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Jun. 20th, 2024 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marta_beeI'm a bit shocked to hear Willie Mays died this week. Growing up my father was a sports writer (college not pro, but even still), and I spent more than a little time in locker rooms doing my homework while he worked. Pair that with the fact we had a minor league baseball team in town and we always had tickets. I never really followed sports as sports, but the culture of it, baseball especially and baseball of the generation or so before, has a special place in my heart.
Old people die, of course, and I didn't know him personally enough to have any sense of grief. But it still makes me feel a bit sad. Like a piece of a simpler world has slipped away, I guess.
ETA: Unrelated, but I'm truly thankful to be down in the land of central air and not struggling through the heat dome with a fan and a bowl of melting ice. It sounds brutal. Stay cool if you can.
Old people die, of course, and I didn't know him personally enough to have any sense of grief. But it still makes me feel a bit sad. Like a piece of a simpler world has slipped away, I guess.
ETA: Unrelated, but I'm truly thankful to be down in the land of central air and not struggling through the heat dome with a fan and a bowl of melting ice. It sounds brutal. Stay cool if you can.
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Date: 2024-06-20 11:20 am (UTC)Well said.
The heat dome is heeeeeere! Whew, it's going to be a scorcher.
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Date: 2024-06-20 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-22 11:32 am (UTC)Yes ... Willie Mays - what a ball player and what a man!
- Erulisse (one L)