Radar selects baseball's most scandalous all-star team

About this time every year, America's best baseball players converge on one lucky city (our very own New York this time around) to sign autographs, mingle with fans, and play in the All-Star Game.

But while the Midsummer Classic, as poets call the game, celebrates baseball's greatest players, Radar prefers to celebrate its worst—morally speaking. And with the game's biggest star spending the past two weeks plastered on the cover of New York's tabloids after betraying his wife and daughters by sleeping with a sinewy old Italian woman, what better time than now to present Radar's first All-Morally Inept Team?

Let's go to the roster:

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CATCHER
Paul Lo Duca, Washington Nationals
In August 2006, Paul Lo Duca made the same transition from the back pages of New York's tabloids to the front that his buddy A-Rod is currently enjoying. But instead of opting for someone 20 years his senior, Lo Duca was, alas, banging a 19-year-old girl. His wife quickly divorced the stumpy catcher from Brooklyn and, worst of all, his paramour split, too. But at least he'll (and we'll, as you see above) always have her Facebook pictures to remind him of the good times.

FIRST BASE
Jason Giambi, New York Yankees
Unlike most of his fellow steroid abusers, Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi has actually admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. He first came clean to a grand jury in 2003, and then in 2007, Giambi told USA Today, "[I was] wrong for doing that stuff." The vague admission led the Yankees to look into voiding his enormous contract and MLB to "investigate the matter." Nothing ever came out of the investigations, but Giambi has since revived his career, and, instead of relying on drugs, he's now succeeding on the power of the 'stache.

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SECOND BASE
Jeff Kent, Los Angeles Dodgers
Long considered one of baseball's biggest pricks, Jeff Kent became embroiled in scandal when he showed up for spring training in 2002 with a broken wrist. Kent said he broke the bone taking a spill while washing his truck. Turns out he was lying. Reports surfaced that Kent had in fact broken his wrist while getting a little too creative on his motorcycle. Problem was, Kent's huge contract with the Giants forbade him from riding motorcycles. In the end, the Giants forgave their slugging second basemen and he returned to the field as healthy and surly as ever.

SHORTSTOP
Miguel Tejada, Houston Astros
LIke his former teammate Jason Giambi, Miguel Tejada once won the American League MVP while a member of the Oakland A's. And like the big bepimpled Giambi, Tejada's legacy has been tarnished by steroid allegations. In January of this year, federal authorities began investigating whether Tejada perjured himself when he told Congress that he'd never taken steroids. This came just a month after Tejada's name appeared 38 times in the Mitchell Report, MLB's investigation into performance-enhancing drugs. But Tejada's most entertaining bit of scandal involves his age. When the Oakland A's signed Tejada in 1993, he told the team he was 17. He was actually 19. The truth surfaced earlier this year when ESPN obtained a copy of his birth certificate.

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THIRD BASE
Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees
It's hard to blame Alex Rodriguez for his role in baseball's latest and juiciest scandal. Sure, he betrayed his wife and two daughters, and, yes, he'd been caught cheating with buff strippers before, but when a man is Madonna's "fucking soul mate," what is he left to do? Not everyone is cutting A-Rod so much slack. The New York tabloids have dragged baseball's best player through the dirt, plastering pictures of him and a new mannish-looking girl on both covers nearly each day. Just another reminder that he should have never left his first love, Derek Jeter.

RIGHT FIELD
Elijah Dukes, Washington Nationals
Elijah Dukes prefers to keep his scandalous behavior completely unrelated to baseball. And he does a hell of a job at it. Last year, while playing for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Dukes threatened to kill his wife after angrily storming into her middle school classroom (she was the teacher).

He also left her a not-so-romantic voicemail, saying, "You dead, dawg. I ain't even bullshitting. Your kids, too." But Dukes didn't stop there. Soon after threatening his wife's life, news surfaced that Dukes had impregnated a 17-year-old foster girl living with one of his relatives. The sex was determined to have been consensual, so no charges were pressed against Dukes.

Nor was he charged after chucking a bottle of Gatorade at the girl when she confronted him about the pregnancy.

CENTER FIELDER
Milton Bradley, Texas Rangers
Rangers outfielder Milton Bradley has never taken steroids or impregnated underage girls, but he does have one of the hottest heads in baseball. His history is one best presented in bullet form:

* Fined and suspended for throwing a water bottle at a fan.

* Suspended four games for tossing a bag of balls onto the field after getting ejected.

* Served three days in an Ohio jail to resolve traffic tickets, including one he got after refusing to sign a ticket and then driving away from police.

* Police were called to his house three times in three days to respond to complaints of domestic violence.

* Stormed out of the locker room, intent on confronting a critical sportscaster, only to be corralled by his coaches before he got the chance to kill the man.

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LEFT FIELDER
Barry Bonds, Free Agent
It's hard to say anything about the steroid-addled, huge-headed slugger that hasn't already been said. So we'll just link you to this picture and let it speak for itself.

STARTING PITCHER
Brett Myers, Philadelphia Phillies
It's clearly stated in the the wife beater's manual that one should never hit one's wife where other people can see. Brett Myers apparently skimmed that part. In June 2006, Myers and his wife were walking back from a bar to their hotel in Boston when he punched her in the face, twice. Then he pulled her hair. Myers was arrested and then quickly bailed out—by his wife. The case was eventually dismissed at Mrs. Myers' request. Most important, though, with his verbal evisceration of a reporter a year later, Myers showed that his temper is still fully intact.

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RELIEF PITCHER
Shawn Chacón, Free Agent
Former Astros pitcher Shawn Chacón is newly unemployed after getting a little too physical with his boss. After being summoned to the manager's office, Chacón refused to go, anticipating bad news. When the team's general manager, Ed Wade, confronted Chacón, the Alaskan-born pitcher did what any rational Alaskan would do—he choked the 52-year-old man and threw him to ground. Naturally, he was cut from the team. But he can stay on ours.