Kirby Puckett, dead at 45

[Ultra Peanut]

http://www.startribune.com/10017/story/287541.html

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[listopencil]

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[4th and Long]

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Stop posting that arrow up in every Puckett thread! ROFL

[CoMoChief]

This is what happens when you live your life partying your ass off. It will catch up to you later, then the body shuts down. Kirby was a great player and will be missed. RIP Mr. Puckett.

[Halfcan]

RIP Puck.

[4th and Long]

This is what happens when you live your life partying your ass off. It will catch up to you later, then the body shuts down. Kirby was a great player and will be missed. RIP Mr. Puckett.
It's painfully obvious you're not in the medical professional or that bullshit you just spouted would have never made it to the board. He died of a stroke(a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain)/ My grandfather died of the same condition and he wasn't a partier. Dumbass.

[Saul Good]

Kirby was a piece of sh*t. His public image didn't match reality.

[Ultra Peanut]

This is what happens when you live your life partying your ass off. It will catch up to you later, then the body shuts down. Kirby was a great player and will be missed. RIP Mr. Puckett.wtf

[Coach]

Kirby was a piece of sh*t. His public image didn't match reality.

While his public image may not match reality, he played the game the way it was meant to be played.

[Brock]

Kirby was a piece of sh*t. His public image didn't match reality.

I don't think he was a piece of shit. He was a man with some demons.

[Saul Good]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2003/03/11/si_puckett/

[kcxiv]

RiP Kirby, when i was a kid i loved watching him play. I just loved the way he played the game. Outside of the game, alot of people have problems. Its the way life is.

[Saul Good]

While his public image may not match reality, he played the game the way it was meant to be played.Ty Cobb played the game the right way too, but Puckett's a bigger SOB than Cobb ever was. I don't care how hard you play the game. You cease being a respectable human being the minute you put a loaded gun to the head of your wife while she's holding your child. That's just my opinion, though. Maybe I don't value a .318 career average as much as I should, though.

[Saul Good]

RiP Kirby, when i was a kid i loved watching him play. I just loved the way he played the game. Outside of the game, alot of people have problems. Its the way life is.So if rapists, murderers, child mollesters, and the like work hard at their day jobs, it's all good.

[Coach]

Ty Cobb played the game the right way too, but Puckett's a bigger SOB than Cobb ever was. I don't care how hard you play the game. You cease being a respectable human being the minute you put a loaded gun to the head of your wife while she's holding your child. That's just my opinion, though. Maybe I don't value a .318 career average as much as I should, though.

I don't know if Puckett could be considered a bigger SOB than Cobb was, considering that Cobb was racist, and at times, Cobb played the game dirty, especially when sliding, he is known to spike certain people on the process. I don't disagee on the loaded gun on the head of a wife. I agree with that, but he's not the only one that does that stuff, since almost some athletes does something similar to that, or worse.

Well, sometimes a career average doesn't mean anything if he has a .360 OBP% .477 SLG and a .837 OPS.

[Saul Good]

Cobb was a racist in the 1920s. That hardly compares to what Kirby has done in his life.

[listopencil]

Ty Cobb played the game the right way too, but Puckett's a bigger SOB than Cobb ever was. I don't care how hard you play the game. You cease being a respectable human being the minute you put a loaded gun to the head of your wife while she's holding your child. That's just my opinion, though. Maybe I don't value a .318 career average as much as I should, though.


Holy shit. I didn't know he did that. Man, **** Kirby Puckett.

[Mr. Kotter]

RIP, Kirby. Thanks for the memories.

[Bearcat]

Now that we've had someone sh*t on his grave, I guess the only thing left is the headline in tomorrow's paper..... Pucket dead, never saw it coming





Sorry.



I'm going to hell.

[Katipan]

Now that we've had someone sh*t on his grave, I guess the only thing left is the headline in tomorrow's paper..... Pucket dead, never saw it coming





Sorry.



I'm going to hell.

Your only consolation is that you'll see him there.

[DJJasonp]

I like the way the man played the game.....

What we read in the media about him (like 80% of what we read about everybody famous) is probably fabricated b.s.

Regardless of what his home life may or may not have been....I admire the way the man played the game....

He seemed to enjoy it....and made us remember in the world series what we all use to dream of when we were 13 years old......

RIP Kirby...

[DrNick]

Now that we've had someone sh*t on his grave, I guess the only thing left is the headline in tomorrow's paper..... Pucket dead, never saw it coming





Sorry.



I'm going to hell.

ROFL ROFL


~Driving the short bus

[PunkinDrublic]

The only black people in Minnesota are Prince and Kirby Pucket. Guess it's just Prince now.

