Milton's Really, Really Sorry

I believe him!!!
What's there to doubt!!?!?!?

Tell it walking.

I always love the transparently ghost-written quality of these apologies, though Milton's has a juco quality to it with the misplaced "desperately" modifier. Imagine him shaking hands with Jimbo and saying, "The air has been cleared."

Maybe I've finally found my way into a baseball job. I'm off to see if sportsapologist.com has been registered yet.

I envision that the apology was co-written on a napkin during a dinner meeting between MB and Jimbo.

..."and wanted to desperately win"

Jim: yeah, like Desperado...my favorite Eagles album

MB: Eagles? Never heard of em. I listen to Rage Against the Machine

..."The air has been cleared"

Jim: sniff, sniff (looks around)

MB: who cut the cheese?

"and look forward to better days".

MB: What else ya got?

Jim: That's all we got (to write).

more Muskat...

cubs players didn't know about Milton Bradley's apology until shown the statement handed out to media Wednesday

cubs broadcaster Bob Brenly on life w/out Bradley: "The last 3 days have been better than any of the days he was here"

Speaking of missing and the grass-is-greener, what is the Cubs record 2009 w/o Sorry-ano.

He should apologize too!!!

Interesting that Bruce Miles (Miles mannered reporter for...) article in the herald has a Hendry quote to follow the Bradley statement. Also Hendry hasn't talked to Bradley, just his agent Seth Levinson.

"It's done," Hendry said. "There's nothing. It's over. There's no story."

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/2647
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Poof. No story? Unless that quote was in the recovery room after JH's frontal lobotomy.

"The air has been cleared."

So there. Nuff said then. That fixes everything. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming, which is already in progress (Cut to Andy Griffith Show, in medias res, which, by coincidence, is one of the episodes with Howard Morris playing Ernest T. Bass).

Here's the sun-times/Wittenmeyer take:

The Cubs have filed the required written notice of the suspension, and they expect no grievance from the players' union.
Hendry said speculation of a grievance was a non-story. When asked about Bradley's future with the team, Hendry said: "We'll worry about next season when this one is over."

By all accounts, next season will not include Bradley in a Cubs uniform. Or, for that matter, ever.

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/17869...

Shark takes a bite of a Narveson pitch...

BB says, Samardzija goes oppo!

Alright, that's a respectful enough apology. In other news, has he been traded yet? What's the hold up?

In all seriousness, this is a rather boilerplate apology from a PR point of view. Take ownership of the bad behavior, apologize for it, look forward to better days ahead... And I can understand why he wouldn't want to do this in person in front of the Chicago sports media.

I guess for me the news isn't so much his apology, but the fact that he's working with someone from the Cubs to improve his image for the trading block this off season.

I saw MB's last game (9/17) as a member of the Cubs in person. As the only game we got into this year, it's an interesting distinction. I'll remember that and Jody Gerut's slam. Typical. Oh, and I had Wells in my fantasy lineup. Maybe I should have kept the stub.

Before the game, I was dumbfounded to find myself trying to defend MB in conversation (in the "it's not all his fault" kind of way). I still feel that way to an extent, but his season has really been a comedy of errors. When I think of the game where he threw the ball into the RF bleachers with two outs, I truly believe he was told to do it and had it in his head so much that it led to the timing faux pas. "Toss a ball to them the next time you get a chance." Doh!

Has it been said that MB has a persecution complex? There is something called that, right? If not, we coin it after him. But there seems to be some bad luck in there, too. Oh well.

I realize it's petty to look back now, but how did we not sign Abreu? That one still puzzles me.

The feeling is mutual, Milton. We are also sorry. Sorry you ever darkened our door.

Why isn't this done?

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/sweetspot/0-5-94/-Disco...

http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/mlb/index?topId=4499466

I thought Shark looked OK, and was the victim of some bad luck -- Prince hit a high, harmless foul pop-up that the lumbering Jake Fox couldn't get to, then Prince whacked the next pitch for a 2-run HR to LF.

Nice consistent 95+ fastball, but he still needs other pitches.

Still seems to have bullpen stuff, to me. Come in for an inning, air out at 97-98 mph, have a seat.

Per Bob Brenley: The league has figured Jake Fox out.

Slider that starts in the middle of the plate and breaks low and away is "kryponite" to Fox. Jake is hitting .234 in Aug/Sept.

Lol...a slider like that is kryptonite to a lot of hitters...

Let's see if he can adjust to what they are doing to him?

Samardzija is still not a guy you want to depend on in the rotation or bullpen right now, but he has a future in the rotation and no better time to give him some MLB experience than when your team is out of it anyways.

Loved the homer.

And I agree on Jake Fox, too. Now is when you find out what a guy is made of... It's not uncommon to see a guy come up and have some success right away. The question is how does he handle a struggle? Can he rediscover success? I'd like to see Lou play Jake Fox the rest of the year just for this reason. Sure he's seen some difficult sliders, but that's not an excuse it's part of the game.

You can purchase The Milton Bradley Apology if you order NOW, but SSS (Sincerity Sold Seperately).

Fuld and Grabow are Jewish...8 more and the Cubs will have enough for the first mlb team minyon.

http://tinyurl.com/ycxcy6w

Do i get a free Sham-Wow with a purchase within 30 minutes?

Per wscr...

Ricketts purchase of the Cubs approved by backruptcy court. On to the mlb owners.