Michael Jackson has died.
http://www.tmz.com/
We've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived.
LaToya ran in the hospital sobbing, after Jackson was pronounced dead.
Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.
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They come in 3s
Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
Wow, I forgot about McMahon
I was just thinking about that old saying and was wondering about it.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
well don't forget that fly that Obama swatted a few days ago....
PETA had it on life support the last few days, sadly they took him off this morning and he passed away…yeh sooo 4
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
Unbelieveable
MJ and Farrah on the same day.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
Say what you want about him but
he was a musical genius. So many great songs. Really Sad.
Does Zach Phillips have to choke a bitch to get to Frisco?
by sprite on Jun 25, 2009 5:04 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
He was
probably the coolest guy in the world in the ’80s with the music and the moonwalking. Its amazing how quickly his reputation went down the drain.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
Potentially the best pedophile song writer
I thought it be all warm and shitty, but it just tasted like normal beer. It was still cold.
aquited
you sir are libelous/sladerous
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was on the same pitching staff with Danny Darwin during the 1986 through 1988 seasons. Both were described by Milo Hamilton as "tall, tough Texans." It was a source of debate amongst Astros players and fans over who would win in a fight, Ryan or Darwin. Though Astros pitcher Bob Knepper attempted to set up a fight between the two during spring training in 1988, manager Hal Lanier stopped it before it could commence. Many experts, including Astros shortstop Rafael Ramirez, felt that Darwin would win because he "looked like someone no man would want to mess with."
is OJ innocent too?
I thought it be all warm and shitty, but it just tasted like normal beer. It was still cold.
Fuck NO!!!!!!!!!!!
A Las Vegas jury said so.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
innocent??
or not guilty. different things. are you talking about his kidnapping or his murder charges?
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was on the same pitching staff with Danny Darwin during the 1986 through 1988 seasons. Both were described by Milo Hamilton as "tall, tough Texans." It was a source of debate amongst Astros players and fans over who would win in a fight, Ryan or Darwin. Though Astros pitcher Bob Knepper attempted to set up a fight between the two during spring training in 1988, manager Hal Lanier stopped it before it could commence. Many experts, including Astros shortstop Rafael Ramirez, felt that Darwin would win because he "looked like someone no man would want to mess with."
talking about cutting people's heads off
I thought it be all warm and shitty, but it just tasted like normal beer. It was still cold.
with a knife
there aren’t too many people with the strength to do that.
"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)
Does it matter.
HE was convicted on the kidnapping/weapons charges in Nevada. It is widely believed that he killed Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, but his trial came on the hills of the ’93 Rodney King LA Police Brutality roits, and the jurors were afraid of another riot. Especially after the tape of Mark Furman openly using the “N” word in regards to Simpson.
Aquitted DOES NOT equate to innocent.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
I don't think the jury was afraid
I think they prosecution and the PD fucked up the case, and Simpson’s lawyers were good enough to get him off. For all I know he did it, but they didn’t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, at least to the jury.
by Black Francis on Jun 25, 2009 6:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, it was never really proven either way
It has to be beyond a shadow of a doubt for a criminal conviction. It only has to be a “preponderance of evidence” in civil court, as we saw with his losing the wrongful death suit.
Really
It has to be beyond a shadow of a doubt for a criminal conviction.
I always thought, and was taught in the police academy, that a criminal only requires that the jurors believe that they vote to convict only if the prosecution has proven “beyond reasonable doubt” that the accused committed the crime for which they are charged. Adam may correct me, but “beyond reasonable doubt” means only means beyond the doubt of a reasonable person.
I don’t think the jury was afraid
I think they prosecution and the PD fucked up the case, and Simpson’s lawyers were good enough to get him off.
IIRC, the jurors that agreed to be interviewed after the trial hinted that the South Central riots were heavily on their minds as they argued whether to convict.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
concur...
Mark Fehrman, Simpsons attorneys and the make up of the jury led to the dismissal of the mountain of evidence.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
I don't disagree with BF that the prosecution F'd up...
