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    Angels Pitcher Tyler Skaggs DD

    Tyler Skaggs, a left-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels, has died. He was 27.
    Monday’s game between Los Angeles and the Texas Rangers was cancelled as a result of the death.
    https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...-texas-age-27/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy
    I'd say good luck in the freeroll but I'm pretty sure you'll go on a bender to self-sabotage yourself & miss it completely or use it as the excuse of why you didn't cash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy View Post
    Monday’s game between Los Angeles and the Texas Rangers was cancelled as a result of the death.
    https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...-texas-age-27/

    RIP.


    Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LegalizeMeth View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy View Post


    Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
    kyle was a cardinal...

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by GambleBotsChafedPenis View Post
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    Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
    kyle was a cardinal...
    He was also 33 not anywhere close to 20s

     
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    I doubt its drug related, MLB tests like monthly. It likely is just a terrible case of early heart disease that was undetected. He was coming into a huge contract year, just a bad beat. By all accounts a good guy.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by LegalizeMeth View Post
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    Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
    Maybe you’re thinking of Tommy Hanson who last pitched for the Angels before OD’ing at age 29 in 2015?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LegalizeMeth View Post
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    Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
    Yeah the story I linked mentions Adenhart was killed by a drunk driver during the 2009 season.
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    I'd say good luck in the freeroll but I'm pretty sure you'll go on a bender to self-sabotage yourself & miss it completely or use it as the excuse of why you didn't cash.

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    This is really weird. Skaggs pitched the day before his death, and seemed totally fine. He had a mediocre game, but no health problems were apparent at all.

    I wonder if roids had to do with this. Roids are known to damage the heart, so perhaps he was one of those players abusing them, and he was one of the unlucky ones to develop a fatal problem from it.

    I guess it could also be an undiagnosed congenital heart problem, too.

    A guy I went to school with (elementary all the way through college) abruptly died at age 34 from one of these. Didn't do drugs. Had a successful career, was married, had a kid, very clean-living guy. Just abruptly died one day from a heart attack. Very sad. We weren't friends, but he was always a nice guy.

    We will probably find out soon enough. The only thing being said right now is that it wasn't suicide and that foul play wasn't suspected.

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    Regarding other Angels players to die...

    There was Nick Adenhart who died of a car crash in 2009.

    Luis Valbuena, a free agent who had last played for the Angels in 2018, died during the offseason in a car crash in Venezuela.

    Donnie Moore killed himself in 1989 after getting released by the Angels in 1988, and failing to make the Majors again. He was best known for blowing 1986 ALCS Game 5, up 3-1 on Boston, and the Angels ultimately lost that series. (Boston later blew the World Series against the Mets partially thanks to one Bill Buckner.) Moore's suicide didn't directly have to do with baseball. He got into an argument with his wife, shot her, and then killed himself. It's possible that the argument wouldn't have happened if he wasn't on edge from his baseball career having failed. While some think that Moore's career collapsed due to ALCS Game 5, in reality he had injury issues in 1987 and 1988, which eventually put an end to his career.

    Lyman Bostock was killed in 1978 after getting shot dead, in what was called a case of mistaken identity.

    Mike Miley died in 1977 prior to that year's season. He was the Angels' #1 draft pick in 1974, and played during the 1975 and 1976 seasons. He died in a single-vehicle car crash.

    In 1974, Bruce Heinbechner died in a head-on car crash.

    In 1972, Chico Ruiz died in a car crash.

    It's important to note that automobile deaths were a lot more common in the 1970s than today, due to the cars which were much less safe compared to now.

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    The Angels also had a bus crash in 1992, where miraculously nobody died.

    https://halohangout.com/2017/05/22/o...r-anniversary/


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    I'm assuming undiagnosed heart defect is really the only answer here, just like Kile. Crazy how these guys are constantly being checked out by the best doctors and this stuff can go unseen. Especially in Kile's case, as he had been in the big leagues for ~10 years when he went DD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Regarding other Angels players to die...

