# Celebrity Death Pool 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517 "2016-12-01T07:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/581 "2017-01-19T00:33:34Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Turns out Barbara Bush is in the hospital too. I checked and I think it’s four players who have both of them. For what would be a grand total of 17 points if they both die before June 8. (Only 15 points if they die on or after June 12.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/582 "2017-01-19T00:46:43Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Turns out Barbara Bush is in the hospital too. I checked and I think it’s four players who have both of them. > > [http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/18/politics/george-h-w-bush-hospitalized/](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/18/politics/george-h-w-bush-hospitalized/) 2 bits sez they kick the bucket in the same week. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/583 "2017-01-19T15:58:11Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > 2 bits sez they kick the bucket in the same week. I’ll take that action ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/584 "2017-01-19T18:07:03Z")
Bush seems to be in much worse shape than his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/585 "2017-01-19T22:08:53Z")
[Actor Miguel Ferrer, George Clooney’s cousin and brother-in-law of Debbie Boone, has died at the age of 61.](http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/19/miguel-ferrer-dead-cancer/#) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/586 "2017-01-19T23:01:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Actor Miguel Ferrer, George Clooney’s cousin and brother-in-law of Debbie Boone, has died at the age of 61.](http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/19/miguel-ferrer-dead-cancer/#) Yeah that one is my fault. Sorry ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/587 "2017-01-20T02:29:54Z")
Nobody with **Miguel Ferrer** on their list. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/588 "2017-01-20T02:57:24Z")
Longtime journalist and Trump critic Wayne Barrett[has died at 71.](http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/19/media/wayne-barrett-obituary/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/589 "2017-01-20T03:36:34Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Nobody with **Miguel Ferrer** on their list. I did last year. I just thought he looked very unhealthy. I hadn’t heard anything specific about his health. This year he got crowded off my list by other more likely candidates. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/590 "2017-01-20T12:24:41Z")
You _thought_ they were more likely… ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/591 "2017-01-20T13:42:52Z")
Legendary Miami Herald sports columnist [Edwin Pope](http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/article127608784.html) dies at 88. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/592 "2017-01-20T14:16:25Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > You _thought_ they were more likely… That’s what I get for thinking. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/593 "2017-01-20T16:50:33Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That’s what I get for thinking. Speaking of thinking too much, last year I did some changes to my 2016 list at the last moment. Of the picks I dropped, two died for 105 points, and of the picks I replaced them with, one died for 40 points. So a net of minus 65 on my last-minute decisions. Good thing it’s only a game, huh? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/594 "2017-01-21T17:21:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Actor Miguel Ferrer, George Clooney’s cousin and brother-in-law of Debbie Boone, has died at the age of 61.](http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/19/miguel-ferrer-dead-cancer/#) He really did resemble [his father](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ferrer). ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/595 "2017-01-21T20:02:01Z")
[Lois Dickson Rice](http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/21/portland-native-and-national-education-advocate-lois-dickson-rice-dies/), creator of the Pell Grant program has died at 84. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/596 "2017-01-22T03:31:27Z")
Maggie Roche, of [_The Roches_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roches), taken by cancer at age 61. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/597 "2017-01-22T16:56:15Z")
According to ESPN Sportscenter tweet > [@](#): > > Royals’ P Yordano Ventura has died in car accident in the Dominican Republic. He was 25 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/598 "2017-01-22T17:19:46Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > According to ESPN Sportscenter tweet Just coming in to post this. Here’s a link. > **[Royals RHP Ventura, 25, killed in car crash](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18531119/kansas-city-royals-right-hander-yordano-ventura-25-killed-car-accident)** > > Yordano Ventura, the hard-throwing Royals pitcher who helped bring Kansas City a World Series title in 2015, died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic on Sunday morning. He was 25. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/599 "2017-01-22T17:23:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Maggie Roche, of [_The Roches_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roches), taken by cancer at age 61. I’m sorry-she was 65. Maybe there was something in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/600 "2017-01-22T17:46:39Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Just coming in to post this. Here’s a link. > [Kansas City Royals right-hander Yordano Ventura, 25, killed in car accident - ESPN](http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18531119/kansas-city-royals-right-hander-yordano-ventura-25-killed-car-accident) [Andy Marte](http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2017/01/22/former-top-mlb-prospect-andy-marte-died-car-crash/96921798/?hootPostID=c1350a271d6043c3afaa243320d0fcc2), a former top baseball prospect who played third base in the majors for parts of seven seasons, died Sunday morning in his native Dominican Republic. He was 33. Both these players died in Automobile wrecks in the Dominican Republic. Apparently they were two different car wrecks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=31)