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Ksyrup
05-14-2003, 01:23 PM
Breaking news on ESPN.com. No link.
Craptacular
05-14-2003, 01:24 PM
Who??
Ksyrup
05-14-2003, 01:27 PM
HoF basketball player and former pitcher in the White Sox organization.
Anrhydeddu
05-14-2003, 01:28 PM
I remembered watching him, along with Willis and Frazier, on the 1969-1970 Knicks. :(
JeeberD
05-14-2003, 01:34 PM
Damn Anrhy, you are old...
Marmel
05-14-2003, 01:35 PM
Why do you think Anrhy likes the Civil War so much? Because the sucker fought in it!
clintl
05-14-2003, 01:39 PM
He was also commissioner of the ABA.
Craptacular
05-14-2003, 01:44 PM
Hmm, the Knicks and the White Sox from 40 years ago... no wonder I didn't know of him. I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't understand why this is "breaking news."
henry296
05-14-2003, 01:47 PM
Originally posted by Craptacular
Hmm, the Knicks and the White Sox from 40 years ago... no wonder I didn't know of him. I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't understand why this is "breaking news."

Anytime a former star athlete passes away it seems to be breaking news and is tragic. He is a Hall of Famer and member of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players. It would be the same for the death of a NFL Hall of Famer who played for the Packers of the 60s.

Todd
Ksyrup
05-14-2003, 01:48 PM
I know him more for his time with the Pistons. He was a player/coach at age 25 or something like that.
cuervo72
05-14-2003, 01:49 PM
Wasn't he also a GM or something for the Knicks later on?
Franklinnoble
05-14-2003, 02:00 PM
He also invented the 9 volt battery.
Ksyrup
05-14-2003, 02:05 PM
No, that was the father of the guy from the Monkees.
cuervo72
05-14-2003, 02:11 PM
Originally posted by Ksyrup
No, that was the father of the guy from the Monkees.

Snicker.

Actually, I wasn't that far off with the GM comment:

In 1982 DeBusschere returned to the Knicks and was appointed executive vice president and director of basketball operations. He retained the post until the start of the 1986-87 season.
Anrhydeddu
05-14-2003, 02:16 PM
Do you know what the mother of the guy from the Monkees invented?
Franklinnoble
05-14-2003, 02:18 PM
Originally posted by Anrhydeddu
Do you know what the mother of the guy from the Monkees invented?

Artifically manufactured boy-bands that would someday become the scourge of Western Civilzation?
CHEMICAL SOLDIER
05-14-2003, 02:21 PM
God Rest his soul .
cuervo72
05-14-2003, 02:36 PM
Originally posted by Anrhydeddu
Do you know what the mother of the guy from the Monkees invented?

Yep, White Out.
Ksyrup
05-14-2003, 02:52 PM
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I thought it was the father, though, not the mother. Or maybe it was the Monkee's uncle, har har!
cuervo72
05-14-2003, 02:56 PM
Originally posted by Ksyrup
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I thought it was the father, though, not the mother. Or maybe it was the Monkee's uncle, har har!

That's why I snickered :)
Anrhydeddu
05-14-2003, 02:58 PM
And what did the son of that mother pioneered?
AKnightofNi
05-14-2003, 04:42 PM
disco
AKnightofNi
05-14-2003, 04:43 PM
dola...

or maybe it was a sythesizer
AKnightofNi
05-14-2003, 04:44 PM
dola^2...

or was it kiddie porn. I forget. But he was from Texas, so it was probably colossal, whatever it was.
AKnightofNi
05-14-2003, 04:45 PM
dola^2...

actually, this should be dola^2, cuz it is the fourth post, but I digress
Anrhydeddu
05-14-2003, 04:53 PM
Music videos. Thanks for playing AKnightofSomething. :p
Swaggs
05-14-2003, 06:07 PM
This thread hurts my head.
PSUColonel
05-22-2003, 11:09 PM
Unfortunately one of his former Yale teamates who is a friend of mine died as well. I attended his Funeral on Monday.