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09-06-2020 , 10:55 PM

#3576

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,829

I still can't believe it.

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09-06-2020 , 11:35 PM

#3577

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 93,125

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Originally Posted by mrbaseball

RIP Lou Brock as we lose another 60's/70's baseball icon in less than a week

Just brutal. Lou Brock along with Gibson exemplified everything great about those 60s Cardinal teams, and then they held things together thru some pretty lean 70s years too, with help from Ted Simmons. Brock was always so cool, total class, carried himself with such style and dignity. He seemed superhuman.

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09-06-2020 , 11:59 PM

#3578

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,387

Mike was a class act. He was always kind and funny and just an all around class act. RIP

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09-07-2020 , 12:21 AM

#3579

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,130

What a bummer about Mike. I've been sleeping to nonstop WPT episodes at night the last several weeks.

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09-07-2020 , 01:26 PM

#3580

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

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Originally Posted by kioshk

He was so fast. He was as much fun to watch as Wills, or later, Henderson. I think he did as much to revive the lost art of base stealing as anybody did.

He and Gibson were the two from those Cards that I will never forget.

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09-07-2020 , 01:40 PM

#3581

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Mike was a class act. He was always kind and funny and just an all around class act. RIP

Class act is right. I used to play mix with him every summer and there was nothing phony about him -- he was the real deal. I still think his TOC format was the best poker tournament format ever invented.

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09-07-2020 , 05:28 PM

#3582

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 25,852

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Originally Posted by Phat Mack

Lou made me think of that '85 Cardinals team with MVP Willie McGee and RoY Vince Coleman.

Willie stretching out a triple was pure grace, and Vince disrupting things with just the thread of his speed. love a guy that doesn't wear gloves while batting and puts them on to steal.

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09-07-2020 , 09:16 PM

#3583

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

Brock may have been the fastest guy out of the box I've ever seen. Where right handers would be standing there wondering if they hit the ball, Lou would be halfway down the line.

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09-09-2020 , 02:32 AM

#3584

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 93,125

A Lou Brock drag bunt was a thing of beauty.

Another thing I remember, the almost reverential tone that Cardinal broadcaster and former teammate Mike Shannon used to use when talking about him.

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09-09-2020 , 10:34 PM

#3585

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,387

Kool & the Gang co-founder Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell dead at 68.

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09-10-2020 , 09:58 AM

#3586

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,387

Diana Rigg, 82...

British actress, gorgeous model, The Avengers, Game Of Thrones, and Mrs. James Bond.

She was simply amazing.

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09-10-2020 , 12:16 PM

#3587

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,130

I guessed that was Lady Olenna on GoT. If not for that role I wouldn't be aware of her, but she was great in it.

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09-10-2020 , 06:34 PM

#3588

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 66,470

Diana Rigg was the greatest. Emma Peel was the sexiest woman that's ever been on TV

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09-10-2020 , 08:57 PM

#3589

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

I had multiple sex sessions with Diana Rigg! True, it was only in my mind, but it was still thrilling and Great!!!

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09-11-2020 , 02:15 AM

#3590

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 66,470

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09-11-2020 , 04:54 PM

#3591

biggerboat

you're gonna need one

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 49,865

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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235

I guessed that was Lady Olenna on GoT. If not for that role I wouldn't be aware of her, but she was great in it.

I had no idea at all that was Diana Rigg until I read this.

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09-11-2020 , 07:36 PM

#3592

Phat Mack

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

When they first announced that Marvel monstrosity, I thought: Cool, who's gonna play Diana Rigg?

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09-12-2020 , 03:38 AM

#3593

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 40,168

Pretty sure that Michael Rooker played her part.

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09-18-2020 , 11:49 PM

#3594

Gioco

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,417

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, dead at age 87 on September 18, 2020. In the Spring of 1975, she spoke to my law school class, a very small group, and I met her and spoke with her. She had a great stage presence.

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09-19-2020 , 12:17 AM

#3595

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,387

RIP RBG

A true American patriot.

May her memory be a revolution.

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09-23-2020 , 10:17 AM

#3596

mrbaseball

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 13,694

RIP Gale Sayers

He was the running back of my youth and the guy that really got me interested in football. They called them halfbacks back then. He was shifty and fast and if modern medical treatments were available back then would have put up monster career numbers. Pull up some of his highlights on youtube. The guy was special.

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09-23-2020 , 10:24 AM

#3597

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 19,207

Although I only was able to see Sayers play every so often (we got the Giants games), he was amazing.

Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

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09-23-2020 , 10:59 AM

#3598

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,387

One of the first sports heroes I remember...my Dad loved him. Had a poster on my wall. Later, cried like a baby watching Brian's Song.

RIP

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09-23-2020 , 01:13 PM

#3599

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,130

Road Warrior Animal, dead at 60. Seems like Hawk has already been gone a dozen years or so.

RIP to Sayers. I should watch Brian's Song. I saw it when it premiered on tv, but I was probably in 6th grade or so.

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09-23-2020 , 05:39 PM

#3600

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

I had to think about this for a minute, then realized there are plenty of people who had never seen Sayers play. Jesus Veiled Christ he was fast. His ability to cut didn't look human.

Thinking some more, there are plenty of people who have never know the Chicago Bears to be a fearsome team--where the main goal when playing them was not to win, but to survive. They were the alpha black and blue team of what would become the Black and Blue Division. RIP Gale.

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