Milton Bradley says he felt like a prisoner in his own home while playing for the Cubs last season. He also feared for the well-being of people around him. "It was pretty bad," Bradley said during an interview with ESPN. "I would have rather tore my knee up and gone through rehab all over again then have to deal with that." The Cubs signed Bradley to a three-year, $30 million contract on Jan. 5, 2009. He struggled on and off the field and the team eventually suspended him on Sept. 20 for conduct detrimental to the organization. Chicago traded him to Seattle this winter. "Well, I mean unless you go out there and you're Superman -- you're Andre Dawson, you're Ernie Banks, you're in the Hall of Fame -- then it's going to be tough," Bradley said of it being tough for African Americans in Chicago. "People are just the way they are. "When you get paid a lot of money to play this game, they expect miracles. And when you don't go out there and perform like that, then people don't like it. People don't want to see a guy that's brash and cocky and a little arrogant and kind of does his own thing making a lot of money. They were like, 'He doesn't deserve that.' "