Crime in Sports - #121 - The Tornado Of Temper - The Copiousness of Milton Bradley

Episode Date: June 25, 2018

This week, we navigate through a torrential downpour of arrests, ejections & general craziness. He started out promising, but soon his temper got the best of him, and seemingly took over every aspect of his life. His explosive reactions are mind boggling, as is his relentless need for control while at home. This one is a log jam of insanity!!Always react violently to anything that you don't like, control everyone around you, and make sure to text your in-laws obscene videos with Milton Bradley!!Check us out, every Tuesday. We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie WhismanDonate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.comGo to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!Contact us on...twitter.com/[e-mail]/Crimeinsportsinstagram.com/smalltownmurder   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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I don't know if it's a game, but we often pose the question, I should say, of idiot or asshole. We've done that many times. Is this guy more of an idiot or more of an asshole? Sometimes it's on the fence. He's kind of an idiot, kind of an asshole. Sometimes complete idiot. You're just like, what an idiot. Not really an asshole.

Just an idiot. Kind of like a Bob Probert's kind of an idiot he's not really an asshole he's just kind of an idiot maybe he is an asshole though he's a bit of an asshole i mean he affected other people a few times but yeah when it's all on them complete or complete complete idiot uh this guy one thousand and ten percent asshole no idiot he's a big i mean you could call his actions idiotic knowing his consequences but it's because he's such an asshole that he refuses to acknowledge it not because he's too stupid to that's the thing here there's no stupidity is not a factor with this guy it's a good teaser it is he's an intelligent guy and he's smarter than how he fucking acts which makes it worse.

Yeah. Fuck yeah. Makes your assholery way worse. Yeah. If you have like Rudy Pochek walking around with severe brain damage from being pummeled in the head by Bob Probert for fucking 10 years, you go, you know what? I kind of feel for the guy. More of an idiot than an asshole.

This guy, you're just like, nope, all asshole. So let's get right into it. It's baseball. Yeah. It's baseball season. So let's get right into it it's baseball yeah it's baseball uh season so let's do this no fucking nothing to blame no nothing to blame no brain damage it is milton obell bradley milton bradley junior he's a fucking junior you know milton bradley's a junior i've never been less surprised by a piece of information that when I finally looked him up and I went, yeah, this is junior behavior through and through. What bums me out most, and he's not an heir to the fortune of the board games.

There is no, no, no, no. How are there two assholes named Milton Bradley and they don't have one? There's many assholes named Milton Bradley. Wait till you hear it later on. If you don't think I've collected a group of them, you're out of your fucking mind. I just remembered that as soon as you said that. Oh, yeah. It's coming.

But this Milton Bradley is the most junior of all juniors. He is. He should be. It should be like Otis Nixon, where he should be Milton Junior Bradley Junior. He's a double junior candidate, this guy, which is kind of like being up for a doctorate or something like that, except much worse. So he's born April 15, 1978. He's born in Harbor City, California, which is in L.A. It's just west of Long Beach out there in L.A.

His mother's name is Charlena Rector. Okay. I know. I was gonna say i know i know jimmy's never gonna let the name rector slide by him especially not only about seven minutes into the show he's gonna fucking later on i might be able once you're i pummeled you enough stuff but this early it's coming how does she get away with that? Well, I have no idea. But this woman, she's a good woman, apparently. She tries her hardest to raise Milton Wright. It's difficult. She worked, grew up, while he was growing up, she worked as a clerk at the local Safeway

by the house there. So, you know, not a ton of money for Milton Bradley. But it's union work. Yeah, that's true. It's true. It is union work, but it's not high-paying union work, we'll say. His father, on the other hand, Milton Bradley Sr., obviously, this is an amazing story of how his name came to be. His father was a veteran of the Vietnam War.

All right. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service. All right. Which is, you know, that's brave and good for him. Problem is, it seemed to fuck him up pretty much. Yeah, he didn't seem to be in too good a shape in the real world here. He was only, Milton was only named Milton Bradley Jr. when Milton Bradley Sr. came in and decided he was just going to fill out the birth certificate

without even telling Charlene Erector. Oh, my God. He just said, the boy's name is Milton Bradley Jr. Here you go, and handed it back. But she didn't even know about it. Later on, when she was talking about naming him, they were like, yeah, we already processed the paperwork. She's like, what are you talking about? They already did it.

A man came in, flashed a purple heart, said, don't say another word. That's it. And, yeah, he threatened to cut my throat like a Viet Cong. I don't know what that means. Something about an ear necklace? I don't know. That's his name. A Colombian necktie he was talking about.

I don't know what he's doing, but we just decided to let him fill out the paperwork. It didn't seem like a big deal. He didn't want to steal the baby or anything. Baby's already circumcised and everything. Yeah. So according to Shard. He did it with a field knife. Well, he did it with a bayonet, Jimmy.

Let's be honest here. His field knife was... He couldn't find it. He lost that, and he's like, well, fuck it, bayonet. I got this one all handy on the end of this rifle. Didn't even take it off the rifle. That's impressive marksmanship. Just if he could do it...

All done. With his hands three feet away from the actual fucking unit there. Away from the penis. That's pretty good stuff. So... All right, go. yeah, we're talking about. No more baby dicks. We're talking about PTSD Vietnam veterans circumcising their forcefully named children with a bayonet at the end of an M-16. How did we get there?

I don't fucking know. That's crime and sports in a nutshell, folks. How did we get there? That don't fucking know. That's crime and sports in a nutshell, folks. How did we get there? That's the story. We have Rector. Wow. So apparently there's a reason for his erratic behavior. In addition to being a little bit fucked up in the head, he also has problems like he's

really addicted to cocaine at the time. Oh, boy. So the mother says that he was very addicted to cocaine, physically abused Charlene all the time, and also was homeless for several years on and off here and there. So his father, who burst in and circumcised him on apparently high on cocaine, named him after himself, beat the mother up, and then would sleep in the streets and then come home and sleep in the streets and come home. So kind of a rough deal here. Bradley had four half-brothers and sisters from Charlene's previous marriage. So she had a marriage, had four kids, had a whole life and family and all that, got

divorced, got out of that. Finds a vagrant. Finds a hobo to fucking hook up with down by the train yard. Loops a daisy, has a baby. And she said, hey, baby, look at that bindle. That bindle really, really fills out your shape, and I think I want you to come home with me and put a baby in me while you're at it. By the way, there's four of my other children at home. I think you'd be a good influence on them.

He's like, don't worry about me. I'll disappear for days on end. Is that cocaine around your nose? Great. I think I'll name a child after him. Do you carry your bindle on the end of the bayonet? That's interesting. Is that a bindle on your shoulder or are you just happy to see me? I think that's how you come on to a hobo in a train yard, I believe. You do that, done, in. Nine months later, you'll be singing. Oh, you will. You'll be singing lots of things like hobo in a train yard, I believe. You do that, done, in. Nine months later, you'll be singing

crazy. Oh, you will. You'll be singing lots of things like hobo fire songs, whatever that might be. Hobo traveling song music. I feel like in the 30s when the hobos were on trains, I feel like they had to have some sort of spiritual... There was some hymns. Some hymns

they would sing. In between raping each other, because that's all they did back then was rape each other and stab each other. If you've ever seen the Pan's Ram documentary there, read the book. It's all they talk about is just constant hobo train rape. Well, I mean, what else are you going to fill your time? You're going across the country in a fucking rail car. But it was like every day, it was like, it's 50-50, I get raped today by a bunch of hobos if you go in a train car.

There's only so much poker you can play or gin rummy or whatever. Yeah, I suppose so and so many beans you can eat out of a can. I don't know. Eventually somebody's

getting raped. Someone's getting raped. That's what it is. Imagine you're running to catch a train car. You finally grab it and you pull yourself up. You're exhausted.

I'm going to get out of this one horse town finally. The pastor doesn't understand up. You're exhausted. I'm going to get out of this one-horse town finally. The pastor doesn't understand me. My father doesn't understand me. He wants me to work for his feed company. I'm not going to do it. Hey, guys, how's it going? Hey, some real honest-to-goodness rail people from the heartland of the USA.

How's it going, guys? What's that? Hey, is that a knife? No, don't take my knife. Stop cutting my pants off with that knife. What are you doing? You get on the train. What's that? Hey, is that enough? No, don't take my. Hey, stop cutting my pants off with that knife. What are you doing? You get on the train.

Your face is soaked from sweat from running for a quarter to a half mile trying to catch this train. You get on. And then there's 30 men in that car going, welcome. And they're all going to rape you. All of them. And you're too tired to run. And then they're going to eat beans afterwards, which makes it worse, I feel like. You can't get away. You just used all your energy to get on this motherfucker.

I feel like if someone eats pork and beans to celebrate the occasion, I feel like it makes it worse. It's the champagne of homeless rape. It really is. Well, I don't know about the champagne, but the caviar, certainly. Pork and beans. Ladies and gentlemen, Vandy Camp Pork and Beans Brings to you crime and sports today Vandy Camp Pork and Beans

The caviar of homeless rape Thank you Bring up so much Vandy Camps in the lobby next week It sure as fuck won't be from Vandy Camps, though. I'll tell you that much. I'll tell you what, I'm not eating it. See?

Those guys would never eat Drake's. Ever. They wouldn't. No way. The good people at Drake's don't want us to do this. They'd be too damn happy.

The people at Vandy Camps don't give a shit. God, I hope Vandy Camps doesn't own Drake's because then we're really fucked. Whoever owns them, I hope. Whoever owns Drake's owns Vandy Camps. Oh, Drake's because then we're really fucked. Whoever owns them, I hope. Or Drake's owns Vandy Camps. Oh, God damn it.

Fuck, what have we done? What have we done? We should have Wikipedia'd this first. Shit, all right. We're going to have to take a break and do some more research on the corporate fucking family tree of Vandy Camps and Drake's corporations. So somehow from there, Milton went to church every Sunday. So there's that. Did he really?

He did. That's literally my next fact. That's fantastic. Charlene tried really hard to raise all five of these kids right. She was one of these women who, not taking any shit, grab you by your goddamn hand and drag you to church. God, you put your goddamn clean clothes. I'm dragging you to church. It's Sunday. You're lazy ass out of bed. Let's do this. She dragged him there every single Sunday. He said his entire childhood. He never missed a Sunday.

And he also said he got perfect attendance in school every year. His mom would not let him miss a day of school. He just wasn't allowed to miss a day of school. You get your clothes on, you take it to school. I hate that award so much. That award is congratulations on being the vehicle that got everybody else sick. Good job, everybody. Or, yeah,

it's just an award for having the most strict mother who had to work two jobs and wouldn't let you stay at home in the house without her all day. There's no way that you made it all year long without getting sick. You just brought that shit to school with you, you little bastard. You spread disease throughout the herd, definitely. Use your PTO to keep your sick kid home, goddammit. Yeah, you got union.

You're union at Safeway in California. Get some PTO. Good job, Jimmy. Nice sussing that out. So Milton grows up. He starts playing sports in addition to church. That's pretty much what he does is church, sports, and school. He goes to Long Beach Poly High, which is—but Snoop Dogg went there.

Did he really? My cousin went there, and so did Snoop Dogg. How about that? My cousin had Snoop Dogg in his yearbook because he went there at the same time. I just saw a video of Snoop Dogg working out. Now? Yes. I had no idea how Snoop Dogg working out. Now? Yes. Oh, well, this was 15 at the time.

I had no idea how unathletic that motherfucker is. Well, he's... It's sad. It's disappointing. He's all weird, and he's like a spider. Yeah, his legs are like fucking... They're so skinny. He's like a spider that someone plucked four of the legs off of.

And I was like, well, he's got four left. He'll use two of his arms, I guess, and it'll be fine. He'll learn how to shoot a basketball. It's depressing. Something he can box so he can get in there, hit a baseball, swing a golf club,

I don't know, something. But all the shit he talked about sports and stuff, you'd think that the guy knew how to do it. No. He's just sort of tall,

I think, is all it is. He's not banging with power forward. He's not going to knock his skinny ass over. Definitely not. But also Cameron Diaz

went there at the same time, the movie star. Also, baseball-wise, Tony Gwynn went there. That's his high school. Tony Gwynn and his brother Chris Gwynn went there. And I remember my cousin saying that high school is like a shrine to Tony Gwynn, basically. Yeah, he went there in the late- Well, then he went down to the Padres, too, after that. Yeah, he went there in the late 80s, and Tony Gwynn was like a perennial all-star or whatever by then.

So, yeah, he was a big deal. He played baseball there, was a teammate of Chase Utley, the future Philly champion, World Series champion, and target of Mac from Always Sunny's Love on several episodes. He graduated Milton Bradley with a 3.7 grade point average. Did he really? Perfect attendance, 3.7 grade point average. So think about that. He's a smart guy. No excuse to be a dick.

Nope. He's a smart guy. Comes from a mother who teaches him right from wrong. Tries to, at least. Father's an idiot, and you can't discount that, and especially if the father physically abuses the mother and he sees that and you can't discount that.

But the mother tried her best, sent him to school, was not a problem in school, played baseball well and graduated with a 3.7 average. Yeah. So, fuck. She did her best to raise him right

and then threw him into a system that can... Yeah. Well, she raised him. It can deter a child that's done well. When he graduates high school, she's got to go, did my fucking job. You bet.

Single fucking mother. Yep. All these fucking kids. Worked at Safeway. Took him to church. Made him go to school. You're damn right. Smart.

Made him walk. He's walking up there with his goddamn cap and gown. Like, you had to feel good as a parent right then. You did your job. So, yeah, that's kind of how she feels, too. She's proud of him. The problem is it doesn't last for him because he's a fucking, like we said, asshole. Asshole is the best way to describe him.

Did he go to college for baseball? Well, actually, he committed to Cal State Long Beach there. He commits there. But instead, he's drafted in the MLB, which happens a lot. Yeah, that's awesome. Most of the guys that go to college are drafted also, and they're drafted every year they're in college. They just, you know, that's what the teams, you take your chance.

You have rights to him for a year, so it's like, do we draft him now? And then will he think he'll come out of college? Probably not, whatever. What did he do? Well, he instead, by the way, he grows up. He's 6 foot foot tall 215 pounds good size boy throws right-handed don't say boy please jimmy that's he didn't mean it like that see this is what happens he said that because he's graduating from high school he's a child

you can't say a black professional athlete who we're talking about is athletic, and you go, he's a, he's a, you can't do that. Good-sized boy. Yeah, he's a, right there's a good-sized boy. That's been said hundreds of years ago for terrible reasons, so we can't know, Jimmy. If I didn't catch that, we would have got fucking tweets about

that one. I'm sorry. I know what you meant. Yeah. I speak Jimmy. Yes. Fluent. Jesus. I know what you meant. Yeah. I speak Jimmy. Yes. Fluent. Jesus. Six foot, 215. Big fella.

Big fella there. That's right. That's a big man. He throws right, and he's a switch hitter hitting, which is valuable, and he's a good switch hitter. June 4th, 96, like we said, he's committed to Long Beach there, but he is drafted in the MLB draft. This year is Chris Benson's the number one overall pick, the pitcher for the Pirates. He was a decent right-hander for a long time, actually.

Travis Lee's second overall pick by the Twins, and then he ended up being the Diamondbacks. He was going to be like their savior of a first baseman. He was just kind of a mediocre, plain, boring white guy. He was the baseball player equivalent of a cup of plain yogurt, just sitting over at first base, hitting.254. Did he play outfield, too? Plain yogurt, hitting.254. I feel like he played outfield, too.

After a while, they were like, look, we we got to move you around because you're terrible. You're just terrible. Because I think it was him. I went to a game and sat on the outfield bleachers because they were 12 bucks for the tickets. I'm like, I'll give this shit a try. Yeah, it's a decent view too. So I sat on the fucking, right on the- We're speaking of Diamondbacks, where they play.

What is it, Chase Field now? Chase Field now. It used to be- It used to be Benquin Ballpark. Benquin Ballpark, where they called it the Bob. Either way, it looks like an airplane hangar and sounds like one from the inside. It's like, oh, they're playing baseball in here. When it was new, it was amazing, though.

No, it wasn't. I was at the first game. But I mean, like, the top of it now, because we live in a fucking desert and all the dust settled, it looks like it's about to fall apart. But, like, the only stadium I'd ever been to was Yankee Stadium, and then we went there, and I'm like, this place is an airplane hangar. Why are they closing the roof? This is terrible.

Open that. But the old ones, it's one of the oldest in the league now. I don't know if you knew that. It's depressing. It's getting old now. And the Yankee Stadium that you went to was so much older. Oh, yeah, and it was so much better. Yeah, so much better.

And now you look at this thing. Even Shea was better. And Shea wasn't even really a stadium. It was just a swamp with seats around it. This thing's barely 20 years old, and it looks ancient. It looks like shit. Oh, it does. It looks like outdated technology because they tried to make it look all cutting-edge,

state-of-the-art in 1997. The problem with that is that now it looks like it's a fucking 1997 stadium. It's pretty sad. So I was sitting on the bleachers on on the first row and a ball came towards us and I was like, I'm going to get this ball. And I couldn't. And it dropped short. Yeah.

