Joey Russ

No surprise that I have him too. What is surprising though is that Gerard Tierney didn’t have him...

Oh look, people are super worried about the Coronavirus. In other news, the sky is blue...

Just a reminder that those who are solely famous for being the parent of a celebrity are not an acceptable pick. The only way to be able to go around it is if you are able to prove that they have some other claim to fame...

As expected, a QO

My DDP joker. Did really well to last two years past his glioblastoma diagnosis, but still definitely a sad loss. RIP

I don’t know, people do like to bluff. And most teams don’t have more than 4 or 5 deaths per match, so even if one is a dud it doesn’t mean their out of the game...

Or take one from the mail

An update on the current state of teams with under 4 days to get a team in... JiroemonKimura vs Old Crem LizLemon vs Ethushishispushingupdaisies FixedBusiness vs The Unknown Man Annami vs Grobler HDS vs Great Uncle Bulgaria An Fear Bag vs Markb4 DeathByArsenic vs Sean Wormfarmer vs Joemoneypenny Djemba Djemba vs Yorkshire Banker Skinny Kiltrunner vs Sir Creep Updated list of entries. Bold means you’re in, not bold means I haven’t received your entry yet. So that’s 3 matches guaranteed to happen then, and three potential matches where no one has submitted a team yet. Though I’m pretty sure at least one person in each of those three draws are last minute folk.

One of those cases where you’re glad the 25 DQ rule happened, he would’ve just missed out had that not been implemented. Obit up later today.

So the Iowa Caucus is a week away now, which may tell us the story on how the democratic primary will go. I’m not going to make individual state predictions even though I have my suspicions, but I do kind of have a general sense on where the presidential race is going. So, from the remaining 12 candidates: Michael Bennet, John Delaney, and Deval Patrick are completely irrelevant. Seriously, they should probably drop out because they’re just embarrassing themselves at this point. Then we have the two billionaire candidates, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg. I don’t think either of them are going to win the nomination, I think their job is to try to prevent one person from getting the nomination: Bernie Sanders. Though Steyer posted some positive thing about Bernie in recent days which I find strange. Then we have Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang. These two candidates have extremely passionate bases, but I don’t think either of them could really expand beyond that. Though the Tulsi and Yang stans will say differently. Amy Klobuchar: she’s super unlikeable yet the media continues s to prop her up. I think she’ll stick around to Super Tuesday before she drops out tbh. I think mayor Pete time in the sun has past, he seems to have fallen after the 6th debate and he doesn’t look like he’ll recover. He even had a Jeb Bush moment a few days back, so that says all you need to know about him. If you told me that Elizabeth Warren would likely be the nominee in November, I’d probably agree with that assessment. But slowly but surely, she’s damaging her own campaign in ways that I don’t think she can recover. She started to slip in the polls once her “Medicare For All” plan looked like something for a public option instead. You’d think she try to take that back afterwards, but instead she seems to be hurting and hurting her campaign even more. Then came the Bernie smear about two weeks back. It was so fake of a smear that I believe it eliminated any good will left from the progressive community, cause it was clear it was planted by her camp and she didn’t really try to de-escalate until after that debate happened, which by that point people were much more sympathetic to Sanders. So yeah, I’m thinking it’s unlikely that she recovers from this. Although that won’t stop certain papers from trying to resurrect her campaign. Which really leaves Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Exactly where we were a year ago. These two has been consistent with their numbers in the polls, and whether you like it or not, it’s likely to be a two person race at this point. However, I still don’t know who the nominee will be yet. I think we’ll have to wait till Super Tuesday for a clearer picture on the state of the race...

I think Robin Williams too iirc

If on a personal level Peart is the bigger death, that’s fine, but objectively there’s no way that he tops Bryant (or Terry Jones for that matter) as the biggest death of the month.

His wife was confirmed to be safe since it was announced that Kobe died and I figure if the other 3 children died they would’ve announced it by now.

It was in the basketball thread, but one of the mods made his own thread since he was such a massive name

Another person has been named in the crash, although nowhere near as known as Kobe or his daughter...

Yeah, there seems to be a retraction now:

Would be cautious on the daughters part of it. There’s a lot of conflicting reports on whether the daughters were actually on or not...

Only Doris Day and Robert Mugabe has sadly died in their actual obits from the crowdsource obits from my era, and one of them one was used quite satirically...

Undoubtedly a legend within his own field, even if I’m not too big of a basketball fan. RIP

Was aware of him, and had him under consideration for 2020, but ultimately decided against picking him as I wanted to pick as few fringey names as possible.

I personally think the “nabbed from top teams” theme teams is garbage too, but that’s just me.

Something better will come for Rensenbrink, but for the time being, mail obit

Stephen Reed seems to be dead