Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Pour some out for our dead homies

There has been a lot of deaths in the news this week. First off Merv Griffin, the man who created Jeopardy, the best show ever to grace television, passed away of prostate cancer this Sunday. Personally, that would be the last way I would want to go.
Monday the 13th was also a particularly bad day with the loss of both Yone Minagawa, who was, up until then, the oldest living human (114), and Hall of Fame baseball legend Phil Rizzuto. Some may know this Rizzuto as the shortstop for the Yankees during the 1940's and 1950's and their announcer until the late 1990's. Others know him from Meatloaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" or the reference to Rizzuto in Adam Sandler's "Billy Madison".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

114! HOLY CRAP!