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Joe Grzenda..threw the last pitch for the Senators (kept the ball) dies at age 82
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To quote both Bruce Prichard and Tony Schiavone, "Fuck Duff Meltzer."
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duff gets a gold star, no?
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So, tonight I was watching an old Seinfeld repeat - "The Bris" (season 5). The guy who played the rabbi was hilarious, so I looked him up to see the name of the actor. And then I learned that he, Charles Levin, died just a couple days ago, under odd circumstances.

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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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bfj wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2019 5:45 pm Johnny Clegg

Seemed like a real mensch.
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Andrea Camilleri

Wrote a great series of detective novels set in Sicily.
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Pumpsie Green, the first black player for the Boston Red Sox, shamefully 12 years after Jackie Robinson. The last MLB team to field a black player.
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brian wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:01 pm Pumpsie Green, the first black player for the Boston Red Sox, shamefully 12 years after Jackie Robinson. The last MLB team to field a black player.
The Red Sox were an exceptionally racist organization back then. When I saw Brian’s post, I remembered this article from last year.
The Dodgers integrated the game when introducing Jackie Robinson in 1947, but the Red Sox were owned by Tom Yawkey, a known racist who resisted adding black players even though the team had opportunities to sign legends such as Willie Mays and Robinson.

Finally, 12 years after Robinson became a Dodger — and three years after he retired — the Red Sox had a non-white player...

...Discrimination followed Green through the Red Sox’s organization including in 1959 when he played magnificently in spring training but was denied an Opening Day roster spot. The Red Sox still weren’t ready to break from their prejudiced practices. At the end of training camp, Green was returned to the minors.

“That was the best spring I’ve had in my life,” Green said. “The best ball I ever played in my life. I had the whole package. I was a shoo-in. … I didn’t know I was that good.”

Green got the word from manager Mike Higgins, who said, “There’ll be no n— on this ballclub as long as I have anything to say about it,” according to Boston sportswriter Al Hirshberg’s 1973 book, “What’s the Matter with the Red Sox?” Higgins was fired in early July, and Green finally got his call to the big leagues in late July.
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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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Maxim Dadashev died from injuries suffered in the ring last weekend. If you saw the video of him leaving the ring, it was chilling.
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Paul Krassner
He was a standup comedian encouraged by Lenny Bruce, a biting satirist celebrated by Kurt Vonnegut, and a swashbuckling drug enthusiast who took a “trip” with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, dropped acid before testifying at the Chicago Seven trial, and “ingested those little white tabs” with Groucho Marx in Beverly Hills.

In those heady years of 1960s radicalism and experimentation, Paul Krassner was also an irreverent ringmaster of the counterculture, known for battling censorship and decency laws, coining the term “Yippie” to describe his anarchic cohort, and founding the Realist, an influential magazine of satire and social criticism.

An FBI agent once described him in a letter to Life magazine as “a raving, unconfined nut,” a phrase that Mr. Krassner gleefully adapted for the title of his memoir. “The FBI was right,” comedian George Carlin later said. “This man is dangerous — and funny, and necessary.”
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Trippin’ With Groucho is a great band name.
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Rutger Hauer, legendary "that guy" in action movies both much-beloved (Blade Runner) and not so much (a lot of straight-to-video crap.)
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As a little kid, I got Dolph Lundgren and Rutger Hauer mixed up.
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To quote both Bruce Prichard and Tony Schiavone, "Fuck Duff Meltzer."
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duff wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2019 4:08 pm Harley Race.
This picture is a one frame time capsule.

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Pruitt wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2019 4:34 pm
duff wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2019 4:08 pm Harley Race.
This picture is a one frame time capsule.
Pretty sure one of those guys said, "Fuck Duff Meltzer."
“All I'm sayin' is, he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall.”
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Nick Buoniconti

Probably CTE. And his son was paralyzed while playing football. Rough.
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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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bfj wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:44 pm Cliff Branch

He an Biletnikoff were a hell of a duo.

In the obituary, I caught this line -
Raiders owner Mark Davis, who once served as Branch's agent in negotiations with his father, the late Al Davis, was particularly close with the former receiver.
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Everything the Las Vegas Review-Journal touches dies.
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Was going to post the same. Just read an article last month about him putting out new music and touring later this year.



(Hope his dad feels like shit.)
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Apparently took his own life. I try not to project my own issues into society at large, but it just feels like everyone is so worn down and depressed these days.

Saying this to myself as much as anyone here -- if you feel you need help, get help.
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I'd never really heard of him until recently, but saw a lot (relatively) about him lately. Sucks. And yes, get help if you feel the need. It's out there and way easier to get than you think.
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Cedric Benson former nfl RB. Motorcycle crash. 36.
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Peter Fonda. Yes, Easy Rider was his biggest success, but I will always remember him for his role as Burnett Stone in Thomas and the Magic Railroad. He found the Lady in the Mountain.
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bfj wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:34 pm Peter Fonda. Yes, Easy Rider was his biggest success, but I will always remember him for his role as Burnett Stone in Thomas and the Magic Railroad. He found the Lady in the Mountain.
Honest to God, that was the first movie my son saw in a theatre (he literally wet his pants because he didn;t want to leave his seat. Seen that movie 20 times over the years, so when I saw that Peter Fonda had died, all I could think of was this scene... And in reality, this movie stands up way better than Easy Rider

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Reuben Foster. 36, motorcycle crash.
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brian wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 4:27 pm Reuben Foster. 36, motorcycle crash.
Also? Or did you mean Cedric Benson?
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brian wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 4:27 pm Reuben Foster. 36, motorcycle crash.
No that’s not true at all. Did you mean benson like I posted above? Foster isn’t that old I don’t think.
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Are we back on that autocorrect thing?
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My bad. Wishful thinking maybe.
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Jack Whitaker

When I was younger, the networks tried to instil sports broadcasts with a certain level of gravitas. Commentators like Jim McKay and Whitaker would offer up commentaries of a few minutes or so that both added to the drama and made you feel as though you were watching something of more than sporting significance.

Bob Costas seemed to take over that mantle.

Anyway, he was just about the last of that generation of sports announcers, and in looking at some YouTube clips, it's clear that he was pretty darn good too.

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Neal Casal. 50. Suicide.



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EnochRoot wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:45 pm Neal Casal. 50. Suicide.

Fuuuuuck.
Very sad. That guy played with a ton of different, talented people, a bunch of different styles. Produced records, too. RIP.
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sancarlos wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 6:27 pm
EnochRoot wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:45 pm Neal Casal. 50. Suicide.

Fuuuuuck.
Very sad. That guy played with a ton of different, talented people, a bunch of different styles. Produced records, too. RIP.


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