RIP Mark Eaton

[Moderator1]

 

[goalmouth]

"Passed away" LOL

 

[Regan MacNeil]

"Passed away" LOL

Hilarious.

 

[JC]

"Passed away" LOL

What am I missing here?

 

[mpcincal]

What am I missing here?

I think he's alluding the belief among journalists that in mentioning someone's death, you say "died," and no other euphemism. However, although it's still policy in the AP Stylebook, I think people are moving away from that and "passed away" is becoming more acceptable.

As to the subject at hand, RIP to a guy who was able to carve a pretty solid career out of being solely a defensive force.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1980s I was a total basketball nerd in a city that couldn’t care less. The only hoops talk on the radio was a Sunday evening, nationally syndicated show with Marty Blake and Kevin Harlan sponsored by the Kansas City Steak Shoppe — which gave a dozen steaks to a weekly trivia winner. One night in spring of 1990 the question was “who was the 1989 Defensive Player of the Year?” Having a trap memory for useless information, I had remembered hearing during a random TBS playoff game that Eaton had won DPOY. So I wrote it on a postcard, added the necessary address and had my mom fire it off.

About four weeks later, I’m walking home from one of my last days of eighth grade and get flagged down by my neighbor, who had had UPS Drop off a package for us at his house. It was a box with a foam cooler packed with dry ice and about $150 worth Of steaks. I’ve never forgotten Eaton or that prize ever since.

RIP Mark.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I enjoyed watching him and Manute Bol making shot blocking into a speciality. But this ad (which Bill Cartwright did also) is my favorite memory of him.

 

[Moderator1]

What am I missing here?

About 80 percent of Goalmouth's recent posts have LOL in them, he's channeling his inner 13-year-old in his attempt to keep up his act (whatever that may be).

I'm not a fan of passed away but whatever. A man died, probably not the place to be making a point with LOL in there.

But Goalmouth also uses the board to wish death on a lot of people so maybe he does think it is funny.

 

[rubenmateo]

They were never able to really replace his value in the Malone/Stockton years — Felton Spencer, Antoine Carr, Greg Ostertag. Wonder if it would have made the difference those years they lost to Olajuwon’s Rockets in the playoffs before they finally broke through in ‘97.

 

[HanSenSE]

And to think I was hung up on a basketball player passing.

RIP.

 

[Flip Wilson]