um, 10 jacks in 50 games?
sorry to disappoint all you dukes doubters but he will be in a nationals uniform come season opener, not a clippers one.
i also see you're dukes questioning and raise you a question about austin...what about last season showed you austin should be securely situated in right field offensively speaking? everybody is sadly mistaken if they think the new stadium is just going to spark an offensive explosion from austin.
as i said before i think rf should be up for grabs between dukes and ak. this would be bad news for ak because dukes would thoroughly outplay him in st.
For one, you don't have to worry about letting Kearns go out for a beer or something on the streets of DC.
For two, he has been in the majors a lot longer than Dukes has and has been pretty much done nothing but start. For the Reds, for us and with pretty good reason considering he learns the angles, nooks, and crannies pretty damn fast of a park's outfield, has a monster cannon of an arm, makes basic plays, and makes some pretty tough plays. A few rivaled even some of Nook "The Flash" Logan's plays if you want to talk what JMad calls "THE SPEEEED."
Third and most important: He's EARNED the right to start that position. Dukes has done jack crap. This ain't Tampa f'n Bay. Your going to just have to wipe the brown off your nose, get the smears off those rose glasses of yours, and wait and see if Dukes can EARN the right to start anywhere in ST.
Right now, if I had to choose between Kearns who has shown up everyday to play with minimum problems or Dukes who has a plethora of problems on and off the field and a .190 average because he wasn't out there doing what he was supposed to do for whatever reasons, you bet your ass I'd take Kearns any day of the week and sweep Dukes right under the rug to Columbus.
