Banana

Banana Bruises: Henry Dickerson --- Slight QO risk, Yahoo likely. Wouldn't have been D40. Being in hospice for as long as he has with no clear diagnosis might make this a Bill Freehan/Rembert Weakland type situation. Michael Tilson Thomas --- 7-pointer, 50/50 D40, just didn't quite make it. Steve DiMeglio --- His treatment seems to be intense, but still very active on socials, so ultimately decided against it. Would probably obit. David Linden --- 8-pointer that wouldn't D40. Wasn't too intrigued. Dick Caine --- Same as above, but less points. Lloyd Clark Fletcher --- Didn't know if I'm getting bamboozled again by these fuckers. Christopher Fowler --- Was a solo last year for me, so higher likelihood would remain so. His terminal cancer further spread, but still doesn't seems quite bad. Good blog. Richard Holliday --- Stage 4 Hodgkin's with unknown spread (tmk), so couldn't really be too confident Alan Dean Foster --- MIA Toni Hilland --- 1-2 year prognosis, not quite there Denny Crum --- Hospice, but only 6 points Kate Keltie --- Probably one of my biggest flubs. On second look should have picked. Just compared her too heavily to the likes of ONJ and Doherty, but didn't consider the spread to the blood. Who knows. Michael Silverblatt --- Somebody mentioned him on the forums in the last couple months. Went and looked at his Wiki page edits and people seem to really not understand wtf is going on here, so actually seems quite serious whatever is going on. Ted Kaczynski --- fuck it why not Andy Taylor --- D40 basically guaranteed, prostate cancer can take a long ass time as Bill Turnbull demonstrates Zoleka Mandela --- On paper her cancer spread would make you think she's a sure thing, but looks way too healthy and active on socials Miroslav Blazevic --- Probably like a 80% chance at going but that 20% is more like a 50%. No bonuses either, was a sub. Rodion Amirov --- The whole thing seems pretty fishy. Leaves his NA team to go back home for more treatment. You'd think treatment from a top professional organization would be better than whatever is available in Russia, so makes me think it has something to do with being closer to family. Terrible situation. Nick Anderton --- Assuming no spread, he should make it but osteosarcoma is not good. Others I didn't feel like picking: Randy Jackson (didn't feel too keen on buying into speculation, regardless of his appearance) Ryuichi Sakamoto (should have bought in, didn't realize his popularity was quite as high, still think will make it to 2024 but I'm not as confident as I once was) Chris Stone Dikembe Mutombo Janey Godley Rhod Gilbert (I like him) People I regret not picking: Princess Bajrakitiyabha (news came too late) Joe Doering Stephen Rezza (found way too late and tmk no one found, the late Christina Grimmie's bf at the time, glioblastoma)

A few of us are missing points for Mike Davis and I am missing points for Mark Souder

Wait wait wait wait... Nobody picked 102-year-old Arnold Yarrow??? Edit: AND NO DAVID GRAHAM??? I started on a team earlier in the month, but never got around to picking the easiest category for picks due to DDP, but here's what would have been my team. Time's 100: Pope Benedict XVI David Hockney Stephen Lewis Amartya Sen Manmohan Singh F1: Slim Borgudd Kenneth McAlpine David Piper John Rhodes Gaetano Starrabba Coronation Street: David Graham Elizabeth Kelly Prunella Scales Bill Steel Arnold Yarrow Brit Awards: Shirley Bassey Phil Collins Nick Hallam Zubin Metha Andy Taylor

George Alagiah Lucia Alves Saleh Aougrout Princess Bajrakitiyabha Esteban Bullrich Rob Burrow Dario Campeotto Simon Cowell Denny Crum Harry de Winter Dido dela Paz Roberto Dinamite Lloyd Clark Fletcher Alan Dean Foster Christopher Fowler Rhod Gilbert Richard Holliday Jonnie Irwin Randy Jackson Tim Keller Kate Keltie David Linden Frank McGarvey Steve McMichael Dikembe Mutombo Marcel Nemec Rudel Obreja Erkan Ozerman Daniel N. Paul Johnny Ruffo Ryuichi Sakamoto Mutulu Shakur Daisuke Sugaya Andy Taylor Teresa Taylor Michael Tilson Thomas Gianluca Vialli James Whale Harijs Zarins Anastasia Zavorotnyuk

Yea gonna be real honest here, I saw that article about him a few days ago and assumed he was already dead idk how RHME can apply

In fairness, Alan Melinek's pancreatic cancer was known only to be stage 1 but at his age that shouldnt have mattered and there was the prolonged obit worthiness

With Spade taking Dinamite, I'm now down to 2 solo punts

Don't worry, he didn't make the Peel Slippers...

I tried telling them, did they listen?

Rejections for 2023: Nick Anderton Dick Caine Kenny Collins Giorgos Daskalakis Henry Dickerson Steve DiMeglio Joe Doering Jango Edwards Naonobu Fujii Toni Hilland Elena Huelva Haris Ibrahim Hadi Khaniki Tim Lobinger Eelco Meuleman Ryan Minor Brian O'Donovan Stephen Rezza Mike Sertich Chris Stone Eddie Sutton Robert Zimmer Pretty shocked by Doering, Edwards and Lobinger. Pretty disappointed in Daskalakis.

Just woke up, any news?

Ok so I just sent out an email to (all?) participants about the passing of Pele and what is to be done. If you did not get the email here it is: Please do not respond to me in this thread with any of your intentions as I may not see them. Thanks

And with the death of Don West I have officially reached the highest point total in AO history.

Hahahahah

Rehman Gaarder would’ve been a nice pick to have. Gonna ask Hulka whether she would’ve been acceptable.

Most of my time submitting teams so far has been editing spelling mistakes and removing unnecessary nonsense from non-spreadsheet submissions.. So please if you are someone who has not submitted your team, please make sure you're spelling is correct (ideally how Wikipedia spells it). Also, if you can't submit by spreadsheet, please do not number your lists and please follow Firtsname Lastname format. It truly saves a boat load of time. And that bugger better make it 3-4 more days.

You lucky fuckers https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/world/asia/xi-xi-dead.html

About 7 decades too late to be having this much of a hard on for Joanne Woodward

I’m more annoyed because my team’s in already and I have to make this up with potential uniques. Yea and this. If you missed this it’s on you.

I knew this would happen...

My team is officially in. I'll be starting to enter teams this week. Once again huge thanks to @Grim Up North for all their help.

Bob Cooper, infamous rugby league player for being suspended 15 months for joining in on a brawl has died at 67 after a battle with cancer. https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/rugby-league/league-hardman-bob-cooper-dies-aged-67-c-9120259 Also, today I learned that Aussie Yahoo does not transition to UK.

Trust that she’ll let the tabloids know whenever there’s an update on her health.

This should be a real interesting year for DDP. Seems like there's an abundance of terminal cases to choose from. As for AO, I have a preliminary roster. Over half of my names are either fringe/non-starters. Even after that I still feel like my replacements make up a pretty good team.

Big thanks to @Grim Up North for all the work he's done. I look forward to this new challenge and undertaking. Hope everything is a bit patient with me as I get my footing. Best of luck to everyone this year!