Same list, for the fourth year. I am so pleased to have never gotten any points.
Back to the Future
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Thomas F. Wilson
Crispin Glover
Claudia Wells
Elisabeth Shue
Marc McClure
James Tolkan
Charles Fleischer
Mary Steenburgen
Robert Zemeckis
Bob Gale
NFL/FIFA ALL-ALS/CTE Team
Steve Smith August 30, 1964
Kerry Goode July 28, 1965
Steve Gleason March 19, 1977
OJ Brigance September 29, 1969
Tim Shaw March 27, 1984
Tim Green December 16, 1963
Tony Dorsett April 7, 1954
Jim McMahon 21-Aug-59
Wayne Clark May 30, 1971
Leonard Marshall October 22, 1961
Juan Carlos Unzue April 22, 1967
Fernando Ricksen July 27, 1976
Hakan Sukur September 1, 1971
Steve Smith
Kerry Goode
Steve Gleason
OJ Brigance
Tim Shaw
Tim Green
Tony Dorsett
Jim McMahon
Wayne Clark
Leonard Marshall
Juan Carlos Unzue
Fernando Ricksen
Hakan Sukur
Switching from wrestling to what I hope will be a more fertile ground:
Theme:
The “I will read their obituaries with great pleasure” the hall of the infamous.
Dick Cheney
Rush Limbaugh
Harvey Weinstein
Bernie Madoff
Kathy Shaidle
Henry Kissinger
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Alexander Lukashenko
Donald Trump
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Rupert Murdoch
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor
My list is pretty similar to last year. Here goes:
The Canadians:
Jim Carr
Gino Odjick
Stu Schwartz
Anton Kuerti
Paul Henderson
Tommy Chong
Michael J Fox
Neil Crone
Mary Barry
Abdullah the Butcher
Joni Mitchell
Rick Chiarelli
Diane Deans
Alternates:
Alexa McDonough
Brian Mulroney
the perils of DP procrastination!
34 Players, 397 “Celebs”, below are all those with 2+ picks (the themed pool usually has mostly Unique Picks)
| Celeb | Picks |
|---|---|
| Donald Trump | 4 |
| Rudy Giuliani | 4 |
| Steve Gleason | 4 |
| Carol Burnett | 3 |
| Mike Pence | 3 |
| Mitch McConnell | 3 |
| OJ Brigance | 3 |
| Raquel Welch | 3 |
| Rush Limbaugh | 3 |
| Tim Green | 3 |
| Alan Arkin | 2 |
| Brett Kavanaugh | 2 |
| Candice Bergen | 2 |
| Christopher Lloyd | 2 |
| Cloris Leachman | 2 |
| George Takei | 2 |
| Janet Jackson | 2 |
| Jim McMahon | 2 |
| Jon Voight | 2 |
| Leonard Marshall | 2 |
| Michael J Fox | 2 |
| Michael Schumacher | 2 |
| Mike Pompeo | 2 |
| Patrick Stewart | 2 |
| Ringo Starr | 2 |
| Robert Duvall | 2 |
| Rupert Murdoch | 2 |
| Shirley Jones | 2 |
| Stephen Miller | 2 |
| William Barr | 2 |
| William Shatner | 2 |
Players and Themes:
| Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amarinth | 0 | 0 | Sitcom Moms |
| 1 | Baker | 0 | 0 | New Year’s Eve babies |
| 1 | Bayaker | 0 | 0 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show Universe |
| 1 | Biotop | 0 | 0 | Dark Shadows |
| 1 | Borborygmi | 0 | 0 | Lawyers |
| 1 | candide | 0 | 0 | A List About Nothing. |
| 1 | Catamount | 0 | 0 | Doctor Who vs. The Master! |
| 1 | Cazzle | 0 | 0 | surviving cast of the 1994 movie Clean Slate. |
| 1 | commasense | 0 | 0 | Destroyers of Democracy IV |
| 1 | Dancer_Flight | 0 | 0 | Star Trek III - The Search for Points |
| 1 | Dr.Girlfriend | 0 | 0 | The 10th annual All-Star Sports Edition |
| 1 | GIGObuster | 0 | 0 | “I will read their obituaries with great pleasure” |
| 1 | GuanoLad | 0 | 0 | Double Initial Alphabet |
| 1 | Happy_Lendervedder | 0 | 0 | Lou Gehrig List |
| 1 | Hoopy_Frood | 0 | 0 | Former NFL players diagnosed with CTE |
| 1 | J-P_L | 0 | 0 | Former Race Car Drivers |
| 1 | kayT | 0 | 0 | Women Writers (mostly mysteries) |
| 1 | Kitten_Mitten | 0 | 0 | peeps born in 1940. |
| 1 | Little_Nemo | 0 | 0 | The Cast of Catch-22 |
| 1 | Mahaloth | 0 | 0 | MASH movie and show living cast. |
| 1 | Old_Wench | 0 | 0 | Carol Burnett and Friends |
| 1 | Pardel-Lux | 0 | 0 | German players in the 1966 and 1972 FIFA World Cups |
| 1 | phungi | 0 | 0 | NFL/FIFA ALL-ALS/CTE Team |
| 1 | Queen_Anne_s_Lace | 0 | 0 | Shawshank Redemption: “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.” |
| 1 | Railer13 | 0 | 0 | 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals World Series Rosters |
| 1 | Registered_at_Last | 0 | 0 | The Canadians |
| 1 | RobotDevilDog | 0 | 0 | Back to the Future |
| 1 | RTFirefly | 0 | 0 | 1969 Washington Senators (“a whole new ballgame in 1969”) |
| 1 | Shoeless | 0 | 0 | Original Twilight Zone series |
| 1 | smithsb | 0 | 0 | Republican Cultists |
| 1 | SpoilerVirgin | 0 | 0 | What’s My Line? (Celebrities who appeared as the Mystery Guest on the original version of What’s My Line?) |
Merseybeat legend and leader of Gerry and the Pacemakers Gerry Marsden dead at 78 after a short illness.
