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Elijah Dukes

From this site I've heard adjectives like "elite", "sleeper", "dominating". He's been suspended for 30 games by the D-Rays, has had several run-ins with the law, argues with coaches and rants on the ownership whenever humanly possible.

"I think dukes' problems get exacerbated by the fear doughy middle-age white guys have when they see a big, intimidating black man" - faketeams.com circa December 2006.

Despite his obvious talent as a baseball player, the boogeyman sticks by his original assessment of Faketeams so called elite #3 minor league pick (if he was available in the minor league draft this year). Faketeams doesn't care to acknowledge the very real human side of this tragic story (see Josh Hamilton bio).

Dukes is far from being elite. Dukes is far from being anything but a 22 year old kid who has no life direction and a clear case of ADD (hates authority, can't focus, etc.). I'm certain this happens in minor league baseball a lot more often than we know about.

Fortunately, my original assessment of the Dukes bust has recently been validate by none other than Dukes himself. Busted Monday for Marijuana possession, Dukes was apparently riding around town smokin' weed in his pimp ride, blasting rap music loud enough to force police to arrest him.

This isn't the behaviour of an ELITE, DOMINATING, SLEEPER ranked as high as #3 on the Faketeams AL Minor Leaguers list. This is a punk who will get thrown out of Tampa Bay by the doughy white guys that have given him every opportunity to succeed while he treats them like a black man that hates white people.

By by Dukes, nice knowing you - I'm glad I don't own you!!!