Because we didn’t know about it until today.

Spinning off Sunday’s column on baseball’s part in keeping the middle-finger an historic part of the game’s progression (linked here), we need to pay homage to Milton Bradley for finally coming unhinged (again), this time as a member of the Seattle Mariners.

Craig Newman of the Chicago Sun-Times (linked here) has retrieved the photo above from a Seattle Twitterer. The incident took place in a Mariners-Rangers game on Friday night (for cryin’ out loud, in plent of time for our Sunday story).