ESPN: Little league set to pay Dukes’ fine
Washington Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukeswas fined $500 and benched for being late to Saturday’s home game against Florida. But he won’t pay the fine himself. The Great Falls Little League, where he was speaking prior to the game, says it will pay it for him after a fund-raising effort, according to the Washington Post.
The real reason he got fined is because the Nationals weren’t involved with his appearance and hence didn’t get the positive PR bounce. Now they all look like morons. Good work.
Paul Gammons: You Suck.
Typical blogger.
Spewing out poorly researched and poorly articulated spite.
Read two-thirds of the way into that Post story and you’ll see Duke got $500 for that appearance. Not exactly charity work if you’re demanding payment to show up and sign a few autographs.
Now I have to get back to managing SearchCRM.
Valid point. “Community” would’ve been a better word than “charity”.
But to your point, he made 500 bucks for the appearance. If I were making what Dukes is making (just over the MLB minimum of $400,000), would $500 get me out of bed? Probably not. Simply declaring the income would make it more annoying than anything else (it’d probably be easier to not get paid at all). So let’s not make it out like he raked in the cash by showing up.
Finally, remember, spending time on PaulGammons.com makes us all winners!
It’s true, first off, I mean, if you were Dukes, wouldn’t you be like, hey, don’t worry about it, I got the $500 covered in the first place. Maybe one of his baby mama’s is milking him.
But Chamiqua is still a CHUMP. I have it out for Chamiqua in 09, mark my words. If I lose every week, I will take pride in thoroughly trouncing Chamiqua.