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Milton Bradley: An Even Bigger Douche Off The Field

03 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by Smaktakula in Celebrity, Crime, News, Sport

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Baseball, crazy people, death by Milton Bradley, douchebaggery, Major League Baseball, Milton Bradley, Milton Bradley is batshit crazy, Seattle Mariners, unfortunately-named celebrities, Why am I so crazy?

By Smaktakula

Still Crazy, Just Not Doing It Professionally Any More.

Just a few weeks ago, it seemed that troubled former Major Leaguer Milton Bradley, out of baseball now for several months, would retire to a life of quiet anonymity completely removed from his lightning-rod professional career.  But you’ve got to hand it to the troubled former athlete–lacking fans, teammates or umpires to serve as outlets for his all-consuming flashpoint rage, the man still manages to make do.  This time the victim was his wife.

A year-and-a-half ago, before the 2010 Major League Baseball season, Promethean Times optimistically opined on Bradley’s ability to act like an adult with new team, the Seattle Mariners.  Seattle would soon prove to be the last of Bradley’s eight teams in his twelve-year MLB career.

Since His Exit From The MLB, Bradley Has Been Forced To Lower His Expectations.

Toward the end, Bradley made belated efforts to right his rapidly sinking ship.  Not long into the 2010 season Bradley requested–and was granted–a medical leave of absence from the Mariners while he dealt with his craziness.  Although Bradley’s behavior proved not to be a tremendous distraction for the Mariners, his anemic hitting was, and he was released not long into the 2011 season.

Now it seems that the hyperactive has-been is trying to improve his lifetime average of .271 at home.  His wife reportedly called the police after fleeing the house, alleging that Bradley was attacking her with a baseball bat, swinging wildly.*  Sources close to Bradley expressed disappointment, saying that the ball-player’s swing shows a real lack of patience and plate discipline.

Say What You Will About Their Product, But The Parker Brothers Always Treated Their Ladies With Respect.

* It makes you wonder what Bradley was doing with a baseball bat now that he’s no longer playing professional ball.  It’s not like Smaktakula keeps his old Arby’s uniform around for a rainy day. ∞T.

Hateful Attire Incites Violence

01 Friday Apr 2011

Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, News, Sport

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Alyssa Milano, assault, Baseball, bigotry, burning the Koran, Emil Haagerdäddi, good steward of the environment, Koran, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Nathan Bedford Forrest, obsessive sports fans, San Francisco Giants, Smaktakula's hatred of the San Francisco Giants, violence

By Smaktakula

You Wouldn't Sport A Swastika In A Synagogue, Would You?

Chavez Ravine: Yesterday, an unidentified man was given an impromptu lesson in sensitivity after parading around Dodger Stadium in offensive clothing.  In what can only be viewed as a hate-statement, the gentleman is alleged to have been conspicuously displaying articles of clothing bearing the logo of the San Francisco Giants.  Such apparel is not only considered deeply offensive to fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but also ritually unclean.

What the man hoped to achieve with this bizarre and provocative act is unclear, but it did attract attention.  Things came to a head when two Dodger fans, possibly attempting to protect their womenfolk from the offensive barrage, found their tormentor and two companions drinking chardonnay spritzers, each politely arguing his own case as the best steward of the environment.

Nathan Bedford Forrest With A Filthy Curve.

The man’s two fair-weather friends are also thought to be San Francisco Giants fans due to the rapidity with which they fled the scene, leaving their companion to his own just desserts.  He was roundly beaten.

“I don’t know what else this man–we’ll call him Bruce Smith-Smythe–expected,” says Dr. Emil Haagerdäddi, a baseball statipscychologist, “This was an unconscionable act that demonstrates how easily Freedom of Speech can be abused.  Much like Koran-burning and the understandable mayhem it incites, this incident teaches us that there are limits to freedom.”

