{"id":4040,"date":"2009-03-16T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/03\/the-lastings-milledge-and-elijah-dukes-experiment-year-2.html"},"modified":"2009-03-16T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:47:00","slug":"the-lastings-milledge-and-elijah-dukes-experiment-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/03\/the-lastings-milledge-and-elijah-dukes-experiment-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lastings Milledge and Elijah Dukes experiment, year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/15\/AR2009031501894.html\"><b>Milledge, Dukes a Potent Pair<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/>When <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Manny Acta<\/span> thinks of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Lastings Milledge<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Elijah Dukes<\/span> he might say to himself, &#8220;their potential is going to cost me my job.&#8221; The two outfielders acquired last year are thought to have tremendous potential but the are questions about whether they can reach it. Milledge, seems like a clock-puncher &#8212; he is not doing anything beyond what is required. Dukes, has well-publicized legal problems, but stayed out of trouble last year. Of the two, Dukes has the higher upside as well as the higher risk. He was the most exciting Washington player at the plate last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/WashingtonNationals\" rel=\"tag\">Washington Nationals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/nats\" rel=\"tag\">Nats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/LastingsMilledge\" rel=\"tag\">Lastings Milledge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ElijahDukes\" rel=\"tag\">Elijah Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milledge, Dukes a Potent Pair &#8211; The PostWhen Manny Acta thinks of Lastings Milledge and Elijah Dukes he might say to himself, &#8220;their potential is going to cost me my job.&#8221; The two outfielders acquired last year are thought to have tremendous potential but the are questions about whether they can reach it. Milledge, seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsmlb-2009","category-washington-nationals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Lastings Milledge and Elijah Dukes experiment, year 2 - William F. 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