And I think it was Travis Lee caught the ball and hit the chain link and he had a mouth full of shit. And his face hit the chain link and it went fucking all over us. That's hilarious. He spit like a fountain i'm sure they moved him around at some point because like i said they were trying to figure out what to do with him because he just wasn't living up to what they yeah i remember he people be like oh he lives around here and rides his bike to the park and you're like that's what

depressing don't care don't give a shit people liked him because of that i was like i don't give a fuck he's terrible what are we talking about anyway saving the environment and wasting our money yeah braden looper the number three overall pick the the pitcher uh billy kotch the blue jays closer for a while there through 100 miles an hour that guy uh so the first few guys made the majors after that you got you know eric chavez number. 10, Marc Cozze, Adam Eaton, R.A. Dickey, who was the knuckleballer who's around still, Eric Milton, Gil Mesh, who I always called Gil Douche for some reason just because he had C-H-E at the end of his name. Guys like that. Nick Bierbrot.

Oh, really? Get the fuck out of here. Bierbrot. Nick Bierbrot. B-I-E-R-B-R-O-D-T. He played for the Diamondbacks. Yeah, that is Beerbrot. And he played for the Brewers. I think he was involved in that big trade they had there.

He was named after a sausage. You can try to spell it to fucking camouflage that, but as soon as you say that shit, that's Beerbrot. It's Nick Beerbrot. And then he went and played for the Brewers. Hilarious. Which is perfect. And he should have been their most popular player. But he was terrible.

So he's not. Beer brat gets put in. It's 99 cent brats over at the stands. If he could have had a four ERA, he would have been the biggest hero ever in Milwaukee. Just drunk. Beer brat's the best. 99 cent beer brats when he gets a strikeout. Every time.

Rest of the inning it's good so you gotta pay for sauerkraut 75 cents plus worth it they put a bunch on gross finally, also second round, Jacques Jones

the twins guy for a long time finally second round, 40th overall by the Montreal Expos Milton Bradley is chosen. So he's a second rounder, which isn't bad. Get a little bit of a signing bonus. And they're not going to give up on you if you have a bad month, basically. They're going to keep you around for a while.

He stuck around, didn't he? Because when the Expos changed and came back to America, he was already gone? He was already gone from them, yeah. He ends up playing for eight different teams. Really? Because he's a mess. Expos became the Nationals, right? Expos became, yeah, absolutely.

Also drafted in that draft, Jimmy Rollins was a little bit after him, so they could have had Jimmy Rollins. Scott Schoenweiss, it's good that they didn't get him. Sean Chacon, oh, God, Nick Johnson, the untouchable Yankee prospect for years. And we can't trade him for anybody. And they bring him up and he goes, oh, yeah, he hits 260. That's great. He's mediocre.

He's going to be a platoon guy. Wonderful. Glad we didn't trade him for anybody for five fucking years. Assholes. Right. Fuck me. So anyway, Shea Hillenbrand, another one. Good God.

Jesus Christ, man. He played for Diamondbacks, too, didn't he? Oh, yeah, he did. They'll pick up any old pile of shit that they can here. So the 1996 season, Milton is playing for, this is like rookie league ball. This is like below single A. This is just rookie league. This is where they put the high school kids.

But a lot of times they put the college kids right into single A because they're older. They're three, four years older, and they have a little more experience. 18-year-old kids are like, you're going to rookie ball, play against a bunch of other 18-year-old kids. This is the Gulf Coast League Expos. This is so very exciting. Could you imagine being

good enough that they put you into the majors at, I don't know, 20 years old and you've got a 40-year-old man that's just furious. Oh, yeah. He hates everything. Oh, yeah. And he's whipping a ball toward you.

The pressure had to be insane. It's nuts. Anybody who comes up that young, or like back in the day, it was in the 40s, but Bob Feller, who pitched when he was, I want to say 15 years old, he pitched in the major league 16 years old. It's like, are you kidding me? 16 years old. He pitched in the major league 16 years old. It's like, are you kidding me? 16 years old. I couldn't have handled that pressure at all.

God, no. That was, God damn, you could pull over with weed in my pocket when I'm 16. I'm going to have a panic attack if I, yeah, a bunch of people shouting shit at me. That's not going to work. I couldn't. Joe DiMaggio at the plate. I got problems. I could barely function when a cement diesel mechanic was telling me to take out the trash.

Forget Joe DiMaggio telling me, you need to swing on the 3-1, kid. Jimmy's shutting down, man. Fuck, man. I will shoot myself in the face tonight. So, 96, Gulf Coast League Expos. Rondell White's also on that team, the, I loved that guy. The future longtime major league. Another guy who played for like eight teams. I loved Rondell White, too, for some reason.

He played for the Yankees for a while. He's a classy dude. Expos. He's a good player. He seemed to play hard. I think he was a Reuter, too, but I don't care. Who gives a shit? Everybody was.

If you want a spot on the team, what are you going to do? Be honorable and fucking go drive a cement mixer? Is that what you're going to do? Because that's what you're going to do at that point. Well, I gave it my best shot, and here I am. I want to be an honorable man that makes $38,000 a year in the minor leagues. That's what I want to do. I'm going to work really hard and then wind up in an air ride seat.

I was going to say travel by bus. No. I don't think so. No. I never fault anybody for steroids. I don't care. I can't wait. I make fun of them when they act like I would never. I'm above that. And then they did. It's fun of them when they act like I would never. I'm above that.

And then they did. It's like Raphael Palmeira wagging his finger at Congress and then they bust him. It's like, you're a douchebag. Come on. And he takes dick pills. That's awesome. Yeah. He'll just cork his bat in any way possible.

He doesn't give a fuck. Pills, fucking shots. He's good. I love it. So this team with, like I said, Rondell White, so two future major leaguers on the team. I will also make fun of them. Sorry. Oh, yeah.

If they go and roid like crazy and then they wind up in a $35,000 year. That's pretty funny, too, with their arms sagging. Right. Not great. That's hilarious. Or they look like John Whetland, who looks like he smoked crack for 14 years, like three years after he was retired. Like, what happened to him?

Oh, I quit. With the rights. Not as puffy anymore. Sorry. That's funny. Milton this year plays in 32 games. This is just kind of a short league, a short season league, too. It's just get them in there.

Basically, I've read a lot about this type of shit. Basically, this is to get the guys in there. They've never been away from home before. This is to get them away from home and to put them on the road for a couple months. Indoctrinate. Let them see what it's like to live in hotels and go from place to place and live with his teammates and basically get in the lifestyle. Live the dream, James. Live the dream. This isn't even like worrying about baseball.

This is just get them in there and kind of know, kind of crease the track a little. See if they can handle this shit first. Yeah, they don't even care what your baseball is at that point. They just want you to be in there. He plays in 32 games, hits.241 with one home run, 12 RBI, and seven stolen bases. Not awful. He's fast. This is the thing about Milton Bradley, too, that's goddamn infuriating. He can

hit. He's a switch hitter. He's a good field. He's a five-tool kind of a guy. I mean, maybe not five all the way, but fucking most of the tools, if he doesn't have it, it's at least three-quarters of the goddamn tool. I mean, he's got a good arm. He's got fire, as we'll find out, in his gut, which isn't a tool, but as

an intangible. He's a good player, and he's got speed. He can steal bases when an intangible, he's a good player and he's got speed. He can steal bases when he feels like it. He's a good player. So 1997, he's on the Gulf Coast League Expos again and also the Vermont Expos. So he goes from the Gulf Coast down south to Vermont, which is a change of culture, which is again, they took him from California, put them on the Gulf Coast, which is way fucking different. What city was that in?

Was that in Louisiana somewhere? I think it was in Alabama, actually. No, that's Florida. I'm sorry, the Gulf Coast League Expo. But like Panhandle, Florida, not like Disney World, Florida, like hillbilly, ding-ding-diddly-doo Florida type shit, like small-town murder Florida, that type of Florida. Tallahassee, Florida. Yeah, yeah, way outside. Tallahassee, Florida. Yeah, yeah. Way outside of town. So because these are all small towns, all these minor league teams.

So to go from California to there is a culture shock. And then they're like, send them to Vermont, which is completely different, too. So they're trying to indoctrinate them a little bit. They're both short-season A-ball leagues. So he plays in 59 games in both leagues because that's both leagues. Hits.289 over the course of that. in each league no no 59 all together okay it's too short 120 that's crazy it's too short seasons got it uh which in high school you play you know 35 games or something so that's still a big up uh 289 four homers 32 rbi and nine stolen bases he got caught

stealing nine times also is the problem. A little erratic when it comes to that. His decision making. Not great. He makes decisions a little too quickly and harshly. But he sticks to them. But he fucking sticks to them. Oh, we'll find out how much he sticks to them.

1998, he starts playing for ridiculously named minor league teams, which are always fun. I love stupidly named minor league and secondary B-shit league teams. This is the Jupiter Hammerheads and the Cape Fear Crocs of A-ball. Once we get into the minors, that's when shit gets silly because they have to have crazy T-shirts to try to sell them to people. Some stupid croc eating a baseball. You know that's their logo, a crock eating a fucking baseball. Of course it is.

I don't know, but I'm positive it is. It fucking better be. And it better be like a cartoon one from Peter Pan. Yeah, exactly. It's a cartoon, definitely. It doesn't look great. No, it's not real. It's not scary.

No, it's definitely not scary. They want kids to wear it. We have a listener in Texas who has, she's a lawyer down there. I'm not going to say her name, just in case she doesn't want that to wear it. We have a listener in Texas who has – they have a – she's a lawyer down there. I'm not going to say her name just in case she doesn't want that shit on there. But she's got an A-ball team that's coming to town and they're naming it. So they've left it up to everybody to name it. See, this is what happens.

And it's bad. This is what happens. They are really bad. That's what happens because then kids vote. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of them though is like – They end up with the Toronto Raptors. One of them is like a nickname for a dick or something.

It's really bad. Oh, no. Jesus Christ. Like there's the Prairie Dogs? It's something other than Prairie Dog. It's sad. Well, yeah, it's not really a dick euphemism. It's depressing.

No, no, no. But that sounds bad. That was—there's five. Oh, no. And each one gets progressively worse. Let's hope they cheat that vote and just pick the best one. Milton this year, an A-ball, regular old A-ball, plays in 142 games. So now this is like now we're getting you in there.

Minor league season's a drop shorter than the major league season, so the major league teams can call guys up in September when they expand the rosters. Got it. So that's why they end their season and bring guys up. 142 games, he hits.295 with 11 home runs, 84 RBI, and 30 steals. My Christ. That's a good fucking season. That's like the major league team's going, oh, hey now, what was this fucking guy down there?

What's your name again? Yeah, that second-round draft pick is coming alive here. Did you say junior? Oh, never mind. Fuck it. Unless Griffey is in front of that junior. We're not interested. Fuck out of here.

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Already? Oh, yeah, yeah. This is his future. Okay. Suspended for seven games for spitting gum at an umpire. That's a seven-game suspension? Oh, yeah. You can't touch an umpire.

Oh, he actually hit him? No, he spit gum at him, which is worse than hitting him. Roberto Alomar. But I mean, did he hit him with the gum? Oh, I don't know if he hit him with the gum. I don't know. 1999 AA footage is probably grainy. Right in the face. But either way, Roberto Alomar turned into the goddamn antichrist for spitting at that

umpire the one time. That was like, he still, to this day, people hate Roberto Alomar because he spit at that umpire. one time. That was like, he still to this day, people hate Roberto Alomar because he spit at that umpire. He was so good, though. He was so good. I know so many people who feel like Roberto Alomar like a fucking asshole spit at that umpire. The umpire had like a sick kid or something. There's a backstory to it.

And Alomar was talking shit to him and then spit in his face. Oh, about the sick kid first? There was something said about the, there was something bad. That's pretty cheap. And he called him a cunt, I think, also. That's awesome. Certain words you can't say to umpires. They always say that. Like, you can call a guy an asshole, and that's fine, but you

can't call him, like, whatever. You can't call him a cocksucker, because then you're thrown out. It's one of those things. Well, I'm on the teeter-totter right now. And you just, like, with the sick kid, I went down and made him sick, then called him a cunt. I'm up. I like him. I like that.

I like that. Now he's doing something. Here we go. It's inflating. Your balloon is pumping up. So he's suspended for seven games for spitting gum at the umpire. Like I said, this is after he had been ejected. He's mad because he was hit by a pitch and charged the mound and was ejected for it.

He's so angry for being thrown out of the game after charging the mound that he spit his gum at the umpire. So I think the seven game was cumulative for charging the mound and spitting your gum at the umpire. Then they're like, we can't just give him two fucking games for that. About three for one and four for the other, I guess. I don't know. As soon as you charge the mound, you should already in your head be like,

well, I'm not playing tomorrow. Yeah, for the rest of today anyway. Well, this is the end of my day. I'll be headed to the showers. Might as well go all out because I'm not going to need my energy for the rest of the day. But the thing is, you'd think this is the type of thing that a big league team would look at. There's another one. Was it Young?

Who was the guy? God damn it, now it's escaping me. The guy who hit a guy with a bat in the minor leagues. Oh, my God. And ended up playing in the majors for years, but having a lot of troubles and shit like that. And it's like, well, they give you hints. He swung at somebody with the bat or threw it at him? I can't remember what it was.

It wasn't as funny as like Hideki Irabu who charged the plate, which is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. This was different. But they didn't... They're blinded. Yeah, he spit gum at an umpire. If he's hitting 200, you go, ah, this guy's a dick and he's not productive. But if he hits 329

with 12 home runs, 50 RBI and 14 steals over 87 games, then the team says he's fiery. He's got fire in his gut. That's all it is. We need guys like with 12 home runs, 50 RBI, and 14 steals over 87 games. Oh, boy. Then the team says, he's fiery. He's got fire in his gut. That's all it is. We need guys like that. Seventh game of the World Series.

This guy's going to duck and dive into the wall for us. That's the problem. That's the mentality. That's the silver hair. As soon as a coach thinks that, his hair begins to turn silver. A front office man is like, I'm going to make some money off this troubled person. All you got to do is keep Bazooka out of the fucking dugout. We'll be all right. Not getting him any help or anything, but I am going to profit from him and just hope that it doesn't explode until after he retires.

That's all. So he does well, moves up to AAA in 2000 where he plays for Ottawa. He hits.304 over 88 games, and then he's called up to the big leagues. So he makes his major league debut July 19th of 2000. It's versus the Mets. He goes three for five with an RBI in his major league debut. Not bad. That's great.

Once again, that'll get you some attention. Hey, shit, you notice the new kid when he's three for five in his opening, in his first day. They started him, and he ran through the order all day. Yeah. That's great. They put him in the lineup. Five at-bats is a good day.

What's he play? What position? Outfield. Outfield. Outfield. They move him all around. Mainly not all around, really. So he plays 42 games in the majors, 154 at-bats, that turns out to be.

Hits.221 with two homers, 15 RBI, and two steals. Okay. Which is fine. He's 22 years old. Yeah. Just came up. They're just looking at him. He's got some speed.

They can pinch run him in once in a while. That sort of thing. The team's terrible, though. These are the bad Expos for the reason why they had to move. Because they're so lousy. Nobody showed up because it was shit. At one point, they didn't have media contracts in Montreal. Their games were not on television or on English language radio.

If you lived in Montreal and you liked the Expos, you couldn't listen to a game. The only broadcast of it was a French language broadcast. Oh, that's depressing. Unless you spoke French. I don't want to hear French people call a baseball game. No, unless you spoke French, you couldn't fucking to hear French people call a baseball game. No. Unless you spoke French, you couldn't fucking know anything of what happened in the Expo game.

It's the weirdest thing. That's so weird. So, yeah, the team goes 67-95 that year, which is terrible. And you liked their uniforms. I like their 80s uniforms, not their 90s, 2000s. They were ugly as fuck. This uniform is maybe the worst uniform in all of baseball ever. They look like shit. They look like a big square. Yeah, I like the 2000s. They were ugly as fuck. This uniform is maybe the worst uniform in all of baseball ever. They look like shit. They look like a big square.

Yeah. I like the 80s. I like any of the 80s unis where the road jerseys were like that blue. Yeah. I like that. The baby blue. Those are cool. And their home jerseys looked really clean.

They were just white with the Expos with that logo mixed in. It looked really fucking cool. The old Phillies logo is maybe the coolest one with that baby blue. Yeah, that is really cool. Almost like a brownish. Yeah, they're road. Yeah, that maroon, like blood red, like dried blood. It's fucking dope.

Yeah, the Phillies have a good hat. Not the bright red like they have now, but like the Mike Schmidt era. Yes, that's the one. Dry blood red Philly hat with that logo. That is a fucking good hat. It's almost just like mud, the clay. I'm going to order one of those. That's a good fucking hat.

You should. It's a really good hat. So that year, as the manager there, Felipe Alou, as we know, the sea of Alous. Good Christ. Boise's is the most prominent recent. 2001 season for Montreal. He plays in 67 games, 223 with one home run and 19 RBI. So kind of has a – that's over the first half of the season.

Same line as the year before pretty much. That's the first half. He's on pace to hit two home runs in 30, whatever he had before. So finally, July 31, 2001, the day of the trade deadline, or day before the trade deadline, he's traded from the Expos to the Cleveland Indians for Zach Day, the pitcher. He was a decent pitcher for a while. In Cleveland there, they brought him in.

He ends up spending about 10 games in the minors that year and doesn't really do much in the regular season. He makes $207,000, though, that year. That's a deal. Not bad. In Cleveland, you can really make that stretch. Oh, you can stretch that. Yes, definitely.

