Milton Bradley's mother says that her son absolutely loves baseball, but a number of factors affected his focus this season. "Milton eats, sleeps and drinks baseball. He loves it. That's all he wants to do," Charlena Rector told the Chicago Sun-Times. The Cubs suspended Bradley for the remainder of the season this weekend after he publicly criticized the team. "When racism hit his 3-year-old baby in school, he couldn't take that," Rector added in a radio interview. "Parents, teachers and their kids called him the n-word. He didn't even know it was a bad word until his mom told him." When asked why her son shared the information only with her this season, Rector said, "Milton is a quiet person. Stuff like that, he keeps to himself. He doesn't want to talk about that because he doesn't think anybody cares. It is a heartbreaking situation."