Introducing Fly Eli

[Moderator1]

Offered without much comment, this is too rich for words:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/feb/11/111456/coming-saturday-former-ray-elijah-dukes-reinvents-/news-breaking/

 

[mb]

Or, as the cutline says ...

Former baseball player Elijah Dukes is now a musician called Sly Eli.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I would have really laughed if it were about Eli Manning.

 

[YankeeFan]

Offered without much comment, this is too rich for words:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/feb/11/111456/coming-saturday-former-ray-elijah-dukes-reinvents-/news-breaking/

My God, I thought he was starting his own airline.

One of the biggest wastes of talent in the last quarter century.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I am pre-ordering "You Dead Dawg" off iTunes right now.

 

[Boom_70]

Sad - effed up dude but man could he hit a baseball. Saw him put one in the black at Yankee stadium. Only ball I've ever seen hit harder was by Frank Thomas.

Ball took off like a shot and just kept climbing.

 

[Moderator1]

I saw him hit a couple like that. Shake your head kind of shots. Why anyone threw him a fastball is a mystery. Any of us would be a better choice to try and hit a breaking ball.

Great arm, too. Fast as hell. When he was down on a rehab, I caught him in Richmond - seats almost on the field. The bat speed, the power - my Lord. Just a massive hole in his game, plus all the other bull****.

 

[Steak Snabler]

six babies by four different women. Most of the millions he has made is long spent or tied up in alimony and child support.

Travis Henry scoffs as this bush-leaguer.

 

[dooley_womack1]

You're making Beavis and Butthead go "heh-heh"

 

[Steak Snabler]

Sad - effed up dude by man could he hit a baseball. Saw him put one in the black at Yankee stadium. Only ball I've ever seen hit harder was by Frank Thomas.

Ball took off like a shot and just kept climbing.

I saw him hit a couple like that. Shake your head kind of shots. Why anyone threw him a fastball is a mystery. Any of us would be a better choice to try and hit a breaking ball.

Great arm, too. Fast as hell. When he was down on a rehab, I caught him in Richmond - seats almost on the field. The bat speed, the power - my Lord. Just a massive hole in his game, plus all the other bull****.

A buddy of mine who has had season tickets for the Montgomery Biscuits (Rays' Double-A) since their inception still claims Dukes is the most-talented player to come through there, ahead of Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton, Ben Zobrist, Delmon Young and all the others.

 

[Boom_70]

Sad - effed up dude by man could he hit a baseball. Saw him put one in the black at Yankee stadium. Only ball I've ever seen hit harder was by Frank Thomas.

Ball took off like a shot and just kept climbing.

I saw him hit a couple like that. Shake your head kind of shots. Why anyone threw him a fastball is a mystery. Any of us would be a better choice to try and hit a breaking ball.

Great arm, too. Fast as hell. When he was down on a rehab, I caught him in Richmond - seats almost on the field. The bat speed,

the power - my Lord. Just a massive hole in his game, plus all the


other bull****.

A buddy of mine who has had season tickets for the Montgomery Biscuits (Rays' Double-A) since their inception still claims Dukes is the most-talented player to come through there, ahead of Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton, Ben Zobrist, Delmon Young and all the others.

Raw talent wise I can't disagree unless you add Josh Hamilton to the mix.

Imagine if all those guys were sane all at same time and stayed in Tampa.
Tampa farm system dominated the minor leagues the few years those guys were there.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Sad - effed up dude by man could he hit a baseball. Saw him put one in the black at Yankee stadium. Only ball I've ever seen hit harder was by Frank Thomas.

Ball took off like a shot and just kept climbing.

I saw him hit a couple like that. Shake your head kind of shots. Why anyone threw him a fastball is a mystery. Any of us would be a better choice to try and hit a breaking ball.

Great arm, too. Fast as hell. When he was down on a rehab, I caught him in Richmond - seats almost on the field. The bat speed, the power - my Lord. Just a massive hole in his game, plus all the other bull****.

A buddy of mine who has had season tickets for the Montgomery Biscuits (Rays' Double-A) since their inception still claims Dukes is the most-talented player to come through there, ahead of Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton, Ben Zobrist, Delmon Young and all the others.

Raw talent wise I can't disagree unless you add Josh Hamilton to the mix.

Imagine if all those guys were sane all at same time and stayed in Tampa.
Tampa farm system dominated the minor leagues the few years those guys were there.

Hamilton never played in Montgomery. He played briefly in Double-A with the Rays, but their affiliate was still in Orlando at that time.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=hamilt004jos

 

[BYH]

Here's the whole story. It's, umm, interesting?

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/feb/11/former-ray-elijah-dukes-reinvents-himself/news-metro/

 

[Fly]

Whodat rippin me off?

 

[Huggy]

Whodat rippin me off?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Reintroducing Domestic Violence Eli!

TAMPA, Fla. -- Former major league outfielder Elijah Dukes was being held in a Florida jail on Thursday after his pregnant ex-girlfriend accused him of slapping her in the face during an argument, authorities said.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6177350

 

[OnTheRiver]

Reintroducing Domestic Violence Eli!

TAMPA, Fla. -- Former major league outfielder Elijah Dukes was being held in a Florida jail on Thursday after his pregnant ex-girlfriend accused him of slapping her in the face during an argument, authorities said.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6177350

Good for him. He usually doesn't get his first hit until late May.

 

[User 1019]

Nice.

 

[Moderator1]

He's the gift who keeps on giving:

http://www2.tbo.com/news/rays/2012/feb/23/1/elijah-dukes-charged-with-drug-possession-destroyi-ar-361962/