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Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 7:56 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
Anders wrote:Raquel Welch
I got her and Sophia Loren confused all the time as a kid; both legends.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 9:50 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Tim McCarver.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 9:52 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 9:53 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Tim McCarver.
I got him and Sophia Loren confused all the time as a kid; both legends.
Respect for the dead, bro.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 9:59 pm
by doug rr
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Tim McCarver.
:(
I've told the story here before that he hit my dad with a foul ball during batting practice in 1973..he came up to talk to us and had the whole team sign the ball..quite a day
rip

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 10:03 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Tim McCarver.
:(
I've told the story here before that he hit my dad with a foul ball during batting practice in 1973..he came up to talk to us and had the whole team sign the ball..quite a day
rip
Great guy. He’s the dad of RM

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 10:26 pm
by doug rr
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Tim McCarver.
:(
I've told the story here before that he hit my dad with a foul ball during batting practice in 1973..he came up to talk to us and had the whole team sign the ball..quite a day
rip
Great guy. He’s the dad of RM
this is Tim's catchers mitt

Image

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 10:26 pm
by Chris_H_2
you think that tub of ice water that deon poured on him finally did the trick?

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 10:27 pm
by dad
chris

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Thu February 16, 2023 10:44 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Tim McCarver.
:(
I've told the story here before that he hit my dad with a foul ball during batting practice in 1973..he came up to talk to us and had the whole team sign the ball..quite a day
rip
Great guy. He’s the dad of RM
this is Tim's catchers mitt

Image
Thank you.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sat February 18, 2023 10:42 pm
by spike
Sounds like Jimmy Carter's heading to the peanut farm in the sky soon.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sat February 18, 2023 10:49 pm
by doug rr
nicest man in the world other than maybe Henry Winkler...

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sat February 18, 2023 10:50 pm
by JuanHamm
Hard to believe an honest, compassionate man ended up as president.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sat February 18, 2023 11:11 pm
by wease
Probably really the last one to hold those traits.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 1:05 am
by Chris_H_2
wease wrote:Probably really the last one to hold those traits.
look how that turned out for him in 1980

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 1:09 am
by wease
Chris_H_2 wrote:
wease wrote:Probably really the last one to hold those traits.
look how that turned out for him in 1980
Yeah, I know

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 5:56 pm
by bart
Richard Belzer, dammit

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 6:33 pm
by oasisfan35
bart wrote:Richard Belzer, dammit
*fuck

:cry:

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 6:38 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
bart wrote:Richard Belzer, dammit
This one is a surprise; I thought he had already passed.

Re: R.I.P.

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 6:41 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.