Monday Evening fun! Milton Bradley's greatest Cub moments (up to this day)

Ok...this worked last week with Aaron Miles.

I compiled a list of people that I wanted to play 2nd base for the Cubs in 2010 instead of Aaron Miles...and the next day he was traded!

Today I'm going to list the top 5 moments during Milton Bradley's stint as a Chicago Cub.  So hopefully he'll be traded tomorrow.

Boo!

I wanted to embed videos of each moment, but, unfortunately, MLB protects its video...so you'll have to go each of the links provided.

Anyway, here we go.

#5
Bradley actually had a good game up until this point, but this play started an avalanche for Milton Bradley.  On Friday, June 12th against the Twins, Bradley lets a pop fly drop out in right field, which he lost in the sun.  Really, this isn't enough to warrant being placed on this list, but this along with the misplay of a pop-up later in the inning helped lead Bradley's eventual downfall and also contributed to #1 on this list.

This isn't from that game, but I still think it's a funny picture.

Watch it here.
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#4

"You understand why they haven't won in 100 years here."

Hey Milty, why don't you just stay home for the rest of the season.  Don't bash the people who sign your paychecks, jerk.  I'm sure all of your teammates felt really good hearing that too especially after you walk off the field in the middle of an inning because you claim you were hurt (leaving your manager shrugging his shoulders).

Bradley made this comment on September19th, two days after his last game, and a couple days before the team suspended him for the rest of the season.

I'll give him this, he actually left on his own terms, in a way. 
Clip of him leaving the game.
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#3
On August 27th, with the Cubs down by one run to the worst team in baseball, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the tying run in scoring position and two outs, Milton Bradley comes to bat.

Just one day earlier, talking to reporters, he says this:

"I pray the game is nine innings, so I can go out there the least amount of time possible and go home."

Bradley grounds out weakly to second, ending the game.

Well, was he just trying to go home?  I don't know.  But you can't ask for a better setup.  Either way, that was the loudest booing I ever heard at Wrigley toward him outside of our #1 item.
 Bradley has to get to his dinner reservation. 
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#2

Do you think I have bad breath?
 

In his home debut at Wrigley Field as a Cub, Milton Bradley gets thrown out of the game on Thursday, April 16th for arguing balls and strikes in the sixth inning with the bases loaded.  I guess he was a little upset about the fact he was called out on strikes on a ball was a tad inside..  This eventually ends up in a suspension for bumping the umpire.
You can't argue balls and strikes.
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#1
I have witness a lot of amazing things at Wrigley Field over my lifetime.  All season I was waiting to see Bradley do something that just would completely piss every Cub fan off simultaneously. Bradley did just that early in the summer.  Witnessing this one in person, and having to explain to the fans sitting around me who really still had no knowledge of who and what Milton Bradley was, well, it was just plain difficult and painful.  Yet I couldn't stop laughing. 

You'd think he was doing an impression of the Under Armour logo.

And so this was ultimately the turning point for Bradley as a Cub and after this, most Cub fans wanted Bradley run out of town...

Versus the Twins on Friday, June 12th, top of the 8th inning, one out:  A routine fly ball to right field was hit by Joe Mauer.  Milton Bradley makes the catch (which he had problems doing earlier in the game leading to him hot-dogging the catch) for the second out.  Then throws the ball into the right field bleachers thinking it was the third out.  This allowed a runner to move from first to third base and a runner to score from third (who would have probably scored anyway...but, I like piling it on).

In the end, none of Bradley's errors in that game really cost the Cubs...the pitchers did a good enough job on their own there.  But this complete lapse in focus truly defined Bradley's time in Cubbie Blue.

I love this clip.
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There you have it.  Now TRADE HIM!  (at all costs)