houston wins game 7, score 5-1 over the dodgers, to win their first world series
DemonGeminiX (11-02-2017), KevinD (11-02-2017), RBP (11-02-2017)
Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks
Because the fix is in and Houston already knows they're going to win the World Series?
Part of me is always glad when it's over. Too much of a time suck.
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
Did you see the story of some anonymous gambler who correctly placed bets on the first 6 games of the series? He let each bet ride all the way thru game 6 and walked away with $14 million. He didn't wager on game 7.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...A4W?li=BBnb7Kz
Nice!
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
Someone arrest this time traveler!
Teh One Who Knocks (11-06-2017)
Ex-pitcher Roy Halladay died in a private plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico. He was 40 years old.
Doc
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
RBP (11-08-2017)
Ex-pitcher Roy Halladay died in a private plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico. He was 40 years old.
RIP Doc.
It's not the airplane. My mother's uncle has been flying for over 30 years and he's never had a single issue.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
Ya apparently he was showboating in a plane described as 'a jetski with wings.' You'd think by his age you'd have that out of your system. Such a waste.
DemonGeminiX (11-09-2017)
i was a big fan of this guy back in his toronto days
Boston's Michael Felger: Roy Halladay 'Got What He Deserved'
By Daniel Libon - Fenway Patch
BOSTON, MA — Did former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay deserve to die for the manner in which he was flying his plane? According to one popular sports radio host in Boston, absolutely.
Michael Felger, one of Boston's most prominent - and controversial - sports personalities and the co-host of the 'Felger and Massarotti' afternoon drive program on 98.5 The Sports Hub, went on a nearly 12-minute rant Wednesday where he made it clear that he thought Halladay was a "moron" for the way he died.
Halladay, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, lost his life Tuesday while flying his plane over the Gulf of Mexico. He was 40.
Video obtained by TMZ showed the plane being operated in an erratic manner, dropping from 100 feet to just over the water. Witnesses told TMZ Halladay appeared to be showboating at times.
"This is what makes me mad," Felger said. "I don't know why it makes me mad, but it makes me angry. Someone who is so cavalier about life and doesn't appreciate the tenuousness of life and is willing to screw around with life and death, especially with children and a family ... yet you've got to get your rocks off by whatever it is that you do that cheats death," Felger said. Listen to Felger's full segment at the end of this story
The constant contrarian continued, comparing Halladay to people like 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin, who was killed in 2006 by a stingray, and NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, who died in a crash during the 2001 Daytona 500.
Felger continued in a mocking tone: "You're 40 years old and a multi-millionaire with a loving family and you have to get that thing where you can dive bomb from 100 feet to 5 above the water with your single-engine plane with your hand out the window going 'Weeeee! Weeeee! Yeah man, look at the G-force on this, I'm Maverick. Yeah man, look at this, this is so cool!'' And you die. Splat. And it's over."
Co-host Tony Massarotti and third-chair Jim Murray took a softer tone, but agreed with Felger's larger point that Halladay's death was no tragedy.
"When you see the video of this thing, he was like an aerial acrobat," Massarotti said. "He was flying around, goofing up there, zipping towards the water coming back up. Once you see the video it is sorta hard to look at and think this is a tragedy."
"What bugs me about a story like this is when they use the word tragedy. A tragedy is what happened at that church in Texas or an orphanage burns down. This? You know the risks. If you're a thrillseeker and you die his way, you know the risks. It's unfortunate circumstances, not a tragedy."
Felger said he once got into a small plane with a friend and went helicopter skiing. Both times he asked himself what he was thinking.
"If I die helicopter skiing, you have the right to do the exact same thing I'm doing to Roy Halladay. He got what he deserved," Felger said.
Felger has a well-documented history of touching nerves with his "hot takes." Earlier this year, he criticized Boston Celtics star Al Horford for taking time off during the season to be with his wife while she gave birth to their child.
In 2011, he said on the air that then-New England Sports Network reporter Heidi Watney had an affair with Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek.
While working as a Boston Bruins beat writer for the Boston Herald in 1999, Felger was banned by the NHL from all team locker rooms after he called Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs a "thief" for putting profits over championships. He was taken off the beat and placed on the Patriots beat later that year.
RBP (11-09-2017)
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