“Wild Bill” Hagy, a baseball fan who became known for cheering on his beloved Baltimore Orioles during the team’s glory years of the late 1970’s and early '80’s, has died at the age of 68. Hagy’s routines included spelling out “O-R-I-O-L-E-S” with dramatic hand gestures, and he was allowed to leave his upper-deck seat and climb onto the Memorial Stadium dugout when he felt the crowd needed special exhorting.
Damn. I remember seeing him lead cheers when I went to Memorial Stadium as a kid. He could get everyone on their feet screaming and yelling for their beloved O’s.
Eddie Griffin, who averaged 7.2 points and 5.8 rebounds per game during an NBA career marred by substance abuse problems and brushes with the law, has died at the age of 25. Griffin was killed on Friday when he crashed his SUV into a moving train in Houston, but his body was so badly burned in the impact that he was not identified as the victim until yesterday.
Have we had any recent pointage updates ( beside He Who Picks Dead Peeples)
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I’d just like to see my name in lights, if you know what I mean.
Do the lights go down to 30th place?
Oh yeah, there’s a thousand points of light.
No word yet as to what DVD he was enjoying during that drive.
Crap! Spanish soccer player Antonio Puerta collapsed on the field and died at age 22.
“crap” because a talented player is gone, or “crap” you didn’t have him and therefore missed out on 78 points? 
I think it’s the same kind of “crap” I say when one of my druggies enters rehab.
‘Your druggies’?? Must I point out to you that druggies belong to everyone?
Yeah, don’t bogart those druggies, and especially don’t bogart their drugs.
I assumed it was suicide by train. The kid was pretty messed up.
ETA- and dammit, Leona was only an alternate! Crap!
And my 2008 short list gets shorter yet again: CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal Dies at 75
ETA: Looks like a 25-point unique pick for Andrew 21.
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I said “crap” as a statement of surprise.
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The Eddie Griffin DVD thing was in reference to a collision he had in the Twin Cities. He was allegedly whacking off to a porn movie while driving drunk.
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And now I hear Richard Jewell has died.
Yep…dead at 44.
(ETA – Nobody had him)
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