November 16: Joe Nuxhall
I'm going to interrupt the flow of this linkblog to take a little moment for the memory of Joe Nuxhall, who passed away last night.
Even being the non-sportswoman that I am, I was taken aback by the news this morning. My family is comprised of Cincinnati Reds fans, and it's pretty difficult to know the Reds and not know Joe. I was more familiar with him behind a microphone than actually on the ballfield... and honestly, even his old Kroger commercials with Marty Brennaman are pretty clear in my mind ("Let's go Krogering...").
Anyway, it's pretty unrelated, but read some articles about Nuxhall today. There will be no small amount of coverage today... you could start at The Enquirer or Wikipedia.
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For all the wonderful things attributed to Nuxhall, mastery of the language was never one of them. It's a testament to his stature that, night after night, as he posed yet another non-question to the Star of the Game ("Barry, you know, you talk about your plays at shortstop, and, in all honesty, that one tonight, I guess it proves that when you play the game the right way, you just never know, and that's about all you can say . . . "), the player would simply proceed, politely, with his answer, with nary a smart remark.
Requiescat In Pace, Joe . . .
November 20, 2007
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