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  6. Posted

    Murmurs on Twitter that Brian Barczyk has died are likely untrue, as his YouTube channel posted a goodbye video just over an hour ago and confirmed in the comments that he's still alive.

    The video is depressing, so watch at your own risk, but basically, he confirms that chemo stopped working a few months ago and he is now entering hospice.

     

    So, still alive, but as is tradition to say 'round these parts, won't be around to see the Royal Rumble.

  7. Posted

    Subs:

    Patrick Murray - probably a goner with all his ailments but I couldn't find room.

    Joe Doering/Dikembe Mutombo - both with unclear stages of cancer, both might be on their way out in 2024 reading between the lines, but I just knew if I only picked one, the other would go, and I didn't have room for both.

     

    Final drops:

    Dario G - probably one of the better 'new' names but still see him making it to 2025.

    Shannen Doherty - starting to decline but still think she sees 2025.

    Roy Battersby - dying this year, but I have enough old, low-scoring names already.

    Richard "Black Bart" Harris - my wrestling ignorance made me unsure of a QO, plus he seems somewhat stable still according to a recent Facebook video. Not worth the risk for a 7-pointer.

    Toby Keith - still not sold on him dying, would've been a purely defensive pick.

    Joanne Woodward - Drop 40 for sure but if she's survived 15 years with Alzheimer's, why not another year? Not sure the alleged hospice changes anything.

     

    Other drops:

    Jimmy Zoppi/Erik Jensen - both seem to be relatively stable and responding well to treatment.

    Sudarshan Maharaj - pancan sounds big and scary always, but reading between the lines, they seem confident it's treatable.

    Jose "Piculin" Ortiz - another name that wouldn't reveal the stage of their cancer, ffs, why are there so many? But if I understood correctly it was caught during a routine scan so probably early.

    Vanessa Redgrave - again, too many oldies already, and she's not as likely to die as a Carter or Chomsky.

    Joe Shannon - not super likely to die and I've seen plenty of household names in Ireland not get a single obit in the UK press so I was worried that would be the case here too. Why can't y'all get along?

    Richard Scolyer - experimental treatment looks promising.

    Nigel Starmer-Smith - already carried over SEVEN of my 2023 survivors so no room for him.

    Adrian Sutton - not a lot of updates and kinda boring. Plus "incurable" to me always sounds like "the cancer is here to stay, but so am I for 4-5 years."

    Sean Wallace - found him very late. Also, as an American college sports fan, even I think he's too obscure to get a Yahoo obit.

    Francoise Hardy - already have drama queen Esther Rantzen, didn't need two.

    Dennis Skinner - Chomsky filled the "forum user claims to have inside knowledge that they're dying" spot.

    James Fanale - just no way he gets a QO, imo.

     

  8. Posted

    TO KILL A GABOR SISTER 2024

     

    Jonnie Irwin - JOKER
    Brian Barczyk
    Theo Burrell
    Rob Burrow
    Frank Caprio
    Jimmy Carter
    Graham Caveney
    Noam Chomsky
    Simon Cowell (wildlife)
    Derek Draper
    Frank Field
    Toni Hilland
    Joye Lee-McNelis
    Steve McMichael
    Bruce Murray (Home and Away)
    Michael Parenti
    Esther Rantzen
    Jason Smith (councillor)
    Michael Tilson Thomas
    James Whale

     

    subs:
    Patrick Murray
    Joe Doering
    Dikembe Mutombo

     

     

    Really wanted to find room for Patrick Murray but I had no shortlist deaths post-Ryan Minor... meanwhile last year when I was struggling to come up with enough good names, a bunch of them died right before the starting line and my team got even shittier.

     

    Thought I had good research this year but apparently not as I totally missed Craig Maxwell and a few other obvious names.

     

    Michael Parenti probably my only unique possibility, 90-year-old Marxist academic - there've been murmurs on leftist Twitter for years about his dementia. Except I just now realized he actually has been mentioned on the forum once or twice :blush:. Still, never picked in the DDP. Besides that, Joye Lee-McNelis probably the only other name on less than 5 teams. 

