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Yogi Berra has passed..... (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Sep 2015 OP
. Liberal_in_LA Sep 2015 #1
Oh no. murielm99 Sep 2015 #2
That is déjà vu all over again. longship Sep 2015 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2015 #4
As a baseball fanatic... Sophiegirl Sep 2015 #5
R.I.P. C Moon Sep 2015 #6
"That strike was so bad Aerows Sep 2015 #7
"I guess it is over." Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #8
I came for this comment JackInGreen Sep 2015 #9
(((((Yogi))))) icymist Sep 2015 #10
Great baseball player. He will be missed Travis_0004 Sep 2015 #11
"You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.” B Calm Sep 2015 #14
I did not know he was still alive malaise Sep 2015 #12
One of my favorites when I was a kid. RoccoR5955 Sep 2015 #13
He was a great mentor! imanamerican63 Sep 2015 #15

murielm99

(30,733 posts)
2. Oh no.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:28 AM
Sep 2015

RIP.

I want to say something light, given some of his funny statements, but I don't want to sound insensitive.

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. That is déjà vu all over again.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:45 AM
Sep 2015

RIP, Yogi. One of the greats. And one who always spoke the unvarnished truth.

Some sage advice from the great Yogi Berra.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical.

The future ain't what it used to be.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded.


And one last one, to honor his wisdom:
You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

RIP Yogi!

Response to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
7. "That strike was so bad
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 03:24 AM
Sep 2015

he'd of had to hit it for them to say it wasn't one."

and

You can observe a lot by just watching.



RIP Yogi

 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
11. Great baseball player. He will be missed
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 07:40 AM
Sep 2015

One of his quotes:

“You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
14. "You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 08:37 AM
Sep 2015

LOL

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
13. One of my favorites when I was a kid.
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 08:05 AM
Sep 2015

He could hit a ball that bounced on the ground in front of home plate. He was also a great catcher and manager.

He was also one of the most genuine people.

RIP Yogi.

imanamerican63

(13,776 posts)
15. He was a great mentor!
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 08:42 AM
Sep 2015

Like the others great players who played along side of and was able to play for him while he was a manager learned a lot about life. I still watch a lot of baseball today and even thou the times have changed, no player today can say that they play the game for love and not the money. Yogi, Lou, Joe, Mickey, and so many others, played the game with heart and when the country need them to fight for our freedom, most of them went off to defend this country. And if they were not able to go, they help out any way they could. If you did not go to the game, you listened to the game on the radio. The was no TV, no call in show to scream at the team for losing, unlike today where there is so much "Hey look at me" players making millions of $'s and a few of them doing things that are not legit in that makes baseball a bitter sport. I was not born when these men played, but learned so much from hearing their stories. We say goodbye to one of the greatest and of one the classiest men to have dawned a baseball uniform. RIP Yogi!

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