RIP

[shafnutz05]

R I P Willie McCovey
I still have the ball he hit into the right field upper deck at Forbes off Elroy Face in 1966

That's awesome... He was THE San Francisco Giants

[crusherstasiak]

R I P Willie McCovey
I still have the ball he hit into the right field upper deck at Forbes off Elroy Face in 1966

That's awesome... He was THE San Francisco Giants

No, Dude

Willie Mays

[shafnutz05]

R I P Willie McCovey
I still have the ball he hit into the right field upper deck at Forbes off Elroy Face in 1966

That's awesome... He was THE San Francisco Giants

No, Dude

Willie Mays

He was definitely the greatest, no doubt. I always forget he is still alive.

[crusherstasiak]

All this puts me in mind of a story I tell

This is the the story every old guy has that when you start to tell it your wife rolls her eyes. You just wait and see, shaf

I went to a Catholic parochial school and man, how the nuns would pound the 'never take our lords' name in vain' ****. None of us knew what 'in vain' even meant. I ask my father and he says something like 'you can't say Jesus's name unless you're in church or if a nun says it's ok'

I know long ago memories can be highly inaccurate but understand I've been telling this story since junior high-or, as it's called nowadays-middle school

Anyway, we're all of us collecting baseball cards. 5 in a pack, stick of gum- 5 cents. We're flipping them, trading them, cherishing them. I had shoe-boxes full. One day I open a pack and there's...JESUS Alou. No ****, I was astounded! How could this be? I go over to my best friend Don's house and show him the card and it blows his mind too.

When the Giants come to town we're listening to the Gunner and Possum on KDKA...waiting for this guy to come to bat who is -as far as we're concerned- a walking talking mortal sin. He's taking the lords name in vain. Doesn't he know he's going to hell? When he steps to the plate we're wondering 'Is the Gunner about to take the lord's name in vain too? We don't want the Gunner to go to hell. How relieved we were when Prince says 'Hay-soos Alou steps in...' 'He didn't do it, he didn't take the lord's name in vain'! The Gunner isn't going to hell!!! Me and Don, we were so happy. How frkkn innocent were we? Dang.

Here's another brief aside about those days. For a good while we thought there were two Clemente's on the Pirates. Nobody had bothered to tell us that Bobby was the diminutive of Roberto : ) There were no Bobby's in the neighborhood and the nuns never used diminutives.

[dodint]

Luckily you'd reached the age of reason by the time Miroslav Satan came along.

[crusherstasiak]

Luckily you'd reached the age of reason by the time Miroslav Satan came along.

9/10

[shafnutz05]

I love small anecdotes like that. Thanks for sharing.

[Shyster]

I made up a "Hail Satan" sign for Satan's first home game as a Pen.

[Factorial]

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

RIP Dr. Z

https://twitter.com/peter_king/status/1 ... 83554?s=19

[tifosi77]

R I P Willie McCovey
I still have the ball he hit into the right field upper deck at Forbes off Elroy Face in 1966

That's awesome... He was THE San Francisco Giants

The little bit of SF Bay that's alongside AT&T Park is called McCovey Cove. That was our neighborhood when we first moved here.

[shafnutz05]

TUKWILA, Wash. (WWMT) — The inspiration for one of the world’s most recognizable characters died at the age of 84.

Mario Arnold Segale once owned the business park that warehoused the Nintendo of America arcade operations in Washington and is credited by Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario Bros., as being the inspiration for the character’s name.

[tifosi77]

Yeah, apparently the guy was around to collect a late rent payment when the "aha" moment hit.

[Blue Canary]

RIP Dr. Z

https://twitter.com/peter_king/status/1 ... 83554?s=19

I enjoyed reading Dr. Z back in the day.

[Blue Canary]

Roy Hargrove, Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter. At 49, from a heart attack.

https://apnews.com/c8c8d9a7040543f6807f0b9e66d9dd88

[Kaiser]

I drive by Segale parkway every day, never knew any of that.

[Freddy Rumsen]

RIP Dr. Z

https://twitter.com/peter_king/status/1 ... 83554?s=19

I enjoyed reading Dr. Z back in the day.

When I was a kid I would keep track of all of his predictions during the NFL season

[iamjs]

Mario A. Segale, a Seattle-area real estate developer who unwittingly lent his name to perhaps the most famous video game character in history — Nintendo’s Mario — died at a local hospital on Oct. 27. He was 84.

In his book “Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World,” David Sheff wrote that a small company team had gathered in the warehouse one day and was struggling to come up with American names for the characters in the arcade game Donkey Kong. They were stuck on the character of a squat carpenter wearing a red cap when there was a knock on the door.

It was Mr. Segale, who had come to berate Minoru Arakawa, then the president of Nintendo of America, for being past due on the rent.

Mr. Arakawa was already under great pressure to succeed, and Mr. Segale “blasted him” in front of everyone, Mr. Sheff wrote. A flustered Mr. Arakawa vowed that Mr. Segale would get his money soon.

And as soon as he left, Mr. Sheff wrote, the team knew it had its name: “Super Mario!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/obit ... mario.html

[dodint]

Poor guy died twice.

[iamjs]

That's ok.

[shafnutz05]

[blackjack68]

Poor guy died twice.

Still has one more life.

[dodint]

Poor joke died twice.

[blackjack68]

No, you did.

[shafnutz05]

Douglas Rain, most remembered by American audiences as the voice of HAL in 2001, has died at 90.

https://www.mystratfordnow.com/56807/st ... under-dies