Yanks' Duncan still doesn't know why Rays reacted

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Head Down, Cleats Up
Published 3/13/2008 by BJK at Complain In Vain
We just read this story about the Yankees-Rays spring training brawl, which highlights the fact that Yankee Shelley Duncan claims his slide, shown in the clip below, was a not dirty a play. Duncan stated, “I saw it a couple times. I still don’t understand why they were as upset as they were.” You can decide for yourself if there was a reason to be upset. But, after a little more digging, we found something in Duncan’s past that might shed some light on his comments about the slide.Turns out, Duncan was a boxing judge in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. He was one of the judges who ...

Hey Rays, Shelley Duncan Doesn't Understand Why You're Upset
Published 3/13/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... , so that should tell you what he thought. Duncan wouldn't reveal the content of that conversation but he did express his ongoing confusion about why things escalated so quickly. ...

ESPN - AP - Yanks’ Duncan still doesn’t know why Rays reacted to spikes-high slide
Published 3/13/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
ESPN - AP - Yanks’ Duncan still doesn’t know why Rays reacted to spikes-high slide Shelley Duncan watched video of his hard slide in the Yankees’ game Wednesday against Tampa Bay and still doesn’t think it was a dirty play. Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon called the play “borderline criminal.” Clemens’ bat-throwing issue with Piazza, the A-Rod slap, Pedroia getting spiked, now this; are the Yankees somehow accountable for their players being accused of dirty play (on the field, disregarding what happens off)? The quantifier is that Joe Maddon truly understands “borderline ...