David Haugh weighs in on the issue of Playing While Black at Wrigley and gives Milton Bradley some helpful advice:

If Bradley heard one racial taunt or read a single racist letter as former Cubs LaTroy Hawkins and Jacque Jones also claimed, that's one too many. But as more than one African-American Cubs player has pointed out after past suggestions of Wrigley racism, those hateful fans represent the exception more than the rule.

Instead of following the example of Jackie Robinson and others by using whatever racial tension he felt as motivation, Bradley decided to use it as an excuse. Success would have shut up any idiots making Bradley's life the prison he said it was. He failed. Enough already.

While there is plenty of room to doubt Milton Bradley and to say there isn't widespread racism at Wrigley (or more than at certain other ballparks), it is amusing to read someone who looks like this give minorities advice on how to deal with "racial tension."

I wonder if Haugh learned such things on the mean streets of Muncie or South Bend?

Also note that Haugh uses the more skeptical "claimed" over the more neutral "said" when discussing the experiences of Hawkins and Jones (not to mention Dusty Baker).

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Update: Meanwhile, Morgan Ensberg says he believes Bradley - and shares a Wrigley experience of his own (via ACB).

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