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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (3 Viewers)

Tom Servo said:
Red Sox player and broadcaster Jerry Remy has passed away.

ETA: One of his best calls.
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i remember the day the Sox traded for him. since i was 12 i'd been calling sportstalk shows beggin' the Sawx to get some speed and, two weeks after i move west, they finally get a leadoff hitter....

i expressed most of what i feel about Jerry Remy in my first entry in the Do You Watch Baseball thread:

can always watch baseball, rarely choose to, but that's actually changed in the last year. for the last decade, the color man for the Sox has alternated between former greats Jerry Remy & Dennis Eckersley, depending on whether Remy was healthy or wanted to travel and whenever Eck wasnt having more fun elsewhere.. during the lockdown last year, though, they both started coming in to the remote studio location together and it was magic for this ol hoss. cuz baseball is about the chatter, whether on the field, from the dugout, in the booth or at home. the one sanctified memory of growing up is me Ma ironing in the kitchen, with her giant fwaddafwadda arm operating the moistening bottle and ten-ton iron while listening to Curt Gowdy call the ballgame on the radio. i talked baseball incessantly when i was a kid, probably learned half the color i have in expressing myself from that. hell, my inner calendar developed its own synesthesia related to where we were in the season/offseason. i do fantasy sports now because it gives the regularity & continuity that baseball used to. i have access to all the other media but, when i check the Sox score and it's RemDog & Eck - two guys of my generation, each comprising different halves of my orientation - working the game, i stop and get into the moment of sport in a way i otherwise cannot. 
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growing up, Boston sports was always in the hands of professional announcers, but this local (not a lot of New England pro ballers), half a Canuck like me, same age as me guy with the joy, the sarcasm, the belief, the disgust, the fun we like to share all in his wheelhouse really brought it home for me and me Ma............first time i ever talked to her urn was this morning when i told her about her Jerry. we kissed and cried........RIP, RemDog.

 
No one you know, but a friend of mine committed suicide last week.  Cousin of one of my best college friends.  He had some drug and alcohol issues.  Played in a fantasy football league with him.  The league (mostly his cousins, etc.) is devastated.  Hit me hard since he's around my age in a similar spot in life.  God bless your soul, Rob. I hope you are at peace but part of me is frustrated that you couldn't get the help you needed.  You left a lot of people mourning you.

 
nirad3 said:
No one you know, but a friend of mine committed suicide last week.  Cousin of one of my best college friends.  He had some drug and alcohol issues.  Played in a fantasy football league with him.  The league (mostly his cousins, etc.) is devastated.  Hit me hard since he's around my age in a similar spot in life.  God bless your soul, Rob. I hope you are at peace but part of me is frustrated that you couldn't get the help you needed.  You left a lot of people mourning you.
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Sorry for your loss

 
nirad3 said:
No one you know, but a friend of mine committed suicide last week.  Cousin of one of my best college friends.  He had some drug and alcohol issues.  Played in a fantasy football league with him.  The league (mostly his cousins, etc.) is devastated.  Hit me hard since he's around my age in a similar spot in life.  God bless your soul, Rob. I hope you are at peace but part of me is frustrated that you couldn't get the help you needed.  You left a lot of people mourning you.
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Sorry to hear that.

 
Jazz guitarist Pat Martino died yesterday at 77 years old.  Great story of his relearning how to play guitar (and basically everything else) after a near fatal seizure in 1980.  Won Down Beat’s guitarist of the year in 2004. 

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
Thelma Lou, the love of Barney Fife's life passed away a few weeks ago.

Actress Betty Lynn dies at age 95: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/betty-lynn-dead-andy-griffith-show-1235032777/
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somehow i always knew it would never happen, but i spent many warm moments as a lad wondering how wonderful it might be to have a cow-eyed girl like Thelma Lou or Wilma from Best Years of Our Lives just all accepting and believing in me no matter what. it never did happen - to be honest, if it ever came close to happening i went running for the hills, but that's a whole nuther sitcom - but thank you for the peace & hope you gave misfits, Miss Lynn. RIP -

 
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Leroy Hoard said:
It was a small role but for some reason I can't forget him as Ben, Dennis Hopper's favourite lip sync artist in Blue Velvet.
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same.

Paris, Texas and Dune (the Lynch one) too. and loved him in Married to the Mob- I think it was his line when michelle pfeiffer is threatening to shoot matt modine... "go ahead"

 
wikkidpissah said:
somehow i always knew it would never happen, but i spent many warm moments as a lad wondering how wonderful it might be to have a cow-eyed girl like Thelma Lou or Wilma from Best Years of Our Lives just all accepting and believing in me no matter what. it never did happen - to be honest, if it ever came close to happening i went running for the hills, but that's a whole nuther sitcom - but thank you for the peace & hope you gave misfits, Miss Lynn. RIP -
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I always thought that Thelma Lou was much better looking than Helen Krump.  Barney did well for himself.

 
Eephus said:
Legendary Rock 'n Roll photographer Mick Rock died at age 72. He created iconic images of musicians including Bowie, Iggy, Lou Reed and Joan Jett.  You've seen his work on album covers even if you don't know him by name.
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He was involved with the recent PBS series ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS, which i didnt think i'd care about (cuz i didnt waybackwhen), but turned out to be prettydamgood . RIP -

 
Francisca "Lola Iska" Susano, born September 11, 1897, died aged 124. Believed to be the last living person with a birth date in the 1800s.

1897 was also the year radio was invented, Dracula was published, the first comic strip debuted, and the electron was discovered. Thornton Wilder, Amelia Earhart, Frank Capra, and Moe Howard from The Three Stooges were also born that year.

 
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