Griffey Wants To Slash Jeff Brantley

The honeymoon in Cincinnati was over before it started for Ken Griffey Jr, but now Jeff Brantley has really pissed off Junior. The Reds game analyst and former ESPN analyst, isn’t making friends with the Reds most popular player, after some comments he made about Griffey’s contract.

For those who read Ken Griffey Jr.’s lips after his home run Saturday night and saw him make the throat-cutting gesture at home plate, the antics were aimed at broadcaster Jeff Brantley.

Griffey is angry over different comments Brantley made and said one of them was, “He said I’m pouting because the Reds haven’t picked up my option ($16 million) for next year. If I was that concerned about money I wouldn’t have come here in the first place.”

Brantley said he never said that and the subject wasn’t broached until Brantley and Griffey sat down in the players dining room early Sunday, “And I think he’s upset that I said something about the defense of the corner outfielders (Adam Dunn, Griffey),” said Brantley.

In my book, Griffey is just one of those guys who you can’t say bad things about. He’s like the Pope, or Gianna Michaels, you don’t criticize people like that. If anything should come out of this, it obvious for years now that Jeff Brantley has been in serious need of a Schultzing. Griffey, is in serious need of a change in scenery and there will be an open-spot in left field for the Red Sox next year.

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