[Frazod]

The only black people in Minnesota are Prince and Kirby Pucket. Guess it's just Prince now.

What about Morris Day? :shrug:

[PunkinDrublic]

What about Morris Day? :shrug:

I was quoting from an old Chris Rock routine.

[Frazod]

I was quoting from an old Chris Rock routine.

Sorry. Morris was the only other guy I could remember from Purple Rain. :D

[Demonpenz]

kirby puckett gave fatasses a chance everywhere to play baseball. Ty Cobb was the bigger SOB. Ty Cobb beat up a WWI vet that lost his arm in a war. On the one arm he did have the vet had 2 fingers.

[Psyko Tek]

[but he's not the only one that does that stuff, since almost some athletes does something similar to that, or worse.

now ain't that a sad commentary on sports

ain't saying it's not true....
but damn it's sad :shake:

[Demonpenz]

I used to play baseball on traveling teams and played in high school. I liked the way kirby would talk about his day. He would always say "I am strugglin, i can't get confortable against this pitcher" Then go out and mash. There was always that one guy you wanted to say, shutup you know your going to atleast get 3 hits.

[Ebolapox]

Sorry. Morris was the only other guy I could remember from Purple Rain. :D

<img src="http://www.wizarduniverse.com/_gfx_/conventions/conventions/WW20031003-smith.gif">

Jay: [singing] F*ck, f*ck, f*ck, / Mother, mother f*ck, / Mother, mother f*ck, f*ck / Mother f*ck, mother f*ck, / Noich noich noich, / 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, / Noich, noich noich / Smokin' weed, smokin' wizz, / Doin' coke, drinkin' beers, / Drinkin' beers, beers, beers, / Rollin' fattys, smokin' blunts, / Who smokes the blunts? / We smoke the blunts. / Rollin' blunts and smokin'...
Teen #2: Uh, let me get a nickel bag.
Jay: [singing] / Fifteen bucks, little man, / Put that sh*t in my hand, / If that money doesn't show, / Then you owe me, owe me, owe, / My jungle love, yeah, / Owe-ee, owe-ee, owe, / I think I want to know ya, know ya, / Yeah, what?
Teen #1: What the hell are you singing?
Jay: You don't know "Jungle Love?" That sh*t is the mad notes. Written by God herself and sent down to the greatest band in the world: The mother-f*cking Time.
Teen #2: You mean the guys in that Prince movie?
[Silent Bob points to the two teens]
Teen #1: Yeah, Purple Rain.
Teen #2: Man, that sh*t was so gay - f*cking eighties style.

-EB- :D

[greg63]

RIP Kirby!

[Hammock Parties]

Maybe I don't value a .318 career average as much as I should, though.

Only .318? What a loser. That's not even 33.3%. :rolleyes:

[Hammock Parties]

Just browsing his stats here. Look at 1988. That is some kind of season:


Year Ag Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG TB SH SF IBB HBP GDP
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
1984 23 MIN AL 128 557 63 165 12 5 0 31 14 7 16 69 .296 .320 .336 187 4 2 1 4 11
1985 24 MIN AL 161 691 80 199 29 13 4 74 21 12 41 87 .288 .330 .385 266 5 3 0 4 9
1986 25 MIN AL 161 680 119 223 37 6 31 96 20 12 34 99 .328 .366 .537 365 2 0 4 7 14
1987 26 MIN AL 157 624 96 207 32 5 28 99 12 7 32 91 .332 .367 .534 333 0 6 7 6 16
1988 27 MIN AL 158 657 109 234 42 5 24 121 6 7 23 83 .356 .375 .545 358 0 9 4 2 17
1989 28 MIN AL 159 635 75 215 45 4 9 85 11 4 41 59 .339 .379 .465 295 0 5 9 3 21
1990 29 MIN AL 146 551 82 164 40 3 12 80 5 4 57 73 .298 .365 .446 246 1 3 11 3 15
1991 30 MIN AL 152 611 92 195 29 6 15 89 11 5 31 78 .319 .352 .460 281 8 7 4 4 27
1992 31 MIN AL 160 639 104 210 38 4 19 110 17 7 44 97 .329 .374 .490 313 1 6 13 6 17
1993 32 MIN AL 156 622 89 184 39 3 22 89 8 6 47 93 .296 .349 .474 295 1 5 7 7 15
1994 33 MIN AL 108 439 79 139 32 3 20 112 6 3 28 47 .317 .362 .540 237 1 7 7 7 11
1995 34 MIN AL 137 538 83 169 39 0 23 99 3 2 56 89 .314 .379 .515 277 0 5 18 3 15

[kcfanXIII]

apost of silence for kirby pucket...




..rip.