Celebrity Deaths

[sean92008]

I think he was a lot greater than he was given credit for...

Merv Rettenmund. I remember when he played with the Reds, I'm pretty sure during the big red machine years. With the Padres, he played a couple of years and then was their hitting coach.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/former-padres-hitting-coach-merv-rettenmund-who-won-world-series-with-orioles-and-reds-dies-at-81/ar-AA1vCeYh?ocid=TobArticle

[Uncle Duke]

I think he was a lot greater than he was given credit for...

Merv Rettenmund. I remember when he played with the Reds, I'm pretty sure during the big red machine years. With the Padres, he played a couple of years and then was their hitting coach.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/former-padres-hitting-coach-merv-rettenmund-who-won-world-series-with-orioles-and-reds-dies-at-81/ar-AA1vCeYh?ocid=TobArticle

I too remember Merv during his tenure as a Reds' pinch hitter and reserve outfielder.  Think he also played a little first base to give Perez the occasional day off.  And yes, he was with the Big Red Machine in 74 and 75, including winning the World Series.

Do you remember Ted Ulander?  Another Reds' reserve a year or two before Merv signed with Cincinnati.  Cincy was Ted's last stop in the majors, and clearly his better years were behind him.  I think he hit less than .200 with Reds. I knew a guy in high school who could not figure out why the Reds didn't trade Ted for Rod Carew.

[sean92008]

I too remember Merv during his tenure as a Reds' pinch hitter and reserve outfielder.  Think he also played a little first base to give Perez the occasional day off.  And yes, he was with the Big Red Machine in 74 and 75, including winning the World Series.

Do you remember Ted Ulander?  Another Reds' reserve a year or two before Merv signed with Cincinnati.  Cincy was Ted's last stop in the majors, and clearly his better years were behind him.  I think he hit less than .200 with Reds. I knew a guy in high school who could not figure out why the Reds didn't trade Ted for Rod Carew.

The name didn't ring any bells (Ulander did, but could be anything)...

Baseball Reference had a very intriguing reference:

December 10, 1969: Traded by the Minnesota Twins with Dean Chance, Bob Miller and Graig Nettles to the Cleveland Indians for Luis Tiant and Stan Williams.

[sean92008]

Julie is dead. Is Lync dead? The Mod Squad.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/michael-cole-mod-squad-star-dead-84

[Walks_At_Night]

Bad day for baseball players I guess.  The Rock is gone.   

Rocky Colavito
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[Rikki Gins]

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The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreskin

 

[sean92008]

Joe "Fucking Asshole" Molland (Badfinger) is leaving soon. He proves that cockroaches outlive the civilized bandmates he destroyed.

[Uncle Duke]

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The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreskin

Thanks for posting the Bell interview, first time I've ever heard it.  Kreskin was a weasel, the utter disdain in Bell's voice apparent.

[Walks_At_Night]

Thanks for posting the Bell interview, first time I've ever heard it.  Kreskin was a weasel, the utter disdain in Bell's voice apparent.

Didn't Johnny Carson rough him up pretty good?

[Rikki Gins]

Thanks for posting the Bell interview, first time I've ever heard it.  Kreskin was a weasel, the utter disdain in Bell's voice apparent.

Very welcome, Duke.  I ran a search on the two of them, on a whim, and found the video.  I heard the live interview at the time and to this day, I can still recall how pissed off Art was.

[Rikki Gins]

Didn't Johnny Carson rough him up pretty good?

I don't know. It appears that Kreskin was on the Tonight Show a whopping 88 times. In later years, Kreskin would claim that Johnny based his Carnac the Magnificent character on Kreskin himself, but researchers of the Tonight Show state that the Carnac character was taken from an early day Steve Allen routine. Did Kreskin's claim rankle Johnny? Guess we'll never know.

[Uncle Duke]

I don't know. It appears that Kreskin was on the Tonight Show a whopping 88 times. In later years, Kreskin would claim that Johnny based his Carnac the Magnificent character on Kreskin himself, but researchers of the Tonight Show state that the Carnac character was taken from an early day Steve Allen routine. Did Kreskin's claim rankle Johnny? Guess we'll never know.

Wonder if Walks is thinking of Carson's humiliation of George's good friend Uri Geller? I remember Kreskin being on with Carson many times, they seemed to yuck it up with Carson a willing subject/stooge for Amazing's shtick.  A guy does 88 shows in this live host/guest format, can't see the two them not being on good terms.

[Walks_At_Night]

Wonder if Walks is thinking of Carson's humiliation of George's good friend Uri Geller? I remember Kreskin being on with Carson many times, they seemed to yuck it up with Carson a willing subject/stooge for Amazing's shtick.  A guy does 88 shows in this live host/guest format, can't see the two them not being on good terms.

Yeah it was Geller.

[sean92008]

Holy fuck! There's no way that I would have ever thought he was unhealthy, especially at 66 years old. In a normal world, there is no way that this would happen. He was still cut when I last saw a video of him within the last year. Rickey Henderson...

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/baseball-hall-famer-rickey-henderson-dead-65

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[GravitySucks]

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/12/23/end-of-an-era-star-of-crocodile-dundee-dies-peacefully-at-90/