I was forced to watch most of the trial, and the prosecution bored people to death with entirely too much DNA, scientific, and forensic evidence. Add to that, the murder weapon was never found.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
Don't squeeze the juice!
The jurors did not hint at the riots were on their minds as they deliberated. May have been asked by a reporter, but unless they revised comments years later, that was not the case.
However, one of the most influential jury instructions given to this jury was something along the lines of “when presented with two conflicting arguments, but both seem equally plausible, you must go with the argument that supports innocence”. That is a very rough paraphrasing of the instruction, but you get the idea.
Nevertheless, the perception floated out there is that “a black jury ignored the evidence and let a killer go free based on race to send a message and/or to right some injustice delivered to black people in the past”. This is the biggest pile of dog poopie I have ever heard, but I hear it all the time.
One example is that there was an elderly white woman on the Simpson jury who once served on another jury. When that jury went into deliberations, they took the initial vote on guilt/innocence and it was 11 not guilty and 1 guilty. Well, that woman was the guilty vote, and from that point during deliberations, she made her case and swayed all of the other jurors to vote guilty. She fought for what she believed and convinced the other 11 to change their votes to guilty. Yes, this woman was on the Simpson jury and also voted not guilty.
Not to rehash the entire case, but anybody who truly watched that entire trial would have had to vote not guilty. The prosecutors may have messed up, and the defense attorneys may have played their best game, but the reasons he was acquitted were numerous, and race certainly wasn’t it. If Fuhrman would have admitted to using the N-word when asked, believe it or not, they would have still voted not guilty. The prosecutions case did not make sense, would change, and that was not entirely their fault. Some actions by the investigators and criminalists just made it too hard to believe that you could convict Simpson based on what they provided. The reasons he was acquitted:
- The timeline NEVER made sense. (Too many details to go into)
- Simpson’s blood on back gate was not collected until at least 3 weeks after the murders (after crime scene had been washed down) At time of collection, picture was taken of blood stain on gate. Defense showed a police photograph of the same spot on the gate on the day of the murders, and there was no blood stain there. Criminalist admitted he couldn’t find it on the photo and it was clear to anybody that it was not there.
- The blood on the socks in Simpson’s bedroom. These dark socks were collected on the day of the murders. They were inspected 3 separate times by the criminalists/crime lab and all 3 times noted as “no blood” and “no blood apparent”. Almost 3 months after the murder, one of the Criminalists was asked to inspect the socks again, and surprise, they find blood on the socks. Amazing, huh?
- Both the blood on the gate and the socks, even after weeks and weeks of exposure before collecting the blood, had more DNA available (not degraded) than any blood collected immediately the day of the murders. Low and behold, there was a blood preservative in the blood from those stains, which is used in test tubes holding blood samples.
- Suprisingly, out of 8 cc’s of blood collected from Simpson, 1.5 cc’s were missing. Also, a Criminalist for LAPD admitted spilling Simpson’s blood sample in the lab while processing blood swatches for the Bundy crime scene. Oops! Possible contamination. And just for good measure, the blood spilled WAS accounted for and after adding that amount in, there was still 1.5 cc’s missing.
- One of the detectives admitted that after collecting Simpson’s blood sample, he did not book it into evidence IN THE SAME BUILDING, but rather put it in his pocket, unsealed, and took it out to the criminalists at the crime scene, except only about 3 hours after arriving there.
- One detective lied in his submission for a search warrant, and it was blatant, to the point of the judge stated on the record that the information he provided in the search warrant was wreckless disregard for the truth. Another detective took Simpson’s shoes as evidence, but did he book it with the evidence? No, he took the shoes home with him, which was about 2 hours away.
