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[russsnyder]

RIP President Carter.

He was truly a good human being.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Arguably the greatest post-presidency ever.

[glenn__davis]

Arguably the greatest post-presidency ever.

 

Yeah.  Probably in a bit over his head as president but agree with the statement above.  Great ambassador for the US post-presidency.

[mweb08]

Arguably the greatest post-presidency ever.

 

Yeah, he has to be up there.

 

Also, not nearly as bad of a president as some make him out to be.

 

He came in 22nd on the most recent presidential greatness project, and 24th in the Sienna College historian survey.

 

So middle of the pack.

 

Anyway, RIP to a good man. 

[DuffMan]

Arguably the greatest post-presidency ever.

Maybe JQA ahead of him there?

[glenn__davis]

Peter Yarrow, of "Peter, Paul and Mary" fame, at 86.

[Dupin]

RIP President Carter.

He was truly a good human being.

This is also a good time to point out he was a better president than he's remembered as being.  Much of what Reagan gets credit for, Carter actually did.

 

https://www.noahpini...rd-about-carter

[BSLChrisStoner]

Bob Uecker

https://www.mlb.com/...bob-uecker-dies

[Mackus]

RIP, a legend of the game.

[mdrunning]

Mr. Baseball! I loved Uecker in the Miller Lite commercials.

 

Unlike other athletes who lived off of their names after retirement because they were among the best at what they did (DiMaggio immediately comes to mind), Uecker--he of the .200 liftime batting average--made a post-baseball career off of his rather modest playing achievements. 

[Nigel Tufnel]

David Lynch

[NewMarketSean]

David Lynch

 

I've never seen any of his films.

[CantonJester]

I've never seen any of his films.

 

Did you watch Twin Peaks? If not, you should if only to fully understand half the jokes Larry David was writing about for Seinfeld’s Susan Ross character. 

[mdrunning]

Former NBA All-Star Gus Williams, 71. He and Dennis Johnson formed one of the NBA's best backcourts for Seattle during the late 1970s. 

[russsnyder]

I've never seen any of his films.

I didn't think I did either.

I checked out Wikipedia to be sure.

However, I did see The Elephant Man which was outstanding. I saw Mulholland Drive which was a bore to me. I never watched Twin Peaks.

[russsnyder]

Former NBA All-Star Gus Williams, 71. He and Dennis Johnson formed one of the NBA's best backcourts for Seattle during the late 1970s.

Those Supersonics teams were pretty exciting.

RIP Gus

[Nigel Tufnel]

Garth Hudson, keyboardist and last surviving member of The Band.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent, 86. He's probably the last commissioner you'll ever see who isn't just an empty suit, and was actually willing to stand up to the owners for what he believed was in the game's best interests.

 

And he paid the price for it. After being sued by the Cubs over a realignment idea he wanted to do (they and the Cardinals would move to the NL West, while Cincinnati and Atlanta would replace them in the East) the owners gave him a vote of no confidence and he ultimately resigned rather than go to court.

[mdrunning]

Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent, 86. He's probably the last commissioner you'll ever see who isn't just an empty suit, and was actually willing to stand up to the owners for what he believed was in the game's best interests.

 

And he paid the price for it. After being sued by the Cubs over a realignment idea he wanted to do (they and the Cardinals would move to the NL West, while Cincinnati and Atlanta would replace them in the East) the owners gave him a vote of no confidence and he ultimately resigned rather than go to court.

Vincent was warned by National League president Bill White that realignment could not be implented by unilateral decree; it was a violation of the National League's constitution. He also didn't endear himself to ownership with his handling of expansion, revenue sharing and the 1990 lockout.

 

Vincent had a bad habit of trying to inject himself into every issue and conflict, a pattern that went back to his days as CEO of Columbia Pictures. According to one executive with the company back then, Vincent became very heavy-handed in his running of Columbia, stepping in on matters that were beyond his expertise. He was very concerned, for example, with the price for producing pictures, which are difficult decisions to make even to the most informed, and he'd make decisions not based on facts.

 

(Just for the record, Vincent's early days at Columbia produced such hits as Tootsie and Kramer vs. Kramer, but toward the end of his tenure, Columbia churned out Ishtar, one of the all-time cinematic bombs.)

[Mike B]

RIP to Oriole second baseman Richie Dauer.

Second Baseman on the last Oriole World Championship team.

RIP Wacko!