Bear Down Wildcats

Charlie Daniels is dead. Good. Fucking racist.

UAEebs86 wrote:

She was like to school teacher sex was Madonna was to 80s pop.

A classic, and set the bar...

I remember it being so pervasive in the news at the time when I was about 11 or so.

What is going on with that shitty headline?

She didn’t “engage in sexual relations”. She raped a 12-year-old. Full fucking stop.

So sad

Kelly Preston passing at 57 from breast cancer is tough to hear. Just always liked her. Actually knew someone who had met her and said she was stunningly gorgeous and equally as nice. 2 year battle, she must have had it pretty bad

Damn damn. Grant Imahara of mythbusters fame died today from a brain aneurysm. 49 years old. Shit. I've been rewatching a lot of episodes lately too.

scumdevils86 wrote:Damn damn. Grant Imahara of mythbusters fame died today from a brain aneurysm. 49 years old. Shit. I've been rewatching a lot of episodes lately too.

That one hits hard. Mythbusters is one of my favorite shows of all time and Grant always seemed like a great guy.

Awwww, a really big part of my kids growing up.

Merkin wrote:Awwww, a really big part of my kids growing up.

Huge part of my childhood. If you were born anytime in the late 70s to mid 90s they were a staple.

Damn. I was just reading some stuff by him this week. What a string and great man. Insane to think of what he accomplished and went through at such a young age. Also reminds you how close in time we really are. He was only 80 and was an adult doing sit ins and protests against fucking segregation and lynchings. This isn't long ago. RIP

Edmund Pettis Bridge should be the John Lewis Bridge

RIP Lady Liberty

Passed away not so peacefully in the night, July 17, 2020.

While professional contrarians are out fighting in Walmarts over a piece of cloth, the dark state has come creeping out of their hellholes to begin the domestic rendition of civilians.

RIP John Lewis.

Make "Good Trouble!"

Took New Mexico State to a Final Four

Covid related

I don't mind following this thread. Yet, I was always told you can gauge the age of a person by how much the person follows the obituaries. I find that to be true. Perhaps because deaths invoke memories.

^^^^^^ Rest In Peace

Am I the only one who thinks puffer coats make you look like you sleep under a bridge.

Helen Reddy died at 78. For all you young-uns out there: she had nothing to do with reddit.

dovecanyoncat wrote:Helen Reddy died at 78. For all you young-uns out there: she had nothing to do with reddit.

We have a separate thread for actors and musicians.

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I'm a bad fan.

Former pitcher Bob Gibson passed away from cancer.

Guy was a bulldog and I fully think he’d be just as successful today as he was back in his day.

RIP Gibby

Chicat wrote:Former pitcher Bob Gibson passed away from cancer.

Guy was a bulldog and I fully think he’d be just as successful today as he was back in his day.

RIP Gibby

When they change the rules because of you that says it all.

Lou hit the winning homer of the 65 World Series

As a Cardinal fan, losing Gibby really hurts. To lose him and Lou Brock in like the last month, wow.

Gibson was so tough that Clemente actually broke his leg with a line drive yet Gibson faced three more hitters until he had to come out.

He pitched his best in the World Series to. In 64 he won 3 games and went 8, 10 and 9 innings and came back on two days rest to win game 7. Who does that? The day he struck out 17 tigers was amazing. Never thought he would get beat in game 7 that year but he did

azcat49 wrote: He pitched his best in the World Series to. In 64 he won 3 games and went 8, 10 and 9 innings and came back on two days rest to win game 7. Who does that?

Micky Lolich - in 1968 - against the Cardinals. Lolich won all three of his games - complete games, and was on 2 days rest for game 7.

The day he struck out 17 tigers was amazing. Never thought he would get beat in game 7 that year but he did

He struck out 17 Tigers in the first game, and its a great record that won't be beaten anytime soon. But he also allowed 5 hits and he needed that superhuman performance to keep Detroit from scoring - Detroit was an offensive juggernaut and Gibson really shut them down that day.

But he couldn't repeat it in Game 7, the Tigers got 4 runs on 8 hits, while Micky Lolich tied up the Cardinals in knots.

Gibson was an all time great, an 'immortal' if you will. But in the 1968 series Micky Lolich was the better pitcher - he even helped himself out with a home run. Unfortunately for Detroit's two greats that year (Lolich and Denny McClain), they didn't have any other pitchers that could reliably win games and the Tigers pitched them way too much and turned their arms to rubber. Fortunately the Tigers had ample offensive capability to make up for the lack of a real 3rd or 4th starter. McClain never really recovered from that over use, he was rubber in the Series, and a couple of years later he was in jail on drug and embezzlement offenses. Lolich's career wins totals was depressed because he had a reputation for wanting to go complete games, but the Tigers didn't always have the fire power to back him up. But to this day, Lolich has the 2nd highest strikeout total of any left hander.

McClain once said that he wouldn't trade 1 Bob Gibson for 15 Micky Lolichs. McClain had a big mouth, but clearly he had a lot of respect for the guy that beat him twice in that Series.

Here’s where we get a long treatise on how Charles Francis Adams Sr. was actually the best presidential grandson.