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Someone in Milton Bradley’s support group – and you thought “Kentucky census worker” was a bad job – has decided that Milton should express remorse over the way he blew up his Cubs career by lashing out against the media, fans and organization in a newspaper interview. “I chose Chicago as a free agent,” reads the [...]

I'm sure there are a large and very vocal majority of Cubs fans that are trying to figure out how exactly the Cubs gave $30 million bucks to Milton Bradley. Didn't they know that Bradley was a nut job? Or how about his injury history? Did Hendry really believe that Milton Bradley could fit in with the Cubs?Well, after some archive digging, I think whatever rationale the Cubs...

Milton Bradley delivered what was most likely his parting shot to Chicago in a statement released through his agents today.

The more I read and think about the Milton Bradley situation, the more I tend to agree with Baseball Prospectus’ paywalled Joe Sheehan: This mess is Jim Hendry’s fault, too. From Sheehan’s column: I expect Jim Hendry to know these things, but if Hendry were to admit that Bradley has played about as well and [...]

MB’s mom is trying to mend his epically burned bridges (mixed metaphors for the win!), telling people that he’d come back if the Cubs organization would have him. Beyond the fact that that’s supremely unlikely, given the Cubs’ clubhouse woes in general, her comments are still interesting in a way. “Milton sleeps, eats, and drinks” baseball, according [...]

Welcome to 'Duk's Dozen, a streamlined selection of 12 morning-fresh links and items to start your baseball day. It welcomes your email submissions or Twitter tips.           1. Milton Bradley(notes) pens letter to Cubs fans, says he's so very, very sorry. Chicago Tribune2. Trying to put a numerical measure on the presence of a 'clubhouse cancer.' Baseball Analysts3. Easily...

The Cubs suspended Milton Bradley on Sunday after he made what management considered intemperate remarks to the Daily Herald: When asked if he was disappointed in his own performance, he didn't want to answer that, either. "I'm not talking about that," he said. What do you think I did?" Bradley claimed to have no opinion on where he bats - "In the lineup...

The Milton Bradley saga in Chicago seems to be over. On Wednesday afternoon it was announced that the two sides had struck a deal. Bradley will serve his suspension for the rest of the season, but the Cubs have to pay him the remainder of his 2009 salary and try to trade him this offseason. Still, that doesn't settle all the scores in Chicago. There's still the issue of...

If someone polled Kris, Drew and me about our most favoritest players in baseball and then collated our selections to rank the players on one overall list, I doubt Milton Bradley would finish in the top ten. But there is perhaps no other athlete who best fits into the mission statement of Walkoff Walk. Milton Bradley is both talented and yet fails to live up to expectations; Milton...

Embattled Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley issued an apology Wednesday for comments made over the weekend that led to him being suspended for the rest of the season.

OverviewMilton Bradley is suspended, Alfonso Soriano is hurt, and Kevin Gregg is a deadman walking. The three scapegoats of the season all seem to be getting their just desserts. Unfortunately, we are the ones that have to eat the crapcake they baked for us over these last 15 games. Now we can sit here and eat it while trying to find something good to say about 2009, or we can start...

No matter what the players union can do for Milton Bradley, the outfielder's relationship with the Cubs was damaged beyond repair long before the team suspended him Sunday for the rest of the season.