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The Yankees give up 14 runs in the second inning. If "The Boss" was still running the team he would have fired Cashman and Girardi on the spot.
 
ActionJackson8 said:
I mean.... I know it could be a small share and maybe I'm way off base here but I didn't even think Phil would have enough coin to be considered for something like that.
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He was only approached about buying an interest, not the whole team.

I didn't know he was such a huge baseball fan. Makes me like him even more.
 
Harry Longshanks said:
He was only approached about buying an interest, not the whole team.

I didn't know he was such a huge baseball fan. Makes me like him even more.
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No I get that I just didn't think he would/could be considered for that. I'm probably underestimating him.
 
Nationals bench Dukes after Little League-related tardy note

Nationals bench Dukes after Little League-related tardy note

By 'Duk

Just when you thought your 1-9 Washington Nationals couldn't grow any more absurd comes some news that goes beyond the ridiculous and into the territory of the just plain laughable.
On Saturday, Washington outfielder Elijah Dukes was benched, fined $500 and threatened with a demotion to the minor leagues after he showed up to the park a mere five minutes after the team's usual reporting time.
OK, so rules are rules, but sometimes there are exceptions that should be made and Dukes' excuse would seem to qualify him for one — he was doing charity work for the Nats at a local Little League.
Here's Manny Acta's explanation for the punishment, via the WaPo's Nationals Journal:
"He was late for work, he broke a team rule, and we are going to change the culture here — regardless of how well a guy is playing," Acta said. "And it was a bizarre situation, because he was doing something that we encourage our players to do: He was out in the community doing something for some Little League program and just showed up late to work. He was very remorseful about it. He felt bad, but we have to lay the law on whoever."
Really, there are no words. Dukes has been one of the only Washington players to get off to a good start — he's hitting .323 with two homers and six RBI in nine games — and he's been trying to get his life back on track after not being a very good person in the past. While the team's other wunderkind Lastings Milledge has been testing the organization's patience, it has been Dukes and a few others who have displayed proof that the team might have hope for some sort of future.
But then Acta, who's likely to be the first manager canned this season, goes out and tries upsetting the cart over a tardy due to something positive on Dukes' record? Incredible.
Really, though, it should come as no surprise since it involves a Nationals franchise that has bumbled its way through the entire spring.
I mean, first there was the draft pick who falsified his age, which led to a bonus-skimming controversy that caused Jim Bowden to resign his position as general manager.
Then there were moments like the Nats' team president going on Philadelphia radio to invite Phillies fans down to Washington to fill the stadium, the introduction of weird ballpark statues that were not only historically incorrect, but panned by the Washington Post (though I like them) and — my favorite — Adam Dunn and Ryan Zimmerman taking the field on Friday night while wearing jerseys that read "NATINALS".

No wonder their potential top draft pick might want $50 million to join them.
(Or that the Post's beat writer previously sent up a few rescue flares.)
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Let me be the first to say that Elijah Dukes is a BAD PERSON. We dealt with his act for a couple of years down here. Between his caring about nobody but himself, his brushes with the law, and his interviews constantly being more ridiculous than the last, we were so glad to see him go.
 
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I saw this on the Paul Lukas Uniwatch blog. He mentioned that it is not the first time it has happened and that the blame goes to Majestic, although you would think that someone would have noticed before the game. They did get proper jerseys later in the game.
 
Floppy said:
LMFAO...did they design the shirts by accident where the O is covered up by the other side of the shirt?
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I really hope so.
 
The Big Unit:quiet: took a no no into the 7th today. Not bad for a 45 year old.
 
Well, now this is the Mariners I remember.

It's going to be another long season.
 
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Holy carp! Who is that?
 
It is Weeks. Maybe it knocked some game into him. He actually isn't doing as bad as the past couple of years. Not yet anyway.
 
This Elijah Dukes story is getting funnier by the day. It turns out the little league he was helping, which made him late, is now doing a fundraiser to pay his fine. I think the Nationals are going to come out of this looking really bad.
 
Dukes was paid $500 for his original appearance at the event, so it doesn't exactly match the true description of "charity work."
 
JB said:
Dukes was paid $500 for his original appearance at the event, so it doesn't exactly match the true description of "charity work."
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I havent heard that yet. I just heard he was participating in a Nationals charity event at a little league.
 
The world will know very soon just what kind of mess this is I have a feeling.
 
I wouldnt let the Nationals off the hook too quickly though. They have to be the crappiest run ball club in all of sports.
 
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