RIP Mike Flanagan

I hated the '83 Orioles for what they did to the White Sox, including Flanagan, who started a game in that series. As I have grown older, I obviously now appreciate what he was able to do with his god-given ability.

I'm drawing a blank here. Wasn't there another recent sports suicide. Not Dave Duerson. Someone else.

 

Irabu.

 

If true, suicide over the fortunes of his team is one of the saddest things imaginable.

Not to infer that I blame Peter Angelos for Flanagan's alleged suicide -- that's no one's fault but Flanagan's -- but can you imagine how he feels upon hearing that news?

 

Thanks. I was drawing a complete blank. I remember you and I talked about how MLB Network handled it. That's how I thought of it, because this morning it seemed they were also staying away from the suicide angle on Flanagan, though admittedly I just caught part of the coverage.

 

That was some good stuff about him. I was never an O's fan but I always admired those guys, Palmer, Flanagan, Boddicker, Davis, Dennis Martinez, Brooks, Boog, Elrod, Dempsey, even Weaver.

 

People don't kill themselves because work sucks and they feel like they're being blamed for a company's woes. They kill themselves becuase they have some seriously messed up shit going on in their head.

Depression is a lot more complicated than "people think I was a bad GM." Can't believe WBAL went with that. And they clearly thought better of it since it's now erased from the story.

 

AP said that Flanagan was having financial issues.

 

no way angelos or anyone else with the o's should beat themselves up too badly over this. it's tragic, but if company owners blamed themselves every time an ex-employee offed himself... well, you get the idea.

obviously, much, much more was at work here than flanagan's failures as an orioles exec....

rip to a guy who, by all accounts, was a great and beloved teammate. prayers out to his family, his three daughters in particular. :'(

 

A TV guy, show up at the ballpark? Only reason I passed it along here is since MLB Network (yes, the same MLB Network that didn't report on the death of a fan at an A's-Rangers game until a day after it occurred) mentioned it on Quick Pitch. The O's had been a trainwreck-in-progress before Flanagan's watch.

 

Coroner confirms suicide.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-obit-flanagan

 

The line about the body being difficult to identify b/c of its wounds made me shiver.