RIP Rod Beck
zef204
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all for naught.
<< <i>Wow. Why did he die???? >>
Do you mean how? lol
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<< <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?
you're just upset because he beat you to the punch
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
RIP GURU
<< <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.
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.
WTB: 2001 Leaf Rookies & Stars Longevity: Ryan Jensen #/25
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
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 . . .
rod beck looked like a right-on, straight-ahead kind of brother too.
julen
RIP GURU
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 .
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Will be missed by all you buyers
He threw out the first pitch at the Cubs game I went to last summer.
Only an idiot would have a message board signature.