Very Sad. RIP Tyler
Very Sad. RIP Tyler
The Stop And Chat
There was another pitcher I just thought of- Steve Belcher in '03. He was a big guy, and if I remember right he was taking some kind of supplement (legal, at least at the time) to help him lose weight.
edit: man, I just thought of two more pitchers- Donnie Moore (Angles) and Don Wilson (Astros). And one of my all time favorites, JR Richards, almost died from a stroke.
Last edited by BernieCarbo; 07-02-2019 at 10:15 AM.
Chip R (07-02-2019)
Absolutely..unimaginable grief. Last year around this time my son had been drinking heavily, had/has heart problems and became suicidal over all his own self imposed bad luck so I was bracing for the worst. Luckily since then he's turned things around, but I still have lingering worries he'll slip back into the same behavior. He lives in Columbus and I'm in SC.. I've often thought of moving back there, but I'd have to leave the Mrs and abandon my 90 yr old dad so that's not happening. It's tough being a parent to kids you love so much regardless of their behavior..
Chip R (07-02-2019),Old school 1983 (07-02-2019),Revering4Blue (07-02-2019)
Possibly understated at this time is the incredible stress these young athletes are putting on their bodies when they should be just enjoying life as opposed to putting enormous stress on themselves to excel at everything they do..
Then again throughout history we as a species have always used young men in many horrible ways we don't usually think about ranging from being soldiers and dying in wars to just performing manual labor that beats the body down prematurely..
I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing I had passed on some of the jobs I did as a young man that now are still raising its ugly head in the form of old injuries, arthritis, heart problems, etc.. Some of these athletes today and just destroying their bodies hoping to find gold in inflated salaries. Some make it, but most never do.. I doubt it'll ever change for the better..
Rojo (07-13-2019)
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
cumberlandreds (07-15-2019),Edd Roush (07-03-2019)
Pair of Angels no-hit Mariners on emotional night
The Angels honored the late Tyler Skaggs in a perfect way Friday night, as Taylor Cole and Felix Pena combined to throw the 11th no-hitter in franchise history while all wearing Skaggs’ No. 45 jersey in a 13-0 win over the Mariners at Angel Stadium.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Chip R (07-15-2019),cumberlandreds (07-15-2019),Rojo (07-14-2019),Rolando (07-13-2019),UKFlounder (07-13-2019)
cumberlandreds (07-15-2019),Rojo (07-13-2019)
And I'll nominate this as the strangest take on a take I've ever seen.
Yes, ballplayers are well-paid. But in the end they are bodies that are physically exploited for profit.
The NFL now wants to expand the season to 18 games after all we know about CTE.
That's all I need to know. Get rid of owners.
Always Red (07-13-2019),Patrick Bateman (07-13-2019),Rolando (07-13-2019)
Anybody see his mom throw out the first pitch?! Perfect strike off the rubber
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