(No, I didn’t have him on my Beatles-themed list, damn it)
Tommy Lasorda dead at 7 points… Kick-off goes to Dr.Girlfriend
| Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | Theme | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr.Girlfriend | 7 | 1(1) | The 10th annual All-Star Sports Edition |
Yeah I had Tommy. Last year. I guess if I’d kept him on this year he’d still be alive…sorry, Tommy. You were the best.
Wow… two years in a row with the Opening Kickoff. Starting to scare myself.
Rest in Peace, Tommy. You were awesome.
Actress Diana Millay has died at 85. She played villainous Laura Collins on Dark Shadows.
15 points this way.
Someone killed off my list (Theme: Evil and its Minions) … 
We have a new leader, and apologies to Wallet and Woolfpackjeep:
| Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | Theme | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biotop | 15 | 1(1) | Dark Shadows | |
| 2 | Dr.Girlfriend | 7 | 1(1) | The 10th annual All-Star Sports Edition | |
| 3 | amarinth | 0 | 0 | Sitcom Moms | |
| 3 | Baker | 0 | 0 | New Year’s Eve babies | |
| 3 | Bayaker | 0 | 0 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show Universe | |
| 3 | Borborygmi | 0 | 0 | Lawyers | |
| 3 | candide | 0 | 0 | A List About Nothing. | |
| 3 | Catamount | 0 | 0 | Doctor Who vs. The Master! | |
| 3 | Cazzle | 0 | 0 | surviving cast of the 1994 movie Clean Slate. | |
| 3 | commasense | 0 | 0 | Destroyers of Democracy IV | |
| 3 | Dancer_Flight | 0 | 0 | Star Trek III - The Search for Points | |
| 3 | GIGObuster | 0 | 0 | “I will read their obituaries with great pleasure” | |
| 3 | GuanoLad | 0 | 0 | Double Initial Alphabet | |
| 3 | Happy_Lendervedder | 0 | 0 | Lou Gehrig List | |
| 3 | Hoopy_Frood | 0 | 0 | Former NFL players diagnosed with CTE: | |
| 3 | J-P_L | 0 | 0 | Former Race Car Drivers | |
| 3 | kayT | 0 | 0 | Women Writers (mostly mysteries) | |
| 3 | Kitten_Mitten | 0 | 0 | peeps born in 1940. | |
| 3 | Little_Nemo | 0 | 0 | The Cast of Catch-22 | |
| 3 | Mahaloth | 0 | 0 | MASH movie and show living cast. | |
| 3 | Old_Wench | 0 | 0 | Carol Burnett and Friends | |
| 3 | Pardel-Lux | 0 | 0 | German players in the 1966 and 1972 FIFA World Cups | |
| 3 | phungi | 0 | 0 | NFL/FIFA ALL-ALS/CTE Team | |
| 3 | Queen_Anne_s_Lace | 0 | 0 | Shawshank Redemption: “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.” | |
| 3 | Railer13 | 0 | 0 | 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals World Series Rosters | |
| 3 | Registered_at_Last | 0 | 0 | The Canadians: | |
| 3 | RobotDevilDog | 0 | 0 | Back to the Future | |
| 3 | RTFirefly | 0 | 0 | 1969 Washington Senators (“a whole new ballgame in 1969”) | |
| 3 | Shoeless | 0 | 0 | Original Twilight Zone series | |
| 3 | smithsb | 0 | 0 | Republican Cultists | |
| 3 | SpoilerVirgin | 0 | 0 | What’s My Line? (Celebrities who appeared as the Mystery Guest on the original version of What’s My Line?) | |
| 3 | Stephe96 | 0 | 0 | Beatles | |
| 3 | Wallet | 0 | 0 | Evil and its Minions (IMHO) | |
| 3 | WolfpackJeep | 0 | 0 | nutters, grifters, and scoundrels who cloak themselves with religion: |
I imagine there are several people who are now regretting not picking Sheldon Adelson.
Missing the points - yes. Regrets - no.
With only thirteen choices plus three alternates - I had a plethora of named darts to throw.
“Wall of Silence”
Music producer, convicted murderer Phil Spector dead at 81.
Another pick that could’ve worked in my Beatles-themed list, damn it!
That was one advantage of my theme. It was a small enough group that I didn’t have to do a lot of deciding over who I would include and who I would leave out.