RIP Ron Popeil.
“Hey, good-lookin’, we’ll be back to pick ya up later!”
Those commercials were everywhere in the 70s and 80s.
JR Richard 71. Flame throwing pitcher of the 70s. Career cut short by stroke and a sad post baseball career including stretches of homelessness. RIP
sad story all around - particularly the team feeling he was malingering when complaining of not feeling well - Great Talent
I remember him well. A little like Mark Fiddrych, JR Richard was a dominant pitcher that had a small number of great years and then disappeared
Fidrych was a rookie sensation, blew out his arm in the 2nd season and was done at 25. Not just being a great young talent, was a fun nut job, patting the mound and talking to the ball.- very tragic death
JR spent five years trying to get the chance, was one of the best in MLB for the next 5 - then had a stroke. A tremendous amount of racism accusations, in both holding him back and especially in not diagnosing his health issues
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and Charles Robinson passed only a few weeks ago
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Gotta agree with Patience don’t see the two as comparable. Richard twice lead the league in strikeouts and I believe 3 times lead the league in walks. In 1980 everything seemed to be falling in place for Richard as one of the games best pitchers.
He complained of numbness and fatigue and even had a blood clot diagnosis that was deemed not serious enough to operate on by doctors. There were questions about his toughness and whether he was faking a injury because he was upset by Nolan Ryan’s contract.
Shortly after he collapsed with the stroke and the rest as they say is history.
He should be a cautionary tale for every athlete who is called soft and should just suck it up an tough it out.
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Nanci Griffith - such a beautiful voice. 68 seems young. RIP
It is young.
https://stump.marypat.org/article/676/mortality-monday-how-young-is-so-young-to-die
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Tbl_7_1950.html
Age 68 for cohort 1950 for females is 19th percentile for age at death.
Stones drummer Charlie Watts 
Don Everly (2/2 of the Everly brothers) died yesterday. Rest in Peace
Ed Asner. Great part of the MTM ensemble cast, but I also loved The Lou Grant Show, a drama spinoff of a sitcom, that worked so well.
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Loved both those shows. He was great as Carl in Up. RIP
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And he was perfectly cast as Santa in “Elf”.
RIP.
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Most recently as a dirty Goldman on Mom
He also recently played Johnny’s step dad on the Karate Kid spinoff show Kobra Kai.
His IMDb is crazy. He has like 18 things that are either yet to come out or currently in production. Working hard all the way up through the end.
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wow and 417 credits is crazy