2024 Dead Pool

Beer & Queso
744

One built a hospital in Africa and the other built a storefront museum to himself in Cooperstown.

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745

I will add that I hope Rose did more to help others than we’ve been told about and I hope those close to him can find some comfort in a difficult time.

746

My HS baseball coach got to know Rose when he got called up to the Reds for a stint in the ‘70s as a backup catcher.
He didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about him.
That being said, I wish Rose’s family peace and comfort in a sad time for them.

747

I admired his ability to get hits. He did hustle when he was a young ballplayer. That’s pretty much all the nice things can think to say.

748

Yeah, that thought doesn’t thrill me.

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750

Off court non-philanthropic Mutombo story:

https://x.com/gehrenbergdfs/status/1840769299922702750

751

John Amos, 84.

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752

Apparently he passed in August but the family just made it public.

Perfectly respectable but there were some sad issues among and within the family reported over the years.

753

John Amos played a great comedic dad in Good Times. I used to watch GT with MY dad, who I always thought may have had underlying racist tendencies. Dad LOVED that show, and would laugh apoplecticly as John Amos would strain to keep from exploding at the situations that crossed his path. I felt like that show helped him move past the shortcomings of his 40s-50s upbringing.

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754

Another Norman Lear offering.

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755

My exposure to Amos is really limited to “Coming to America”. He was fucking hilarious in that movie.

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756

Die Hard 2?

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757

Wow! Yes.

758

I really liked Amos in The West Wing.

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759

I was based at Dulles at my first airline 20 yrs ago.
We used to joke about how fast they rebuilt things after Die Hard 2 :crazy_face::joy:

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760

Don’t forget Roots.

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761

“You’re talking to me about international law? The laws of NATURE don’t apply!”

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762

McGarry: “You have any problem with a young black man waiting on the President?”
Fitzwallace: “I’m an old black man and I wait on the President.”

763

“ The problem with that is that’s what they were saying about me 50 years ago - blacks shouldn’t serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I’m an admiral in the U.S. Navy and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff… Beat that with a stick.”