- Not one of the detectives mentioned above was Fuhrman. But did Fuhrman lie about anything except using the N-word? You bet. (Personally, I believe he lied about other things, but they were not proven) When questioned about the glove(s) and the suggestion that he planted the glove at Simpson’s estate, he had stated that he had not had access to the glove(s) prior to going to Simpson’s estate, and that a picture of him pointing to a glove at the murder scene was after he returned from Simpson’s home. Well, in comes the LAPD photographer with photo sheets which shows the order/timing of the photographs, and low and behold he states that the picture was taken about 0420 and was demonstrated by the contact sheet. But that wasn’t good enough, he goes on to say that he runs into to Fuhrman, who is alone at the crime scene, and Fuhrman asks him to take the picture of Fuhrman pointing to the glove, all before Fuhrman leaves for Simpson’s home.
- Don’t even get me started on the gloves.
- But what was the most important part of the Fuhrman tapes? Was it they prove he used the N-word, despite denying it? Nope. Was it they have his voice talking about planting evidence in other cases? Nope. The most important part of the Fuhrman tapes was his comment on the Simpson case itself, which was something to the effect of “I’m the star witness in the Trial of the Century. If I go down, the glove goes bye bye.”
Was this accurate? Not exactly, in terms of evidence. Fuhrman never had to be called to introduce the glove into evidence. What does it mean then???
Enough of that shit, but I guess I got my feathers ruffled seeing some of the comments regarding the case. Not because of anything but lack of knowledge regarding the case, and I don’t blame anyone but the media for purpetuating some myths about the case. A person will never understand unless they take the time to study the case. Until that time, they will be stuck with the sound bytes and comments that “a black jury was mad at a racist cop and ignored the rest of the evidence, thus letting a murderer go free.”
I miss 1989. I miss 1996. Please make me miss another season in 2008.
tldr
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
I understand...
…but maybe this one is worthy of reading, if you have any interest in the Simpson trial. If not, good decision.
I miss 1989. I miss 1996. Please make me miss another season in 2008.
The more I remember about it, your take makes sense.
It was going on when I was 18 or 19 years old. I really didn’t care much about it. Never gave a shit about football. Knew who OJ was but that was it. Never really saw the fascination.
At the same time you COULD NOT get away from it. It was on the news all the time. I think the whole trial was broadcast. I was working at a Sam’s Club back then and going to TCJC across the street. The manager of that Sam’s Club eventually got fired because he would stay up in the break room all day, smoke cigarettes, and watch that damn trial. If you needed him for anything you had to go up there and hear all about it and even sit there and watch it with him. It was crazy.
But anyway, people started forming opinions. He’s guilty. Well I’ve always been one of these contrarian types (can you believe that) so finally even I started watching some of it.
Since then I’d forgotten many of the details but your post brought some of them back for better or worse. I’d add that the DA’s office was just over matched. In addition to the shitty police work (or crooked police work if you want to take it a step further), they were just no match for that defense team.
I still kind of think he did it. LAPD just wanted to make extra sure to make it look like he did, though, and fucked it all up. So he’s free, and do I care? Yeah. I’m glad he’s free. If you’re going to prosecute someone for murder, you should have to prove the goddamn case. It was just.
by Black Francis on Jun 26, 2009 4:34 PM CDT up reply actions
actually he's not free...
He’s in jail for maybe the rest of his life.
What comes around goes around like they say.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
haha
Yeah I know that but you know what I mean. He was free for 15 years or whatever.
by Black Francis on Jun 26, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Meh
“free.”
The day was coming.
¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!
by inactive lsb user on Jun 26, 2009 7:14 PM CDT up reply actions
You don't need to be convicted,
to be a pedophile. Being convicted just makes you a criminal.
by Jack Nicholson 1974 on Jun 25, 2009 5:55 PM CDT up reply actions
damn good point
I thought it be all warm and shitty, but it just tasted like normal beer. It was still cold.
I remember about ten years ago having dinner...
with a friend and Sammy Cahn who wrote a lot of Frank Sinatra’s songs. The conversation was about Michael Jackson and how Quincy Jones the record producer called him “short eyes” I think after a movie that was about a man who sodomized boys.
He did pay off several famlies millions upon millions to either keep quite or drop charges nevertheless this is the time to celebrate what a huge talent he was.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
I'm envious
of your dinner guest list, that must have been damn cool.
