RIP in Peace Tim Wakefield
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And doesn’t his wife have pancreatic cancer? That’s almost always another death sentence.
And a double F you to the MAGAt Curt Schilling!
I have a special spot in my heart for all knuckleballers
Phil Niekro was a long time master. RIP in peace, Tim Wakefield.
Way too soon.
Love the knuckleball. Feels like a pitch for the Everyman. Don’t have lightning in the arm but learned this crazy thing.
Love the knuckleball. Feels like a pitch for the Everyman. Don’t have lightning in the arm but learned this crazy thing.
Yeah, he was a studio analyst for NESN for the last 10 or so years.
He was drafted out of Florida Tech as a first baseman (he holds the school record for homers in a season and career. While playing minor league ball the Pirates scouting department told him he would likely never make it past Double A, so he decided to learn how to pitch & centered his pitching around the knuckler.
X didn’t he make a movie about the knuckle ball? I always enjoyed listening to Wakefield . he had an interesting career in Pittsburgh and Boston.
Wakefield was republican. Just wanted to let you know that so you can celebrate his death.
What a stupid comment. Don't waste my time with shit like this.
I'm a Red Sox fan. I'm really sad about this. I loved to watch him pitch. It was different.
Barney ( one pitch ) Schultz was a knuckleballer for the Cardinals in 1964. In game three of the World Series he started the 9th inning in relief of Curt Simmons in a 1-1 tie game. Mickey Mantle promptly delivered his first pitch into the seats for a homer and a 2-1 Yankee win. Fortunately the Cards and Gibson got the last laugh, winning in 7 with Gibson pitching all 27 innings in his 3 starts...
Why is it sad? Are you a cancer survivor? Thousands of people die from cancer every day, what makes Wakefield special? Because he played in the MLB?
**** cancer. Unless you are a survivor, know a survivor, live with a survivor, or have lost a loved one to that shit, he is just another in a long list that died of that crap.
Posted this in the other thread, but he seemed like a genuine guy that didn't let his fame and fortune get to his head like others do.
He lived just a few minutes from me and from all accounts from people in the area, he was a down to earth, regular guy. Around a year ago, I saw him dropping his teenage daughter and friends off at the beach and they had the usual father daughter spat about how she better be ready when he came back to pick her up cause he's not waiting around like last time. She kinda blew him off and he just shook his head laughing. He saw me and I just smiled and shrugged and he did the same back. Got back into his Maybach and drove away. I did notice his voice was very hoarse and weak, so now I wonder if that was part of his condition. Anyway, he seemed like just a regular dude (minus the car) in shorts and flip flops, going about his day.
He lived just a few minutes from me and from all accounts from people in the area, he was a down to earth, regular guy. Around a year ago, I saw him dropping his teenage daughter and friends off at the beach and they had the usual father daughter spat about how she better be ready when he came back to pick her up cause he's not waiting around like last time. She kinda blew him off and he just shook his head laughing. He saw me and I just smiled and shrugged and he did the same back. Got back into his Maybach and drove away. I did notice his voice was very hoarse and weak, so now I wonder if that was part of his condition. Anyway, he seemed like just a regular dude (minus the car) in shorts and flip flops, going about his day.
Well I recall 3 years of my 7 year old son going through chemo for ALL leukemia. That good enough for you?
Sure is. I'm curious why Wakefield affected you so much that you made a post about it. TBW just got done with chemo and RadTher. She's still not 100 % but she is alive. My MIL died of cancer, we know multitudes of folks who have suffered the process, whether they survived or not. It sucks.
I guess my point is because some middling pitcher died of cancer you had to start a post. Cancer sucks.
I'll stop now.
The knuckleball either knuckles or as a Braves fan like me knows, winds up on the upper deck. The physics of that pitch are incredible and have been used in aviation.
You should have never started. You're extra angry tonight.
I recall Harry Carey calling the Barney Schultz pitch " a non knuckling " knuckle ball...
What a weird fvcking post.
I love that you're a historian of baseball. Most people don't remember Harry's time in the Lou. Great city.
Stacy Wakefield, Tim's wife, has passed away 5 months after he did. She had pancreatic cancer.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/widow-tim-wakefield-dies-less-than-5-months-former-pitchers-passing
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/widow-tim-wakefield-dies-less-than-5-months-former-pitchers-passing
Well, I'll go ahead and add an extra F-U to Schilling. What a complete douchebag this guy is.
Wakefield has brain cancer and the wife is battling pancreatic cancer and they both ask that this information remain private.
Schilling goes on his stupid, hillbilly politics podcast and ANNOUNCES to the world that they both fighting cancer. What a great guy. No wonder so many of his ex-teammates don't care for the guy.
Wakefield has brain cancer and the wife is battling pancreatic cancer and they both ask that this information remain private.
Schilling goes on his stupid, hillbilly politics podcast and ANNOUNCES to the world that they both fighting cancer. What a great guy. No wonder so many of his ex-teammates don't care for the guy.
I saw this the other day in the local paper, but couldn't bring myself to post it. Sad story all around and best wishes to their 2 children dealing with this.
Thanks to the dick that bumped this thread. I just announced “Tim Wakefield died” at the poker table. They were not impressed with the news.
Again, I hesitate to post this kind of shit, but there is a groundwater issue in our small area that even Erin Brockovich comes to champion. I don't get political, but there has been a documented cancer cluster in our small area from old ww2 ordnance and fire suppression foam that was buried, then built upon.
Not saying this had anything to do with the Wakefields, and I hate to even bring this up, because horrible shit happens to the best of people. And in all honesty, bad things happen to all of us that live.
Both having cancer like that just seems past coincidence. So much crap we are exposed to. Feel for those kids.Again, I hesitate to post this kind of shit, but there is a groundwater issue in our small area that even Erin Brockovich comes to champion. I don't get political, but there has been a documented cancer cluster in our small area from old ww2 ordnance and fire suppression foam that was buried, then built upon.
Not saying this had anything to do with the Wakefields, and I hate to even bring this up, because horrible shit happens to the best of people. And in all honesty, bad things happen to all of us that live.
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