Come To Think of It: Milton's Mommy Sticks Up for Poor Misunderstood Son

Oh, pity poor little Milton Bradley. The millionaire baseball player's life is so hard that his mommy needs to come to his defense. What is this, elementary school or the big leagues?

Look, we all know that signing Bradley to a three-year contract was foolish. Cubs GM Jim Hendry ought to be taken out to the woodshed and spanked by new owner Tom Ricketts for this ridiculous display of poor judgement.

But some of the things that Bradley's mom said just confirms that wackiness apparently runs in the family.

Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday, Milton's mother, Charlena Rector said that "When racism hit his 3-year-old baby in school, he couldn't take that," Rector said in a radio interview earlier this week, according to the Sun-Times. "Parents, teachers and their kids called him the n-word. He didn't even know it was a bad word until his mom told him."

Come on, now. She's expecting us to believe that three-year-olds and their teachers are calling her son the "n-word?" I'm sorry, but that is just difficult for me to believe.

It's always racism with this guy. Hey, I wrote an article on how pervasive racism is in sports, so I understand that this topic is not to be taken lightly. But this is not 1960, and some of the stuff that Milton's mom is suggesting is hard to fathom.

Bradley has accused Cubs fans of racism, yet has never provided a single shred of evidence to support his claim. Look, some Cubs fans likely are racist, just like some percentage of society is racist.

But after more than a century of futility, believe me, Cubs fans only care about winning.

The boos that Bradley was hearing was not because he is black. It's because he was playing bad baseball. He's had a career-worst offensive performance this season, and his crazy antics and lapses of judgement (how many outs are there?) only add to Cubs fans frustrations with this guy.

So Hendry sent him home for the season. Good for him, it's about time the Cubs organization showed some guts and stood up to this guy.

Still, for Hendry not to have foreseen this happening shows questionable decision making abilities on his part. The Cubs General Mismanager has no one to blame but his mirror.

In that regard, perhaps we should consider Hendry and Bradley to be kindred souls. After all, both exhibited poor judgement, though in Bradley's defense, he had 30 million reasons to sign with the Cubs.

Apparently, Bradley needs a smaller market to play in. Media markets like New York and  Chicago just do not work well for a fragile psyche like Milton's. If he thinks it's been tough here, can you imagine what the New York Times would have done to this guy?

Despite all this, Bradley's mom said Milton still wants to return to the Cubs if they'll have him.

"Milton eats, sleeps, and drinks baseball. He loves it. That's all he wants to do," Rector told the newspaper.

Well, if that's what he loves to do, why the heck is the man so damn miserable all the time? He doesn't have friends on the team. He refuses to talk to the media, and when he does, he sounds as if it's their honor to speak with him.

In short, the man is a turd. Which might be acceptable if he was hitting like he did in Texas in 2008. But when you combine bad performance with bad behavior, well, we all see what happened.

I think it would truly be in everyone's best interest for Bradley and the Cubs to part ways. But who will take on the remaining money on this deal? The answer is no one, unless the Cubs pick up a considerable chunk of the contract.

Meanwhile, the MLB player's union is considering filing a grievance on Milton's behalf.

A grievance? What they should be doing is sending the man to a therapist, come to think of it.