Elijah Dukes – Almost a Wolfpack LB

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22 Responses to Elijah Dukes – Almost a Wolfpack LB

  1. noah 05/24/2007 at 8:28 AM #

    Chasing Dukes was probably one of Amato’s dumbest moves.

    1) There was NO way he was going to qualify
    2) There was NO way he was going to turn down MLB money come the June draft
    3) There were PLENTY of question-marks about his behavior in high school
    4) We went end-around his high school coach, needlessly pissing off a guy you’d like to have in your corner and having him be so angry at us that he vowed to never let State coaches recruit any of his players

    Exactly *what* was the bright spot that we were chasing? All we did was splash more mud on our program. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

  2. packbackr04 05/24/2007 at 8:52 AM #

    is this the “you dead dawg…. yer kids too” guy???

    my question was, are they not his kids too?

  3. TNCSU 05/24/2007 at 9:07 AM #

    “He was batting .231 with eight home runs, tied with Cincinnati’s Josh Hamilton for the most among major league rookies.”

    Amazing the personal history of the top two rookies in MLB? I wasn’t aware of his history, but the quote about “I’ve got a video game to get back to” makes me wonder about the guy — and many of the “yoots” today.

  4. redfred2 05/24/2007 at 9:09 AM #

    “You dead, dawg.”

    While Dukes is out there threatening to kill his own wife and children, he is also dragging down $380,000 for services on the baseball field. I would bet his former HS teachers and coaches are making somewhere around $38,000 during that same time period. Don’t you just know they’re all extremely proud of that kid right now.

    Sounds like another example of a undeserving young man who is too ignorant to realize just how lucky he is. He doesn’t realize he is where he is simply because he was granted god given athletic abilities, but apparently no brains to go along with them.

  5. noah 05/24/2007 at 9:17 AM #

    Remember Pedro Guerrero? Played with the Dodgers back in the 80s? I think he played briefly with the Cards?

    After he retired, it came out that basically, he was completely retarded. I don’t mean, “Dat dood’s a total retaaahd!” I mean…he had an IQ of something like 70. He could just hit a baseball a long, long way.

    But he wasn’t a criminal. I don’t think.

  6. redfred2 05/24/2007 at 10:16 AM #

    Baseball bin very, very, good to Pedro.

  7. McPete 05/24/2007 at 12:29 PM #

    Isn’t that the guy OJ Simpson’s girlfriend was doing coke with, prompting the juice to make a 911 call that Jime Rome replays on his show all the time?

  8. redfred2 05/24/2007 at 12:54 PM #

    I don’t know about that McPete. I would think though that any even halfway intelligible recorded conversation involving an individual with an IQ of 70, while also being hopped up on cocaine, would surely knock Alexander Graham Bell’s accomplishments in communications down a few notches.

  9. noah 05/24/2007 at 1:00 PM #

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/2000/06/06/roundup_ap/

    “Guerrero, 43, retired from baseball in 1992. Hirsch said he dropped out of sixth grade in his native Dominican Republic, and has an IQ of 70, Hirsch said. The Miami resident can not perform simple tasks, such as writing a check or making a bed, and receives a small weekly allowance from his wife, Hirsch said.”

  10. Girlfriend in a Coma 05/24/2007 at 1:04 PM #

    Amato chased Dukes to enhance our “recruit star average” for that year. He knew there was no way he would ever play here.

    That’s all you need to know about Amato right there.

  11. Big Worm 05/24/2007 at 2:07 PM #

    “Amato chased Dukes to enhance our “recruit star average” for that year. He knew there was no way he would ever play here.”

    You can’t really believe this.

    Amato isn’t/wasn’t head coaching material, but he was not the bumbling idiot some of you make him out to be, either.

  12. Girlfriend in a Coma 05/24/2007 at 4:08 PM #

    I do really believe it because it is true. At the time Chuck was shooting for a high “class ranking” nationally. He needed Dukes to move up. Dukes was in on it and signed as a favor, knowing he would never play here. Dukes’ 3 stars (IIRC) did help us move up in the “rankings” that year.

  13. BoKnowsNCS71 05/24/2007 at 8:36 PM #

    Must be the steroids kicking in. Increased anger. Short fuse. But hey — a coach has gotta do what a coach has gotta do.

  14. Lunatic Fringe 05/24/2007 at 9:02 PM #

    Once, Twice, FIVE Times a loser…

    From Rays Index on Elijah:

    I know that you have been arrested at least six times, including one as recently as this past January for marijuana possession. I know that you have five children with four different women, of which two were born eight days apart. I know that during your professional baseball career you have been suspended five times, three of those were by your own employers, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

    http://raysindex.blogspot.com/2007/05/open-letter-to-elijah-dukes.html

  15. noah 05/25/2007 at 8:27 AM #

    The Tampa Bay Devil Rays suck with Elijah Dooks. Surely, they can suck without him just as well.

    I’d put his contract through the shredder immediately.

    BTW, speaking of shredding contracts…I’m hearing that there’s a very good chance that M. Vick’s days in the NFL are completely over. The Falcons are all set to release him outright and Nike is currently working destroying his contract as well.

  16. CaptainCraptacular 05/25/2007 at 8:56 AM #

    Falcons have to be kicking themselves for letting Schaub go and then passing on Brady Q.

    If he’s not already put in jail for a good while from this death threat against his wife and child, then this Dukes kid should at all costs be kept employed by MLB. I know this sounds crazy, but if he’s released from the team when he runs out of money he is clearly going to be out on the streets perpetrating even more violent crime to maintain a lifestyle. From all outward appearances, there is virtually no chance of him being gainfully employed in a normal job. At least with MLB paying him he’s not out robbing innocent people, possibly you or I. Dont’ get me wrong, I think he should go away for a while for the threats against his wife and child, but in the event he doesn’t, I just don’t want him out on the streets with nothing but a gun to his name.

  17. noah 05/25/2007 at 9:04 AM #

    His wife’s not pressing charges…so, he’s not going to jail, apparently.

    There’s a scene in Carlito’s Way where a jailed mob boss is threatening Sean Penn…

    “The contract’s already down on you, pal. The line pit’s already been dug.”

    Someone ought to be telling that to Dooks. We already have your cell waiting for you…I ain’t even bullsh*ttin’. Dawg.

  18. redfred2 05/25/2007 at 9:04 AM #

    I don’t like seeing any person’s career go up in smoke, but if all of the professional sports administrators would collectively strike will the iron is hot and make a stand RIGHT NOW, they would be doing not only the potential NBA/NFL/MLB hopefuls, but every young kid who involved in athletics in any way, a great service for those kid’s future. It would be a stance the that would only increase the value and respect of professional athletics and be good for their own interest.

  19. redfred2 05/25/2007 at 9:06 AM #

    ^pitiful typing, sorry

  20. BJD95 05/25/2007 at 9:08 AM #

    That would be great news re Vick, if true.

  21. redfred2 05/25/2007 at 10:48 AM #

    I don’t want to shine a light on Vick’s past and where he came from, but on top of everything else that’s happened strictly with the FB team and other individuals up there, maybe it says something definitive about the overall mentality of the coaching staff in Blackburg. Everybody has ’em, the players who were never taught as children and think they don’t to conform to any rules of any type. But if you can’t through to a young kid straight out of HS, or possibly don’t want to push your luck because of the consequences for a single season of football, then maybe you need to re-evaluate whose best interest you have at heart.

  22. BJD95 05/25/2007 at 10:57 AM #

    More than the school, it seems like the Vick family just produced some real douchebags.

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