Grande huevos is right. I well remember that terrible crash that he survived and how he was forced to retire - but he came back cause he was all guts. Awesome F1 racer.
Lots of tears being shed in Badgerland & in Lake Wobegone for him. An awesome old school player who always gave 100% every time he laced on the boots.
Re: Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.
Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 7:01 pm
by DD-Tech
RIP Bill Buckner
That moment the ball was going through Bill’s legs I was in a bar brawl in a Long Island parking lot backing up our old laxpower friend sore+old. Will never forget it!
RIP. Great player unfortunately known for his greatest error.
Re: Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.
Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 11:18 pm
by Brooklyn
Yeah, it's a shame about Buckner's legacy considering how great a hitter he was. After all, the game had been tied at that point which means the bullpen did not get its job done (recall that the bullpen gave up 8 runs late in the next game). Further, that was only in game 6 with still another game to go. I always faulted manager John McNamara for not replacing Buckner at 1b, considering how bad his legs looked late in the game.
Re: Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 8:46 am
by dislaxxic
DD-Tech wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 7:01 pm
RIP Bill Buckner
That moment the ball was going through Bill’s legs I was in a bar brawl in a Long Island parking lot backing up our old laxpower friend sore+old. Will never forget it!
RIP. Great player unfortunately known for his greatest error.
Wondering why ol' S&O never showed up here at FanLax...do you know DD? Hope he's alright...
DD-Tech wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 7:01 pm
RIP Bill Buckner
That moment the ball was going through Bill’s legs I was in a bar brawl in a Long Island parking lot backing up our old laxpower friend sore+old. Will never forget it!
RIP. Great player unfortunately known for his greatest error.
Wondering why ol' S&O never showed up here at FanLax...do you know DD? Hope he's alright...
..
He is doing well... working on his golf game (and oh boy! it needs work!)
I think the political back and forth got to a point of becoming too personal and no longer was fun for him. I believe that even if it was still laxpower it would still be the same result. I have made it a point to stay out of the politics forum. Can't even remember the last time I have watched CNN or FOX for more than a 30 second headline grab. It's been nice for me that's for sure!
Re: Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 2:52 pm
by jhu72
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that early this morning, May 30th, 2019, Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127,” it read. “He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat. He’s interested to see what Blind Blake, Emmett, and Jelly Roll have been up to in his absence, and has plans for a rousing sing along number with Sári Barabás. An eternity of pouring through texts in the Library of Ashurbanipal will be a welcome repose, perhaps followed by a shot or two of whiskey with Lee Morse, and some long overdue discussions with his favorite Uncle, Suppiluliuma I of the Hittites. To his fans, friends, and loving family who have already been missing him so in this realm he says, ‘Oh behave yourselves. Thank you…. and good evening everybody.'
That moment the ball was going through Bill’s legs I was in a bar brawl in a Long Island parking lot backing up our old laxpower friend sore+old. Will never forget it!
RIP. Great player unfortunately known for his greatest error.
Wondering why ol' S&O never showed up here at FanLax...do you know DD? Hope he's alright...
..
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He is doing well... working on his golf game (and oh boy! it needs work!)
I think the political back and forth got to a point of becoming too personal and no longer was fun for him. I believe that even if it was still laxpower it would still be the same result. I have made it a point to stay out of the politics forum. Can't even remember the last time I have watched CNN or FOX for more than a 30 second headline grab. It's been nice for me that's for sure!
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DD - I’m sure Dis and I aren’t the only ones here who are happy to see this update on Sore. I’ve always wondered where he’s been and have hoped his departure was caused by something like you suggest and not because of something serious.
Arte Johnson, Master of Hilarious Characters on 'Laugh-In,' Dies at 90
Arte Johnson, the comic best known for the hilarious characters he created for the 1960s NBC smash hit Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, has died. He was 90.
The 5-foot-4 Johnson, a master of ad libs, double-talk and dialects who was content to be a "second banana," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of heart failure following a three-year battle with bladder and prostate cancer, his family announced.
Johnson cracked up Laugh-In audiences with his portrayal of Wolfgang, a former German storm trooper who muttered "Verry interesting" to the most cracked proposals (or, "Verry interesting … but stupid". He said he got the idea for the character while watching Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan battle the Nazis in the 1942 movie Desperate Journey.
Outfitted in a comic combination of Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein — walking stick, bad suit, frizzy hair, odd top hat — Johnson also was delightful as Tyrone F. Horneigh, a dirty old man who propositioned the spinster Gladys (Ruth Buzzi) on a park bench. After his suggestive mutterings, she would swat him with her oversized purse.
''Michaels died Wednesday in his home state of Pennsylvania at the age of 89. He is best remembered for his six seasons as head coach of the Jets, when he brought the team back to respectability, and for being the defensive coordinator of the 1968 team that won the franchise’s only Super Bowl.
“If we were in the middle of practice and practice wasn’t going the way he wanted, he would blow a whistle and we’d start the whole practice over again,” Lyons said. “I think as players we learned to respect that. He wanted to win just as much as we did.”
His former players talked about a tough coach who they grew to love.
“Walt was old school,” Jets legend Joe Klecko said. ''
Old school - to me, that's the greatest compliment of all.
Re: Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 2:36 pm
by wahoomurf
Brooklyn wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:15 am
Walt Michaels, 89
''Michaels died Wednesday in his home state of Pennsylvania at the age of 89. He is best remembered for his six seasons as head coach of the Jets, when he brought the team back to respectability, and for being the defensive coordinator of the 1968 team that won the franchise’s only Super Bowl.
“If we were in the middle of practice and practice wasn’t going the way he wanted, he would blow a whistle and we’d start the whole practice over again,” Lyons said. “I think as players we learned to respect that. He wanted to win just as much as we did.”
His former players talked about a tough coach who they grew to love.
“Walt was old school,” Jets legend Joe Klecko said. ''
Old school - to me, that's the greatest compliment of all.
Joe Klecko was old school as well.Walt was tough.but had a grand and somewhat sardonic sense of humor.
Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker, considered one of the greatest lightweight boxers of all time, died Sunday after he was hit by a vehicle in Virginia, police said.
He was 55 years old.
Re: Obituaries - Gone but not forgotten.
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 7:12 pm
by Brooklyn
Harley Race - self proclaim KING of pro wrestlers:
"It's a colorful part of the Boston Marathon history, that's for sure," said Bill Rodgers, who won the men's race that year and was immediately suspicious of the woman sitting next to him on the awards podium.
I well remember the post race interview in which he immediately voiced skepticism over her "victory".
