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Joey Russ

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  1. Joey Russ

    Alex Trebek

    Seems like your prediction is true only, er, Alex Trebek hasn’t died yet...
  2. Joey Russ

    Ideas and Possibilities for 2021

    Guessing you have plans to throw some Banana Barrels at Trump?
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    Derby Dead Pool 2020

    That’s why I only said Noble was a slight obit risk. I still think he’s about 80 - 20 to receive the obit, but depending on timing of his death he definitely could be one that press could look over.
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    Musings on Life Expectancy

    I wouldn’t really call the predicting the life expectancy sites reliable. The fact is that this site only asks for age and gender makes it less of a good indicator
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    Derby Dead Pool 2020

    I think at this point I’m probably more worried about Lee Kerslake rather than Ady Barkan. Barkan is still a very active tweeter and I feel as long as he tweets on a daily basis he’ll be okay for the time being. Kerslake I do think he could survive the year, but a late end of the year death wouldn’t shock me at all. Prostate cancer picks are pretty hard to tell. For me, my most likely route to victory probably relies on 2 out 3 of Jana Bennett, Gavin Robertson, and Sylvain Sylvain. And then I probably also need someone like Bilton or Tom Smith to keep my distance ahead of Death Impends too if Robertson does become a hit. While I think it’s plausible, it is by no means a guarantee at all (Robertson has glio but also seems slightly stable at the moment, and Sylvain was admittedly a punt pick. I wouldn’t be surprised if either of them went, but certainly could also see 2021). Speaking of Death Impends, Tom Smith surviving will definitely help his chances. But he also needs folk like Jimmy Carter, Gavin Robertson, Belinda Sykes, and Rachel Zoll. Again, it’s plausible some of these will go but again, it’s no guarantee. There’s also Lars Hogh, who seems to be okay for now, but could have another downturn (he already have one before). Rad’s team has an interesting path, for one he needs Tom Smith to survive in order to help his chances, but he also needs 3 of 4 of Hogh, Doug Supernaw, Bernard Tapie, and Tobin. Okay, not the greatest batch of survivors, Tapie and Tobin seems to be frauding, and like Hogh, Supernaw’s cancer treatment seems to be working. Again though, a Supernaw late year death wouldn’t shock. And the criminals do die eventually, but when is it they die I have no idea when they’ll actually die. Which leads to Banana, who has some interesting differentials from everyone else. Lee Noble... seems to be fine for now. He’s another one where a late year downturn wouldn’t shock, but I also think he’s a slight obit risk now. However, Banana arguably has the strongest differential that almost nobody would’ve guessed to die this... George Alagiah. Alagiah has turned from a stablish name to a bit of a ticking time bomb now. The question remains whether he’s 2020 or 2021, but I wouldn’t be shocked either way. He also have Andrew McDonald and Bibian Mentel. Interesting picks, but also slightly iffy (the former has prostate cancer which as mentioned before is pretty hard to gauge, and the latter has cancer so many times. It’ll kill her eventually, but when it will eventually kill her I have no idea). I Will Not Die, unlike Death Impends and Rad Guy, needs Tom Smith to die to really help his chances of winning. Outside of Smith his remaining differentials are kind of iffy. I mean, he picked Superstar Graham, a very noted fraudster. See above for Doug Supernaw. And Brian Travers recovered from his brain cancer last time I checked, although he’s another one a late year downturn wouldn’t shock. Sally Sheridan has been pretty quiet though Heading nowhere has some differentials that no one else have near the top, ie Leon Spinks, Lisa Griffiths, and Litsa Menounous. Griffiths could die, and also potentially die off radar, but who knows. On paper Menounous should die, but here she is hanging on so far. And then there’s Leon Spinks. A much better pick on paper than I thought in December of last year. It’s still prostate cancer though which makes him a bit of an iffy pick, but if I had to say which of the prostate cancer picks is most likely to die, I’d probably say Spinks. Then there’s some guy we never heard of called Pan Breed. He got JLT, another one who could go but also could not go. Schjeldahl is currently in remission (you might’ve seen me take him out of DBN), though he’s another that a late year death wouldn’t shock. Really am surprised Bernadette Chirac is still here. Ditto Vic Seixas. Both are supposed to be pretty frail. And Hamish Barbour I don’t know what’s exactly wrong with him, but he could go this year. Which leads me to Spade Cooley himself. He said before that he’d be happy with a top ten spot this time around, but you know he actually meant that he’s going to dominate. He probably needs most of his differential/slight differential hits to land, ie Mark Allen, Jana Bennett, Bob Gibson, Litsa Menounous, Laura Nuttall, and Belinda Sykes. If there’s someone who could land all these hits, however, it is Spade Cooley. He seemingly called it right with Gianluca Vialli too. I honestly wouldn’t underestimate his team this late in the year and I’m not just because of his past DDP record. What I am saying with this pretty lengthy analysis of the current top 9 teams is anyone can really win at this point. Any one of these differentials dying doesn’t really affect a person’s overall chances, and I imagine the person who does end up eventually winning will only do so by about a few points. Though it’s not necessarily going to be record breaking, I still it’s going to be an amazing competition in its own right...
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    Astronauts

