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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 7 2006, 10:00 AM (408 Views) | |
| JoshFormerRoomie | Mar 7 2006, 10:00 AM Post #1 |
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Taken from something I wrote early this morning on Tom Elko's blog: The unbearable lightness of being. Who'd of ever thought that Carl Pohlad would outlive his team's greatest player? Being a transplant from the state across the river, I remember having a begrudging respect for Puckett as he routinely kicked the hell out of my Brewers. The respect was based on the fact that he loved playing the game and stayed with one team for his entire career, even when he could go elsewhere for more loot. I like that in pro players. Steve Yzerman, Robin Yount, Kirby Puckett, Walter Payton, Cal Ripken Jr. These aren't athletes, these are men of integrity and something above and beyond stats. I understand how the state of Minnesota and fans of baseball and the Twins feel. In 1999, another number #34 was taken much too soon from his fans. Walter Payton passed away from a liver ailment and I morned much like many of you might be at this moment. Enjoy the happiness that this man brought to you by simply doing his job, he deserves nothing less. ************************************** Long may you run Kirby, long may you run....... |
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." -John Kenneth Galbraith | |
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| Wallace | Mar 7 2006, 11:28 AM Post #2 |
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One of the greatest icons of baseball in the 20th century. As my wife put it, he is the anti-Damon. He stayed when he could have had any $$$$$$ anywhere else, a testament to his dedication to Minnesota and the fans. Although short he lived a truly blessed life and I'm thankful that I could have been a part of it or at least witness to it. From a banner I saw this morning on my way in. There IS crying in baseball. |
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Mar 8 2006, 12:12 PM Post #3 |
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There is free public memorial this Sunday at the Dome that starts at 7PM. Go forth and grieve. |
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Mar 9 2006, 10:28 AM Post #4 |
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It begs without saying...................... Grab it and go........ |
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| Nimrod | Mar 14 2006, 11:03 AM Post #5 |
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It is kinda funny how he is always called a 'Fire Plug'...... :ph43r: |
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| JoshFormerRoomie | Mar 15 2006, 09:30 AM Post #6 |
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Didja see him in the batters box? He was a pudge. And a great player. |
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| Spud | Mar 15 2006, 10:15 AM Post #7 |
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He had thighs like friggin' tree trunks!!!! |
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“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” Frederic Bastiat | |
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| Natalie | Mar 15 2006, 05:43 PM Post #8 |
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Just trying to keep things real.... ___________________________________________ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/.../11/si_puckett/ ATLANTA (SI.com) -- Baseball fans across the country were shocked last year when Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, one of the game’s most beloved figures, was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a suburban Minneapolis restaurant. But that incident was merely the latest in a pattern of alleged sexual indiscretions and violent acts by the former Minnesota Twins icon, according to the cover story by Frank Deford, with special reporting by George Dohrmann, in this week’s Sports Illustrated. Puckett has pleaded innocent in the restaurant incident, and is scheduled to go on trial March 24 for false imprisonment and criminal sexual assault. Laura Nygren, whom SI describes as Puckett's "mistress of many years," told the magazine that Puckett resumed an affair with her just seven weeks after he was married in 1986 -- then cheated on Nygren with numerous other women. After the onset of glaucoma in his right eye forced him to retire in 1996, Puckett began committing lewd acts in public, such as urinating in mall parking lots, Nygren told SI. Her relationship with the ex-ballplayer ended last March after he allegedly threatened her and she obtained a temporary order of protection. Shortly before Puckett was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 2001, a female employee of the Twins threatened to file a sexual harassment suit against the team because of Puckett’s and other men’s behavior. The Twins allegedly made a financial settlement with her, according to SI. The Twins declined to comment to the magazine about this allegation. Puckett’s ex-wife, Tonya, divorced him in December, barely a year after she told police that he threatened to kill her during a telephone conversation. Over the years, she told SI, Puckett had also tried to strangle her with an electrical cord, locked her in the basement and used a power saw to cut through a door after she had locked herself in a room. Once, she said, he even put a cocked gun to her head while she was holding their young daughter. Puckett’s upcoming trial stems from charges that he pulled a woman into the men’s room of a restaurant in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Sept. 5, 2002, and fondled her. The woman told police that Puckett released her only when her girlfriend opened the door to the men’s room and screamed. Puckett, who retired with a .318 career average, 207 home runs, 1,085 RBIs and 134 stolen bases in 12 seasons, helped Minnesota win the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the 5-foot-8, 230-pound center fielder was revered in the Twin Cities -- and throughout baseball -- as much for his “good guy” nature as for his play. He and his ex-wife were involved in numerous community projects and during his career he won the Branch Rickey and the Roberto Clemente Man of the Year awards for community service. He’s also a member of the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame. But that image also was a sham, according to Nygren. One day after he had retired, she told SI, they were together when Puckett said he had to leave to visit a sick child who was waiting to meet him. “That’s great, you get to make that kid’s day,” Nygren told him. “That must make you feel good.” But she said Puckett just snapped back at her. “I don’t give a s---,” he said. “It’s just another kid who’s sick.” Puckett declined to be interviewed for the SI story. |
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| Spud | Mar 15 2006, 05:46 PM Post #9 |
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Kirby was acquitted though |
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