Well, that's because it's part minor, part major, too. So he would have made more if he was up in the majors. You get prorated if you get sent down to the minors. I'm in. If you have a minor league contract, which he does. That's when I found out the difference between a minor league contract and a major league contract. Major league contract, they have to pay you your major league salary no matter what. No matter what. They send you down.

They cut you. It doesn't matter. Minor league contract, A, you're not guaranteed a spot on the roster. Sure. And B, they'll— They'll just prorate you. They'll prorate you. You're paid, so it's rough.

So 2002 season with Cleveland. He has a little bit of an issue in April. Very beginning of the season. Not the way you want to start out. You came over last year in a trade. You're a young guy. You want to make a good impression. Get out there and really show them that you're a team guy.

Doesn't work out. Or you have emergency medical personnel have to be called to take you to the hospital because you're so drunk that you refuse to leave a Cleveland restaurant. No. And he's called by the medical report, quote, severely intoxicated. So much so that he didn't realize he had to go somewhere. And he needs an ambulance to come take him wherever he's going.

Sir, you have to leave. He's like, I live here. This is my house. They're like, no, no, sir. You live in here? I have $200,000. You're in the ladies' room. That's not your house.

Ladies pee all over my house. Don't worry about it. I have $200,000 right here in this little trash can next to the toilet. So on the field, though, he plays in 98 games for Cleveland. That doesn't let him stop him there. He's a platoon guy. You know, in and out, he hits.249, nine home runs, 38 RBI, six stolen bases. Gotcha.

Okay, looks like a major league platoon guy. I like it. That's decent numbers. The team goes 74 and 88. They're awful. They stink. That's not numbers. The team goes 74 and 88. They're awful. They stink. That's not an issue. That's still like the tail end.

That's the tail end of like the Jim Tomei, that Indians team. He was gone by then. Was he gone already? I think so, by then. So he makes $221,000 that year. So good for him. Now, 2003 is when Schickett's interesting. Okay.

Now, a lot of things, I mean, it's mixed in with a million other things, but there's a couple of good little chunks in here that are from an amazing article. They really made my job easier, not only because they found a bunch of shit, but then I knew where to look for shit because they put their sources there. Decided it. Gotcha. So it was great. So I was like, oh, cool, I can go look this case up and do shit like that. It's a Sports Illustrated article from 2011, or 2015, I'm sorry, by Michael McKnight and L. John Wertheim. And he is the author of that scorecasting book that I praise all the time on this show. He's a great, just very, very good writer.

Nowadays, it seems like writing has, in sports, mind you, for other shit, they could give a fuck about being credible. Well, sports, either it's like you have a 12 IQ or it's somebody really smart. There's nobody in between. It's either Colin Cowherd, who is – well, that's annoying because he's actually a smart guy who pretends to be stupid. Who plays dumb, yeah. Which fucking makes me angry. Or you're just Skip Bayless, who's a moron. Right.

Either one. But they cite themselves. They cite their sources, is my point. Yeah. They realize, and Sports Illustrated and ESPN seem to do it best. Scorecasting is just an amazingly researched book where you're just like, fuck, this guy's a monster, this writer that put this together. And even like this article, you read it and you're like, Jesus, it's like this guy knows

how to put something together. It's awesome. They know what they're doing, these guys. It's like this guy knows how to put something together. It's awesome. They know what they're doing, these guys. Well, anyway, this spring of 2003, Milton Bradley is playing for the Indians. In spring training, he ends up meeting a lady.

He meets Monique Williams. Yes, he does. This will be his future wife. Wow. His future wife here. She is a community relations intern with the team. She's 22 years old. Oh, boy. He's about to turn 25.

Yeah. So, I mean, hey, he's a young guy, major leaguer. Got an intern. Cute intern, 22 years old, works for the team. I mean, you can see what's going to happen here. This is Bill Clinton. Young people. Not even Bill.

They're just two young people. He's not the fucking president. He's like a platoon right fielder. He's like, this is right in my wheelhouse. Community relations intern young people. He's not the fucking president. He's like a platoon right fielder. He's like, this is right in my wheelhouse. Community relations intern. Perfect. He's not the GM. I'm going to need her.

This is great. Believe me. One thing I'm going to need, it's community relations later. So later on, I'm going to put some quotes in now every once in a while. These quotes are from court documents later on. So I'll tell you when we go to court document interviews and things, we'll flash back to this and explain in their own words

kind of a thing how these things happen. So Milton Bradley about this, about meeting her, he says in court, quote, I was out in center field shagging fly balls. I saw a female walking down to the field and I asked one of my teammates, who's that? He said, I don't know. I said,

well, I'm about to find out, and I ran in, is what he said. So this guy stopped his pregame preparation of shagging fly balls to try to go talk to a chick. Which, again, probably not the best impression to make, but I get it. That's fine. You can only shag fly balls so much.

You can't impress your coaches that way, but you can impress. That's fine. You can only shake fly balls so much. You can't impress your coaches that way, but you can impress a quote-unquote female that way. Run up there in your uniform. I hate a dude that calls a girl a female. Whenever a guy calls a girl a female, I'll get one of these females. Anytime, if it's always a bad sign. It's always

like a really misogynistic black dude or a mustache, no sideburn, prison guard white guy. You know what I mean? One or the other. You either got to be super black or super white, and you call ladies females. And it's weird as fuck to me. Or just a general piece of shit.

Or just a general piece of shit. That's fine, too. Just a general piece of shit. Or just a general piece of shit. That's fine, too. So he talks about I ran in, and his attorney, Harlan Braun, who we'll hear a ton about, his attorney, good God, this poor fucking bastard. He hangs on to him forever. Well, yeah, this guy probably has, like, three summer homes and, like, you know, takes European

vacations and sends his kid to, like, you know, guitar lessons from like Eric Clapton and shit because of this fucking guy. I would say this guy has so many legal problems. The attorney at this point, when he says after Bradley says, I ran in, the attorney says, let me let me jump ahead. Did you ever hit Monique? So you can tell where this is going right away. He says never.

Braun says, you've yelled at her, correct? Bradley says, quote, I've yelled at a lot of people, which is a pretty fantastic fucking response. Then Braun says, later on, Braun, the attorney's talking to Monique Bradley, his future wife, later on on the stand. And he says, Mrs. Bradley, when you met Milton, he was already in the big leagues. And Monique says, yes. The attorney says, he had a temper, correct? And she says, I had heard about it, but I hadn't seen it at that point. And then this is from the court document.

The Los Angeles deputy city attorney makes sure to tell the court that Monique's not a baseball groupie. Milton wasn't a big famous player that anybody knew who the fuck he was. He was a guy who was trying to not be sent down to the minors. And, you know, she worked for the team. So they were both just kind of worked for the same company. And they ended up dating for two years before they got married. So she's – That's nice.

So they don't get married until two years later. That's a good decision. So the attorney is trying to say, hey, don't classify. Don't try to act like she was like in the stands trying to flag down a famous baseball player and then marry him the next week. They work together and it's fine. Now, Milton, let's give a thing here. Milton says about his mom and just about himself and how his character. We have to let Milton tell you who he is before we begin this crazy journey, Jimmy. Oh, that sounds scary. tell you who he is before we begin this crazy journey, Jimmy. Oh, that sounds scary.

This is the beginning part here is about his mother. He says, quote, well, she's been a part of things since day one. She kept me in school every single day, perfect attendance my whole life, in church every Sunday, and she guided me through the trials and tribulations of this crazy career I've chosen. God is able, she always says, and my faith in God never allowed me to waver from his perfect plan, capital H is, by the way. I haven't necessarily taken the most direct route, but I made it. Okay. So with Jesus as the wind at his back,

he is going to make it. And so just so we all know, everything he does is for God and for Jesus and for the church, man. That's all it is to it. So let's find out some shit that he does in the name of Jesus. Let's see what he does to besmirch the good Lord. To take the Lord's name in vain.

So, Jesus Christ. 2003 season, he has a bunch of problems. On the field, he's having all sorts of fiery incidents on the field. Outburst? Outburst. He has some of the most epic, probably the most epic player ejections I've ever seen in baseball. How come I don't know this? I don't know how you don't know this.

He's like a Lou Piniella. Really? Or like a Billy Martin. Really? Like a legendary or an Earl Weaver. What am I missing? He's like a legendary gets thrown out guy and the fucked up part is I watch all of his things and he's a total dick about it. It's hilarious but I mean he's being a dick and he's

not trying to be entertaining. He's trying to he's angry and he's serious but the problem is most of the time he's right in what he's arguing. He is safe when he's arguing he's safe. And it was a fucking ball when he said it was a ball. So that's what makes me – when I look at it, I'm like, goddammit, how do you not freak out? You were safe. Like they show the slow-mo.

He's fucking safe. They call him out. He's like, what the fuck? And he loses his mind. He got called out on a 3-2 pitch. He got called out later on when he goes to a team. He got thrown out of the game in his first home at bat

with the team because he was up with the bases loaded, 3-2 count, and it was a ball that was clearly inside, and they called it strike three, and he freaked the fuck out. First pitch, or first at bat. Got thrown out. He freaked the fuck out, and then they showed the pitch track, and it was fucking inside. It was a shit pit.

It was a ball four. Sorry. But umps don't like to call ball fours and walk-in guys. They'd rather call strikeout. So it's one of those things. But he's right a lot of the time, which he's smart. That's what I mean. You could use it for good and not dickheadery.

The problem with baseball, though, when it's a 3-2, they'd rather call the strike and move along because you've been up here, kid. You've had your chances. Especially with the bases loaded. It's that scorecasting book. Speaking of L. John Wertheim, there's a whole thing in that of how percentages of where the ball is and where it's called a strike and ball change depending on the count. Okay. It's fucking crazy. Yeah, that makes sense.

It's so weird. In the 3-2, that pitcher's getting so much leeway on that pitch. If there's three balls and no strikes and you call a ball and you throw a ball perfectly down the middle ends in the middle of the pitch track, you know, perfect in the middle of the strike, that's called a strike like 99.6% of the time. But if it's 0-2, zero balls, two strikes, and you throw that pitch, it's only called a strike 65% of the time. How about that?

Exact same pitch. Interesting. But it's all about people's mental things that you don't even know you're doing, but you're skewing it. It's so fucking weird, man. It's a great book. I want to read that part. It's tremendous. I have the audio book.

I'll let you have it. That would be great. It's true. That's so much easier. I'm not really good with the reading. I'm not going to give you paper books. Thank you. Thank you.

So this year, 2003, he has on-field run-ins with the Dodgers catcher, Paul LaDuca. That guy's a bitch. Yeah, I kind of like him because he's a guinea. There's just not a lot of guineas. I didn't like him. And his dad owned a pizza place in Sedona also. Oh, that makes sense. My mom went there and saw pictures of Paul LaDuca everywhere. He's like owned a pizza place in Sedona also. Oh, that makes sense. He was a nice guy. My mom went there and saw pictures of Paula Duke everywhere. He's like, my son plays in the Rangers.

So anyway. I sat next to his fucking friend at a baseball game. That's right. I remember you telling me that. And he was like, I'm going to that fucking dick going, Polly! And like hollering to him. There's not a lot of us in the league. Dude, I'll punch you in the dick.

Stop shouting at the man. Also with Jason Giambi, he had an issue with, I think I'll pick a giant guy. This is enough, man. Roy did like a brick house. Are you picking every Italian? Yeah, that's it. I'm only going at, yeah, he's very prejudiced against Italians. Can you believe this in this day and age? Prejudiced against Italians. A juke run.

Prejudiced against Italians. Sorry, that was a good fellow's reference. So anyway, this time he throws his helmet and his bat in the direction of the home plate umpire after he is thrown out of a game. Can't do that in 2003. That's another suspension. August of 2003, he's in Ohio where he plays for Cleveland. He gets pulled over by the police here. It's a little before 3 a.m.

Not a good time to be out. He's in his 2002 black Lexus. He was allegedly going 52 in a 25. I believe it. So that's a little fast. 25 is so slow. It is. It's 3 in the morning and there's no traffic. I get where you're going. I'm going home.

You've got to be careful at that point. Double the speed limit is a bit scary. That's a bit much. Go 10 over, dude. Yeah, that's fine. Even 15 at that point. And go, dude, it's 3 a.m. No one's out.

What, are some kids running around? It's me and you, bro. it's 3 a.m. No one's out. What, is there kids running around? It's me and you, bro. It's me and you and I think rats running by. It is Cleveland. So, yeah. So anyway, he gets pulled over. He hands the officer like a gentleman, hands him his driver's license with his Indian's ID,

which is a slick move, like, hey, Anna Milton Bradley, which they said for some reason is fairly routine if the players get pulled over they'll do that of course well yeah once in a while it'll probably get you out of something your get out of jail free card is the first one you pull here's my second form of ID just so you know for sure

even though driver's license will do when the cop comes back to have him sign the ticket he's walking back to the car Bradley just pulls away and leaves instead doesn't sign the ticket just He's walking back to the car. Bradley just pulls away and leaves instead. Doesn't sign the ticket, just takes off. So the patrolman here, this guy Edwin Dennis, a patrolman,

he followed Bradley for about five minutes before he just gave up. He said, fuck it. We're not going to have a high-speed chase over signing a fucking, oh, he killed a guy. He's not a bank robber. I know who he is. I got his address. I have his license in my fucking hand. So they wouldn't call.

The police didn't call it a chase. They just said he followed him to observe an observational chase or whatever the fuck they called it. But he said he took off. The police said he started, you know, he put the lights and siren on and Milton just kept driving like fucking OJ. Nope, not pulling over. Or maybe he just thought, oh, there's my ticket. driving like fucking oj just nope not pulling over or maybe you just thought oh there's my ticket he's just coming back up to tell me you may go on your way mr bradley because i have both your forms and your ticket that you need to have that's the whole point of me pulling you over was

to give you this right so uh the sergeant at the time then told the police officer to stop chasing him because he's like there's no point in doing it we know who it is and where he lives it's not like he took off and the cop said he was just about to stop chasing him anyway because he's like, there's no point in doing it. We know who it is and where he lives. It's not like he took off. And the cop said he was just about to stop chasing him anyway because there's no point. He says the police officer said, quote, I did attempt to stop the vehicle again, and Mr. Bradley refused to stop for my lights and audible siren. So the sergeant said, quote, what are you going to do?

We know who it is and where he lives, so there's no sense in getting into a pursuit. He never went over 40 miles an hour. It's not like he was fleeing us. He was going 40 miles an hour and refusing to pull over. Not really a high-speed chase. He's not really fleeing us. He's just kind of being, I don't know, a dick.

That's all. He's just kind of being a dick. That's what he does this whole time. The chief said, quote, this was not a high-speed pursuit. He wasn't charged with felony fleeing, just failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer. Bradley said he then called the police station, the chief said, and said he wanted to come in and pick up the ticket. And he did so and signed a signature bond for the other charge that he had there.

The sergeant who waited on him said that he was very cordial when he came in. Wouldn't that be awesome? Just drive away? That would be so fucking great. You or me, this shit doesn't happen, son. Even if he has my name and everything, shit doesn't happen. No. They're just turning off.

They're going to keep on. Fuck no. Why is he running? No, they're going to chase us and search us and find what's in our asshole. And beat the living shit out of me. And beat the living and tase us and everything else. And it's Arizona. We might get shot. It's true. It's Arizona. We might get shot.

It's possible. But my point is, it would be amazing just to go pick up your shit and then go, why are you running? I don't know. Where do I sign for this other shit? Okay. And then they go, well, he was cordial when he came in to sign for it. He should be fucking cordial. The police officer that pulled him over said he wasn't very cordial. He said he never suspected drugs or alcohol,

but that he definitely said Bradley was not cooperative, and that a few choice words were uttered. Is that right? He's talking some shit at that point. Yeah, but at least he wasn't saying we thought he was shit-faced, which was a big deal.

Now, Indians general manager Mark Shapiro, silver-haired middle-aged white man, what do you think he's going to have to say about this? He's a great dude. Right away, we're going to nip this in the bud. We're going to put him in something. We're going to talk to him. No.

He says, quote, at this point, we don't feel the severity requires organizational action. We're comfortable with letting the legal process take its course. He ran from the cops. Not our problem. He's freaking out on the field. He's doing this. We're not going to talk to him. We're just not going to. So yeah, they said, this is

fucking funny too. The police department there, the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department has 12 cruisers with dash cams and five that don't have dash cams. And which one was he pulling over? Of course, this was one of the five that does not have a dash cam. So basically it's his word against the cops at that point.

He's charged with, like we said, failure to comply with a police officer. It's a misdemeanor with a maximum fine of $1,000 and a six-month jail sentence. He might also be charged with a misdemeanor speeding violation for driving 40 in a 25 when he was driving away. When he was running away. When he was running away. But I don't know if they'll do that because then at that point it is a chase if he went over the speed limit. So, yeah, anyway. What do you want to bet Cuyahoga Falls all their police cruisers have fucking dash cams now?

Can we get the other five fucking cameras? What are we waiting for? We're all taking $5 pay cuts. There's baseball players running from us. We can't have this shit. Until Milton Bradley leaves this town, everybody has a fucking camera. Now, the Indian spokesperson, after all this is going on, he gets a continuance in court. Milton does, not the Indian spokesperson.

Indian spokesperson Bob DiBiasso, not DiBiase, the million-dollar man, Bob DiBiasso, he said, quote, let's not start connecting the dots with this young man. He's an emotional guy. That's what drives him. We're behind Milton all the way. Hair. When he showed up there, he had a jet black. When he left the podium, he looked like Steve Martin.