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you'd of loved Sammy T ball ...
he wrote a lot of Sinatra’s hits, such as love and marriage, three coins in a fountain, etc…a fascinating man. I have a pic somewhere holding his academy awards for his songs… I also have pics taken at one of the dinner parties he was at….I need to find those.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
The Nelson Riddle years
definitely my favorite Sinatra stuff.
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Who are you? :)
Man, last week Deniro, this week, Sammy Cahn. I’m Italian, I need to meet these people.
Although Frankie’s long time guitarist, the late, great Tony Mottola was my grand uncle. Never did meet the Chairmen however.
"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."
haha I'm nobody..
I just had a famous boss who was friends with a lot of famous celebebrities so I got invited to a lot of the parties that they were at. It was fun, I guess, I’m not a celebrity ass kisser, I’d frankly just rather hang with “normal” people.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
I hear you.
Celebs don’t really make it for me, certain ones do interest me. I’m past the starstruck phase that had me speechless as a 14 year old meeting Al Oliver. I met Gretzky this year, and it wasn’t a big deal.
"I saw your act, just didn't make it for me. Just a lot of fluff."
Dude, meeting Wayne Gretzky is a big deal.
Consider yourself lucky.
¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!
by inactive lsb user on Jun 26, 2009 1:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Potentially?
I can’t even think of another example. I think he’s the winner in that department!
Lewis - http://texasrangersbb.blogspot.com/
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by studcrackers on Jun 26, 2009 4:44 AM CDT up reply actions
So far TMZ seems to be the only site confirming hes dead
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
That is interesting, ain't it. They've either scooped the world, or set themselves up for a huge embarrassment.
Ephesians 3:20-21...and I can only imagine
Its a sad sad world when TMZ scoops legitimate news outlets
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Not really
for entertainment news, they probably have more resources than anyone else.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
i dont believe they are a legitimate news agency for anything
other than whos dating who.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
tmz
has a good reputation. they aren’t national enquirer. they have good sources and are more reliable than cnn, fnc, abc, cbs, nbc. seriously. LATIMES and abc have confirmed this. who had the story first though?
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was on the same pitching staff with Danny Darwin during the 1986 through 1988 seasons. Both were described by Milo Hamilton as "tall, tough Texans." It was a source of debate amongst Astros players and fans over who would win in a fight, Ryan or Darwin. Though Astros pitcher Bob Knepper attempted to set up a fight between the two during spring training in 1988, manager Hal Lanier stopped it before it could commence. Many experts, including Astros shortstop Rafael Ramirez, felt that Darwin would win because he "looked like someone no man would want to mess with."
true dat, as far as celebrity news goes they have it knocked
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
Just found this 20 minutes ago
[Updated at 2:46 p.m.: Pop star Michael Jackson is in a coma and his family is arriving at his bedside, a law enforcement source told The Times.
Does Zach Phillips have to choke a bitch to get to Frisco?
And... just updated
Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.
Does Zach Phillips have to choke a bitch to get to Frisco?
Worst. Hospital. Ever.
I’m no doctor, but I don’t think DEAD and COMA are the same thing.
by Jack Nicholson 1974 on Jun 25, 2009 5:23 PM CDT up reply actions
"Why don't you...
give me a nice paper cut and poor lemon juice in it while you’re at it!!!"
Greatness.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on Jun 25, 2009 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions
"Buster's going to be all right"
“He is? "
“Yes. But he lost his right hand.”
“But you said he’d be…..oh. ALL RIGHT. I hate this doctor.”
"Does this effectively hide my thunder?"
I can't take anymore death today...
seriously I’m staying in with a bottle of vodka, this is too much for one day.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
zing! yes that would be the second bottle of vodka...