    His wife Rene Carpenter has now died
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    The Dead of 2020

    If you told me that Michael Brooks would’ve gotten a QO late last year I would’ve been surprised as I thought he was just known in the leftie circles I’m in. But he ended up trending very high in the US when he died, and he must’ve gotten enough tweets for the clickbait UK articles to take note. So as I said, definitely take note for the future...
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    The Happy Birthday Thread

    Doesn’t ring a bell. Happy Birthday Quim, and here’s hoping for many more to come.
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    ALS/MND/other degenerative diseases

    Mirror obit
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    ALS/MND/other degenerative diseases

    I’ll admit Hagen was probably my biggest overlook for 2020 and I’ve never seriously considered him which might hurt my DDP chances. (He wasn’t even originally on my DBN team and I had to transfer him in to show how much I didn’t consider him).
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    The Deathlist Poker Tournament 2020

    I swear, I’m not the grim reaper in this pool. Honest.
  12. Joey Russ

    Derby Dead Pool 2020

    Only lasted for about a week. The competition is certainly far from over...
  13. Joey Russ

    The 2020 Deathlist Cup

    Honestly, apart from 2019 the cup finals aren’t usually that eventful. 2017 only had 2 hits around the middle of the month (including the deciding hit), and 2018 had two unique hits for DDT and Matt Cappotelli. So, I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising it’s as uneventful as it is...
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    Musings on Life Expectancy

    Everyone from my great grandparents generation is dead by now, but many of them made it to over 90 (an aunt even made it to 100). My grandparents are all still alive in their late 70s, though the quality of life in one of them isn’t really that great. So based on trends I should probably live to around the late 80s to my early 90s, but I’m not sure the quality of life being that old would be that great. But we’ll see...
  15. Joey Russ

    The Deathlist Poker Tournament 2020

    I literally made my team in about 15 minutes, so if I somehow end up winning I’d be stunned really.
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    People I Was Surprised To Find Are Still Alive

    Guardian obit for DDP
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    People I Was Surprised To Find Are Still Alive

    Annie Ross appears to be dead
  18. Joey Russ

    The Dead of 2020

    Just a heads up, Brooks would’ve received a QO, which might be a good indicator of what will happen which other political commentators of his caliber in the future...
  19. Joey Russ

    1. Jimmy Carter

    Jasper de Havilland about to crash into a ban?
  20. Joey Russ

    The Dead of 2020

    This is a great obit to get a sense of who Michael Brooks was
  21. Joey Russ

    The Dead of 2020

    Probably the biggest death of this year on a personal level, but Michael Brooks off of Majority Report and The Michael Brooks Show has died:
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    Derby Dead Pool 2020

    Oh boo hoo. I didn't get a unique on a very borderline pick because somebody sent in multiple teams, and because of that multiple teams should be gone. It doesn't really matter if a pick is a unique or not. So grow up and don't be so entitled, okay?
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    Famous celebrity births , pregnancies and babies

    She has a husband that she got married to in 2019. I wonder if that might be the father of Nicki's child...
  24. Joey Russ

    The 2020 Deathlist Cup

    Been awfully quiet now hasn’t it? Anyways, Bijay Mohanty is another one who goes in the past cup names not picked this time to die
  25. Joey Russ

    Alex Trebek

    That treatment that he’s on. It’s apparently an experimental treatment, and we know how those usually go...
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