I don't know what the fuck happened. Silver. Holy shit. It's what drives him. He's an emotional guy. They keep saying this until a certain point we get to later where it's a tipping point, and they're like, it's not good that he's an emotional guy. We can't co-sign on this anymore.

On the field, though, plays in 101 games, has some injury problems. 377 at-bats. Hits 321, though, with 10 homers, 56 RBI, and 17 steals. My goodness. Good field year. Good year on the field. That's a better way of saying it. Team goes 68-94.

He makes $314,300. Not bad. That seems so low, though. It seems low, yeah. But he's made 700 over his career so far. Yeah, well, he's still on his rookie deal. He hasn't got to where he's a free agent yet. That's when you make money in baseball. Unless you're like a

top 10 draft pick, you're not making a fortune until then. You've got to play for five years. So 2004, in February, he's sentenced to three days in jail for driving away from the police there, but he appeals it and gets some kind of delay

and it's held over until December of this year, and we'll talk about that when it comes up. But he doesn't have to do the three days yet. Yeah. He doesn't have to do the three days yet. Now, at home, on the other hand, we'll talk about Charlene Erector, the mother here. She talks about the relationship between Monique and Milton. Yeah.

This is, again, one of our court document flash – head flashbacks. Mom's got some shit. Mom says, quote, the troubled relationship between Milton and Monique has been off and on since they started living together before marriage, which is right around this time. Milton has never been the aggressor in any argument I have witnessed. Instead, Monique gets drunk and provokes the argument. OK. This is what they're going to keep saying over and over in these court documents.

Monique likes to drink. That she likes to drink even though outside of Monique, outside of the mother and Milton, no one's ever seen her drunk. Never. Like her babysitters, everybody's like, I've never seen her drunk. She doesn't really, doesn't drink really. Well, that's fascinating. And he's like, she gets up, it's drinks wine from the minute she got her eyes open. And they're like, I don't know.

I don't smell it on her, ever see it on her. Spring training of this year. Milton is pulled from an exhibition game, yanked out of there after manager Eric Wedge says that he failed to run out a pop fly that dropped. Basically, he hit a pop fly, jogged up the baseline, then the guy dropped it, and he was halfway up the baseline still rather than rounding first and hustling it out. Should have been almost a second by now. Some Little League shit right there. He ends up also being barred from training camp the next day.

They told him to fucking stay home. That's another Little League punishment. Yeah. Nope, don't play next time. We don't even want you playing when it doesn't matter. That's funny. Not only that, this is like the very end of March. April 3rd, like a week later, 2004, he's traded

by the Indians. They're like, get this guy the fuck out of here. We're done. He's driving away from people. He's fucking off on the field. He's traded to the Dodgers for a player to be named later, and also Franklin Gutierrez. The Dodgers ended up sending Andrew

Brown to complete the trade later on. But yeah, that's the trade here. So he ends up with the Dodgers ended up sending Andrew Brown to complete the trade later on. But, yeah, that's the trade here. So he ends up with the Dodgers, which is his hometown team. This should be great. That's good because, as we all know from crime and sports, best thing for an athlete that's having some troubles is to go home, as we all know. Move home. Get married.

Get teenagers in your hit squad. Find God. The whole fucking deal. Get yourself a Bible, Milton. Oh, please. Jesus squad, find God, the whole fucking deal. Get yourself a Bible, Milton. Oh, please. Jesus, Milton. Luckily, he already found God, so he's already got that rule broken.

So June of 2004, he's suspended for four games by the team and fined $2,500, or by the league, not the team, for an – this is the funniest thing I've ever seen probably on a baseball field. This has a bit of an exchange, we'll call it, with Terry Kraft, who is an umpire. He's ejected from the game, and so then he takes things into his own hands and does one of the more hilarious ejection things I've ever seen. You have your Lou Piniella's that take a base and throw it, and Billy Martin kicks dirt. Earl Weaver would turn his hat around and get right in the numbs fucking face. After you told me about Earl Weaver's outburst, I watched his ejections. Fucking amazing. They're amazing. He walks away, comes right the fuck.

Oh, yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, no, I thought of something else. I got more to say to you. He did it like 15 times. Oh, keep doing it. He'll delay the game for 25 minutes and every time he does it, if it's a home game, the crowd

fucking roars. They lose their mind. You hear him, then he'll turn around. And another thing, motherfucker. And the more he gets in with the crowd and starts cheering again, he's like a pro wrestler. He can just whip him into a frenzy every time. It's great. It's so fucking great.

Is he dead? He's got to be dead, right? I believe Roe Weaver's probably heart exploded from an anger fit. I wish I'd have known that man. He is fantastic. This was just a couple months ago that I found out about Roe Weaver. But I wanted to...

Watching him, I'm just like, I want that guy to be my... I wish he would have yelled... I want to be yelled at by that man. You want him to be your uncle that comes on Thanksgiving. I want him to be. Uncle Earl's fucking awesome. Watch this shit. I want him emotionally invested in me. Oh, yeah.

So much so that any time I fuck up, I've got to hear that. And then he starts to walk away. Don't you go anywhere, motherfucker. You just want to go. You just go, Uncle Earl's coming. Fuck yeah, dude. He's going to yell at my cousin. It's going to walk away. Don't you go anywhere, motherfucker. You just want to go. You just go. Uncle Earl's coming. Fuck yeah, dude. He's going to yell at my cousin. It's going to be awesome.

He's going to call him a lazy fuck. He's going to call him a hippie. This is fucking great. He's going to yell at him because he went out with that black girl. This is going to be fucking awesome. I can't wait. That's the best. Uncle Earl doesn't even know that Eddie's girlfriend's name is Chantel.

I can't wait to tell him. Can't wait. So you have these good freakouts. Then you have like Lloyd McClendon who took a base and just took it with him, ripped it out of the ground. So I'll take this with you. Fuck all of you. Then you had that Braves minor league manager who completely lost his shit, lost it, freaked out, then got behind the fucking pitcher's mound, crawled up it like it was a combat fucking mission, grabbed the rosin bag and hurled it like a grenade toward the plate. He fake pulled the pin and everything.

Yeah, he pulled it with his teeth and everything. There's that guy, then there's this, which is better. Okay. Milton at the plate, angrily stares the umpire down, takes his helmet, his bat, puts him down on the ground, takes off his batting gloves one at a time, places them down on the ground also, and walks away like, I'm leaving these here, so fuck you. I'm not cleaning them up. Walks away.

You think Milton's gone. He's talking shit. Goes into the dugout for half a second. Everybody turns back to the field. Nope, he's not done yet. He comes out with a giant thing of baseballs. They have these giant, like, probably four times the size of a bucket, and they're kind of like rubber

baskets. I think it's like a 50-gallon drum cut in half. Kind of, but they're made of, like, rubber. Yeah, yeah. And it's full of baseballs. He runs up the dugout steps, onto the field, and starts throwing the thing up, so like, ten baseballs at a time are flying out into the field and starts throwing the thing up so like 10 baseballs at a time are flying out into the field.

Then he starts picking them up off the ground and hurling them into the outfield from the third baseline all the way out to right field just as far as they'll go, whipping them all around, throwing them, taking the fucking bag, spinning around so the rest of them fly out. That's brilliant. It was fucking amazing to watch. The cleanup of that is ridiculous. Oh, they took a while.

They had to go, there's another one out there. Someone shagged this fucking thing. Do we have all of them? How many were there? Like, he lost his fucking, I never thought anyone would think to do that. Like, oh, I'm going to go get fish and bring it out there. He probably looked around and saw, like, the people on the sides are very elderly. And they're not going to clean all that shit up.

No, no, no. It's going to be those guys. And if they do make them go do it, it's going to take a while. It's going to be ball boys and some 16-year-old kid having to do it. Well, the funny fucking thing is, at the end of it, he's like, he's yelling and screaming. And over this, the announcer is Vin Scullyully the amazing for 60 years the best and his voice is wonderful and it's soothing and he'll tell you everything that's going on and while this craziness is going on oh bradley taking balls out of the bag out there he had to call it it was great and when it's

finally done you just see milton say his final couple things and turn around and walk away. Vince Scully just goes, Milton Bradley has thrown baseballs like rice at a wedding. That's the end of it. I'm like, that's the—talk about summing it up. He's thrown baseballs like rice at a wedding. That's amazing. Holy shit. So he's suspended for four games for that, obviously.

Now, Paul DePodesta, the general manager, said he doesn't give a fuck. He's defending him still. They're still defending his actions. Still standing behind him. He says, quote, when we traded for Milton, we knew everything that came along with it. I would take nine Milton Bradleys if I could get them. Keep that in mind. You'd take nine of that guy?

Nine of this. There'd be no one left to play is the problem. That's my version of that's my kind of guy. That's exactly what it is. He's later suspended the final five games of the season when he slammed a plastic water bottle at the feet of a fan in the box seats in the right-hand corner. He threw a plastic water bottle. Just drilled him. Threw it down by the guy's feet out there

in the right corner of Dodger Stadium. Somebody had thrown it on the field. Not this guy, who almost got hit with it, but he went over and slammed it back in the stands at this guy's feet. Like, what the fuck? You can't do that. Just hand it to the umpire.

So instead, he does that, and he suspended the final five games. But he plays in 141 games that year. That's a lot. Has 516 at-bats, so his first real 500-at-bat-plus season. Hits.267, 19 homers, 67 RBI, 15 steals. Good game. Caught stealing 11 times, too, but still 15.

He's a threat still. You just have to think about him. You might be able to throw him out, but you've still got to think. He's still 15. He's a threat still. You just have to think about him. You might be able to throw him out, but you've still got to think. He makes $1,730,000 that year.

Now you're talking. Tell you what. Let's do it now. Grace. This is Grace. I let him go a little extra. I'm going to be honest. I could have called it. Got almost $2 million.

But the way it's so weighted on what's coming up. We're about to just slide down a hill of shit right now. I love it. I had to let it go right up until that. That's grace. The wait is over. So far, you're not losing. The only thing you're losing is my patience.

Quickly, I see that. Ding! The queen of the courtroom is back. I didn't do anything. You wouldn't know the truth if it came up and slapped you in the face. I see he's not intimidated by anything. I can fix that.

New cases. She wanted to fight me. Leave her alone. OK, so, um. This is not a so. This is a a period classic judy did you sleep with her yes your honor you married his cousin his brother that's not him yes ma'am i would make a beeline for the door the emmy award winning series returns how did i know that i have crystal ball in my head it's an all-new season it It's streaming. You can say anything. Judy Justice, only on Freebie.

It's had a graceful time so far. November 2004, another interesting incident on the road here. This is his last road incident. Everything goes indoors after this. But on the road, November 2004, he ends up being charged with a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct after, quote, interfering with a traffic stop on an Ohio highway. OK. Somebody else's business? Not him driving. Okay. Now, what he... Okay, so he's in the car that gets pulled over. Yes. Okay, and he's got words for the cop. Well, he's not in the car.

What the fuck? This is ridiculous, okay? Keep driving, Milton. He says that a female friend of his was riding as a passenger in the car behind him. So it's not him. It's a female friend of his who is not even driving the car behind him. It was a passenger in the car behind him. And this car had been pulled over by the police.

This was Copley Township Police. The police dispute right away even that. The police say that there was one female in the car by herself. They're saying that this woman was driving the car by herself. She wasn't a passenger in the car with someone else driving. But one thing that everyone agrees on is that this woman had been drinking. Bradley just tried

to discount the fact that she was also driving. So she'd been drinking. Bradley says that she is a Columbia law student, law school student, and a friend of his, and he didn't want her to get into trouble and jeopardize her future, so he got out of the car to help. Okay.

This sounds like I'm trying to— Was this 2004? Yeah. This sounds like I'm trying to fuck a girl, and I'm going to get out, and I'm going to be like, I'm on the Indians when you say you let this girl go, and the next thing you know, I'm knee-deep in this shit. But he says, this poor young girl, I'm trying to guide her on her path to a stable career in the

law field. They left somewhere where they were drinking and she said, I'm too drunk to drive. He said, follow me. Hop in my bumper real tight. Follow me. Right. Yep, exactly. Which it should have been the other way around to keep the cops coming. He should have said, I'll drive.

Yeah, I'll drive. Unless they were doing like a mob trail car thing where then he was going to go bash into something to get the cops' attention and then she would drive off because she had all the cocaine. I'm not sure how that works with the body in her trunk and whatever the case. He says, quote, I came out with my arms outstretched to show the cops they didn't need to pull their weapons or anything like that. You get out with your arms out. That tells me I should pull my weapon because your arms are looking. What's up, motherfucker? Not up, out. If he said I got out with my arms up, different story.

I got out with my arms outstretched outward. He said, and I yelled because I was 30 yards away. It was raining and there were cars whizzing by. He said, quote, the cop told me to get back in the car and I didn't get in the car. I should have gotten back in the car. I know that, he says. But I didn't lose my cool. It was a very calculated scheme on my part.

I had a friend and she needed help. You help out a friend regardless of consequences. Not with the police, actually. That's not how that works. Oh, my God. Yeah. The police officer said Bradley used obscenity and, quote, was somewhat challenging as he got closer. I don't know exactly what that means, if that's just cop lingo for he looked even blacker the closer he got or what it was,

or the fact that his arms are outstretched and he's yelling and cursing on the side of a highway going, why the fuck are you pulling this lady over? She didn't do nothing. Blah, blah, blah, blah. So anyway, Bradley says, quote, I didn't break any law. But he did tell the officer to go ahead and arrest him. He said, go ahead and arrest me. I didn't break any law.

He said, why wouldn't I say that later on? Jesus Christ, man. He said, quote, I told him to arrest me. He said, and you might think that's the dumbest thing, but it let my friend get out of trouble, and it did. So the cop ended up arresting Milton Bradley and letting her go. Instead. And letting a drunk woman drive off. Jesus Christ, man.

I don't know about the judgment on that cop. You arrest both of them, sir. Yeah. That's funds for your state for her DUI, first of all. That's the other thing, yeah. It's so fucking stupid, man. Now, he says about the whole thing, we'll do an in their own words on this, because I think this is him defending himself,

and he should really have it in their own words. He says, in their own words, quote, there really shouldn't have been any headlines because it was so ridiculously minor. I was speaking up as Milton Bradley, a friend, not Milton Bradley, the baseball player. My friends will be there long after baseball. And that is what's important to me. Morally, I don't believe I did wrong. Legally, I did the wrong thing.

Also. No. Just dumb. What's your wife have to say about this? That's the other thing. Who the fuck is she? I'm sure she asked that question. She acted like this is his friend that pulled him out of like it was like his dad's friend that pulled him out of a

fucking rice paddy in vietnam with a gunshot wound this is some law school chick he knows you know who even knows if she's in law school she might fucking work at hooters and he's like she's a columbia law school student but i don't want her to screw her life up she's got breast implants coming in in the morning and i don't want her to screw her life up. She's got breast implants coming in in the morning, and I don't want her to screw up her appointment. He's got such a heart for these troubled men. Oh, man. Jesus Christ.

He ends up paying a small fine for this whole thing. Okay. For that. So no big deal there. Now, he said, and he did an interview in 2004 around this time when this is all going on. People are starting to go, who is this crazy asshole? So he gets some interviews. He said in an interview, now this is funny, the guy who did the interview said, quote, about the interview,

quote, I got the Milton Bradley who said I don't have an anger management problem. And the Milton Bradley who told me 10 minutes later that he not only had an anger management problem and spoke regularly to a counselor, but that it was something he'd have to work on, quote, for months and years. So that's what he does. I don't have an anger management problem. I'm in anger management every damn week because I fucking can't control my temper. Okay? And it's going to take me months and years.

But if he would have said you do have an anger management problem, he would have argued with him for 20 minutes and then told him about his counseling and anger management. It's fucking nuts here. He said, quote, I got the Milton Bradley who always had as an excuse for losing control of his emotions and the Milton Bradley who becomes upset when told the obvious, like, quote, you cannot put yourself in the position ever again where you're singled out for causing a problem. His response to that Milton Bradley, quote, this is what irritates the hell out of me.

You explaining to me that I can't do that. I know that. I don't need you to tell me that. You're the last person I really care about. I listen to my mother or someone close to me. Not an average journalist in the paper. That's a pretty fucking funny quote. An average journalist

in the paper. You're not even a national journalist. You're just some schmo who's got a sports byline. You dickhead. I didn't call you a terrible one, so just enjoy that. And he said, too, this is fucked up. He tells him, the reporter's like, he tells me this. He goes, I'm the only one he'll talk to.

He goes, he likes me. Afterwards, he's like, we get along. This is getting along with him. He said no one else. He wouldn't talk to anybody else. He's like, I'm the only one he gave this interview to. Called me mediocre. Yeah, that's fucking amazing.

He called me milquetoast, and I have to swallow it because nobody else gets a Milton Bradley story. That's right. Who knows what he's going to do anyway? He's rageful because I said hello. He then said, the reporter said that he told Milton that he thought he was a, quote, dunderhead for interfering with the police in Ohio, to which Milton agreed. He said, I do too. He thinks he is also. He told Milton that Milton's a dunderhead for interfering with the police in Ohio, to which Milton agreed. He said, I do, too. He thinks he is also.

He told Milton that Milton's a dunderhead? Yeah, for the Ohio thing. He's like, you were being a real dunderhead on that one. And Milton was like, he must have been in a good groove of the conversation. And Milton goes, I do, too. That was stupid as fuck. Right after he Googled dunderhead. Yeah, he was like, I think that's bad.

