On Monday, we scratched our heads and pondered and wondered but couldn't come up with any explanation as to why Paul Sullivan insisted on comparing Marlon Byrd with Milton Bradley - and not, say, Mark DeRosa or Kevin Gregg or Rich Harden.

Turns out Sullivan had company in Gordon Wittenmyer. Curious.

We're not the only ones who think so. Derrek Lee agrees, and he thinks he knows why they're comparing Byrd and Bradley (and not other recently departed Cubs):

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"It's ridiculous," Lee told Bruce Levine and Jonathan Hood on ESPN 1000's "Talkin' Baseball" Saturday morning. "If it was a white guy who came over [to the Cubs] would he be [called] the 'anti-Milton Bradley'? It just makes no sense. Marlon's a completely different guy. He wasn't traded for Milton. He signed here as a free agent, so why even bring Milton Bradley's name into it? It really makes no sense and it's just, again, the media trying to make something out of nothing."

Wait, just one minute. Is Lee saying the two are being compared because they're black?

Is he suggesting that Sullivan and Wittenmyer are subtle bigots, the kind who call blacks they approve of "articulate"? Only in this case they say Byrd is a happy black man (and one they're not secretly afraid of)?

Interesting theory. I thought it was because they both have the initials "MB." But what do I know?

Well, I do know this: DLee best be careful, lest the doughy boys decide he's an angry black man, too.

(h/t ACB)

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