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ESPN: The Mag feature on Elijah Dukes
ESPN: The Mag feature on Elijah Dukes
Elijah Dukes of the Washington Nationals gets a feature in the May 19th issue of ESPN: The Magazine.
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The Elijah Dukes "Story" Won't Go Away
Federal Baseball — ... ...Leading off ESPN.com writer Chris Jones' article on Elijah Dukes entitled,"TICK TICK TICK", there is a picture of Elijah Dukes standing on the top stair of the dugout in Nationals Park with the camera shooting from below up at Dukes, who has his arms straight down at his sides with his back to the enormous scoreboard, and is staring straight ahead, wearing the home whites of the Washington Nationals, as the sun lights his face and the front of his #34 Nationals jersey. That's the photo included in the online edition...In the print edition of the article featured in ESPN ...

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Bugs & Cranks — “If you’re happy Barry Bonds isn’t playing this year, you’re just as bad as Josef Stalin.” –Dave Zirin [The Starting Five] A very special guest on next week’s Gossip Girls…. Joba Chamberlain. [LoHudYB] I got mixed feelings about this magazine feature on Elijah Dukes. [e$pn:tm] Sure the Yankees could have spent a little more money on a manager with testicles, but having Girardi also put in time as a bullpen catcher is so darn economical. [LoHudYB] The ...

Willie, Wankers and the Losing Factory*
It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations — ... The first game was torturous, making me rage uncontrollably, like a graduate of Tampa's Hillsborough High School. Within the first three innings, the weekend triumphs against the last-place, Arod-less Spankers were entirely forgotten. The Mets were back to playing like pulseless zombies. It took me all day, but no media shitstorm was going to distract me from making a startling discovery. ...

DoucheNugget of the Week: The MLB Brass
The Shooter's Lounge — Over the last couple year, the head honchos at MLB have found a lot of nitpicky little bullshit things to focus on. While players have been injecting steroids, receiving HGH in the mail, and having alcohol and anger management issues, the goobers in the front office have been worrying about bullshit topics like whether Terry Francona and Lou Pinella are wearing their jerseys under their pullover jackets, how much gray was on Aramis Ramirez's shoes, and making Justin Miller wear long sleeves so his tattoos wouldn't ...

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Bronx Banter: Shea Ya Later
Baseball Toaster — You've got to hand it to the Worldwide Leader. They sure know how to stockpile talent--writers like William Nack , Chris Jones , Howard Bryant , and Wright Thompson , to name just a few. How about J.R. Moehringer , the award-winning journalist and author of the terrific memoir The Tender Bar ? Moehringer wrote a fairwell to Shea Stadium recently --I missed it completely until I was browsing around ESPN's site over the weekend--and it is first-rate, like most everything he writes : We loved the Mets because we ...

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