Journal damn_registrars's Journal: [MLB] Harmon Killebrew RIP 5
Baseball said goodbye to one of its last great players yesterday. Harmon Killebrew died of esophageal cancer at age 74. His home run stats still stand today - he's number 11 all-time. Of course, if you discredit the players on the all-time list who have used steroids, Killer moves up to number 7.
If you find yourself in the Minneapolis area, you can see one particular tribute to Killer that I have always enjoyed. The Mall of America was of course built on the site of the old Met Stadium - where the Twins played before the Metrodome was built. When the Mall of America was finished, a brass "home plate" plaque was installed in the floor of the mall (in the amusement park) where home plate was located at the old Met Stadium. If you find home plate, and stand at it like you're waiting for a pitch, you can look to where the outfield was and see a chair from the Met Stadium that is anchored to a wall. That chair, in that location, was hit by one of Killebrew's home runs.
And as they say, he did that "on cheeseburgers and milk shakes". Tony Oliva commented that Killebrew was "too nice to be a baseball player". He was also noted for not bragging when he hit home runs, not arguing with umpires, and not cursing at his coaches.
If there was justice in baseball, A-Roid's biceps should have exploded yesterday (instead he hit two dirty home runs) and required amputation to save him from sepsis.
Either way, thank you for the memories Killer. Baseball will miss you.
If you find yourself in the Minneapolis area, you can see one particular tribute to Killer that I have always enjoyed. The Mall of America was of course built on the site of the old Met Stadium - where the Twins played before the Metrodome was built. When the Mall of America was finished, a brass "home plate" plaque was installed in the floor of the mall (in the amusement park) where home plate was located at the old Met Stadium. If you find home plate, and stand at it like you're waiting for a pitch, you can look to where the outfield was and see a chair from the Met Stadium that is anchored to a wall. That chair, in that location, was hit by one of Killebrew's home runs.
And as they say, he did that "on cheeseburgers and milk shakes". Tony Oliva commented that Killebrew was "too nice to be a baseball player". He was also noted for not bragging when he hit home runs, not arguing with umpires, and not cursing at his coaches.
If there was justice in baseball, A-Roid's biceps should have exploded yesterday (instead he hit two dirty home runs) and required amputation to save him from sepsis.
Either way, thank you for the memories Killer. Baseball will miss you.
Monument... (Score:2)
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Cancer, that. (Score:2)
My mother just had both her breasts removed due to cancer... no lymph nodes fortunately but it seems everywhere i look on the web cancer this or that.
Nothing against you it is just on my mind that is all.
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My mother just had both her breasts removed due to cancer
I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope your mother does well in recovery and has a good prognosis down the road.
We recently lost someone very close to us to breast cancer. We barely made it out in time to say goodbye before she passed away; the end stage for her was when it metastasized to her liver and shut it down rather quickly.
FWIW we have been contributing to the Susan G Komen foundation since then. I know there are of course other groups with similar aims as well; I almost wish there were fewer g
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She is doing much better and the outlook is positive. I am not sure why I brought that up randomly outside of the fact it was on my mind.
As for contributions... being that my mother has a much better outlook that pre surgery... I'd say I'm going to let her find the organization, thanks.
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As for another thing, Slashdot has give me more moderator points that is possible to allocate fairly, again...must be that time of month again.