It's something head, so that's never good. Dickhead, shithead. Is dunder a yeah he was like i think that's bad it's something head so that's never good dickhead shithead there's never is dunder a word for dick probably dick or poop or something i don't know so i made him a redneck now for some reason the black guy from california like i don't know some kind of poop i don't know i spent time down in the gulf coast league and now i talk like this and i don't i'm not sure why i'm not sure why if I'm being honest with you. So he said that the reporter said a few minutes earlier, he described himself as that he was defending this woman's honor and blah, blah, blah. The same bullshit he said earlier. Then.

Wow. Bradley described himself as, quote, the perfect imperfection. He's the perfect imperfection uh he's he's the perfect imperfection what the fuck are you doing milton yep he said that everyone has him all wrong he's just the perfect imperfection i'm perfect his fieriness is what makes him perfect that's what he says he says quote who is my anger hurting don't put me in the ron artest category or the Mike Tyson category. I was playing poker the other night with Marty McSorley, who is a crazy enforcer hockey player

who Bob Probert fought 20 times. So many times. And I don't hit people over the head with a stick. Those are serious problems. Biting people and running into the stands. I consider the things that I do are wrong, but not on that level. Artest was out of control. I showed restraint in throwing the bottle to the ground in the stands.

Never in my life have I gotten into a physical altercation with anyone. Never in my life have I harmed someone. My anger is completely a different type. It's not directed towards someone, he says. So he's saying it's just this internal tornado of rage that he has inside of him. Take it easy with the Mike Tyson references. That's the other thing. First things first, Mike Tyson's fighting and beating people up.

That's his fucking job, first of all. He also has brain damage. You're delisting people with brain damage and whatever. And Artest thought someone was attacking. Whatever. I'm not going to make. Anyway. I'm not going to defend Artest, but I'll defend Tyson to the hilt.

That guy's awesome. So he then says, quote, that's the way it is. That's how I live my life. I've risen above and beyond expectations coming from where I come from and what I've gone through. I'm not supposed to be where I am, but I'm here, damn it, which all true. True. Now don't fuck it up. Right.

That's the problem. You are here. You are here. Yeah. December 2004, Bradley ends up serving the three days in jail from that other incident. It actually finally comes down. He pleads guilty to obstructing official business. And that's about it.

And the other one, the other deal, the disorderly conduct for yelling at the police officer was $175 fine. Obstructing of official business was driving away from the speeding ticket. February of 2005, to be exact, there's a fluff piece on Milton. Fluff him up. Why the fuck not? It says, quote, the off-season was filled with potentially life-changing experiences for Milton Bradley. He began counseling sessions to deal with anger management and other issues, and in

a more positive vein, he got married in Las Vegas on February 5th. So in a more positive vein, he's getting married, which is always what we tell. Always get married. Crime and sports rule number one. When things are going bad, make sure to run to the altar, especially in Vegas, because that shows a pre-planning and a forethought. I'm impressed that the wife went forward with it. After the Columbia Law School incident.

You tell me who the fuck she is first? He must be a good liar, too. He's got to be. And he's also a little bit aggressive, as we'll get to right now. Two days after the wedding, Monique signed a prenuptial agreement. Oh, okay. After the wedding, which is a nod time. Post-nuptial.

Yeah, this is, yeah, that's what I mean. This is weird. Monique later on says, quote, he made me sign it. Mr. Bradley is very intimidating. He just said, you didn't think you were going to leave here without signing this, did you? Which is kind of scary. You know what I mean? So you get married.

You have a couple of great days in Vegas. Then you wake up and he goes. Listen, you thieving bitch. You're going to sign some fucking paperwork. I'm going to put your head through this fucking wall. Huh? Have a gander what my lawyer drafted for you. You didn't think you were going to leave here without signing this.

Anytime anyone says you didn't think you were going to leave here without, that's bad. There's nothing positive coming out of that. It's not positive. It's usually, you know, oral sex I'm going to assume is going to be the most part. To somebody else while he watches. It's going to be bad. Yeah. It's not going to be pleasant.

No, never. So 2005, he's with the Dodgers still somehow. June 28th, there was an incident. A 911 operator responds to a hang-up by returning a call, and it's to the Bradley residence. So someone from their house called and hung up on 911. Milton Bradley answers the phone when they call back and identifies himself as a professional baseball player, according to the police dispatch report.

Milton Bradley, professional baseball player's house. This is Milton Bradley. Milton Bradley, professional baseball player, Indian's ID on demand. Got it right here next to my license. He answers the phone, says, I'm a professional baseball player, Milton Bradley, and my wife has struck me and scratched me, he says.

He tells the operator that his wife was angry because she believed he was cheating on her, which she's probably right. You know, police officers went to the house where nobody was visibly damaged, and they determined that neither party wanted to press charges. So that was basically one of those police counseling sessions where they went over and said, no one's going to kill each other tonight. Right. It's going to look bad on my record. OK. Everyone's going to be alive tomorrow.

All right. I leave here and my name's on a report. Come on. Don't be hitting her. Don't make me be the guys that let Dahmer have his victim back. Come on. You know, a little Filipino child. The guys that let Dahmer have his victim back. Come on.

Right. You know, a little Filipino child. So, quote from Milton about this. Quote, in the past year or two, I've gone away from the church. That's his problem. He said, quote, the first 18 years I was in church every Sunday with my mother, I started getting into pro ball and I didn't want to go to church anymore. I've gotten away from that Christian background and upbringing that got me this far, and God might be using these police, umpires, and media people to get focused back on me and the Lord. Think, okay.

He sounds like a crazy person. Let's rewind that narcissist train for one second. How fucking narcissistic are you? How fucking narcissistic are you? Quote, I've gotten away from that Christian background and upbringing that got me this far, and God may be using these police, police, umpires, and the entire media are only tools for God to get Milton Bradley's attention. That's what a narcissist is. He's got so much time on his hands that he's like, send that cop to get him. But yeah. That didn't work.

Somebody sent an umpire after him. Also didn't work. Have a drunk woman that he's trying to fuck be pulled over on the highway. Do it now. What Scott's telling us, he's got to have an assistant to make. I don't think God's making this stuff happen. He would definitely tell an assistant. He's clearly got at least some sort of pyramid scheme out there.

Something. I would imagine so. Now, July 11, 2005, 4.58 p.m., Monique Bradley calls 911 from a neighbor's house, Redondo Beach Police. This is make another visit there. This is the second visit this year. Milton Bradley is no longer there,

so they take her statement. He had already taken off. They say that she said that Milton grabbed her right hand and pushed her hand against her mouth, causing her to hit her mouth and crack her lip open. She said that

her husband grabbed her cell phone from a bedroom table and threw it at the wall and broke the cell phone into several parts. She then said that he followed – she followed him out into the hallway with the cell phone parts. She said that Milton turned around and used his right forearm and pushed her up against the wall. Then she said the forearm was against her throat and she was having a difficult time breathing, so much so. By the way, she's four months pregnant at this moment in time. Just a little hint there.

When Bradley released her, she told police that she had to go to the bathroom and throw up because of the choking. At that point, she was gagging. She said that Milton then went around the house and picked up all the cell phones, house phones, and her car keys and credit cards and left and took them all. So that's his plan to take all of her shit. At first it was just a quit hitting yourself situation. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like what you do to your kids. Yeah, except fucking scary. Right. Until he starts choking and stealing shit. Blood drawn and stealing shit and choking and doing anything like that. So Monique Bradley had to go over to a neighbor's house because he took all the phones. And Milton wasn't home when the police arrived there. She told them everything that happened.

The police said, quote, had he been there on the 11th that day, we would have arrested him. I guarantee it. She was desirous of prosecution. There was an injury. And that's our standard, physical injury and desirous of arrest. That's enough to arrest him. So he almost would have been arrested. Now, we'll talk about how they discussed this in court at a later date in divorce proceedings

later on. Oh, boy. The police officer said, quote, she was upset and crying. She indicated to me that she was pregnant. She had a small cut on the inside of her lip that was bleeding. Milton Bradley said, quote, she had a busted lip. She was threatening. Oh, I'm going to call the police. And I'm like, I'm not staying here because I didn't do nothing. The lawyer said, quote, did you ever throw the phone at the wall or anything like that? Milton Bradley said, I never

threw the phone. Later on, the prosecutor asked Monique, has Mr. Bradley prevented you from calling the police in the past? Monique said, quote, he'll take my cell phone and the house phones, and when he doesn't do that, he'll say, call the police. You'll be dead by the time they get here anyway. Holy shit. Yeah, and he would yell at her, and the prosecutor said, or her lawyer said, what kind of things would he yell at you? Monique Bradley would say, quote, tell me I was stupid, I was a bitch, a whore, a slut, an idiot, and lazy.

Oh, you know, the typical abuse ones. The usual abusive asshole things that you say. Have you seen one of those abuse documentaries where they're like, hey, if I ever say this shit, that's what he does. That's all that. All that typical shit. The standard. Ask a psychiatrist, what does an abuser say? That stuff.

He's a hack. That's what I'm telling you. Yeah, pretty much. Not original at all. He says later on in these proceedings, quote, I don't know where the impressions about me come from. No? I don't have a bad relationship with anyone.

Okay. Then he says, this is wonderful here, in their own words, quote, I'm going to live my life the way I want and not by any guidelines or what the moral majority might want. Wow. I'm my own person. If it's not meant for me to play baseball, whether I bring it on myself or it's brought on to me, okay. I feel there's something ultimately in God's plan that is bigger or better for me to do to help people. I don't look at myself as a Major League Baseball player.

I look at Milton Bradley as the man. Oh, boy. So, yeah, he's the man. The problem is when you do something where someone pays you over a million dollars a year to do it, they kind of expect you to be that. That's the problem. That's why they pay you all that money. Otherwise, they're not paying you all that money.

If you go out there in your normal clothes and you're like, I'm Milton Bradley the man, they're like, well, we're not fucking paying you. You put on our clothes and get the fuck out there. Nobody wants Milton Bradley the man's fucking autograph. Yeah, no, and during the season, you're Milton Bradley the Dodger, so stop being a dipshit. We're paying you a lot of fucking money. You're being Milton Bradley the man who

hits his wife. Jesus Christ, yeah. So that was July 11th. All is quiet for 19 days. July 30th. 19 days of marital bliss. Unbelievable. July 30th, Milton Bradley calls 911. Police officers enter the house.

They speak to the couple and they leave. There's just a check on him. So he's having problems this summer. August of 2005, anger brewing from everywhere. He's confronted by the second baseman, Jeff Kent, if I'm sure you remember him. He was a pretty good second baseman, power-hitting second baseman. He's confronted by Jeff Kent for not hustling, okay? Bradley accuses Kent of badgering him all season and not understanding African Americans.

He says he calls Jeff Kent a racist all year. He said, and after meeting with Dodger owner Frank McCourt, he meets with the owner. And then after that, miraculously, he's diagnosed with a torn patella tendon he's put on the DL. So it's kind of like, hey, your shoulder hurts a little bit, doesn't it? I feel like your shoulder is going to hurt for the rest of the year because we tell you what, let's make this easy. Because we could do a shit can and it's going to be a lot of publicity. We're going to have to pay you anyway. So tell you what we'll do here. You're hurt, aren't you?

You go home and your checks will keep coming and we all shut the fuck up about this. We'll have a seat and some shit won't bounce. We'll do that. And leave Jeff Kent's name out of your mouth. And don't call him racist. Jesus. Now, Mike Cameron, who was a black guy, another player, said, quote, there's a different type of fire with him. I think it's more emotional than maybe fire or angry fire.

That's who he is. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad. We've all had a couple moments where we didn't see things eye to eye. So, yeah, he's had some run-ins. Basically, no one who spends any time around Milton Bradley has not had some sort of something with him, a run-in, an issue. I saw him. Ricky Ledet, the left fielder of the Indians,

and he used to play for the Yankees back in the day, was kind of a busted prospect. Brutal. He said, quote, I tried to be his friend. It's hard because he likes to keep to himself, but we talked about our families. I like everyone in here. We care about him and his family and want him to overcome his problems, baseball aside.

So, yeah. By the way, that was three times the police had been at his house in a 33-day period. That is a lot. That's a lot. Oh, my God. Three times in a month. And then he had all the shit with the Dodgers. And they were like, let's just shut you down for the rest of the year, pal.

Every 11 days. And then he has an event with the fucking club it's amazing it's fucking crazy his wife sure don't see black eyed eyes no they don't she sees black eye to fucking running away as fast as she fucking can from this poor from from this poor no she's the poor from this lunatic uh the uh paul de podesta there said quote we were aware the dodgers executive we were aware that milton was not entirely happy at different points away from the field, as we are aware with some of our other players. But at no point were we aware of any actual incident or of any actual issue whatsoever,

he said. So he's saying, had no idea the cops came to his house three times in a month. No clue. Nobody told us. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. No one told me shit. 75 games he plays in that year. Hits 290 with 13 home runs, 38 RBI, and six steals, though.

That's not a bad. He's still productive. Teams are going, you know, if we could just. Just keep his hands in his pockets. Just get him to calm down. Right up until he gets on the mound. And teams cannot resist that shit. They can't.

Right until he gets to the plate, just keep his hands in his fucking pockets. Yeah, that's it. That's what they need to do. $2.5 million he makes that year. Wow. Not bad. The L.A. County District Attorney's Office declines to press charges for the July 11th incident because of insufficient evidence. Apparently, the victim was interviewed a second time a month later and there was some variance

in the story and they said it wasn't worth prosecuting basically because then by that time too, she didn't want to press forward with it by the time they were going to press forward with it. So it's like her story changed and now she's saying, never mind. So what are we going to do here? She's an abuse victim. That's what happens. That's the problem.

Yeah. And they're like, we don't know what to do. Fuck it. I don't know. So Milton Bradley here, such a good guy that the Dodgers, it's the problem. Jesus. And they're like, we don't know what to do. Fuck it. I don't know. So Milton Bradley here, such a good guy that the Dodgers, Jesus Christ, he's the Dodgers nominee for this year's Roberto Clemente Award. Get out of my life. Which recognizes a player who best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, and community

involvement, and the individual's contribution to his team. You get thrown out all the time and call the captain of the team a fucking racist. What are you talking about? Well, he does involve everybody. He does, that's true. He throws the bottle at the guy in the stands. And he did say nobody's not seen eye to eye with him

at some point, Mike Cameron said. So everyone, he shared experience. Right, he involves everybody in this fucking tornado. Thank fuck he doesn't win it, because that would have been embarrassing, especially later on. He didn't win it? No, no, he does not. Thank win it because that would have been embarrassing, especially later on. He didn't win it? No, no.

He's thank fuck because that would have been really bad. He is out, ends up being out for the remainder of the season because of a knee injury at the end of the year. We have another

in their own words here. I just want to give him a chance. In their own words, quote, the events written about are very regrettable. Any problems reported have been exaggerated, but nonetheless, my wife and I

have resolved all issues. The incidents reported will remain private and personal. At this time, I am choosing to handle this matter and all future matters directly and confidentially with the Dodgers. We'll handle this internally. New future, everything's fine. He says this in December.

December 11, 2005, Monique gives birth to their first child. They have a girl. Luckily, it's not named after him. December 13, 2005, two days later, he's traded to the A's. Oh, Jesus. Get the fuck out of here. We've had enough. Yeah.

Brand new father. Yeah, with Antonio Perez to the A's for Andre Ethier, who ended up playing and being kind of a big star for the Dodgers down there. So not a great trade for the A's. But they were trying to get rid of him before he cost them anything. January 10th, 2006 now, this is two weeks later, whatever, Milton Bradley files for divorce.

But he and Monique continue to live together, which is always good when that happens. What is he doing? He's going to have to buy a house for her, put her and the kid up. Well, let's find out. She says what ends up happening right after this in court documents later. She says, quote, Milton insisted I accompany him in February 2006 to Arizona for his spring training. He then insisted that I go live with my parents in Cleveland, Ohio, where I have been residing since March 13th.

I go live with my parents in Cleveland, Ohio, where I have been residing since March 13th. He constantly threatens me by phone and in emails that if I do not do as he instructs and make myself available on a 24-hour basis, he will stop these monthly spouse and child support deposits. Wow. So that's what he said. She said. But you're not married anymore. No, no, no.

Why does he want to make her available at any time? That's the thing. If you file for divorce, then you're saying that that other person, they don't have to answer the phone at 2 a.m. when you call. Exactly. They could be like, fuck this person. They want to divorce me. So 2006, he's in Oakland.

He plays 96 games. Hits.276 with 14 home runs, 52 RBI, and 10 steals. Okay. Not bad for a platoon guy. He makes $3 million. My Christ. I'll take that any day of the fucking week. He's up to $8 million now.

It's not bad. He's doing well. Wait till you hear the total at the end. It's a lot. Oh, boy. 2007 season for Oakland. He has a lot of injuries. He only plays in 19 games.

Hits.292, two home runs, seven RBI. He ends up June 29th. That's what he did in Oakland now because he gets traded. June 29th, he has a bunch of disagreements about returning to the lineup after injuries with the management of the A's. So they say, fuck you and trade him to the Padres. They've had him now. I mean, they just got him. He's playing for every team in fucking California.