"Be Not Afraid Of The Enemy, My Son. Should He Strike You Down, Your Heavenly Reward Will Be 72 Alyssa Milanos."

Haagerdäddi claims that ‘Smith-Smythe’ never had a chance.  “Although Giants fans have on average a twenty-point advantage in IQ relative to Dodger fans, and tend to make a whole lot more money, it’s just tough for them to get past that nagging ‘pussy’ factor.”

Whether or not he intended it, the provocative pantywaist was shown the pain words can inflict.  There are some who will say that the bigot got off lightly, and there is validity in this contention.  But if even one Giant fan learns from this incident and is able to conquer his hate, then perhaps it will have been worth it.

That Is So Last Year.

Manny Ramirez Now Chicago’s Problem

31 Tuesday Aug 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Baseball, Culture, Games, National Events, People, Sports

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American League, anabolic steroids, Baseball, baseball trades, cheaters, Chicago White Sox, cleared waivers, female fertility hormones, good riddance, human choronic gonadotrophin, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Manny Ramirez, Minnesota Twins, MLB, National League, really huge knockers

By Smaktakula

The Chicago White Sox claimed Manny Ramirez on Monday off waivers from the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The White Sox hope that the rapidly aging abuser of female fertility hormones will be able to deliver enough with his bat to make the difference in their increasingly desperate battle with the Minnesota Twins for first place in the American League Central.

The moment is bittersweet for the Dodgers, bringing to close a sometimes-exciting, sometimes-frustrating era of dreadlocked douchebaggery.  Sadly for the Dodgers and their fans, unreliable space-waster George Sherrill still remains.

Ramirez Explains That Gobbling Human Choronic Gonadotropin Gave Him "Really Huge Knockers."

Douche Honored In Only Place That Will Have Him

26 Thursday Aug 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Baseball, Culture, Games, General Foolishness, People, Places, Sports

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Aaaaaaaaay!, Allan Huber Selig, Arthur Fonzarelli, Atlanta Braves, Baseball, Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Fonzie, Hank Aaaron, Major League Baseball, Miller Park, Milwaukee Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, Paul Molitor, Robin Yount, statue, the Comedian, the Fonz, the Watchmen

By Smaktakula

Selig, The Man Responsible For Bringing Baseball Back To Milwaukee, Stands Between The Comedian (The Watchmen) And Braves Legend Hank Aaron (Who Hit .232 For The Brewers Over Parts Of Two Seasons).

Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and former owner of baseball’s vestigial Milwaukee Brewers, is immortalized in bronze outside of Miller Park.  Observers called this a testament to Milwaukee’s desperation for recognition beyond alcohol-related infamy.         

Selig’s is the second high-profile statue to be erected in Milwaukee in the last three years, a renaissance for the Midwestern City.  The other piece of statuary is a likeness of fictional former cultural icon Arthur Fonzarelli.  Milwaukee’s greatest heroes finally have what they deserve.         

"Aaaaaaaay! So Who The Hell Are Robin Yount And Paul Molitor, Anyway? Aaaaaaaay!"

A-Rod Becomes Only Second Douche To Reach 600 Home Runs

04 Wednesday Aug 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Baseball, Crime, Culture, Games, General Foolishness, History, National Events, People, Sports

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600-home run club, A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, all-time home run leaders, anabolic steroids, Barry Bonds, Baseball, bloated statistical anomalies, cheaters, cocksucker, douchebaggery, Gay-Rod, Hank Aaron, home run hitting douches, Ken Griffey Jr., la ducha grande, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, people who are despised outside of New York, Sammy Sosa, Sammy Sosa is only kind of a douche, Toronto Blue Jays

By Smaktakula

A-Rod trails legendary cocksucker Barry Bonds on the all-time MLB list for home runs hit by a douche.  