    In 1972, Chico Ruiz died in a car crash.

    It's important to note that automobile deaths were a lot more common in the 1970s than today.
    It’s also important to note more MLB players were selling automobiles in the off season during the 70’s.

    Dec 18, 1944, Red Sox catcher Mo Berg had a cyanide pill and a revolver in his pocket during Werner Heisenberg’s atomic lecture in Italy.

    Mo used neither.

    I don’t think he ever met Chico.

    nvm

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    The Terrant County (Texas) Medical Examiner told reporters it would begin an autopsy on Tuesday and estimates it will be completed on Oct. 2. The medical examiner will withhold any autopsy information until then per the family's request, according to USA Today's Gabe Lacques.
    Is a four month autopsy normal?



    https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/07/02/ty...october-angels

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    Quote Originally Posted by duped_samaritan View Post
    The Terrant County (Texas) Medical Examiner told reporters it would begin an autopsy on Tuesday and estimates it will be completed on Oct. 2. The medical examiner will withhold any autopsy information until then per the family's request, according to USA Today's Gabe Lacques.
    Is a four month autopsy normal?



    https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/07/02/ty...october-angels
    Yes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy
    I'd say good luck in the freeroll but I'm pretty sure you'll go on a bender to self-sabotage yourself & miss it completely or use it as the excuse of why you didn't cash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy View Post
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    Yes.
    Hilarious and sad. How does anything work down there

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    Cocaine with fentanyl?

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    Pretty amazing "end" to this story:

    First home game after he dies & they honour him by having his mom throw out the first pitch, all the players wear jerseys with his name & number on the back for the game, score 7 runs in the first, win the game 13-0 & throw a combined no-hitter with only 1 walk from it being a perfect game, then a special ceremony after the game.

    Just wow, you couldn't write this any better.
    https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...tter-mariners/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy
    I'd say good luck in the freeroll but I'm pretty sure you'll go on a bender to self-sabotage yourself & miss it completely or use it as the excuse of why you didn't cash.

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    Did anyone find out how he died? A local paper said it was an Opiate cocktail, but the Angles disputed that. The paper said it was like Tom Petty, he was not partying at all, just mixed too many painkillers to help with injuries. People forget Tom Petty had a broken hip and wanted to tour, it was not partying; that was behind him. It was an accident. He was great, that duo with Stevie Nicks, Sonatine gets it.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    Did anyone find out how he died? A local paper said it was an Opiate cocktail, but the Angles disputed that. The paper said it was like Tom Petty, he was not partying at all, just mixed too many painkillers to help with injuries. People forget Tom Petty had a broken hip and wanted to tour, it was not partying; that was behind him. It was an accident. He was great, that duo with Stevie Nicks, Sonatine gets it.
    Yeah how the hell is the paper going to know? No autopsy no basis for a conclusion.

    And medication for physical injuries (Tom Petty) do not lead to overdose deaths unless your Dr. is Yu Dum Fuk from China

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    Quote Originally Posted by limitles View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    Did anyone find out how he died? A local paper said it was an Opiate cocktail, but the Angles disputed that. The paper said it was like Tom Petty, he was not partying at all, just mixed too many painkillers to help with injuries. People forget Tom Petty had a broken hip and wanted to tour, it was not partying; that was behind him. It was an accident. He was great, that duo with Stevie Nicks, Sonatine gets it.
    Yeah how the hell is the paper going to know? No autopsy no basis for a conclusion.

    And medication for physical injuries (Tom Petty) do not lead to overdose deaths unless your Dr. is Yu Dum Fuk from China
    The telling thing to me is they said they are waiting on toxicology reports to come back before releasing the COD.. Im wondering if this was similar to what happened to a AZ National Guard guy here less then a year ago.. had been on pain meds due to an injury..Ran out before he could get back to the MD.. Got a pill from a fellow guard member and turned out to have a lethal level of Fentanyl in it.. (it was a counterfeit 5mg Oxy even the guy who gave it to him said he had no idea it was not what it appeared to be).

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