Milton Bradley sat down for an interview with ESPN’s Colleen Dominguez to discuss his year in Chicago, and - I know, right? - people didn’t take it too well. In the article, Bradley refers to racism, being a “prisoner” in his own home, and discusses hate mail that may or may not have come from within the organization. Negative reaction to the interview has come from everywhere from the Internet to Cubs GM Jim Hendry, the consensus being that Bradley ought to stop ripping Chicago and start taking responsibility for himself.
Milton Bradley Talks, People Complain
↵The problem? This reaction is coming from people who haven’t bothered to watch the actual five-minute interview, the viewing of which reveals an interviewer in Dominguez who keeps pressing Bradley about topics he’d clearly rather not discuss. Dominguez, melodramatic, asks Bradley question after question about his negative experience in Chicago, and Bradley, to his credit, issues articulate, measured responses to each. If anyone comes out of this interview looking bad, it’s Dominguez, but because Milton Bradley’s involved, few are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, preferring instead to see this as just the latest example of him acting up.
↵The Bradley interview comes at a good time for Torii Hunter, who on the same day, when discussing the state of African-Americans in baseball, referred to dark-skinned Latin players as “impostor” blacks. Bradley will receive all the negative buzz, but it’s hard to see how anything he said was even in the same ballpark of objectionability.
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