03-06-2006, 06:31 PM
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Backup Artist
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 181
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R.I.P. Kirby Puckett
Baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, who helped lead the Minnesota Twins to World Series titles in 1987 and 1991, died Monday after suffering a stroke over the weekend, the team announced. He was 45.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/06/obit.puckett/
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03-06-2006, 06:43 PM
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That howlin' sumbitch
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 2,002
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I was just on my way in here to post the same thing. Damn, what a shame - only 45 years old. I always respected Kirby a ton as a a player.
R.I.P. Kirby ... 
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03-06-2006, 06:44 PM
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Whats that smell?
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 580
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Ive been a Minnesotan all my life and been a baseball fan for most of them. Kirby will be sorely missed here in Minnesota. He was a class act!!
R.I.P. Kirby. We will all miss you.
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03-06-2006, 07:33 PM
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"Gas Station Attendant"
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 4,767
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R.I.P Kirby  |
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03-07-2006, 02:07 AM
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Original G
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: on the dance floor
Posts: 11,002
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Rest in Peace Kirby...
Great player....
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03-07-2006, 05:11 AM
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It's the real thing!
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Toronto
Posts: 2,027
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God Bless Kirby.
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03-07-2006, 06:24 AM
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Da Blooze Guy
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 6,017
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Just heard this on the radio on the way to taking my daughter to school, a damn shame......................RIP
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03-07-2006, 07:01 AM
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40 ain't bad
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 111
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Wow. I sort of overheard something about his health the other day. What a damn shame. He was a great player and a class act.
He hit the hardest hit ball I've ever seen in person. A line shot that hit the upper deck facade at old Cleveland Municipal Stadium. For those of you that don't know about it, that stadium was cavernous. It held 72,000 for baseball. We were right under where it hit, and that ball just rocketed into that facade. If it wasn't there, I'd love to know how far that ball would have gone.
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03-07-2006, 09:47 AM
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Resident Jackass
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,939
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45 is too young for anyone to go..
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03-08-2006, 06:24 AM
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PinkyAppleBuns
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Detroit, MI
Posts: 6,007
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R.I.P. Kirby Puckett
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The Whatchamacallit is a superior candy bar :rock:
Shipwreck the sun, I'm on your side
An army of one, onward we'll ride
And whisper your songs, birds to the air
We'll bury all of our burdens there--Audioslave "Heaven's Dead"
That shit right here is soo good, it will make you go home and slap yo momma--Mandy Love on some southern cooking
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03-08-2006, 07:01 PM
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Digital Man
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lockport, IL
Posts: 3,319
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I'm late, I know. As a baseball die-hard and since age five (Have about 10,000 baseball cards and over 200 books I've read on the sport. Its obvious, I'm a die-hard fan. Thanks to my grandpa, may he also R.I.P.!) I feel ashamed I didn't reply sooner. A great player, as we all know, and a member of two great World Series teams (and the reason I say this is because I LOVE the Twins).
So Kirby, may you rest in peace. Tell grandpa I said hi! He'll believe its me, as he knows I thought you were a phenominal player.
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03-10-2006, 06:55 PM
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Rebel XTi
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 5,806
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RIP Kirbster
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04-13-2006, 10:35 AM
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Famous Artist
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Dark Side of Maine USA
Posts: 471
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Kirby Puckett was a tremendous talent and an incredible baseball player. He added an electricity to the game that is exceptionally rare. He was an even better human being and a true class act. I was lucky to see him in two games when I was younger. He played the game because it was a game and not a business.
"Only the good die young"
-- Billy Joel
R.I.P. Mr. Puckett
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