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Originally Posted by Skipaway

I don't understand your point. Are you trying to say club cancers are less harmful on worse teams or something? And Bradley could definitely help the Pirates, but not some teams like the A's or the Dodgers?

Skippy, I was addressing your point about how Jim Tracy would like to have Milty on his current club, and that as the manager of the Pirates, a club with limited resources at its disposal, he'd readily overlook any added baggage that he'd bring because the Pirates need all the help they can get.

If he were managing the Yankees, I doubt if he'd express any interest in Bradley. Remember, the Yankees had a keen interest in Milty before they signed Damon, and could have acquired him for much less than they paid for Damon. However, the combination of his history and the vituperative nature of the NY press convinced them to look elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Skipaway

Actually, there were lots of press about how Bradley becomes a good teammate early last season when the Dodgers were doing well. I would say club cancer is more or less yet another cliche created by baseball people to make excuses.

Perhaps you missed Bradley going absolutely ballistic on the field last year? Was that an invention of the press, or a window into a much deeper and factually troublesome pathology? As you may also recall, Bradley physically attacked an ump when he was still a minor leaguer in the Expo organization, so it's not as if that were an isolated incident.