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I'm so bummed right now, I don't know what to say.
I have so many memories of KP I can't even start to list them.
Well I am just crushed. Sad that I've been reading MNspeak forever and this is the one thing that finally brings me to post anything. A part of my childhood has just vaporized.
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Folks.
Life will go on. The sun will rise and set.
Is it sad? Sure. He was young, but time heals all wounds.
I'm not trying to be callous.
I remember when Jim Henson died. That was depressing as well, but the world got over it.
So, too, shall this pass.
Thanks for making my baseball team.
Wow, I am really, really saddened by this. Much more than I thought I'd be. It's too bad he had to go this way.
45 is really young.
Apparently Kirby is 45, soon to be 46. The wires/web has been going back-and-forth on this one all day. From the AP moments ago: "Puckett's birthdate was frequently listed as March 14, 1961, but recent research by the Hall of Fame indicated he was born a year earlier. "
So sad. Kirby was the only Twin I ever followed as a kid, he really was a hero to a lot of people and he will be missed.
That BatGirl tribute sums it up perfectly.
I'm just sitting here bawling. My God.
Too many memories of Kirby to even begin listing. I thank him for being one of the major influences in making me pick up a glove and bat.
87 & 91 were truly magical times -
i was just devastated at first, but my heart is at ease knowing that he'll be beating chicks and eating chicken in heaven.
i'll never be able to stuff my face at a old country buffett without thinking of old cyclops.
rip #34.
DON YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE.
lighten up READER.
I loved Kirby Puckett the baseball player, but he wasn't exactly a role model off the field. That doesn't mean I'm not sad about this thought:(
I just cried during fucking Sportscenter. Jesus. I mean, Baseball Jesus. Kirby was our Baseball Jesus. RIP #34.
Kirby was the second-youngest person to die already a member of the Hall of Fame. Only Lou Gehrig (37) was younger. He received baseball's Roberto Clemente award for his community service. I remember my dad used to take me to watch his annual pool tournament which he held to benefit the Children't Heart Link. Players and celebs from around the country would come to help out. Bob Costas, the only guy in the room shorter than Puckett, named his son after Kirby.
I remember another time when I was little. I was in Fort Myers for spring training and I cought a foul ball. Kirby came over after the inning was over to sign it. After he signed the ball, he took off his hat and said, "Rub my head. It's good luck to rub a bald guy's head." I was a fan for life.
Matt was so little he doesn't quite remember when the Twins trained in Orlando and it was after the game and Kirby and Tony O came over to talk to a little kid and his parents who were standing by the fence just inside the third base dugout. Kirby had just shaved his head, as he used to do then just before the team went north. Tony picked up a ball off the field and signed it for Matt, too.
For anyone reading this Monday night, ESPN is running an all-Kirby special right now.
Sorry Rex, I can't bear to watch. All the rest of you, you might notice that almost all of the blogs on MNSpeak's aggregator are talking about Kirby. I'm sick.
Using the aggregator search function, there are over 20 posts talking about kirby.
deleting comments is cool.
kirby didn't really die. he just got busted robbing the jewelery store that used to be the whitecastle on lyndale with jeff reardon thinking he was stealing burgers.
i don't know why anyone should care about this guy. it isn't like he did anything special. he just sold products with his batting skills. he f-ed around on his wife. got super rich. and what? ate too much? i'm so sick of pro-sports celebrities. they can be the worst examples of human beings. but somehow most everyone is excited for what they do. it's sad when people die. but come on. kirby is just another sleazy sports dude.
sleazy.
Here's some video of Kirby after the 1991 World Series. With a little MC Hammer thown in!
I'll tip my hat to acknowledge the off-the-feild problems Kirby had in his life (well, actually that the women in his life had).
But the last few years of Kirby's life shouldn't overshadow the tremdendous contribution that #34 brought not only to Minnesota and to the Twins organization, but to all the young people who idolized Kirby. Most of us either had Kirby posters on our bedroom walls or know several people who did. It's because Kirby played baseball with an enthusiam for the game and a personality that we could appreciate and admire. It's a tragedy that he pulled himself away from the Twins in these last years.
And if it makes you feel better, Kirby's up in heaven, playing golf with ODB now. I'm going to make toasts to the both of them all night tonight.
For the guy who hates sports celebrities, I'd like you to name me another person who brought THE ENTIRE state together like Kirby Puckett did.
Not Paul Wellstone.
Not Hubert Humphrey.
Not Eugene McCarthy.
Not any corporate CEO.
Not any other person.
