Ban Elijah Dukes from Major League Baseball

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Author: Matthew Bleiberg

Started: May 23, 2007, 3:42:17 pm

Target: Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Category: Civil & Human Rights

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Elijah Dukes, a rookie for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays is accused by his wife of threatening her and their kids' lives. Please read this.

In late April, Tampa Bay Devil Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes barged into his wife's middle school classroom at lunchtime. He was so irate that she ran to get the principal and a deputy, who banned Dukes from the property, records show.

Dukes' wife, NiShea Gilbert, 26, a teacher at Beth Shields Middle School in Ruskin, told the court in another filing Thursday that her husband threatened to kill her and sent a photo of a handgun to her cell phone. She played the St. Petersburg Times a voice mail message she said was from Dukes:

"You dead, dawg," says an angry voice. "I ain't even bulls-------. Your kids, too."

I am going to eventually E-mail this to the D-Rays and MLB to make a point, if anything. It might not get him banned, but it will be great to send this to the team to show a damn point. This idiot pisses me off.

Read more about this idiot here:

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/23/Tampabay/Ballplayer_s_wife__He.shtml