La Ducha Grande

Update: George Sherrill

22 Thursday Jul 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Baseball, Crime, Culture, Games, General Foolishness, People, Sports, Television

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coughing up runs, douchebaggery, George Sherrill, hypocrisy, idiot bloggers who take sports too seriously, incompetent boobery, jackassery, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, relief pitcher, that shitty beard too!, The Brim Reaper, YOU SUCK!

By Smaktakula

No change, folks–still a douche.      

By Blowing Two Games On Three Pitches, George Demonstrates His Rare Mastery Of Hyper-Efficient Incompetence.

Profiles In Suckery: ERA 7.48  IP 21.2  ER 18  BB 17  SO 12  BLSV 3*      

The difference between George Sherrill and a Little League second-stringer?  That shitty beard.    

We’ll keep you posted.     

* In baseball parlance, these statistics indicate Mr. Sherrill is in the midst of a particularly awful season.

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

12 Friday Mar 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, Sport

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Anaheim, Anaheim Angels, Baseball, California, California Angels, Chavez Ravine, Gayngels, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Dodgers, Magic Kingdom, Major League Baseball, Mike Scioscia is an apostate!, MLB, Orange County, poseur

By Smaktakula

When someone pretends to be from someplace he’s not, we call him a poseur.

When a professional sports franchise pretends to be from somewhere it’s not, we call it the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

LA

Not LA

Big League Stew: Torii Hunter Calls Black Latino Players Imposters

11 Thursday Mar 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Baseball, Culture, General Foolishness, Political Correctness, Race, Sports, Television

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African-American baseball players, Big League Stew, black baseball players, black Latino, boneheaded, douchebaggery, imposters, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Major League Baseball, MLB, race in baseball, race in sports, race relations, racism, racist, Torri Hunter

Torii Hunter’s comments about race in baseball are not typically this boneheaded.  “Boneheaded” is what we call it when a person of color says something like this.  “Racist” is what we call it when a white person says it.  

While participating in USA Today’s roundtable on the state of baseball, Hunter floated a theory that baseball uses dark-skinned players from countries like the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela to give an appearance that it has more African-Americans playing the game than it really does. 

But, Hunter says in a controversial money quote, “they’re not us, they’re impostors.” 

No Imposter: Torii Hunter Is A For Reals Black Person

 Analysis of Torii’s Bonehead Moment Here: Torii Hunter believes black Latino players are ‘impostors’ – Big League Stew – MLB Blog – Yahoo! Sports. 

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Milton Bradley’s 2010 Tune: It Ain’t Me, Babe

07 Sunday Mar 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Baseball, People, Sports

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Chicago Cubs, clubhouse cancer, clubhouse poison, Major League Baseball, Milton Bradley, MLB, Seattle Mariners, Seattle PI, Spring Training

Several days ago Promethean Times opined optimistically on Milton Bradley’s coming year in Seattle.  While it’s still too early for hand-wringing, Bradley’s seeming inability to take any responsibility for the toxic situation in Chicago (and presumably San Diego, Los Angeles and Cleveland before that) is troubling.

Read In The Seattle PI About Milton Not Manning Up: Bradley: Blame Chicago for struggles, not me.

Smaktakula

Can The Pacific Northwest Cool Bradley?

25 Thursday Feb 2010

Posted by Smaktakula in Baseball, People, Sports

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Brett Tomko, Carlos Silva, Chicago Cubs, Ken Griffey Jr., Los Angeles Dodgers, Lou Piniella, Major League Baseball, Mike Sweeney, Milton Bradley, MLB, Pacific Northwest, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners

By Smaktakula

Sir, I Beg To Differ

The unfortunately named and often irascible Milton Bradley is a Seattle Mariner, coming over from the Chicago Cubs in an offseason trade for the underperforming Carlos Silva.  This trade has a tremendous upside for both clubs, and for both players.  The Mariners and Cubs have each shed a player who had become a cancer on the clubhouse, as in Bradley’s case, or an overpaid bust like Silva.  For both players, the switch to a new team means a fresh start.    

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