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The Dead Thread 2024

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Larry Lucchino, former Red Sox president

I met him twice. First time was at the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular event on July 4th. My company used to sponsor it and I worked on it. He was sitting in our upfront section. After the concert I introduced myself to him, told him my dad has had season tickets since 1968, at which point he gave me whatever World Series ring had just happened (2007? 2013? Can't remember) and let me wear it and took a picture with me. Second time I was with my dad at Fenway and on the way to our seats. We were walking by the door to the Red Sox offices and he came out. I went up to him and dragged my dad over to introduce them. When he heard how long my dad had tickets (and no, he didn't remember me from the summer before) he was genuinely nice and interested. I remember him asking my dad if he remembered how much the tickets were when he first got them. He was just really nice to my dad and I'll always remember him for that.
 
Mr. Lucchino did a lot of good in every city he owned/ran/worked for a team.

He will be missed.
 
joecct said:
Mr. Lucchino did a lot of good in every city he owned/ran/worked for a team.

He will be missed.
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Lucchino did not do any of good for Pawtucket, Rhode Island the former and longtime home of the Pawtucket Red Sox. He moved the team to Worcester, Mass. and then sold it to Diamond Baseball Holdings, a group that owns 30 minor league teams. The Pawtucket Red Sox were a local treasure owned by a gentleman named Ben Mondor who during his tenure kept the place affordable for families and a model for minor league baseball. After he died his widow sold it to Lucchino and company who crapped on the local community. I had no use for the guy after that.
 
Guitarist Michael Ward, 57, complications from diabetes.

Probably best known for his time in The Wallflowers during their most successful period. But he was also a founding member of the 90's band School of Fish, and after they broke up, he was part of John Hiatt's touring band. Tons of session work and appearances with other artists, and his own band Gogol Bordello.

Saw him on this tour with Hiatt, three tracks from the two shows they played in Portland ME became part of the live album Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan. This track being notable for his short guitar malfunction about halfway through, either pulled the cord out, missed a stomp on his pedalboard or accidentally hit a pickup switch on his guitar.

 
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Interesting. I don't know of him specifically but I just listened to Terms of my Surrender yesterday, and School of Fish got plenty of rotation my senior year in college.
 
Peter Higgs, the physicist who discovered the theoretical mechanism explaining the origin of mass in the universe, has passed away today.
 
There is the potential here to have the greatest funeral procession ever done in the history of mankind.
 
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