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RIP Rod Beck

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The "shooter" was 38.

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  • AlmostPerfectAlmostPerfect Posts: 275
    Wow. Why did he die????
  • CubsFan41CubsFan41 Posts: 513 ✭✭
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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    STORY
  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    "He was having some problems, and I just knew he went into rehab and joined us later that year," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy, the Padres' manager at the time. "It's so sad when you see healthy players go at such a young age. This is a bad day in baseball to lose a guy who did so much for the game."
  • theczartheczar Posts: 1,590 ✭✭
    made over 26 million in his career.

    all for naught.




  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,587 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow. Why did he die???? >>



    Do you mean how? lol
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Wow. Why did he die???? >>



    Do you mean how? lol >>



    Are you always this laughably irrelevant, or do you save it all for your contributions to these boards?
  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    Boo,

    you're just upset because he beat you to the punch

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  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    i agree jmbkb,

    guy is sharper than a steak knife and was honed in for the kill!

    if you can't laugh at yourself, you will only cry anyway.

    julen
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    RIP GURU
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,587 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am always this laughably irrelevant.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963


    << <i>i agree jmbkb,

    guy is sharper than a steak knife and was honed in for the kill!

    if you can't laugh at yourself, you will only cry anyway.

    julen >>



    I wouldn't want to meet Boo in a back "intellectual" alley, that's for sure.
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
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    Rod Beck was the Giants' first REAL closer. He'd take the mound, and you were usually sure he'd preserve the "W."

    This sucks. I'm not that old. Giants stars of my youth shouldn't be dying off yet. image
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  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    WOW !
    I used to drive for a private car service about 11 or 12 years ago I guess , maybe even longer than that , we used to have the account for picking up the visiting team players at Shea Stadium .

    One night he was my passenger when the Mets played the Giants one night , he was the closer , It was him and his wife , This guy had been the coolest played I had ever picked up , and I had many many players that year . . even Strawberry (Non tipping *&%^$#@)

    The first thing Rod Beck said was " Hey , do you know where I could get a bottle of Jack Daniels and a carton of Marlboro at this hour , so I took him to a place I knew in Astoria , then took him to his Hotel in Manhattan.

    He was a real dude , no shame in his game at all . . .
    He was also a great tipper , unlike many of the players I had picked up .

    Which I really couldn't believe . . .

    R.I.P. DUDE ! YOU ROCKED !

    Edited to say . . .man after reading the story posted above I'm like that's exactly true , that was the way he was for sure just a regular dude , One of the guys . . I like the part in the story where it says he used to park his camper outside the stadium and fans used to come by and get autographs and drink beer image

    Unfortunately for me , I was never one to ask for autographs from any of the guys , I don't know why I always felt some kind of shame in that .

    I could have had many many that year { I had only driven for 1 year in NYC before moving to Long Island }

    This is strange . . . this is the second baseball player talked about on the boards today that I had met personally too .
    I'm a little bit stunned . . .
  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    great story.

    rod beck looked like a right-on, straight-ahead kind of brother too.

    julen
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    RIP GURU
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,968 ✭✭✭✭
    That's a shame. Like a lot of pro atheletes he struggled with drug problems and it seems to have killed him - but unlike a lot of professional athletes, he was a "regular" guy who apparently tipped well, treated his teammates, and especially fans he met as he'd like to be treated. Parking his winnebago out behind the of fence in AAA and having fans pop by for an auto and a beer seems quite UNlike anything you could ever expect from any other major-leaguer. RIP! image
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    I can't believe he was my age too .

    I may have also said something that may not be fact, that woman that was with him, I just assumed was his wife , But I know back then I was kinda young and so was he too, maybe that was just his girlfriend with him or maybe his sister <Shrug >

    He was such a big guy I guess I just thought he was a lot older than me , certainly a lot bigger than I am at 5'9".

    What really upsets me when I think about one of the good guys passing on is . . . The real scum of the Earth will live forever but people such as Rod seem to not last so long .
  • BigRedMachineBigRedMachine Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭
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  • EAsportsEAsports Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭
    Sad...

    He threw out the first pitch at the Cubs game I went to last summer.
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  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    seemed like a nice guy; sadly i think the details of his death will be either suicide or drug O.D.
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