Little League Parents Pay Major League Player's Fine

Little League Parents Pay Major League Player's Fine

Washington Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukes was fined $500 and benched for arriving two hours and 55 minutes early to Saturday's home game against Florida instead of the mandatory 3 hours early. He ran 5 minutes late because he was signing autographs at a little league event in Great Falls.

So the Great Falls little league parents raised the $500 to pay for the fine. This is an awesome thing to do by the little league and kudos to them for doing it.

"The point is, this guy gave back to our community, and now he's in a hard spot. We need to help him," said Jim Mraz, the Great Falls LL president, according to The Washington Post. "It's not a question of whether this guy can afford the 500 bucks. We're just trying to send a message to our kids: He was here for us. Now we've got to be there for him."

Excellent. Elijah Duke has a great PR opportunity here and the only thing the article has to say is "Dukes had no comment." That's not cool.

What also sucks is even team manager Manny Acta acknowledges how stupid this fine is:

"... Acta said, according to MLB.com. "It was a bizarre situation, because he was doing something that we encourage our players to do. He was out in the community doing something for some Little League program and he just showed up late for work."

MLB - fail.

Full story at ESPN - HERE

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