Our favorite tipster in the Sunshine State was kind enough to send us a rather tremendous radio interview with the ex-wife of Tampa Bay problem child Elijah Dukes. With the retirement of lunatic luminaries such as Dennis Rodman, Mike Tyson, and John Rocker, Dukes is rapidly emerging as the craziest wacko in a sports uniform.

Among the highlights from the interview:

* Dukes has been diagnosed as bi-polar and is a ‘good husband when he’s on his medication’

* She’s trying to figure out which 17-year-old slept with her ex-husband, because ‘those girls have kept my children before’

* Elijah’s most frequently-used pickup line is: ‘I want you to have my baby’ and he follows that up with ‘Can I be your first baby daddy?’

* Dukes once told his ex, ’seeing my sisters and my mom with so many men, I don’t trust women’

With the Devil Rays only seven games under .500, they’ll probably be somewhat interesting for the remainder of the month. In the monotonous days of July and August, we suggest any paper covering the Devil Rays employ a Pedro Gomez-type reporter to follow Dukes’ every move. If he brushes his teeth, we want to know the toothpaste. The cell phone from which he texted his ex a photo of a gun … what kind of phone is it? Does he sing in the shower? If so, what?

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