Tony Gwynn passes away

• Manhattan Buckeye

  can't believe it, one of the best natural hitters in his time
  
  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tony-gwynn-mlb-hall-of-famer-and-padres-icon-dies-at-54/
  
  Way too young.
• like_that

  

  Very sad.
• robj55

  

  Terrible, life is too short. RIP.
• Ytowngirlinfla

  

  I was grateful to meet him a few years back as he did an event on my ship to help people quit tobacco and chewing tobacco. RIP way too young to die.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Who cares? We don't know him and he has no affect on our lives. Stupid to post about it.
• Ironman92

  

  
  
  Check out the average and strikeouts....
• Ironman92

  

  
• Ironman92

  

  Could go 1,197 more AB without getting a single hit and still be above .300 for his career
• Devils Advocate

  

  2nd best hitter that I ever saw in my lifetime.
• Devils Advocate

  

  Career .444 hitter with bases loaded.
• robj55

  

  DeyDurkie5;1626765 wrote:Who cares? We don't know him and he has no affect on our lives. Stupid to post about it.

  What a POS
• SportsAndLady

  

  robj55;1626834 wrote:What a POS

  He was joking. Read the Tracy Morgan thread.
• HitsRus

  

  Who cares? We don't know him and he has no affect on our lives. Stupid to post about it.

  Actually not, if you could just get one person to stop using smokeless tobacco....and make others aware.
  Jim Kelly, former QB of the Buffalo Bills is also battling oral cancer( last reports were of a recurrence), and former major league CF and Tampa Bay 3B coach, Brett Butler has fought the battle. It is never pretty. Smokeless is worse than cigarettes. If you are using it...STOP!
• DeyDurkie5

  

  robj55;1626834 wrote:What a POS

  Lol
• robj55

  

  DeyDurkie5;1626880 wrote:Lol

  My apologies if you were joking, didn't read that thread.
• robj55

  

  SportsAndLady;1626840 wrote:He was joking. Read the Tracy Morgan thread.

  Didn't see it, my fault.
• jmog

  Tony Gwynn is the best pure hitter since Ted Williams. The season he was chasing .400 (finished .394) was the strike season of 1994, he was batting .426 over the last 30 games they played that season. He was definitely close to being the first since Williams to hit .400 for a season, if not for the strike.
  
  The insanely low number of strike outs each season was just plain stupid to show how good he really was.
• WebFire

  SportsAndLady;1626840 wrote:He was joking. Read the Tracy Morgan thread.

  Which was almost funny, but Morgan didn't die.
• SportsAndLady

  

  WebFire;1626911 wrote:Which was almost funny, but Morgan didn't die.

  You probably don't GAF about Gwynn passing, right? I mean you weren't friends with him, so how could you care if he died?
• WebFire

  SportsAndLady;1626912 wrote:You probably don't GAF about Gwynn passing, right? I mean you weren't friends with him, so how could you care if he died?

  I care as much about his passing as anyone else's.
• vball10set

  RIP to a true baseball legend...HOF19
• Ironman92

  

  
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• slingshot4ever

  Guy was a hitting machine
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Guy hit good, and baseball good.