     

  10. Posted

    After a relatively slow year for contending teams, I'm going a bit conservative in some regards for 2024. I'm anticipating a much deadlier late winter/spring than this year. Also focused on not having as many Drop 40 names so I can actually pull away from other teams when I get a hit. 

     

    The biggest debate right now is how many of my survivors are worth carrying over. A few are easy drops, a few might die next year but I'm just getting so bored of them. 

     

    I do have a few tricks up my sleeve I think/hope. There's a QO cert out there whom I think a lot of people wrote off as a nobody.

  14. Posted

    Steve McMichael hospitalized but seemingly improving:

     

    His wife has been pretty blatantly trying to keep him alive until Aug. 22nd, when he might be announced as a 2024 Hall of Fame senior finalist. The ceremony for 2023 is this weekend and he didn't make the cut.

     

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  17. Posted

    Incredible life and career. Just a legendary success story. I really think she was one of the most iconic human beings of all time.

     

    Jimmy Carter really outlived Tina Turner, goddamn.

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  18. Posted

    Don't flatter me too much now, msc.

     

    Weird year for the DDP. First 8 days of January as busy as ever, then practically fucking nothing until things picked back up this past month. I don't remember a slower February/March in my time competing...

     

    As for my team... 
    Burrow and Field might be useful as they were omitted by Spade and Joey, respectively. But won't help me leapfrog anyone else. 
    Randy Jackson I picked because I always miss out on the appearance-based picks (Wetton, Mark E. Smith, McCririck) but seeing almost no other contender pick him makes me feel like a fool. I no longer think he's ill at all.
    Larry Pressler looked good in pictures earlier in the year. Starting to think he has that neuroendocrine Aretha Franklin BS pancan spin-off that takes a decade to kill.
    Shakur exaggerating, I always thought that to be the case but he was such an interesting person I couldn't help but pick him.
    Starmer-Smith should die but old dementia folks always linger, getting flashbacks to Nobby Stiles on my 2018 team...
    Tilson Thomas not on a lot of teams but he's still very active for now, a late-year hit at best.
    Linda Nolan is definitely my best bet to leapfrog a lot of the contenders. She only made my team because I ran out of good subs; I thought she would be a wasted spot.

     

    Overall, I think my path to victory is very narrow and it's really my fault for submitting such a boring team (16 Drop 40ers ffs!)
    I already cashed in on Randy Gonzalez, my best pick in terms of separating myself from the pack, but other folks have caught up with their own uniques/differentials and I reckon I'll only be sliding further down the scoreboard as the year goes on...

  19. Posted

    Sakamoto gives me the lead again.

     

    Of course, it's early days, it's been a slow start, and I don't think I have enough differentials to maintain a lead in the long term, but definitely feels good that I've been toggling between 1st and 2nd place since late January.

     

    Although it looks like begrudgingly picking Linda Nolan might end up working out for me...

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  20. Posted

    There is the potential for an exceptionally bad severe weather outbreak over a large swath of the U.S. today.

     

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    National Weather Service has issued Level 5 warnings for the first time in two years (when an EF4 tornado hit Georgia), and for parts of Illinois for the first time in a decade (when an EF4 hit as well).

     

    This could get ugly...

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  21. Posted

    Feels weird to say this about a 98-year-old who has lasted longer than anyone expected, but this is very sad news to me.

     

    Fuck what you think about his politics or his presidency, he was a good man in an environment that produces plenty of terrible men.

     

    I hope his final days are peaceful.

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  22. Posted

    1 minute ago, tracy said:

     DDP pick alert: TikToker Randy Gonzalez dead of colon cancer.

    He was said to have a life expectancy of 2-3 years, but in a TikTok he posted in early December he casually mentioned that his chemo wasn't working so I knew the clock was ticking.

     

    Would've been a unique for me if not for a TikTok theme team... oh well.

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