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
My Aunt Carmen
passed away today too. I feel restless, like I need to go run. Like a long, Forrest Gump run. I want to do something or help someone and there is nothing to do, she is being cremated so no funeral or anything. If I didn’t have a midnight newswire to run tonight I would probably start drinking, too. I have two bottles of wine, some limoncello, half a bottle of crown and a sixer of the new Shiner smoked beer. Oh, and a 12-pack Sam Adams summer sampler. Damn, I have a lot of alcohol in the house … it’s been sititng there for awhile. Bah!
sorry to hear that Mel!
well hell with that bounty of licquor/beer you need to make yourself a drink to celebrate her life, Ed McMahons, Farrahs and M.J.’s …might as well do it all at once.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
Very sorry
for your loss, Mel. Don’t drink all that in one night, please.
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Haha
No, not gonna do that. I managed to shift some of the newswire work to others but at the Section Editor I still have to check over stuff, so I can’t be drunk. What will most likely happen is I finish my work, have one drink and go to bed. Two drinks if the Rangers lose.
As Dave Chapelle said, "but he made thriller.....thriller"
That's not hail you see in Frisco....that just Justin Smoak's Home Runs coming back into orbit....
RIP
his music was great. his music from the 60s thru the late 80s was fantastic. a nice run.
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was on the same pitching staff with Danny Darwin during the 1986 through 1988 seasons. Both were described by Milo Hamilton as "tall, tough Texans." It was a source of debate amongst Astros players and fans over who would win in a fight, Ryan or Darwin. Though Astros pitcher Bob Knepper attempted to set up a fight between the two during spring training in 1988, manager Hal Lanier stopped it before it could commence. Many experts, including Astros shortstop Rafael Ramirez, felt that Darwin would win because he "looked like someone no man would want to mess with."
I wonder what's going to happen to the kids?
"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin
Now apparently he had a 50 city tour coming up...
for a 50 year old fragile guy that’s too much out of economic necessity to boot.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
had to prove
that he could show up before vegas would commit to him.
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was on the same pitching staff with Danny Darwin during the 1986 through 1988 seasons. Both were described by Milo Hamilton as "tall, tough Texans." It was a source of debate amongst Astros players and fans over who would win in a fight, Ryan or Darwin. Though Astros pitcher Bob Knepper attempted to set up a fight between the two during spring training in 1988, manager Hal Lanier stopped it before it could commence. Many experts, including Astros shortstop Rafael Ramirez, felt that Darwin would win because he "looked like someone no man would want to mess with."
msnbc
says latimes reports his death
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was on the same pitching staff with Danny Darwin during the 1986 through 1988 seasons. Both were described by Milo Hamilton as "tall, tough Texans." It was a source of debate amongst Astros players and fans over who would win in a fight, Ryan or Darwin. Though Astros pitcher Bob Knepper attempted to set up a fight between the two during spring training in 1988, manager Hal Lanier stopped it before it could commence. Many experts, including Astros shortstop Rafael Ramirez, felt that Darwin would win because he "looked like someone no man would want to mess with."
Well...............bye

Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Even though he was a nutter...
from 1980-1990 he was like the coolest dude ever.
by ghostofErikThompson on Jun 25, 2009 5:32 PM CDT reply actions
back when parachute pants were cool
and everyone had a members only jacket.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Parachute pants
Did you have to bring up that fashion faux pas. Right up there with bellbottoms and tiger-striped Spandex!
Ugh!
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
What's wrong with bell bottoms?
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Jun 25, 2009 6:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Nothing. They're practical.
Allow for a lot of ankle movement, unlike these shitty hipster tight pants today.
by Black Francis on Jun 25, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions
When I say bell-bottoms...
I’m refering to the type that were worn in the 70’s. The “bell-bottoms” that girls were wearing 5 or 6 years ago were more like “boot cut.”
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
ankle movement?
My ankles don’t move much without the rest of my leg/feet also moving, how much moving do your ankles need to do?
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before that he was a legit child prodigy
he might have been the best singer mowtown had in 1970 when he was 12 – and they had stevie wonder and marvin gaye.
"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)
The problem with MJ...
wasn’t MJ. He was a child in a man’s body. Reports, for years, have detailed how that his father, Joe Jackson, never allowed any of the Jackson children to have a childhood, and it severly warped MJ’s mental make-up.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
This was my initial reaction at SpursTalk when I found out ...