He has, yeah. San Francisco is the only one so far. So are the Angels, too. Kevin Towers, who's San Diego's general manager, said, quote, He has somewhat of a checkered past. We certainly did our due diligence. We felt it was worth it. Other than the domestic violence, first of all, no.

Never start a sentence, other than the domestic violence. No, sorry, which sounds so toned up violence. That's right. No, sorry. Which sounds so toned up as fuck. This was only 10 years ago. Other than the domestic violence, which was eventually dropped. A lot of these, a lot of these things are like Barrett situation. Who's another guy. He said he's a very intense player.

And in the heat of the battle during a game, sometimes he loses his temper. We felt it was worth it based on trying to win right now and improve the club. And with what was available, this was the best move to make. Wow. Other than the – that's how you know you were desperate at the trade deadline and you're like, I mean, other than beating up his wife, he's a good guy. It's like, whoa. I mean, what he should have said was charges charges were dropped, but other than— We're worried. That's what he said. We're worried.

He prefaces a statement. You can't start it. What he should have said is, you guys, there was nothing available. Yeah. We had to take somebody that beats their wife. We're not sure. He said, other than the domestic violence, I mean, you can never—those words are the worst. The manager— It seems like he figured out that that was a bad thing to say.

And then tried to backtrack and explain it. Then we're eventually dropped. And then it was dropped, and you know how it goes. The manager, Bud Black, said, quote, he's 29 years old, he's been around the block, and he knows what's expected. When this guy is physically right, he's quite a major league player. He's shown an ability to play all three outfield positions, which gives us flexibility. He's going to help us win games. Silver, silver,

silver. Everyone's just silver as fuck. Hell of a forearm on this guy. He pressed it against a woman's neck and almost killed her. That's what made her throw up from it. Mike Cameron, the guy we talked to before, he has a different view of the whole thing. He says, quote, this team needs some brothers, too. It needs some color to it. Sunny San Diego, home of the Beach thing. He says, quote, this team needs some brothers, too. It needs some color to it.

Sunny San Diego, home of the Beach Boys. It needs some diversity. The Beach Boys are from L.A., actually, but I'm sure they seem to have adopted them down there. But yeah. Beach community. Yeah. So the Padres have this whole thing here.

By the way, when the Padres, when he was traded to the Padres, it was for Andrew Brown, who he was traded with before for L.A. Same guy. The A's end up, they give San Diego $1,360,929 to cover part of his salary. That's nice. So get the fuck out. We'll pay someone else to let you play for them. We just don't want you here. We're selling you and we're paying it. Fuck it. That's what it is. fuck out. We'll pay someone else to let you play for them. We just don't want you here. We're selling you and we're paying it.

Fuck it. That's what it is. Get out. With San Diego that year, he plays in 42 games. He hits 313, 11 home runs, 30 RBI, which is some pop off the bench. Then at the end of the season, he is arguing with an umpire, furiously getting into his face, and manager Bud Black comes up from behind to grab him and pull him away.

As he does so, Milton's trying to keep turn the other way. They end up tumbling to the ground, and Milton tears his ACL. Wrestling with his manager over fighting an umpire. Dumb motherfucker. That's how hard he fights. He kicks his own ass his own by his manager by a retired pitcher a retired pitcher took him to the ground uh four million bucks he makes for that little fucking boondoggle that year though somehow uh october 29th 2007 he's

granted free agency they're like you can have you're gone we don't need 2007, he's granted free agency. They're like, you can have it. You're gone. We don't need your option. He's pissed off at Billy Bean, the subject of the Moneyball book and movie that Brad Pitt played here. He said, quote, Billy has this really smart aleck attitude about him and a swagger about him that he thinks he's better than everybody else. He would always tell me, when you're on the field, make me look good. But I wasn't making him look good enough because I wasn't out there this year. So when I couldn't make him look good anymore, Jack Cuss stepped in and started getting those homers and making him look good. And that was his new guy.

Then he said, this is funny, you've got one black coach. You've got to call him to the office to talk to me. He, talking about this black coach, wouldn't have anything to do with the meeting and didn't have anything to say either. But he had to be there. Why? I don't know. Were they afraid of me? Were they afraid I was going to start a fight?

I've never fought anybody in my life besides my wife, but she doesn't count. And those charges were dropped. So apparently, yeah, they brought in a black coach to talk to him when they wanted to talk to him, like a base coach who had nothing to do with shit, which is actually a true thing that happens. I remember working for the Diamondbacks in the ticket office, and there was two managers, and my friend Ralph was one of them, and Ralph's black, and the other dude was like this blonde, dorky motherfucker. And we had this real thug-ass black guy that worked there. He had teardrops on his face and shit. Oh, my God.

He did like eight years for manslaughter. Oh, boy. Cool motherfucker, though. Got along great. He sold weed. He was great. Bad man. But don't piss him off.

He looked like fucking Debo. He looked just like Debo. Anyway, he was in trouble for being late, and this white manager asked my friend Ralph if he would, would you sit with, would you sit in the meeting when I talked to him? He was like, what are you talking about, man? I don't do that. He's like, I never, you've never asked me to sit and discipline somebody before. Why the fuck do I have to do it now?

I need you as my black union steward. That's exactly what it is. I need you for it. Ralph was like, fuck that, man. You talk to that black motherfucker on your own is what he told him. Fucking talk to that guy. I was like, that dude killed somebody. Ralph was like, he's fucking, so I don't want him pissed at me, man.

Fuck you. He killed a black guy to get those. You think he'll be less pissed at me because I'm black? Fuck you, dude. Those teardrops are from another black dude. You're not putting me in there. So then he says just look at it you tell me it's a mighty coincidence that every black guy who's been there the last three

years you can go back to jermaine di terrence long mike singleton is gone when i was with cleveland i'd ask guys how do you like it there and they'd say we can't get in a game over there we can't stand it over there then i got here and i said man I don't see any of that. Then 2007 rolled around and I started seeing it. So he's saying they got racist to him. And yeah, I didn't like it at all. Now, December 10th, 2007, he signs with Texas, the Rangers. John Daniels, the GM, says, quote, we're not going to judge him on perception. No.

Every single one. You know what? Start judging people on perception. You know what perception is? Past actions that have caused a perception. That's not prejudice. No. That's what they're mixing it up with.

If there's glass and there's light through it and it shines in a certain way and there's water there, that's why. Because water was put there. That's why there's a prism through it. That's the fucking point. He's put water on his window, is what I'm getting at. So you have to,

you can't ignore that. At minimum, there's smudges on it. It's not good, is the thing. And they're mixing up prejudice with, what was the word he said?

Which who? Who? Perception. Perception. That's what he's doing. We're in Texas. He just didn't want to say the word prejudice in Texas. No, not at all.

People would be like, who are we being prejudiced against now? I'm joining. Who is it? So 2008, he's in Texas. He has a bit of an issue. Shocking. He stopped at the press box from confronting Royals broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre after Lefebvre made a comparison between the troubles of Bradley and Josh Hamilton, who's a mess drug addict player who keeps getting in trouble.

It's not good. Bradley got mad at that because he compared Bradley unfavorably to Hamilton, who at that point was all clean. He's like, I mean, Hamilton got his life together, but it doesn't look good for Bradley. Says some shit like that. and got his life together, but it doesn't look good for Bradley. Says some shit like that. I got to use the suck dick for coke. Comparing a man that hits his wife to him, which, I mean, is a fair comparison,

but a wife beater is not going to take kindly to that. Well, what he ends up doing, he stopped by security as he is what's being called attempted to storm the press box to physically assault this man. Texas General Manager John Daniels said that Milton was, quote, acting cordially and just wanted to set the record straight. Milton doesn't cordially set shit straight. Everybody calls him cordial. That's the thing. It's like, what does that mean?

Yeah, a Kansas City police officer was posted outside the booth What does that mean? Yeah, a Kansas City police officer was posted outside the booth after Bradley climbed up four flights of stairs to get to the press level before being brought back down to the clubhouse by the general manager. In the dugout, he was visibly upset and fighting back tears in the clubhouse when speaking to teammates, crying, saying, quote, all I want to do is play baseball and make a better life for my kid. I'm strong, but I'm not that strong. I'm not that strong to have a Royals. How many people in Kansas City are watching anything? To have 1,400 people here that some fucking jackass compare you to another player?

In 07, that team was pretty good, though. People were watching, I think. Not 07. Yeah, I think. Not in 07. Yeah, I guess they were getting good then. But still, who gives a shit what the announcer says? Even when they're good, no one's watching the Royals. So he was pissed off. Lefebvre says he doesn't even remember what he was saying, what he said that was so bad. He said, the announcer, he said, quote,

We were complimenting Josh Hamilton on how he's turned his life around and taken responsibility for his mistakes. And he's talking about his partner, Frank White. He says, Frank and I were having a conversation on how it's a shame that it doesn't appear Milton Bradley has done the same thing in his life. So Bradley answers that by going, how dare you say my life is not together. I'm going to come up there and fuck you up. Meanwhile, you're the opposing team. They're supposed to say negative things about you. That's the other thing, you dummy.

It's not even your announcer. You're supposed to be able to take that shit. Oh, my God. So, anyway, he makes the all-star team this year. Wow. The fucking all-star team. And he says, quote, taking the field in the Big Apple, because this all-star game was in Yankee Stadium.

It was the final game in old Yankee Stadium. Final all-star game was last year. He said, taking the field in the Big Apple for the final year of historic Yankee Stadium. It was the final game in old Yankee Stadium, final All-Star game was the last year. He said, taking the field in the Big Apple for the final year of historic Yankee Stadium where so many greats have stood before me, I am humbled. This is why Jackie Robinson endured unspeakable hate and prejudice. So I, some 60-odd years later, have the opportunity to play this great game of baseball so I can stand up and be recognized, so I can be proud of who I am, so I can stand up and be recognized, so I can be proud of who I am, so I can be proud to be an American.

This motherfucker just gave a 1985 Hulk Hogan promo. He said everything besides take your prayer, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, believe in yourself, and believe in the power of Hulkamania. He said everything but that and then flexed and went off the stage with Mean Gene. What the fuck is going on? Punctured woman. Proud to be an American. So in July, this proud American, Monique's pregnant again.

Oh, no. Poor Monique. Now let's go to court documents. Quote, Milton Bradley says, quote, in the summer of 2008, she left. She went back to Ohio and, you know, gave me an indication that she was possibly going to get an abortion. His lawyer said, did this turmoil affect your ability to play baseball? He said, quote, I never hit over 220 again. Next season he hit 257, by the way.

So he lied about that. He lied. Also, a woman having an abortion is going to affect your baseball forever? Your baseball, yeah, forever. Forever, Jimmy. What are you talking about? Yeah. Jackie Robinson endured unspeakable.

He played really well. Jackie Robinson was shouted down every time he went up to the plate and called the N-word daily. Guys would spike him on purpose at first base. At first base. Enos Slaughter drop-kicked him in the fucking leg with his spikes for no reason when he was out by 10 feet. But this one, a girl might have an abortion. So I can't play.

Can't hit over 220. And now, back to the show. And now, back to the show. This year, though, he hits 126 games, 414 at-bats. He hits 321, 22 homers, 77 RBI, and 5 steals. That's an all-star year. Team goes 79 and 83. They're not that great. He makes $5,250,000 that year.

The Rangers really ponying up. Not bad. October 30, 2008, he is granted free agency because they're not interested in keeping him. This winter, he buys a 7,500-square-foot house in Encino, California. What a dipshit. For $3.7 million. He's so dumb. 3.7.

No job when he bought that. He knows he's going to be signed by someone. He was an all-star last year. But still, January 9, 2009, someone steps up to the plate and signs him. Chicago Cubs. Oh, boy. Three-year deal. They're going to take a chance on him.

That's a lot. $30 million. Whoa. There you go. Three years, $30 million. That's nothing. $3.5 is nothing. That's nothing, man.

Now, what do they say? Dan Jiggets of the Chicago Sun-Times. Not the team. This is a writer. But still, they're rah-rah here. Quote, his fiery attitude and, to agree, his unpredictability is exactly what the Cubs need. That's what the Cubs need? Everywhere he goes, they say, this is what they need.

A crazy wife beater. Bring him in. Jesus Christ. Holy shit. He becomes a real asshole now. This is when he picks up his assholery. 2009 spring training. He's in Arizona. Monique gives birth to their second child.

Her mother comes to help with the baby and Milton evicts her from his house. He says in court, he said this in court, okay? Quote, it's mine. You know, I bought a home. I can say who can come and go. I wouldn't want my mom staying with me, and I don't want her parents staying with me either,

so it's my prerogative. I bought the home, paid for it. You're on the road, and your fucking wife has two small children. Let her mom stay there and help her. What the fuck is wrong with you? How much does he hate that mom? Jesus Christ, man.

April 2009 is his first home at bat with the Cubs when he is thrown out on the 3-2 pitch I called you about, which was a ball. Sorry. Apparently he said something really horrible about this, but they couldn't. He said one of the things you're not allowed to say. Because he walked away. He didn't even make a scene. He just walked away and was saying shit under his breath. And you see the yump walking, and then he just stops and looks at him, and that's when he's like, get him the fuck out of here. He heard him say something when he was 20 feet away from him.

Got it. He was still talking shit, and he said the wrong word. Yeah. You can say fuck. You can say that's bullshit. It's probably an N-word. He said cocksucker. He said something that the guy wouldn't take.

So anyway, he ends up getting suspended for that. 2009, May of 2009, he accuses umpires of widening the strike zone on him, which isn't smart. It's all against him. No. Lou Piniella said, quote, there's nothing good that can come out of saying that. No. They're not going to make it better now. No.

They have control. That year, though, 124 games, he hits.257 with 12 home runs, 40 RBI, and two steals, which isn't exactly the all-star performance they signed him on. That's quite garbage. He has suspended the final two weeks of the season after he made comments to reporters that the Cubs were, quote, not a positive environment and, quote, there have been a lot of issues that we've lived with during the year. Yeah. But that's, wow, not great. The Cubs GM said the only real negativity here is his own production.

I love a good shit talking. He makes $7 million that year. Holy shit. Joke's on you, asshole. Joke's on you, silver man. I'm walking away. Monique Bradley, later on, says of a situation of this time, quote, Milton had gone to Las Vegas and had purchased some presents for me. I told him that I did not want gifts, and he became upset.

He opened one of the boxes. He took out a shoe and hit me on the head with it sorry that's not funny he just that's hilarious but the fact that he came in with a bunch of presents i picture him real proud of himself she's like i don't want your fucking presents rightfully so probably he's cheating on her knocking her around whatever and then he opens the box which is the hilarious part he had the idea i'm gonna get a shoe out of this motherfucker and then hit her with a shoe horrible but ridiculous you don't live in vegas you just left chicago you clearly stopped in vegas to party and have a crazy time

and you i'm sure you fucked several women yeah then you're going to try to make it up to me with some fucking Jimmy Choo's? Get out of here with that. Take a fucking hike. And then you're going to smack me with the Jimmy Choo? You're going to hit me with a Louboutin, you dick? Jesus Christ. Her quote, he opened one of the boxes,

took out a shoe and hit me on the head with it. He said, quote, I never hit her with a shoe on top of her head. That is his quote. She then says, Where did you hit her? Where? On top of her head. That is his quote. She then says, where? Where did you hit her? Because you hit her. On top of her head.

I didn't hit her on the side of the head. I fucking walloped her, but not on the top. She said, quote, we separated in December, only to reconcile shortly after. What are you doing? Stop. December 18th, 2009. Traded by the Cubs again. He keeps getting traded.

Wow. Get the fuck out. To the Mariners for Carlos Silva. Jesus Christ. Jack Zdrenic. I don't know how the fuck. Zdrenic, who was the Seattle GM. I'm sure he's been long fired by now, so it doesn't matter.

He said, quote, it's a new day, new way for this guy. Every fucking time. We have the cure. It never stops, though. Never, man. So 2010. That's amazing. So Chicago signs him for $30 million, pays him $7 million of it, and then trades him.

So now they're on the hook for $23 million. A lot of times, too, it'll be with, like, he's traded to the Mariners for Carlos Silva in cash. So, yeah, they got cash. A lot of times they'll offer to whatever the deal is. They'll pay some of the deal. But the Cubs are, the Mariners are a rich team, so nobody offers to pay shit for them. They're on the hook for $23 million.

Oakland and San Diego, you make deals with them, you have to pay some of the salary. Fucking the Mariners are like, fuck you, Nintendo owns you. We got it. You're fine. Every kid had a fucking Wii and then a Wii U. Fuck, eat dicks. So anyway, 2010, this is an incident here.

Monique Bradley says, quote, Milton stated to me that he was going to lunch with Ken Griffey Jr. I joked that maybe he could pick him up in his new overpriced car, which was a Rolls Royce Phantom. Milton became furious with me. He yelled at me that he hated me, that I made him sick, and that he wanted me to leave. which was a Rolls Royce Phantom. frightened by his anger, and was shaking. The police met me at our residence. That night I checked into a hotel with our children. I believe that Milton's constant tirades, his anger, and his unreasonableness are causing emotional harm to our young children. I'm afraid that Milton will actually take my life. He has threatened to kill me before he lets me leave with his money.

Milton makes these statements and comments to me in front of our minor children. Usually after he yells at me or calls me names, he will send me a message that he is sorry that he needs me and that he will ask me not to leave. I've always forgiven him in the past. Living under this pressure is causing me a great deal of stress and anxiety. Yeah. He says none of our arguments have escalated into a physical encounter. Her claim that I cursed her in front of our children is also untrue. Wow.

