Comments on: The obligatory Elijah Dukes post

By: The Voice of Reason

The Voice of Reason — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:41:57 +0000

When i was 18 i committed crimes too. I never however, threatened to murder children. Fuck Dukes, and if he ever comes to the Yankees I’ll stop rooting for the team.

By: Joseph DelGrippo

Joseph DelGrippo — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:05:25 +0000

Sorry for the delay in posting, but I left at 2 PM yesterday to catch a plane and was traveling last night.

The comment wasn’t meant to be catty, but as I was typing my last post yesterday on this topic, I was thinking the same thing you were, that it would be my last post on the topic and would move on.

So when you said that you have “said you piece”, I was in the same thought process and repeated your statemnt to that effect.

I am never worried about different opinions. It wouldn’t be the first time someone disagreed with me about baseball, or anything else for that matter.

No big deal.

By: dark side of the goon

dark side of the goon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:34:15 +0000

If they misspelled my team’s name on my jersey, I’d be a malcontent too. And very very troubled.

By: Raf

Raf — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:22:01 +0000

I believe Sidney Ponson had his fair share of character issues.

By: Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:05:00 +0000

Dukes hasn’t had any off-field issues in a couple of years. He might still have a terrible attitude–I have no idea–but there is apparently no one incident that sparked this decision. People are acting as if he needs to come back from some major catastrophe. His life has mostly been a catastrophe, but he hasn’t had a major catastrophe in a couple of years, I don’t think.

By: Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:58:09 +0000

Is the guy even going to clear wavers? I mean, if you’re some team at the bottom of the league, why not claim the guy and give him a chance?

By: Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:54:55 +0000

“its not like his talent is worth it as his numbers have shown.”

In 2008 he had an OBP+ of 127 in 1/2 a season of action. He had a bad season last year, but at 25 there’s no reason he can’t bounce back. He would be the team’s 5th OF or even start out in the minors. I would say his numbers show he clearly IS worth it.

By: Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:40:03 +0000

THCM,

Teams have been wrong before. What’s the Nats’ track record with actually being right… ever? I wouldn’t be too worried about what the Washington Nationals organization thinks; although, clearly this is another in a long line of red flags. I’d look to sign him to a minor league deal and get him into camp ASAP to get a look at him if I were Brian Cashman and thought he was worth the gamble.

I think he might be worth a look, personally. Yankees are the team where he can get it together if there is any team. Yankees don’t have anything invested in him and he’s not exactly the future of the franchise, so they just let him sink of swim on his own and not hire a cop to babysit. He’ll probably sink, but who knows…

By: LarryM, FL.

LarryM, FL. — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:04:50 +0000

Dukes was bullying his wife and mother of his child as reported in the florida papers.

By: LarryM, FL.

LarryM, FL. — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:58:22 +0000

People don’t change ask any Phd. Personality is set long before he celebrated his 25 th B-day. Stay away from Mr. Dukes and give any of the 40 man roster players a shot at helping the club. This was his second team. He can’t bring that much more to the table then presently on the roster. If I had a choice of a WAR of 2+. I’d take the 2+ on the defensive as opposed to the offensive. Pitching and defensive win championships.

Tommie if you committed crimes at your young age and didn’t get caught with an arrest record. You owe the man upstairs a big thank you