Elijah Dukes is now Fly Eli, the rapper

(Also of note, Elijah Dukes admitted to smoking weed before Nats home games? Image via Deuce of Davenport.) This time last year, Elijah Dukes was getting ready to drive from his home outside Tampa to Viera for Spring Training with the Nationals, a starting job in right field seemingly his for the taking. We all know how that ended. Now, according to The Tampa Tribune, Elijah Dukes has reinvented himself as a rapper. Meet Fly Eli: Fly Eli, who wants to make a name for himself as a rapper, stands in front of the microphone in the little studio off 40th Street and belts out lyrics about women and booze and clubs. ... "Life is our hook," says Fly Eli, better known as Elijah Dukes to baseball fans and those who knew him when he was a hot shot athlete growing up in Tampa. "What we see is what you get." He says he was blackballed by baseball after he came forward last year with allegations that fellow ball players were smuggling drugs onto chartered aircraft, usi...