It's like he just let her give this diatribe of assault and shit behavior. He said, nope. Nope. Not true. Didn't do it. She lied, Your Honor. Wasn't me. So then her lawyer says to her, you and Mr. Bradley continued to have a relationship.

Explain that to me. Like, what the fuck? And she says, quote, I knew I needed a divorce. It wasn't healthy. It wasn't right. But I didn't get married to get divorced, and I've tried to work on it. That ain't true either, Your Honor. Fuck.

God damn it. So January 9th, 2000. That's untrue. We got married to get divorced, actually. I dispute all of that, Your Honor. That's why we signed documents to the like. There was a post-nuptial saying, just in case.

So January 9th, 2010, they argue, the Bradleys, at a Long Beach restaurant. Milton leaves Monique there by herself and drives the 40-mile drive home without her. I will leave you here. Monique calls the police and alleged that Milton pushed her in the chest.

So he says in court later on, quote, about 30 minutes later, a knock at the door. A policeman said, did you hit her? I go, no. He goes, do you want to let her back in the house? I said, if she knows how to act. I told Monique, quit calling the fucking police for nothing right in front of the cop. So the cop left. So how'd you like to be that cop?

Like, holy shit. Milton Bradley said, quote, I do everything I can to keep the peace in our relationship. Her lawyer then says, let's talk about you not being a good husband. Describe why you're not a good husband. He said, quote, because I don't have a good wife. good husband. Describe why you're not a good husband. He said, quote, because I don't have a good wife. The lawyer said,

so it's her fault that you're not a good husband? Bradley said, you get what you give. It's one of my favorite quotes. She said, you've called her a dumb bitch? He said, yes. You get what you give, one of my favorite quotes. Well, you've called her a dumb bitch? Yes, I have. He's like

a fucking, he's like three people at once. This episode's special because it's like three crime and sports all in one. It's like three different fucking people. So he's still in Seattle. They were going to put up with him for a year here. He is put on this restricted list for two weeks by Seattle while he received counseling. for two weeks by Seattle while he received counseling. He said he was having, quote, unpleasant thoughts and told his wife that he was understanding

why some people commit suicide. So they were like, let's get him some help. Mariner's GM here said that Bradley will come back, quote, when we're satisfied that he's mentally ready to resume playing and feels comfortable in his surroundings here. So never, never, ever, ever. His playing days in Seattle are gone.

So he apparently left the stadium without permission in the middle of a game Tuesday, the past Tuesday, and underwent his first counseling session Thursday afternoon. He met with the Mariners manager, and they said that they talked about it all. After that, he returned saying, quote, I don't have all the answers. I'm not saying I'm cured.

I'm going to believe him there. He hits 73 games. He hits 205 that year with eight home runs, 29 RBI, and eight steals. Not a good year. Team goes 61 and 101. Not good. That's terrible. He makes $11 million.

That's fantastic. That's amazing. That's amazing. That's amazing. That sounds wonderful. Right? Doesn't that sound great? Oh, jeez. December 2010, the Bradleys both equally dismissed their 2009 court divorce proceedings.

Yeah. And on December 31st, they're in New York City to bring in the new year here. Together. So you know there's never going to be a problem here. Monique in court later, you know, we're digging into the court documents. She says, quote, Mr. Bradley got in late and he started arguing. He was already in a bad mood and he took a hotel glass and threw it at me. It broke on my head.

I was in shock and blood was just coming down my face. I was trying to clean it up. Those things are so thick. Oh, they're so fucking heavy because people drop them all the time. They don't want to have to clean up glass all the time. So they're super fucking thick. He blasted that against her head. Yeah.

She said, where was it? Here. I was trying to clean it up. He wouldn't let me go to the doctor. And he told me I was using too many towels to clean up the blood. Wow. What? I guess somebody called hotel security because they heard the disturbance. And Milton looked me in the eye and he held me and he's like, quote, don't throw away everything we have, like his future and his job.

So I protected him even though I'm standing there in blood and he didn't even care. Wow. So then they came and she said, oh, no, I fell down. Yeah. And, yeah, they were like, you have glass in your hair. He's like, I fell into glass. blood and he didn't even care wow so then they came and she said oh no i fell down yeah and uh yeah they were like you have glass in your hair he's like i fell into glass uh his attorney asked him uh milton did anything like that happen he says no all right so there's that he's very simple his answers nope not me i don't know what she's talking about.

So January 17th. That's a very descriptive story that didn't happen. She's very imaginative. January 17th, 2011. Wow. Wow. Milton is about to attend a Lakers game, and there's several run-ins when he's about to attend a Lakers game. When he's attending a Lakers game, stay the fuck out of his way.

He becomes frustrated when he could not find an expensive piece of jewelry. He then blamed workers in the house for stealing the jewelry and berated Monique for not sufficiently monitoring the workers who were in the house stealing his fucking jewelry. Strangers stole my shit. That's your fault. Don't you fucking know anything? What's wrong with you?

You dumb, lazy, fat, ugly, lazy, whore, bitch, slut. Don't you know anything? What the fuck is happening? We're laughing because it's ridiculous that this is a fucking human being. He's an asshole. We're not laughing because it's like, oh, ha ha. It's fucking ridiculous. Because that's happening over and over and it's not stopping.

So he left to the game. Monique took the kids to a hotel. Milton comes home to no one in his house. So he calls and texted Monique and demands that she brings the kids back to him. She doesn't bring the kids back to him. So the next day, she, according to the police report, which is never a good sign. Most things, everything I do doesn't have a police report attached to it. So if there's a police report, some shit went sideways, period.

Man, Monique was taking the children to school. Milton followed her and pulled up. So he was like stalking, like she's going to take the kids to school in the morning. I'll hang out around the corner. I know which way she comes. Pulled up beside her and said, quote, bring back my kids or I'm going to fucking kill you. Oh, no.

You can't say that. And then he motioned as if he was slicing his neck with his hand. He did the throat slash that the NFL banned like 10 years ago. He did that. That's in the police report. He can't do that. Milton, his explanation for this in court later, he said, quote, I said, you know, cut this shit out. Take my fucking kids to school.

I went like this with his finger on his throat, which means cut that out. No, no, no. Universally, everybody knows that. Everybody knows it's the scissors point finger over your shoulder. I don't remember fucking dipshit Dave Coulier fucking doing cut it out to little fucking Olsen twins slashing at his throat. I don't remember that. Everybody knows it. Scissor fingers point at him.

Cut it out. Thumb over the shoulder. He said it like this. Now, that means I'll kill you, you motherfucker. That's what that means universally. That's nothing else. Scissors point over it. Thumb over the shoulder.

I love the way he said that. Cut that out. Universally, everybody knows that. Everybody knows that. It's not even a question. I love the way he said that. Cut that out. Universally, everybody knows that.

Everybody knows that. It's not even a question. So while following Monique, Milton called Monique's mother, Judith, in Ohio, demanding that she talk Monique into bringing the kids home. You tell your daughter to do this shit, so then we get Judith up on the stand and court. Remember when I told you to get the fuck out of my house? Here's what I want you to do. Get my kids the fuck in my house. Then you get the fuck out of my house.

out of my house. Here's what I want you to do. Get my kids the fuck in my house. Then you get the fuck out of my house. Now, Judith, later on, she was supporting Monique's request for a restraining order in court. She said, quote, he told me that if Monique did not return his children that he would kill her. I said to him that you do not mean that. You're just upset.

He said, yes, actually, I do. So he even said, no, no, this isn't just a rageful utterings. I plan on killing this woman. So you don't mean that. No, I do. January 18th, 2011. He's arrested by the LAPD for making threats against his wife.

Monique receives an emergency protective order. His bail is set at $50,000, which he easily pays because he made $11 million last year. And he's released. His attorney says, Jesus Christ, in court, quote, Monique Bradley understands how devoted Milton is to his children, particularly because he was raised without a father. Whenever she gets mad at Milton for something, she decides to take off with the kids, not for their safety, to hurt him, I guess is what she's saying. By the time the restraining order expired January 25th, Monique let Milton back into the house.

Monique, God damn it. She said, quote, because I was still fearful for my physical safety, I hired a security guard to guard our home while Milton was present. Okay. This is a new one. She's spending his money. To hire a security guard to make sure. He's spending his money. To hire a security guard to make sure.

If you need a security guard in your own home so your husband doesn't beat the shit out of you, no, move out. This is the most Eminem and Kim relationship I've ever heard of. She has the means. She even has the balls to go to the police. She hires security guards. She has the means and the wherewithal to do all this. You can also move out. Get in the bank account and take everything. You have parents that support you.

You have all that shit. I don't know the psyche of an abused person, so never mind. I guess I'm an asshole. But she seems like she has the wherewithal and the state of mind to be able to do it is what I'm getting at. She recognizes that she's being treated poorly. She's like, I just feel like it's going to happen. She's being treated poorly. She's like, I just feel like it's going to happen.

They said, she said, quote, after he left for spring training, she said, quote, although we have tried to work out our relationship, our marriage cannot be saved. I am moving forward with the dissolution proceedings, which is that was then. She's moving forward. His lawyer said publicly, quote, Milton and his wife and children all reside together as a family and request that the media respect their wish that the matter remain personal and private. In fact, I've instructed my client not to discuss his relationship with his wife except at the private conference with the city attorney and with a marital counselor. So, wow. Now it's fine again. Don't tell anybody except for people that have to keep this shit quiet. Absolutely. Now, 2011, he's in Seattle.

Finally, he can concentrate on baseball and just get down to business, leave this woman alone, and stop this insanity. April 12, 2011, less than two weeks into the baseball season, there is just a text barrage that he sends her. Quote, and these are one by one, quote, your lawyer will get you killed. Tell the police you fuck like a whore does. You get you fuck like a whore does. You get whore treatment.

You deserve what you get, what you will get. Trust that. Next message. Play Russian roulette with your life and our children just proves my point. Next one. By the way, all of his use's are most of the time just a U. Next text. That's how I was doing it in my head.

Yeah. Next text. Quote, you have no power and never will. Next one. Bet you have a nice funeral. Next one. Die then. Makes me none.

Next text. Continue. It just moves you closer to not having me. Next text. And you not having a life closer to not having me. Next text. And you not having a life. Oh, my God. So, what the fuck? That's some threatening crazy shit.

Yeah. That year, he hits 218 with two home runs, 13 RBI, and four steals in 28 games. Jesus, that's depressing. Not a lot of games because he only plays for Seattle until May 16th when they fucking release him. Really? Enough of this shit. They pay him $13 million that year. That's how, wow.

They release him, and he still gets big fat checks for the rest of the year. That's how much they do not like him. Get the fuck out. Yeah, he's not producing, and he's an asshole. Career totals here, 1,042 games, 3,605 at-bats. He hit.271 with 125 homers, 481 RBI, 88 steals, caught stealing 40 times, which is a terrible ratio.

And you ready for the money total, Jimmy? Oh, Jesus. 48 million, $422,300. Wow. Holy shit. I mean, $25 million is to tax, but still, he's got, he's free and clear over $20 million. He's been living full-time at the family residence since then in Encino.

And on June 3rd, the marriage disillusion case was dismissed. They're going to reconcile. Everything is fine. No, seriously, they're at home. They've decided they bought this house in Encino, and they haven't had— the one thing he was happy about is that he finally, finally had fucking time. Yeah. Because they bought this house. It's a big house in Encino and 3.7 million is not that much for a big house in Encino like that.

So it needed some work was the problem. And he kept having a problem with it. And the worst part of it was the plumbing was just awful. And so one day, finally, there's a knock at the door and it's Paul Calhoun, shit pipe enthusiast. And he says. How is it you come to arrive here? What the fuck is wrong with you? No, listen to me.

I'll tell you right now. I'm the guy, my ad, I got a T-shirt and my hat across my head says, clean your shit pipe, smack your wife. So I get it. Sometimes, you know, you think they might need a good smack, but you got to call in the professional. That's me. When I smack your wife, she's happy about it.

She's like, you know what? I feel better now. It's like in an old movie when there's two people talking and one of them is going crazy and the other one smacks him. And they go, oh, thanks. I needed that. That's my kind of smack. Yucca, you're throwing fucking hotel. What is wrong with you, guy?

Listen to this. I'll clean out your shit pipes, but trust me, your life pipes are what you really need to clean out because they're fucking clogged with impacted shit for weeks. Let's just say that. By the way, I'll tell everybody right now, you included, Milton Bradley, next time you see me, I got a new jingle. We're working on it, but we'll get to that next time. I got to go. Have a good one.

Poof. And a poof of shit juice and all sorts of- And parts of shit pipes. And shit pipe elbows. He's gone. Milton's seriously confused, and he turns around and backhands his wife for the intrusion. He's gone. Milton's seriously confused. He turns around and backhands his wife for the intrusion. He's very right, though.

Like, shit pipes and smacking your wife are best left to somebody else. A professional, yeah. You don't want to do your own plumbing. So September 27, 2011, he's been home barely a few months here, and problems happen. On September 27, Monique asked Milton where he was the night before. He apparently came home very, very late, and she says that he blew up and then grabbed a baseball bat. Quote from her court document, he was pacing.

He was sweating. It was like a batting stance. He didn't swing it at me, though, her lawyer said. Did he say anything to you? She said, quote, he said a lot. I hate you. I'll kill you. You're nothing but a lazy bitch. He walked away and put the bat down, but Monique could not call the

police. He took the phones and made me sit there. Keys, phones, everything. She did it again, so she ran out of the house. This guy with the phones and keys, everything. You have no power, was one of his texts. This guy. This guy with his phones and keys. He's got control issues. Everything, yeah. It's all control.

You have no power was one of his texts. That's crazy. By the way, that's not the worst text he's sent so far. Really? The one text he sends will make you want to kill him because he's such a fucking asshole. So she runs out of the house. Police are called. Bradley gets in his car and drives off.

He's later tracked down by LAPD officers while he's driving. They detain him without incident. He's arrested for battery in San Fernando Valley. He's booked and released on $30,000 bail. He's out of there. September 30th, two days later, Milton and Monique both file individually for divorce. Maybe it's time. In the court documents.

I'm going to file, too. You only need one of them. it's time. In the court documents... On the file, too. You only need one of them. It's fine. Monique claims that he's been, quote, physically and emotionally abusive throughout their marriage, and she would often take him back because, quote, I genuinely believe that one day I could fix him. Then says, I am very

fearful that he will try to harm or even kill me. That's true. That sounds likely. But the real answer is I signed an agreement and I'm worried that I'm not going to be taken care of. That's what it feels like. Yes. And he hangs that over her head. Oh, yeah.

Fucking constantly. He says, I will make you broke. I'll take everything from you. I'll kill you. I'll ruin your life. If you're even alive, I'll ruin your life. But I could kill you. If you're in LA, you could ruin him.. But I could kill you. You're in L.A. You could ruin him.

Oh, it's community property. Destroy his ass. So November 2011, it's all going to happen. Fine now. According to here, his agent arranges for him to have dinner with Monique. He was barred from seeing and their kids at the time because they had a restraining order. Monique canceled at that point. She canceled the meeting.

And he said that he then found out that her parents were at the Encino residence to help care for the children. And, by the way, help care for her because she's starting to get ill, and we'll talk about that in a second. That's what this is. He doesn't want anybody to know about how much of a piece of shit he is. Well, he said, no, he's telling her father right now. of a piece of shit he is.

Well, he said, no, he's telling her father right now. Her father, Roger Williams, receives a series of texts from Milton explaining exactly who he's all about. He says, quote, and you mofos need to get the fuck out of my house and that goes for your hoe of a daughter too. Try me. Then he says, quote, I'm going to embarrass your whole family when i prove what a groupie ho your daughter is then then oh boy he sends her father roger williams a video of him and her having sex what he sends her father that that's wow possibly the shit the scummiest thing he's

done so far like trying to embarrass, to try to embarrass her. Like, that's fucked up. Then he texts along with the video, quote, that's your daughter getting fucked and there's more where that came from. Ugh. So, yes. So she requests a restraining order against him. She said in her court hearing, quote, Milton has the access code to our ADT system. He admits in his text messages that he knows where the security guard that I hired to protect me comes and goes.

I'm concerned that Milton may possess a firearm. He picked up a magazine entitled 2012 Buyer's Guide Gun Annual and turned to a page of a gun and said to me, this is the gun that I'm going to kill you with. Wow. He plans. He plans. This is what I'm going to kill you with. So April 2012, the Bradleys are vacationing together with the children in Hawaii.

What the fuck? How did you come back from that? He sent your dad videos of you fucking. Christmas is going to be super uncomfortable. So Michelle, her attorney says, quote, and why is that? Why would you travel with him? She said, quote, when we got along, it was the best. I just always wanted to believe there was a better person.

I would like to direct your attention to Exhibit B. It is the video that he sent my father. This is why I went on vacation with him. Oh, shit. Do you hear me screaming? Those are throes of passion. Good God. October 23, 2012, Monique suffers a black eye and bruising to the chest.

Oh, God. She documents this all but does not call police. I've seen these photos of her, and they're fucking rough. Really? They're rough, man. She has bruises all over her neck, a black eye, a chest bruise. It looks terrible. It's fucking, it's not, it's disturbing.

