Baseball Musings: Milton Bradley Blowup

September 23, 2007

Milton Bradley Blowup

You know it has to happen sooner or later. Milton Bradley is at first, and he's jawing with the umpire. Instead of ignoring Milton, the ump answers him. Bradley goes after the ump, but the first base coach, Meacham, stops him. Meacham then takes up the argument, but Bradley goes after the ump again. This time, Bud Black grabs Milton, wrestles him to the ground, and injures what appears to be a hamstring. So the Padres are now down two starting outfielders, as Cameron bruised his thumb earlier and is day to day.

Earlier, Bradley was complaining about the first base ump to the home plate ump. But no one knows why. Maybe he was called for a check swing?

Update: Bud Black gets thrown out, too. He yells at the third base ump after the ump calls a check swing strike on Adrian Gonzalez. That tells me a check swing call was probably bothering Milton. Of course, now he may be out for the rest of the season, so good job, MB, hurting your team because you can't hold your temper.

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Comments

I found out the hard way MB was a hot head. I hope he's gone for next year too. When he was with my Dodgers he hurt the club as well. Maybe retirement will suit him.Major League Baseball will be beter without his hot ass head. He has been a detriment to ALL the clubs he has played for. You deserve what you got LOSER.

Posted by: Darrin at September 23, 2007 07:33 PM

Milton Bradley deserves whatever suspsension MLB decides to hand out. At the same time though MLB has to get the umpires under control. The umpires should not be escalating things and in this case he clearly did. That is inexcusable and there should be some accountability there. A vast majority of incidents like this could be eliminated if umpires showed the kind of self control that an objective arbitrer of basebll should show.

Posted by: John Gibson at September 23, 2007 07:47 PM

I couldn't see anything the umpire did to escalate the situation. Just watched the incident again on mlb.tv, and Bradley started jawing at Winters as soon as he got to first, for reasons unknown. Winters did speak to Bradley, but he didn't seem to be arguing or even raising his voice. In fact, he even shrugged a little as if the whole thing was no big deal. The San Diego announcers couldn't figure out why Bradley was upset, though they did comment that you never know with Milton.

Bradley finally went after Winters, and his coach and manager tried to restrain him. Black threw Bradley to the ground, and Bradley hurt his knee. Hilarious, and it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Maybe umpires should just ignore Bradley, but ignoring the guy might set him off, too. At any rate, Winters did nothing wrong that I could see.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 23, 2007 08:42 PM

I was watching the Rockies broadcast, and they indicated the ump didn't ignore Milton.

Posted by: David Pinto at September 23, 2007 08:48 PM

I thought the situation was resolved but throughout the at-bat Winters kept jawing. If he acted professionaly and kept his mouth shut nothing would of likely ensued.

Posted by: John Gibson at September 23, 2007 08:53 PM

Oh no, he didn't ignore him. He was definitely talking to Bradley. But he certainly didn't appear to be arguing with Bradley or provoking him in any way.

The point is that Bradley started the confrontation. He was jawing at Winters as soon as he got to first. Winters actually seemed to try to defuse the situation by speaking calmly to Bradley. If Winters had completely ignored Bradley, the tempermental Milton might have exploded even sooner.

What's the ump supposed to do? Ignore the guy and he might explode. Speak to him calmly and he might explode. As far as I can see, Winters deserves no blame at all for the situation, which was entirely Bradley's doing.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 23, 2007 08:53 PM

If Winters had "acted professionally and kept his mouth shut" Bradley might have gone after him even sooner. My guess is that completely ignoring Bradely would have been the quickest way to set him off. Instead, Winters talked to him calmly in a praiseworthy attempt to defuse a situation that was entirely Bradley's fault.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 23, 2007 08:56 PM

By the way, the injury after Bradley lost the wrestling match with Black appeared to be to his knee, not his hamstring. At any rate, Bradley's San Diego career is over. Wrestling with your manager is not a smart career move. On the Rockies radio broadcast, they were predictably yukking it up after the game about the World Wrestling Federation.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 23, 2007 09:13 PM

More info from espn on the incident:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270923125

If accurate, it seems to me that the whole mess was instigated by Winters.

Posted by: John Gibson at September 23, 2007 10:28 PM

Well, yeah, if you believe Bradley's account, it was all Winters' fault. The point is, he started yapping at Winters as soon as he got to first base. If he "acted professionaly and kept his mouth shut" then nothing really would have happened.

Anyway, after the wrestling match with Black, Bradley's SD stay is over. Once Bradley ends up with another team, he'll start saying the wrestling match was all Black's fault.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 23, 2007 10:36 PM

Rust Meacham was right there as well and said:

"In 26 years of baseball, I can honestly say that's the most disconcerting conversation I have ever heard from an umpire to a player," Meacham said. "It was almost like he wanted to agitate the whole thing. He wanted to get Milton boiling for some reason. Milton, he held his cool. I was just appalled."

There is good reason to be skeptical of anything Milton says when his history is considered. But I have no reason to doubt Meacham's credibility.

Posted by: John Gibson at September 23, 2007 11:02 PM

It sure didn't look like Bradley was keeping his cool when he tried to step to the umpire, and needed two people to keep him from getting in the umpire's face. Bradley lost his cool, and that is why he was injured. A complete moron.

Posted by: Joe Ross at September 24, 2007 04:00 PM

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