Holy Crap! It’s one thing with Ed McMahon and Farrah because everyone knew they were sick for a long time. But this is completely out of nowhere, very shocking.
I used to sit in front of the tv for hours waiting for MTV to play the “Thriller” video. I have that album on vinyl. I could have recited those lyrics by heart. No matter what he became later or how strange I thought his lifestyle was, his music was part of the soundtrack of my youth.
RIP, King of Pop.
Not trying to be disrepectful....
but don’t you think it would difficult to adminster CPR to him with the condition of his nose?
Also, last Friday, there were reports that Walter Cronkite was gravely ill, and there haven’t been any updates since.
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
No. You close off the nose when administering CPR.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
Walter is still alive, but is seriously ill and not expected to recover.
From the NY Times Television section
the new CPR
doesn’t even require mouth to mouth. they say blood flow is the most important thing (chest compressions). But I think they also said taht because people are so averse to mouth to mouth that they don’t do any of it
"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)
I am surprised at how upset I am by this.
I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan, but wow, his music was such a HUGE part of my childhood. One of my clearest memories is – no lie – of me and my friends watching the entirety of the Thriller video at the roller skating rink in Rosenberg, Texas. This would probably have been in 86 or 87 or so.
I’m feeling a revision to my daily iTunes playlist.
"You got a guy coming up there who can’t hit water if he fell out of a boat." - Tom Grieve on Richie Sexson, 5.8.2008
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
"When it comes to Jeff Mathis, the story ends with us putting one in his earhole." - AJM, 7.7.08
Yeah...
as much as he became a pariah, Michael Jackson really is woven into modern pop culture.
by ghostofErikThompson on Jun 25, 2009 5:53 PM CDT up reply actions
WOW...
We did the same thing at the skating rink in Waxahachie, TX. They actually stopped skating, turned off the lights, and played on the Projection TV screens. Later, we learned the dance (on skates).
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
All You Can Speculate
is he was a tormented guy. I won’t touch the accusation of pedophilia, he probably did it but the mom really ruined her case.
He was an icon, though. I grew up in rural Texas and he was the first black pop star you didn’t call a black pop star. He was just Michael Jackson. We’ve come so far…
by GhostofGaryHogeboom on Jun 25, 2009 5:58 PM CDT reply actions
MTV
playing his videos and concert footage. It took Michael Jackson dying to get MTV to play music again. sigh
Seems fitting the station that made him most popular
ACTUALLY play his videos and music.
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Jun 25, 2009 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions
In memory of?
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Jun 25, 2009 6:12 PM CDT up reply actions
MJ jokes are apart of our society like blonde jokes.
no reason for anyone to get offended…
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Jun 25, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Wow
Both MJ and Fawcett died today. It reminds me somewhat of the day that both Johnny Cash and John Ritter died
That's not hail you see in Frisco....that just Justin Smoak's Home Runs coming back into orbit....
jim henson and sammy davis jr died on the same day as well
"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)
Am I wrong for not feeling too much sorrow on this?
Great entertainer and all, but the man did some disgusting things to some innocent kids.
Ugh
Do we really need Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to have news conferences over this?
That's not hail you see in Frisco....that just Justin Smoak's Home Runs coming back into orbit....
Got to get the National Action Network...
and the Rainbow Coalition some screen time….
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
I saw one report
that said he OD’d on sleeping pills, implying a suicide. But that site is down now, so hopefully just a rumor. It is also the home to the Jeff Goldblum rumor currently sweeping the internet, so take that for what it’s worth. Oh, and Harrison Ford, too.
I can’t believe that people think it would actually be a good idea to start rumors of deaths like that. Completely effed up.
I think it was Micheals lawyer or family spokesperson was speculating it may be pills on CNN earlier
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
If it is made public...
I’ll wait for the ME’s report.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
The family lawyer
or spokesperson was speculating? Good gawd, they must be attention whores. If you work(ed) for the guy, why speculate on TV. Give him the dignity of waiting for facts. Jeez.
