Joey Russ

Apparently I can only do three polls per topic, so it'll take multiple new pages, but the first one is open.

You sure about that? I thought Hillary Clinton’s career died all the way back in 2016.

Mimi Soltysik, the 2016 presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA has died at 45

This guy (who seems to be a journalist for multiple publications) mentioned his death and tweeted at a couple of other journalists after this tweet, so I’m guessing one of them will write something sometime in the next week:

Yeah, Shaun Ryder was never suggested in this thread.

I did see a health update last year in Czech which felt like the beginning of the end, but it also mentioned he was still mentally there, so that along with Ricksen burn out was why I didn’t pick him. Statistically though, it was definitely his time...

And Droukdel won’t be the youngest hit of the year. I had Marian Cisovsky on me. He was another replacement pick after so many names rejected, so it’ll be interesting times ahead... EDIT: It’s a duet with WEP

Not really a drummer, probably better to move this to the dead pop stars thread or something like that.

On the other hand, if he makes the drop 40 he’ll be a full 7 points. So there’s that...

Milton Glaser, the person who created the I ❤️ NY slogan has died at 91

Is it just me, or does Dick Cheney look slightly aged in this photo? I mean, he’ll live regardless, but might be something of note.

Just sent in a not very thought out poker squad, and as such don’t expect to do too well. But I’m sure it’ll be fun anyways. Good luck everyone.

Been a long while since the last hit, and as it stands the final match will be Death Impends vs An Fear Beag (Death Impends is winning against Jiroemon on age, and I’m really surprised that match hasn’t gotten more hits). If things hold, that’ll be the third year in a row the rookie of the year makes it to the finals and the first time someone returns to the cup finals. So yeah, interesting times ahead if things hold...

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

Lol:

I wanted to try a game out for the rest of 2020. Basically inspired by the By Election thing, though there some differences. So, it’s a game of basically guessing who will get removed from congress before the end of the 116th Congress by any means. Whether it’s by dying, retirement, or being voted out of office, it is the job of this game to guess who will no longer be a congressperson by January 3rd 2021. Here is how the scoring will work: If a congressperson announces their retirement from Congress = 1 point. HOWEVER, I will not be allowing any congressperson who already announced their retirement to score, so if you pick someone who’s already known to be retiring, you might want to pick again. Only points they’ll be eligible for is if they die in office. If someone gets defeated in the general election = 2 points. If someone gets defeated in the primary = 3 points. Again, I am not counting those who already got primaried, so anyone picking Steve King or Dan Lipinski will have to pick someone else. If a congressperson resigns for whatever reason before the election comes through = 4 points. Although if they were already defeated and then resigns from office, that doesn’t count as double points in this case. If someone dies in office = 5 points. The game will start now since there are primaries along the way this month, but you have to submit by June 30th by midnight GMT time. You can either post here or DM me to enter.

This is good enough for me to count Eliot Engel points. And good riddance to him. He’s absolutely terrible in foreign policy (he was even against Obama’s Iran deal to give you a sense of how awful he is). So that’s 3 points for me and mr whit then. There’s still about a week to enter in this pool if you want to: Scores: Joey Russ - 6 mr whit - 3 Everyone else - 0

So far things are looking good for Jamaal Bowman defeating Eliot Engel. 2 of the 3 teams who entered so far picked Engel so if things stay the way they are that’s three points each. One race that might’ve gone completely under the radar is Carolyn Maloney’s race. So far she’s actually losing to Suraj Patel, and if things hold that’d be two incumbents being defeated. You still have about a week to send in entries for this but at this point I won’t be accepting any teams with Maloney or Engel unless they resign from the house...

Doesn’t look like that’ll happen. She’s beating her opponent by a really wide margin.

Avant-garde composer George Crumb is apparently still alive. He might be a fascinating pick for future dead pools...

So bad it’s good:

I’m not having any issues. Maybe it’s a device thing?

Welp, we’re all dead now:

Yeah, probably one of the last endorsements anybody wants: It’s really fucked up that it comes to this, really...