They look bad. It's disturbing. They look bad. Milton says, quote, Monique walked into a door and fell due to her heavy drinking or because of her medical condition. She'd been recently suffering from chronic fatigue, abdominal pain, severe bloating, which caused her to bruise easily, he says. Severe bloating. Doctors have been unable to explain her symptoms. The first thing she does in the morning is to start drinking wine.

She continues to drink all day, every day. That door choked her, man. You ever seen a door choke somebody? They'll do it. It fucking happens, man. Now, Sylvia Ranici, who was a Ranachi, I don't know, who was the Bradley's nanny from 2009 to 2012, three years, testified that she never saw Monique drunk or smelled alcohol on her breath. So that's her thing. His attorney asks him, what is your opinion of her testimony that you hit her? Bradley says, quote, Milton, quote, a sad story.

That's what you got? A sad story because she just hurt herself. That's so sad. November 2012, November 4th. He's attending a Lakers game. It's before a Lakers game. Watch out. He's smoking weed right outside the door of his house with a friend of his.

Monique said, I opened the door and said, quote, go somewhere else and do that. And he said I humiliated him and he charged at me and he strangled me. He lifted me by my throat and threw me against a wall. He carried me from here to here by my throat for maybe five or six seconds and then he just kind of dropped me. Like a fucked up wrestling move. Like picked him up and then dropped her in a heap on the ground. He picked them up and then dropped them, dropped her in a heap on the ground. November 28, 2012, there's a text message from Milton to her about paying for her security.

He says, quote, You must have lost oxygen to the brain while getting choked out. If you think I'm paying for your bogus security, get the fuck out, bitch. So he admits that he choked her in that text message, which is not fucking smart. Finally, fucking asshole. Which is tons of texts that are threatening. January 2013, he's charged with abusing his wife. Finally, faces, it's 13 misdemeanor counts, including assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism. 13 misdemeanor counts and then assault, vandalism. It's an assault with a deadly weapon.

How'd they figure out how to make that shit a misdemeanor? Disuading. This isn't Baltimore. It's a wire reference, by the way. Watch the fucking wire. Vandalism, dissuading a witness from making a report. He faces up to 13 years in jail if convicted. Holy shit.

This is no shit. So it began on May 10th, the trial in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's Judge Thomas Rubinson presiding. Monique testifies that she suffers from a painful undiagnosed abdominal swelling that makes her appear pregnant. She's got some kind of weird thing. Harlan Braun, his lawyer, said, quote, do you think that if you convict Mr. Bradley of spousal abuse, would that assist you in the divorce case? She said, quote, no, I'm just speaking my truth. These are two different things.

How he treated me and what I'm doing here today is my own therapy. It has nothing to do with money. Now, a domestic violence expert on the stand, they put up, said, quote, for women with upper class lifestyles, it's not that easy to leave abusive spouses because they don't always have the purse strings. That's a good point. Then they want to talk about it with their peers and their peers don't want to hear it because they're all uncomfortable shit too. They become cut off from their support systems because they're the outlier. That guy's got all the money and it happens too.

It's fucked up. I didn't even think of that. Sorry, Monique. So Monique said, quote, Milton has even blocked my ability to submit my medical bills for any potential reimbursement because he refuses to provide me with the information for processing the claims. Won't even let her process insurance. June 3rd, 2013, it's a 12-day trial. During the trial, he denies he ever hit his wife, like we said. They depict her, his attorney depicts Monique as a manipulative woman who married Bradley in order to

place herself in proximity to his wealth and trappings conferred on as a professional athlete. And also, they both asserted that Monique had struggled with a drinking problem. Two days of deliberation, the jury convicts Milton on nine counts,

including inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, assault with a deadly weapon with the baseball bat, criminal threats, brandishing a deadly weapon, and then a bunch of misdemeanors. He's allowed to make a bail. What? Because Monique's health is worsening and he has to take care of the kids. So he's allowed to make bail.

July 2nd, 2013 is sentencing. Judge Rubinson says that Bradley maintained a, quote, constant sense of fear and violence in the couple's home. He said that Bradley showed a fixation on particular objects and his wife was just another one of his things to manipulate and overpower. He says, quote, everything is about me, my car, my house, my kids, and ultimately my woman. You seem to be a balled up fist of a man.

Mr. Bradley created and maintained an atmosphere of fear and dread and of humiliation. Monique Bradley walked around on eggshells in this house, and I imagine that their young and impressionable children did so as well. You, sir, may fuck off. That's did so as well. You, sir, may fuck off. That's a good one there. You, sir, may fuck off. He sentences Milton Bradley to 32 months in prison. Which, not that much, but it's

still fucking prison. It's a start. And 52 weeks of domestic violence and anger management classes. That's a year. He must perform 400 total hours of community service after his release, half of which will include volunteering with a youth based baseball league for underprivileged kids, which he should be fucking doing anyway. The judge said that it was heartbreaking that Bradley never offered to coach or help out with his son's baseball. Not once. Not once. As well as a baseball player. Not fucking. Not at all. Couldn't be bothered. He'd have to talk to everybody.

A baseball player, not fucking once. Not at all. Couldn't be bothered. He'd have to talk to everybody. The court also ordered Bradley to stay away from his estranged wife and her parents, and he's also on five years probation later on. But he is released on appeal to appeal it on $250,000 bail. He remains free. My Christ.

September 14, 2013, Monique Bradley dies at Encino Hospital Medical Center, 33 years old. From what? Death certificate lists the causes as cryptogenic cirrhosis of the liver. It's unknown origin. They don't think it's from drinking. It's like a genetic disorder. Hemorrhagic shock and cardiorespiratory arrest. And she's 33 years old. Damn it.

Fuck, man. I mean, Jesus Christ. Was that toxic shock? I don't know what it was. It might be. Whatever it was. And cardiorespiratory arrest. Her system shut down, basically. She just quit. I mean, fuck. I mean, yeah, we talked a lot of shit all these fucking, he disrupted everybody's goddamn baseball team and shit like that. But this

fucking woman, he abused her for 10 years and fucking all this shit till she was sick and actually died. And now his kids not only had to watch that, all the abuse and all this shit and all the yelling and all this, but now their fucking mother's dead. They probably think the father had something to do with it. Yeah, I would think so if you're scared of him anyway. I feel bad for these kids.

I feel bad for all these people, Jimmy. All of them, but not nearly as bad as I feel. That was a good one. That was dark as fuck. I set that up on purpose. What do you want from me? Milton Bradley, field supervisor at Platinum Fire Protection LLC in the greater Boston area.

Milton Bradley, electrician at MV Electrical in the greater Boston area. Poor bastard. Milton Bradley, district branch manager at Finco Financial Services in the greater Los Angeles area. Milton Bradley, master songwriter at Milton Bradley Music Corp in San Diego. In other words, some dipshit who writes songs and claims to have a company for it. Milton Bradley, the game publisher and pioneer, obviously, the guy who made the Milton Bradley Company. This man came up with Monopoly and Life, and he knew how to stay out of trouble because he made the rules of life. He said, quote, the game represents and indicated by the name the checkered journey of life.

checkered journey of life. To gain on this journey that which shall make him the most prosperous and to shun which shun that which will retard him in his progress. That's what Milton Bradley said. The mission statement of the game had retarded him. Had retarded him, yes, absolutely.

And finally, Milton Selmer Bradley, a convicted sex offender from Utah who is convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of a child in the first degree and sodomy on a child in the first degree in 1999. Jesus Christ. I don't know. Keep him that bad name going. What the fuck?

January 21st, 2015, L.A. appellate Court rejects Bradley's appeal of his criminal conviction. He's still free pending a second appeal. Still hasn't spent a fucking day in jail over this. Nothing. And he has a sole custody of his kids. How the fuck? And she's dead. Oh, our system is so ruined.

Oh, it is, man. May 15th, 2015, his attorney argues that his jail sentence should be negated so he can continue parroting his two children that he fathered with his deceased wife. Both the kids are under 10. Good God, have a heart, Judge. Following the death, Milton Bradley has sole custody. Bradley still, when he's given an opportunity to address the court, though, rather than saying, I loved her, she's a wonderful woman, and I'm just sorry she's gone, our troubles

were this and that. Y'all want to see a video? Yeah. I got a video. loved her. She's a wonderful woman. And I'm just sorry she's gone. Our troubles were this and that. He says. Y'all want to see a video? Yeah. I got a video. Hey, what's your number? Let me text you this shit. You got airdrop?

So Bradley instead claims that Monique's drinking is at the root of their troubles, even though people have testified that she wasn't a heavy drinker. She says this in court to the judge to try to get sympathy. Quote, Ray Rice slaps the hell out of a woman. You know, I didn't do that. I'm not Ray Rice. Greg Hardy beats up a woman. I didn't do that.

You know what I'm saying? It's obvious to everyone that this is a complete farce. This woman is an alcoholic. She drank every single day. That's what he said to try to get sympathy from the judge. The judge, same judge, Rubinson, called his final request for leniency, quote, breathtakingly, breathtaking frankly

in how callous it was. He said, well, Mr. Bradley, the fact that you're saying things like that to me is not a good sign. That's awesome. He goes, breathtaking. I'm sure he was jacked. Did you hear that? I took his breath away.

I took his breath away. Yeah, it was callous. No shit. Fuck, man. So the parents of Monique are now expected to seek custody of the children also through all this. 2006, his final plea for no jail. Bradley's now softened up a little bit. He asked the court for a sentence reduction.

He says that now he's all about contrition, all about I'm sorry. He tells the judge that he understood the ruling and vowed to continue to work on myself. I'm going to prove I'm going to prove myself. And the judge says, well, you can do that when you're in jail for 32 months. Appeal denied. Fuck off. And he's taking the fucking jail. So he serves 15 months in jail. Jesus. 15 months. He gets out in 2017.

January 28, 2018, 10.40 a.m. at his residence in Encino, police receive a call from a woman about 8.50 a.m. saying that a man had threatened her. They show up. It is Milton Bradley charged with spousal battery from an altercation with his second wife, Rachel. He's now remarried. Married again. Police documents allege

that Milton and Rachel, they've been married for two and a half years, right after she died, the other one, went out to dinner to celebrate Rachel's birthday. A female friend of Rachel's was with them. After the meal, they had a verbal dispute. The couple inside of an Uber, which is what an Uber is for, which continued when they

reached the home they shared in Encino. That night, Rachel ends up telling the police that Milton grabbed her around the neck and threw her onto a couch. Rachel's friend and babysitter was hired that evening to take care of Milton's two kids. Saw Bradley verbally abusing Rachel but not physically abusing her. Both said that Rachel Bradley told them about the assault and about being thrown onto the couch.

Later, though, Rachel recants her statement. She's still in the point of, I'm trying to protect him, where she was. Now he's got a whole 10-year thing until he kills this one. He didn't kill the other one. You know what I mean. He didn't kill the other one, you know what I mean. He didn't help. Gives her enough emotional stress and turmoil to cause a fucking sickness. Yeah, she recants the statement telling police

that she made up the abuse in order to get her husband in trouble, which sounds like exactly what he told her to say. The two witnesses maintain that Rachel said she kept telling us she got assaulted. She had no reason to lie to us. We're not the police. According to a worker assigned to, you know, what is it, the Department of California Family Services, a worker assigned to safeguard the children, quote, Bradley came in with an attorney and minimized the incident. He said they went to dinner and had been drinking.

He acknowledged that he gathered items in the home that belonged to his wife's friend and, quote, threw them outside during the incident. He said, and get this bitch out of the house, and threw all her shit in the front yard. I paid for this motherfucker. I paid for this fucking house. He's really into that. He reminds me of what Eddie Murphy did of his father. His father, yeah.

He's Eddie Murphy's father, but not drunk, but sober, which is frightening. He's sober, going, fuck you, Gus. Yeah, fuck you, Gus. At the time of this, Bradley's still on probation for conviction of violence against his dead fucking wife. I couldn't wait for you to say this. Yeah, he's expected to appear before the judge to determine if it's been violated. April 10th, 2018, Bradley's wife is in the courtroom on Tuesday for the arraignment. Sits next to Milton in a show of support.

Milton, though, got no special treatment. They said the judge ordered deputies to handcuff him and take him into fucking custody. Bail set at $175,000, higher than normal due to his prior convictions. He could face a year in jail. He ends up being convicted after a plea agreement with prosecutors on the domestic violence case. He pleads no contest to domestic battery charges. As part of the agreement, he's sentenced to 36 months probation. What?

Nothing. After all this, he said he, quote, roughed her up before he left the scene. That's what he finally admitted. This happened, by the way, like a week ago. Like, if we did this story before, none of this comes out. Like I looked at him last year, none of this would have been on there. So that's crazy. The John Wertheim, L. John Wertheim, they did like an update piece to him because they did the first one in 2015.

He says that basically Wertheim said how the media, team officials, it's the same talking point like we said at every stop. He said, quote, we can rationalize an awful lot of bad behavior if you want the player badly enough. You could cut and paste the quotes, quote, troubled but talented, volatile but passionate. In fairness to the teams, his trial wasn't until after he was done playing i'd hope in 2015 we'd have more awareness yeah yeah that needed to be the end of that serviceable but violent how about we say that yeah serviceable but fucking risky right you

never know how about we put the positive thing before the we don't say the little negative thing and minimize it that's what they do that's You say he can hit a ball for also a wife. Other than the domestic violence. You say other than the domestic violence and sweep that under the rug. Can't get enough of Milton Bradley? Amazon.com. He can throw a baseball as fast as he throws a hotel glass. That's it, man. Say shit like that.

Come on. Amazon.com. Milton Bradley signed official Major League Baseball. Autograph it as $63.89 plus 10.95 shipping. That's way too much. Or make an offer. How about five bucks and eat fucking shit? That includes shipping.

How about a holiday inn tumbler? Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yes, you can get it as soon as June 29th if you order expedited shipping. 2001 Fleer Showcase baseball card. It's an Autographics Silver. It's kind of like a fake autograph on there, whatever. Showcase baseball card. It's an autographics silver. It's kind of like a fake autograph on there, whatever. Decent looking card.

And finally, the game of life. Play it and do better than fucking Milton Bradley did at it. How's that? That's Milton Bradley, everybody. That's the best thing ever. That is Crime and Sports for this week. Hope you enjoyed it.

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Shit, wrong. Devin Kenny. Or no, Keeney. God damn it. Wow, let's start that name over again. Let's give him his proper due, Jimmy. What do you say? Devin Keeney, Savannah Briand or Briand or Briand?

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Is he dead? Does he have big goggles? Slim Charles? No, he didn't. Slim Charles is a survivor, and Slim Charles knows which way to slide. Okay. And the heat's on. William Jones, Jenny Catherine, Kelsey Herbert, or Hebert last week sent us dough, and she was DBA, by the way.

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Wow. James, you're a hell of a guy, buddy. I was going to say donate several times, but I've said that already, and I was trying to change it up. That's amazing. So I've got jammed full of James. Jammed full. That sounds bad, too.

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That's a brutal last name now, isn't it? Yeah, that's a tough one. That's a tough one to fucking run through the rest of your life with, Alexandra. Sorry about that. Sorry about your life. Sorry, you're dealing with a liar. Not our problem. Aaron Jarrell.

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Could be. Paul Roost. Coming through again. Thank you so much, Paul. We love Paul Roost. Thanks, Paul. Unbelievable work this week, Paul. Yeah, man.

Your fucking memes were fantastic. Lots of Probert to go on there. Give your little guy a hug for us. Yeah, definitely. Richard Cauti. Cauti. Cauti. Renee Rath.

Yes. Kate Myers. Aaron Laporte-Rader. Brandy Dunkel. Shitface McGee. Greg Zydonk. I think, yes. Tyler Gwill.

Adam Thorpe. Jesse Hartman. Patrick Feta, E-Bitch. I don't know what that is. Oh, bye. Triple E, bitch. Triple E, bitch. And Aubrey Kimball. Thank you guys so much for being so fantastic to us. We can't do it without you, and I can't understate that.

You guys are fantastic. Thanks. Thank you so much, everybody. You guys are the best. We say it every week. Truly. Thank you so much, everybody. You guys are the best. We say it every week. Truly. Thank you, guys. We mean it no less every week. Honestly, you guys keep this show going, and

we do the show because you guys like it and because you donate to us, and we feel obligated to always give you this show. Honestly, how could we not tell the story and not enjoy ourselves? We love it a lot. It's a lot of fun, so thank you guys so much. And what if these people wanted to tell you how much fun you were, Jimmy?

How can they do that? You can find me at WismanSucks, W-H-I-S-M-A-N Sucks, on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. I appreciate everything you guys do for me. Thank you very, very, very much. Very much. What about you? I am at JimmyPIsFunny. You can find me there or copy and paste my last name from the show description for other formats.

It doesn't matter. Don't try to spell it because you will hurt yourself and you'll end up feeling like you've been in a conversation with Milton Bradley. Nobody wants that. Guys, I hope you enjoyed that wild ride. Like I said, this was 100% pure asshole. So stupid. And a crazy ride down a grease slick snow hill like Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation. And he didn't get what he deserved.

No, of course not. How crazy. He's got probation. Now, don't worry. He'll hit her again, which sucks for her, but he'll end up in prison, hopefully. That'll end up happening. And if she smartens up and gets the fuck out of there, there's going to be another. It's going to happen.

Oh, it's going to happen. Even if she dies, he'll have another one. But we'll find out about that, and we'll find out. Maybe there'll be a different one next week. Until next week, everybody. Live from the Crime and Sports studios, we will see you next week. Bye. Bye.

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