Sports stars bring us together. Go to any game and look around, you think that many people would all agree on anything else?
On the money, Kevin from Mpls.
Anyone else disgusted that Sid Hartman opened his Puckett remembrance with a stadium pitch?
No, I'm not disgusted about that at all. Do you want to lose fucking baseball Chuck? That's what's going to happen if we don't build eventually. No baseball=no Kirby=no championships. I mean, we are talking about a sports hero right?
Thank you and yes, Sid was a complete bafoon. Notice, the first word of Sid's column: I. The first word of Pat Reusse's column: Kirby.
I lead my blog off with an I today too, Kev. Actually, your post started off with an "I'd" too. This is a very personal thing. I know I didn't have the balls to lead off with a stadium thing, but I'm not going to bullshit you--during all the outpouring of emotion over this man, I thought, "Well, maybe people, and that means legislators too, will realize how much baseball can mean to them again."
i agree! in a weird way kirby gave his life to bring the twins and baseball back into the public eye and the need for a new stadium. it was like every time he was eating a twinky he had minnesota in his heart.
Kirby would want an open air stadium.
no. i think kirby just wanted to slap a chick and eat a big mac.
Haha Amen.
Oops, my comment got added a minute late. Now i sound like a prick. Ohwell.
mmmm..... burgers.
Is don mentally ill?
Hey, I'm as big a stadium supporter as you'll find. I just think, in the wake of a tragedy, the regularly scheduled shilling ought to fall to the third graf, that's all.
Kirby Puckett Memorial Stadium?
what about the jeff rerdon memorial stadium? just cause he didn't have fancy lawyers like the ol' puck doesn't mean we should forget the legend.
From Fargo to Faribault, you touched 'em all, Kirby Puckett! You touched 'em all!
Unless the Pucket family could pay for half of the new stadium, we'll never get anything but another street, or maybe a section of the stadium, named after our greatest Twin ever. Money comes before honor.
The out pouring of emotion for Kirby is symbolic of the value of sports in our society that will never show up on anybody's data sheet of economic returns. It's something unique to sports.
Exactly, Kevin. Call your state rep and tell him or her exactly that. Do you live in the metro?
First the Twins lose Kirby now the Zoo loses Rio. I'm really gonna miss that dolphin :(
What a tough week...
I'm not even gonna weigh in on the deaths of sports figures. It's like one of the few events where American men are allowed to express feeling in public and boy do they go overboard with the sentimentality. ESPN mobile is like Oprah today.
I love the game of baseball and Kirby, while definitely deserving of the Hall of Fame will be missed, I would definitely stop short with all this Minnesota hero business.
Just my $0.02. My condolences to his family and especially his children.
C'mon Chuck, quit being so blue collar.
What's even more sad is that the Kirby we'll miss died 10 years ago.
how about the Metrodome introduces the Kirby Puckett Chilli Dog.
2 hotdogs covered in a pound of chilli and served in a homer hanky
No, hipmn, Don is just an asshole. He's not mentally ill. Jeff Reardon is mentally ill. His son had just died and Jeff was on medication, which he stopped taking for some reason just before he robbed the store and then sat waiting to be caught.
So, Don, who should we start mocking next? Lame asses who are jealous of someone whose death made the front page of the NY Times? All overweight people? All people with mental illness? How about alcoholics? Black people?
How about people who wouldn't dare say something like this out in the open where someone like me might punch you in the nose? Why don't you go to some bar tonight and start talking about Kirby's chicken eating and see if you make it out with any of your teeth. Let us know how it goes, will you?
According to the Aggregator, 38 blogs now talking about Puck. Not one of them is talking about Don, and he's pissed.
Seriously, Chuck. Chill on the populist fronting.
I hate Don.
Finally, Marsh and I agree on something: Don.
No kidding CFKC. It's one thing to be a prick and bring up the battery/assault stuff, but the chicken-eating comment was just a chance for him to be racist. I don't think Don will be cracking these jokes at his local pub...unless of course it's an hour radius outside of the Twin Cities.
I thought Sid's tribute to Kirby was actually pretty touching. In fact, I think the STrib did a great job with today's paper -- all of the columns were first rate.
Bat-girl's got some lovely tributes and good wishes from people all over the country.
mike s is right, this should be a time to remember our Kirby Puckett jerseys and the Wheaties boxes our parents saved and getting an open air stadium. Leave don alone.
I had a friend who was once babysitting some little kids a few years ago and when one of the kids asked her if she knew who Kirby Puckett was, she said Kirby was her Mom's cousin. The little kids listened to eveything she had to say after that.
