MrWonderful

Undoubtedly most famous here in the U.S. for carrying an injured Kerri Strug off the mat, after she completed what she believed to be the gold medal-clinching vault for Team USA at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

Hit #21 for me this year, which is the best "performance" I've had since I started doing Top 50 Lists. I had a great aunt who lived to be two weeks shy of her 105th birthday, and Ms. Spencer even surpassed that. That's a damn good run. RIP.

I got a hit with Teri Garr.

Hit #20 for me. Loved her in Young Frankenstein and Let It Ride. RIP.

Wish I had been wrong about this. But I thought the language was revealing. As Vin Scully said to cap off his only no-hitter, if you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky. RIP.

Tick tock.

Found this update; he's attending a charity event on Saturday and expecting that this is the final time that he will see many of his friends/ex-colleagues.

The committee wouldn't consider this person for next year's DL because she's too obscure, but I think she would obit and would make sense for certain pools: Vivian Ayers-Allen. (My apologies if anyone else has suggested her.) The mother of Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen, Ayers-Allen is 101 years old. She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the 1950's for poetry, and she was recently honored back in July by NASA. You can see that Debbie Allen has an Instagram post about this event, although I don't see Ayers-Allen herself in this post. Anyway, at 101, she might make a lot of sense.

I had never heard of him, but the guy has a Wikipedia page so I'm sure he would obit. And it sounds like he may not make it to '25 but if he does, that's low-hanging fruit.

I thought she was a good pick for this year, but of course I'd say that because she was on my top 50 list, becoming my 19th hit. RIP.

This is nothing but opinion, but here's mine. I don't know that Biden is suffering from dementia or anything like that. But I think he's probably senile. So when you have a man who is senile, can they do the job behind the scenes, with a lot of advisors in place and the like? Yeah, I think that's not unreasonable. But you put a man in his early 80's who is senile through the rigors of a presidential campaign, which in the U.S. goes on forever, and in front of cameras and doing campaign events and traveling and talking to the press and debates and interviews...and it is going to show. He's not up for that, which the debate so sadly showed. Take that pressure off him, and now on the occasions where he does go in front of the press, he doesn't look as bad.

All they said was that he "aims to return" in 2025. As a huge Dodger fan, I hope it's nothing serious, but I feel like it might be.

Dikembe Mutombo is a hit for me.

Hit #17 for me this year. Sadly, this was the outcome I feared for him back when it was reported that he was diagnosed with a brain tumor in October 2022; it sounded like a glioblastoma situation and that's probably what it was. So he made it for just about 2 years after that, and that's on the long end of the typical spectrum for this horrible cancer. RIP, Dikembe.

I've resisted adding him to my list and did so again for this year, but he's for sure going on my 2025 list if he makes it that far. He does look like he's slipping a bit and at this age, it can fall off the proverbial cliff really, really fast. Kind of like Betty White. I thought there were obvious signs of decline in her final 12-18 months, whatever it was.