Well...
if I were a member of the family, I would sue for legal malpractice.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
The falls under the list of
shit I couldn’t possibly care about.
Football=Fling... Baseball=Relationship
+1
He was a wierd duck that was created by a overbearing (mentally abusive) father. But, his music from the 70’s to the early 90’s was excellent.
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
Completes it...
3 pop icons of the 70’s and 80’s in 3 days
In 1991, I was 8 and thought Kirby Puckett would come beat up the monster in the closet if I prayed hard enough.
by GhettoBear04 on May 17, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
I've always felt
like these type of pics were rather tasteless. I don’t know why it bothers me so much, I guess because it just seems rather disrespectful.
they just showed him in the body bag
now it hits home :(
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
Wonder what happens to his share of the Beatles catalog?
If I’m not mistaken he used it as collateral for a loan with BOA, now that he’s gone do they obtain the rights or will it pass on to his kids?
RIP Michael, wasn’t a big fan but the guy had talent
"Losers assemble in little groups and bitch about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team."
- Bill Parcells
wow
king of pop dead before his time.
king of rock – Elvis died too early.
king of swing – Bob Wills died young
please don’t call anyone the King of anything in music. bad sign
The world has lost one of the great Simpsons characters.
Lisa, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa.
RIP, Michael Jackson.
"I love winning." - rockin_rangers, on May 16, 2009
he technically didn't sing that
"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)
One of my favorite singer/songwriters has uploaded this great tribute
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
I think I may want to check out early too..
if I was 400 million dollars in debt. Yikes!
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
I'm wondering if I'm the only guy who's thinking that Karma finally caught up to this guy
I’m not old enough to remember “MJ the singer” and all I’ve ever really remembered MJ for is a guy who had a ton of surgeries, acted like a child and mostly likely was physically attracted to them as well.
Yeah, that's kind of my take as well
I’ll admit, I never even paid any attention to his music – the guy always struck me as so goddamn creepy, I never really wanted to. It’s too bad for him and his family he had to go at a relatively young age, but as screwed up as he seemed I can’t say I’m particularly surprised or saddened.
Get on base or die, Salty.
"If you can't watch Holland and see that he's going to be awesome, you probably shouldn’t be watching baseball."
-Section 339
you guys missed out then.. not many better than MJ
he was the showman of showmen.. a great singer, dancer, writer and producer.. creepy as hell definately.. but we lost a great one today
A Cowboy fan from Dallas residing in enemy terretory since 1990..
Those of us
who were around before he was creepy can understand how huge he was during the “Off the Wall”, “Thriller”, “Bad” days. Pretty much “Beat it” with Eddie Van Halen’s guitar riff was the first song from a black musician that I recall getting heavy rotation on MTV.
A lot of us also recall when he was lead singer for the Jackson 5ive when he was 10 or so. Kid had amazing talent for his age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6bARIaMhCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJu_Bom2sA
It’s a shame his unbelievable talent isn’t what folks remember, because he so overshadowed it with his even more unbelievable wierdness.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
Thanks
I wasn’t really around before he was creepy, but I can definitely appreciate the musician.
Dude’s got a lot of charisma and makes you enjoy listening / watching him.
¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!
by inactive lsb user on Jun 26, 2009 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions
FWIW
I don’t believe he was actually “attracted” to children. Launching into stardom at a young age, I think he missed out on his own childhood. As a result, I think he was drawn to children, not because he was sexually attracted to them but because he was trying to find his own youth. I admit he was messed up in the 90s, but I do not think that should supercede the mark he left on the music business.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on Jun 26, 2009 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions
In general
it seems that a lot of folks who “grow up” in show business have trouble with reality.
Michael Jackson was singing in strip clubs at 8 years old. Its not real surprising he was not normal as an adult.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
Yeah, that's not really fair to the kid.
But who am I or anyone to decide what is fair.
¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!
by inactive lsb user on Jun 26, 2009 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I'd love to see how he pissed away all his money.
A forensic breakdown of all his finances would be fascinating.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers

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