Kirby was the only sports star that I ever paid attention to growing up. In elementary school my girlfriends and I would spend twins games dividing our time between rooting for kirby with our hankies in hand and engaging in snickering sessions about his bubble butt.
I'm populist because I took a dig at Sid Hartman? Jesus.
Just a joke, Chuck. High and tight. Chin music. Kirby might have even swung at it.
You're a populist because it's the only way you know how to live, Chuck, with the people in your heart and a moustache on your upper lip.
to kevin. thats not how i see it. i think pro-sports just makes everyone crazy. get excited for nothing. sell products. consume crappy food. promote crappy lifestyle. a life with no style. and of course tax payers are expected to pay for a stadium. and how are these guys role models in any way. thats like saying 50 cent or gene simmons are role models. if thats how you want everyone to act then i guess the good guys will always lose. pro-sports just thug and pimp people out. there could be so much cooler stuff going on for people to come together over. but there is almost no alternative. at least thats is the way that many people percieve it. pro-sports are failure of the imagination.
and uh, the people you mentioned. they accomplished more in their lives then kirby did. influenced our lives more. whether you know it or not.
HA-HA i can't belive i'm writing all this. but i think people need to realize some of this stuff.
My state representative she who would be majority leader, Margaret Kelliher. She probably doesn't know how I feel, but trust me: this is as confident as I've ever felt about getting a Twins stadium. I think this is the year and I'm not alone.
(wink)
A reason to go to the caucuses, Kevin?
Meanwhile, in other baseball news, Barry Bonds may as well hang 'em up after this. It wasn't cheeseburgers that made him big.
I can't wait for anti-jock to quote Chomsky on how Americans should pay as much attention to politics as they do to professional sports. It's only a matter of time. Please, educate us.
It wasn't cheeseburgers that made him big.
Hey Marsh -- how much'd you pay for Bonds again?
Politics is professional sports, except a lot more corrupt. The object of both is to win and fleece the public. There are just the occasional exceptions to the rules, like Puck and Paul, that keep us coming back for more. Sick really, hoping to find a flower among the shit. But they are there, sometimes.
There's nothing wrong with winning.
True, Kevin, unless the point of winning is so you can fleece the sheep who voted for you.
I think if you polled most athletes they couldn't care less about fleecing sheep, whatever that means. They just want some validation for what they spend their life doing, which is trying to be a champion at what they do. I would hazard a guess that every player in the Twins' clubhouse would rather win a world series in the metrodome than be a losing team outdoors.
what could be more corruptly involved in politics then pro-sports? and yeah i read that chomski book in college too. makes good sense, but that's not the point i was going after. but you brought up a good one. people are obsessed with politics, and they treat them like sports. but politicians make the rules and profoundly influence our lives.
and kirby was a pretty boring guy really. and somehow sports didn't ultimatly satisfy him. he became another bad example. how many more must we suffer (sorry, too funny-for me-not to say)!
i bet your a pretty smart mike s.
this is truly a significant loss. unlike the bloated, messy death of kirby, gordon parks actually could qualify as a role model. his work was real, timeless, and beautiful.
I was talking about the politicians, Kevin, and the owners-- like Red McCombs. Not the athletes themselves--except maybe Barry Bonds and Pete Rose. For the most part, the athletes are just the field hands...well paid, but just the employees nonetheless. They want to win on the field. But if we've learned anything by watching McCombs and his ilk, we know that their game is something different. He never gave a shit about winning on the field, except insofar as it furthered his financial aims. He walked away with a $400 million profit on the Vikings, even without a new stadium.
Anti-jock, were you the nerd that the big guys shoved in his locker in high school? Kirby was a lot of things, but boring wasn't among them. You, however are a boor.
The Twins have announced a memorial service for Kirby on Sunday night at the Dome.
never into a locker, slim. and not a boor either. just had the balls to be a man and not be "fleeced" by something that's not interesting. like kirby. even though he was on the walls of some of my friends bedrooms. i preferred the woman beating anthems of snoop dogg to ball busting knucklheads. to fake, probably staged, spectacles of uh... consumer... something something... but pete rose was kind of a ganster. that might make him intersting enough for a hollywood film. i wonder what a kirby movie would be like? something... heroic? i bet a movie about red mccombs would be pretty exciting. but i still think "kirby, the winner" would sell more tickets.
i meant "kirby: the champion". he wants to win, help people, new stadium or not. a complete man, with values. and honor.
a uh... role model... for the uh... little ones...
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