Well, this isn’t how this was supposed to go down.

Milton Bradley, the angry guy with the boardgame name, has been suspended by the Cubs for the rest of the season after comments including saying he understood why they hadn’t won a championship in a hundred years.

Oops.

Explosive outfielder Milton Bradley reached out to the Cubs in the off-season as a free agent, and then signed a three year, 30 million dollar contract.  He was excited about playing in the Windy City, and Chicago was excited about the possibility of the left-handed bat that last year’s playoff sweep showed them they need so desperately.

But Bradley and Chi-town just weren’t a fit.  He hated the small clubhouse that kept media members hovering around him even when they didn’t want quotes.  He hated the media scrutiny that comes with playing for the championship-starved Cubbies.  He kept to himself and was a loner in a friendly, laidback clubhouse.

Bradley may or may not be one of those infamous “clubhouse cancer” type guys.  Certainly, he’s had his share of meltdowns.  But to us he looks more like a guy who thinks baseball’s a job.  He wants to play, he wants to win…and then he wants to go home.

Tactlessness aside, none of that’s a crime.  We hope someone gives him a chance.  Just, maybe not someone in a big giant media crunch type market…(hear that, Boston?)