2023 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

Okay, Gatopescado thinks they may hold the record. For how many years have you played?

Then, can anybody top them?

I started playing in 2009. It looks like I’ve only gone scoreless in 2010 and 2019. Interestingly, according to my records, in 2010, both my alternates bought the farm, but none on my main list did.

I haven’t scored since 2021, with two picks, one of which was Rush Limbaugh.

2022 and 2023 are all politicians who must have a deal with the devil or something. They’re all old for Pete’s sake! One of them HAS TO kick the bucket this year.

My mother died in May from cancer. I am thankful that at 89 she is as a sharp as she was at 59. There were bad times in the three years she was fighting not but during those years she was able to enjoy her books, her mystery shows and her family.

I remember listening to Dick Biondi on WLS, 890 on your AM radio. We could only get it at night, when (supposedly) they somehow boosted their signal.

AM signals are stronger at night, and there were regional “superstations” (WPTF in Raleigh and WSM in Nashville are the two I know), which would boost their signals at night. My father said he could listen to The Grand Ol’ Opry in Winston-Salem growing up.

Does anyone know what happened to DeNiro’s grandson? Tragic beyond all imagining.

I don’t know if it’s accurate, but there was a blurb in that article which has Robert De Niro saying something like, “I hope the person how sold him the fentanyl knows what he took from us,” or along those lines.

Exact quote: “To the person who sold Leo, the fentanyl laced drugs that took him away from us I hope every day you will think of me and my family you killed us all.”

Frank Field leaves nothing on the board.

Vince Tobin, former head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, calls his final time-out at age 79.

My Themed list is former NFL head coaches. Unfortunately for me, Tobin was too young for my list.

Mexican Radio, I Heard It On The X

Doesn’t sound like it failed to me.

Nikki McCray-Peterson, who led the USA to the first of its seven consecutive Olympic gold medals in women’s basketball (in 1996), played in the WNBA, was a former head women’s basketball coach at Old Dominion, and was, at the time of her death, the assistant basketball coach at Rutgers University, has died at 51.

(Yes, I like run-on sentences)