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Chris Christie casting doubt on Trump's physical health without an ounce of self awareness. https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/chris-christie-says-trump-looks-terrible-amid-new-york-trial-former-gop-presidential-candidate-university-of-chicago-gop-president-white-house-washington

Exactly the reason why I prefaced the fact that the article was a year old.

That's class. I'm a plastic Paddy. I hope you get the chance to a catch a game in person someday if you already haven't. Your knowledge of the team goes far beyond my own, and I've always been as fan.

I was in 4th grade. Was super angry my parents wouldn't let me cut school to attend the victory parade.

Article is from April of last year. Just thought it should be referenced here in case his name comes up for consideration in 2025. Looks to be doing ok. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11970871/Bill-Cosby-85-seen-public-time-June-2021-release-prison.html

You Mass based by chance? One of my most pressing memories from the 2004 championship season was every female having a huge crush on Johnny Damon. Fairly decent player in his own right to be fair, but that always made me laugh.

In fairness, his death is getting a lot of local media coverage. I'm really only talking about the dive bars I frequent in Dorchester. I dug out my closet my old 2004 Red Sox commemorative pin collection that the team put out and found he was omitted.

I live in Boston and only a few fans I know remember him. His contribution went far beyond those three relief appearances. 151 at bats isn 't bad. But in Boston, he's not too well known.

Unlike Tim Wakefield, McCarty saw little action. Very few people I have spoken to remember him at all.

Her daughter Kerry's instagram page really gives the best clues to her current state of health. The last verifiable photo of her that can be found is of her with former Ukrainian first lady, Kateryna Yushenko which was taken during Labor Day weekend of 2022. There is a video on her page from April 11, 2023 which shows a large group of family members singing happy birthday to her, however, whoever was filming the video was very careful to omit her face which indicates to me that her health has gotten to a stage where the family does not wish for her to be seen. I am fairly certain there will be no more publicly released images of her. The Kennedys are still very much an appearance driven family, and are very restrictive about releasing images that depict its members in ill health. They did the same thing with Rose Kennedy following her debilitating stroke back in either '83 or '84. Rose's 100th birthday in 1990 was a major milestone that much of the Boston media covered, and was marked with numerous interviews with younger family members discussing her contribution to American society and family stability. Despite the major event, no photographs of her were released to the press, which was in stark contrast to her 90th birthday celebration in 1980 where she greeted well wishers and the press from the balcony of her house. To this date, the family has not released any photos of Rose Kennedy during the final decade of her life. The only known photographs of her came from journalists who managed to snap a few pics of Ted Kennedy wheeling her in her wheelchair outside her home sometime in the early 90s.

I knew something was off. I grew up a town over from Ethel's Hyannis Port compound. Family gatherings are unheard of outside of Thanksgiving and the summer. I don't know the family personally, but her absence from the local 4th of July parade the last several years has led many locals to believe she is quite frail and it's unlikely she is able to leave home. Very little has been seen of her locally since her granddaughters fatal drug overdose, which occurred inside her home almost five years ago. It's said that really broke her spirit. Again, I have no inside knowledge, just local gossip.

Thanksgiving of 2018.

While I understand the article attributes this photo to being taken in 2024, I do not believe this photo is current. Joe Kennedy III who is seated in front of the photo is holding what appears to be his baby son who was born in 2017. It's possible it could be another relative but it seems unlikely. Also the little girl in the top right of the blow up with the red bow appears to be Joe Kennedy III's daughter, Eleanor who was born in 2015. I suspect this photo dates to 2018/2019.

Was just thinking how awkward it would be if he dies close to the November election. Trump and Biden will have to sit in the same pew, and I can see Trump objecting to Biden giving a eulogy. I anticipate there could be some drama around this.

For anyone unfamiliar with the MLK conspiracy. William Pepper is featured in the video.