The Drudge Report has a line saying Billy Preston** has died, but doesn’t yet have an active link to the story.
CNN says so too. Preston was on my long list of candidates for this year, but he didn’t make the cut to the short list for some reason.
It doesn’t look like he was on anybody’s short-list.
Nobody picked Perry Bass, Steve Mizerak, Billy Preston, Vince Welnick, or Arthur Widmer.
Eric Gregg, who umpired for 23 years in baseball’s National League, has died at the age of 55.
From Billy Preston’s Cnn announcement:
A medical insult? Is this a typo? I’ve never heard of this before.
Also, it has got to suck to live in a hospital for a couple of years.
“Medically speaking, Mr. Preston, you are a waste of oxygen.”
Seriously, I’ve heard “insult” used to describe damage to an organ caused by interrupted blood flow (e.g. heart attack) but not since I was an intern, way back.
According to the radio this morning, Abu Moosab Al-Zarqawi got an air-to-ground missile up his ass yesterday.
That’s the least guilt I’ve ever felt for a score to date. I hope he rots in Hell.
Man, you Dopers sure are fast in the Dead Terrorist News.
And I didn’t even have this guy on my list this year. But next year…maybe…
Still, that is good news for our side.
It’ll be nice to cross somebody off my list I can finally feel good about.
But color me skeptical. Every time they think they got somebody with a missile they turn out to have hit a six year old on a bike.
It sounds like they’re damn sure. According to the news this morning, they’ve got fingerprints and everything.
I’ve finally got some points in this game!
Owowowowowowowowowowow! That is a painful description! :eek:
He may have 72 virgins, but I have 61 points!
This is hands down my favorite Death Pool line ever.
Sorry, Shirley. Next year it will be too late to list Al-Zarqawi.
May I politely ask for a rehash of the standings to date? With Lou Rawls, Dana Reeve, and Zarqawi, theoretically, I have 145 points…
The impatient part of me says tonight, but I’d settle for sometime in the next week or so.
I know my score - a big honkin’ goose egg!
Moe Drabowsky, who pitched for eight different teams during his seventeen-year career in major-league baseball, has died at the age of 70. Drabowsky won 88 games and saved 55 others in the majors, but developed his greatest reputation for such stunts as calling the opposing club’s bullpen in the fifth inning and ordering a relief pitcher to warm up despite the fact that the starter was having little trouble against Drabowsky’s teammates.