Milton Bradley Leaves Clubhouse to Look for Play by Play Announcer ... Nothing Ensues?

You may recall there is already some beef between the Rangers and the Royals when it comes to play-by-play announcing. So, anytime the two teams play, there is some weird media-ballplayer tension type stuff going on.

Which may be the reason why Milton Bradley, whose reputation clearly precedes him, got upset enough to leave the clubhouse and go looking for Texas Rangers play-by-play man Ryan Lefebvre after the game.

General manager Jon Daniels said Bradley was acting cordially and wanted to set the record straight for what Daniels called a mischaracterization of the Rangers' outfielder by Lefebvre.

'I don't want to get in details,' Daniels said. 'He was upset that somebody that doesn't know him was passing judgment on TV. The guy's been a tremendous teammate for us, and it's obvious he was hurt by those comments.'

Now, personally, I would not want Milton Bradley looking for me to set the record straight. Unless he had happened to have an argument with an umpire immediately beforehand. The source of Bradley's supposed anger is that the announcers were comparing him to Josh Hamilton -- who has "turned his life around and taken responsibility for his mistakes" -- and pointed out that Bradley had not done the same thing.

So his beef is legitimate, even if he handled it the wrong way and no one is actually going to believe the calm attitude he is preaching post-incident.

"All I want to do is play baseball and make a better life for my kid," Bradley said. "I'm strong, but I'm not that strong."

The Rangers had to station a cop out in front of the announcing booth after Bradley climbed four flights of stairs looking for the announcer. Precaution, maybe, but Milton Bradley, perhaps unfortunately, just will not get the benefit of the doubt from anyone until he gives them reason to. Like Josh Hamilton. Kidding, Milton. Come on, man. Put the bat down.