Celebrity Deaths

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

John Ashton, actor, Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, 76

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[sean92008]

Nothing official has been released yet, but Fernando Valenzuela is apparently in really bad health.

I was watching the stream of a well-connected San Diego sports talk guy and he had said that his sources say that Fernando is in bad shape. He had to quit doing radio broadcasts a couple of weeks ago.

Before he dies, it would be nice for the baseball playoffs to acknowledge Fernando. He was a member of both the Padres and Dodgers teams.

[Walks_At_Night]

Nothing official has been released yet, but Fernando Valenzuela is apparently in really bad health.

I was watching the stream of a well-connected San Diego sports talk guy and he had said that his sources say that Fernando is in bad shape. He had to quit doing radio broadcasts a couple of weeks ago.

Before he dies, it would be nice for the baseball playoffs to acknowledge Fernando. He was a member of both the Padres and Dodgers teams.

Wow.  I hate to hear that.  The Tigers miraculously made it into the playoffs and have advanced.  There was a picture of Alan Trammell celebrating who played during Valenzuela's time.  Was thinking that guys of that era are getting old.  Valenzuela had a great screwball - a maligned and almost extinct pitch today.

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[Walks_At_Night]

Seems like Styxx's freedom is on death watch.   

[Uncle Duke]

Nothing official has been released yet, but Fernando Valenzuela is apparently in really bad health.

I was watching the stream of a well-connected San Diego sports talk guy and he had said that his sources say that Fernando is in bad shape. He had to quit doing radio broadcasts a couple of weeks ago.

Before he dies, it would be nice for the baseball playoffs to acknowledge Fernando. He was a member of both the Padres and Dodgers teams.

I grew up a Reds fan, so the Dodgers were Cincinnati's arch rival in the NL West.  Unfortunately, during Valenzuela's heydays in the 80s, the Reds sucked.  Seems like he had a fair amount of success against the Reds, iirc.

[JUAN]

That's what's wrong with baseball.  No screwballs, knuckleballs, spitters, or knockdown pitches.  Just absurdly large bases and DHs.

[Smokin Hot Bob]

Seems like Styxx's freedom is on death watch.   

Vindictive females at large.

https://x.com/JFGariepy/status/1841630866847461835

[Walks_At_Night]

Landry is dead.  First Lions QB that I can remember watching.

https://x.com/Lions/status/1842365942765957200

[PB]

Ohhh boy..

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[Uncle Duke]

Landry is dead.  First Lions QB that I can remember watching.

https://twitter.com/Lions/status/1842365942765957200

Trivia question answer:

Last UMass player taken in the first round of the NFL draft.

Greg Landry 1968

[Walks_At_Night]

Ohhh boy..

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He was fun to watch.

https://x.com/PitchingNinja/status/1067394722807853059

[sean92008]

Those Red Sox teams with Freddie Lynn, Jim Rice, Yaz, Carlton Fisk and Luis Tiant were a fun team to watch. There were lost a lot of Boston Red Sox fans made in San Diego in the '70s.

[PB]

He was fun to watch.

El Tiante!

All the different pitches he threw, all the different angles and speeds, all the different windups, watching a game as a kid once, one of the announcers joked that no matter where you sat in the stadium, at some point during one of his deliveries he'd look you in the eye, lol.

Definitely fun to watch.

[Walks_At_Night]

El Tiante!

All the different pitches he threw, all the different angles and speeds, all the different windups, watching a game as a kid once, one of the announcers joked that no matter where you sat in the stadium, at some point during one of his deliveries he'd look you in the eye, lol.

Definitely fun to watch.

My Old Man said way, way back into old days when he was a kid that the pitchers used to cut up the sleeves on their sweat shirts.  So when they threw the ball, the pitch would come out of a flapping white background.  It was out lawed of course but I always thought Tiant would be perfect for that flapping action.

[PB]

...  So when they threw the ball, the pitch would come out of a flapping white background...

All scuffed up and covered with saliva...