said Monday, after yet another acquiescent trip through nine innings by Seattle's slumbering lumber, "We have one guy swinging a hot bat, and that's it. It's tough to win ballgames like that." The one guy is Franklin Gutierrez, and he managed one of their two hits, a double, against Oakland. Jose Lopez had a single, though the Mariners didn't do anything so audacious as to bunch their hits in the same inning. Other than those two lonely connections, it was thundering silence against Justin Duchscherer. The M's are still preaching that it's early, and it is. But to paraphrase Yogi Berra, whose bat they"
Cameras have Bradley dodging criticism
April 11
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"No one in the press box or either dugout saw it, no umpire saw it and only a few fans and one television camera were watching Milton Bradley when he issued a one-fingered salute. By Saturday morning, a clip of that two-second gesture was on TV networks across the country, and bloggers were declaring it the first "Bradley incident" of his Seattle Mariners career. "He was just signaling 'one more out,' " deadpanned Ken Griffey Jr. Bradley's flip came as he trotted back to his position in left field, and was aimed at a few fans who were doing their best to irritate him. Before the game Saturday, manager Don Wakamatsu and general manager Jack Zduriencik insisted they hadn't seen Bradley's"
Reputation dwarfs Bradley's reality
April 5
Tacoma News Tribune
 
"It was a spring full of the usual drills and meaningless exhibition games, injuries and health updates, clubhouse pranks and on-field conditioning. And then there was Milton Bradley, who figured into several categories, including injuries. "On the first day of camp, Chicago writers were here trying to make him a story," Ken Griffey Jr. said. "I've been there, and that's a tough situation to deal with. They weren't asking whether he was happy or not – they wanted to talk to him about the past." Unlike most Seattle Mariners, who seem to come to the organization sanitized and smiling, Bradley has a past, a history that is often overstated. Entering his 11th major league season, the Mariners"
Bradley gives interview, doesn't snap
March 30
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 columnist Jim Moore
"Late last week I walked into the clubhouse at the Mariners' spring-training complex expecting to talk to Eric Byrnes. Heard he was a great guy and a terrific interview. Read that he was a surfer who married a Miss California USA and owned three bulldogs. Seemed like a can't-miss column. But I couldn't find him and when I finally did, he was sandwiched between a couple of teammates, and it looked claustrophobic in his corner of the clubhouse, so I just figured I'd catch him at another time. Milton Bradley was my Plan B, and I'll be honest about that -- he was actually more like a Plan Z. When I first approached him early last week, he said he didn't have time to talk, which was fine -- he"
Mariners' Bradley not in a talking mood
March 29
Chicago Tribune
 
"A hugfest was out of the question Sunday when Chicago reporters approached former Cub Milton Bradley, looking for answers about his stormy departure from the team in September. Why did Bradley get into a heated exchange with hitting coach Von Joshua when asked to pinch hit in St. Louis? What did he think of his former teammates' criticism when they reacted to his suspension? And why didn't he pay rent on his downtown apartment after leaving Chicago? But the questions remain unanswered, and probably will remain so. "No chance," Bradley said to three reporters before a question was asked. "Beat it. You guys ran me out of town. Never again.""
Bradley could settle into cleanup spot
March 29
MLB.com
 
"It isn't cast in stone just yet, but Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said he is leaning toward using switch-hitter Milton Bradley as the cleanup hitter. "We're looking that way," Wakamatsu said Sunday during a morning session with the media. "I don't want to pin myself down, but I like [Casey] Kotchman in the three-hole against right-handers and we'll look at [Franklin] Gutierrez in there against lefties." Wakamatsu said he wants to have as many contact hitters behind Ichiro Suzuki and Chone Figgins as possible. "I like what the three spot can bring us," Wakamatsu said. "They give you good at-bats, see a lot of pitches and would move Ichi and Figgy. That's what I like and that's the way we"