Here is another gem from the Chicago Cubs’ anti-hero, Milton Bradley:

Bradley, known for emotional outbursts throughout his career, said what he’s gone through is not new and is not surprising.

“It’s nothing that just started when Milton Bradley came here,” he said.

So does he regret signing with the Cubs, who are his seventh major league team?

“I don’t regret anything,” he said. “I regret that there are idiots in the world, that’s what I regret.”

I’d start off by saying that people who speak about themselves in the third person qualify as idiots.  That said, Bradley does not seem to understand that saying something along the lines of “I regret that there are idiots in the world” while having a discussion about how fans treat his is akin to Chicago Cub supporters idiots.

Classy move, Milton.

I suspect he will not be on the roster in 2010 even if it means the team needs to eat his entire salary.

As a young one I was a huge fan a baseball.  HUGE.  I played, I enjoyed, I collected… I really enjoyed it.  Around 1992 my enjoyment of the sport – all aspects of the sport – simply stopped.  I’m not sure why but it just vanished.

Yea, I remember watching Cal Ripken break Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-games played record.  I wasn’t really excited about it; I simply figured it was some form of history in the making so why not watch?  There was the whole Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa home run race in 1998 that tickled my fancy once again, but I couldn’t really get back into it for some reason. The 2003 Cubs season changed a lot of that as it was the first time I felt the excitement and passion once again. While it did not come close to what I had in my childhood, it was back all because of the lovable losers, the Cubs.

I don’t really watch the games on TV, nor do I go to Wrigley to catch an afternoon outing.  I tend to catch the highlights on ESPN or check into Cubs.com everyone once and awhile… but there is still something in me that gains great enjoyment from the sport, something that makes me say I’m a Cubs fan…

I’m glad the season is here.  Maybe this will be the year…

With a 93 and 60 record, the Cubs just beat the St. Louis Cardinals to clinch a post-season spot.  This is the first time in a century the Cubs have back to back play off seasons.

Is the World Series next?

Update: Game Recap