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  • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

    Originally posted by Hammer View Post
    Red Wings and Tigers owner Mike Ilitch. He was 87.
    You can always fire/hire a good coach. You can always fire/hire a good GM. Heck, you can always gut the front office.

    But you're SOL if you don't have a good owner. We were lucky to have him.
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    • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

      Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
      You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to burd again.
      No, no you don't.
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      • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

        Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
        You can always fire/hire a good coach. You can always fire/hire a good GM. Heck, you can always gut the front office.

        But you're SOL if you don't have a good owner. We were lucky to have him.
        Rumor always was the kids would sell one of the teams once Mr. I died. Guess we'll play the waiting game.
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        • Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
          Rumor always was the kids would sell one of the teams once Mr. I died. Guess we'll play the waiting game.
          It will be the Tigers. It's been said for years that only Mike cared much about baseball.

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          • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

            Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, 94

            http://www.militarytimes.com/article...dies-at-age-94

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              • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

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                • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                  David and Maddie are sad

                  @WTOP: ALERT: Legendary jazz singer Al Jarreau has died at age 76, CBS reports. Story developing. http://bit.ly/sjB3au
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                  • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                    Al Jarreau was/is my favorite singer. Saw him several times in concert.
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                    • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                      Originally posted by A Shot and a Goal View Post
                      Al Jarreau was/is my favorite singer. Saw him several times in concert.
                      I just learned that he was from Minneapolis, got his start at Uncle Sam's, which eventually became The Depot, and finally 1st Ave - owned by Prince and featured in Purple Rain.
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                      • Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                        I just learned that he was from Minneapolis, got his start at Uncle Sam's, which eventually became The Depot, and finally 1st Ave - owned by Prince and featured in Purple Rain.
                        Um, Wikipedia lists him being from Milwaukee and getting his start in Sausilito, CA.

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                        • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                          And I'm pretty sure Prince didn't own 1st Ave (not that he couldn't have of course).

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                          • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                            Originally posted by goldy_331 View Post
                            Um, Wikipedia lists him being from Milwaukee and getting his start in Sausilito, CA.
                            I was a little off in the nature of his Minneapolis connection, but it does appear strong, played a big part of making him the musician he became.

                            From the Strib.

                            Al Jarreau grew up in Milwaukee and earned his big break in California, but the seven-time Grammy-winning jazz singer pointed to his time in Minneapolis as a pivotal step in his career. That five-decade legacy ended Sunday when he died at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 76.

                            “I had kind of a lusty one-nighter with Minneapolis,” Jarreau laughingly described it in an interview last year.

                            ...He and his manager at the time, Shelly Jacobs, returned to Jacobs’ hometown of Minneapolis in 1969, and for the next year Jarreau said he enjoyed a great creative spurt.

                            “What we were doing was a little against the grain, but the [Minneapolis] audience was open to it,” he remembered, pointing to his performances at the newly opened nightclub the Depot, now First Avenue. “It was a young, hip audience that was open to new sounds. The entire city at the time really had it going on.”

                            Original Depot/First Ave owner Allan Fingerhut remembered Jarreau was “trying to make up his mind” about becoming a singer or a professional baseball player when he performed at the club. “I think we played a significant role in launching his career, because the audiences really dug him,” Fingerhut said.

                            Jarreau said he wrote his first songs in Minneapolis, and he put together a band that included future “A Prairie Home Companion” bandleader Rich Dworsky — then still a senior in high school — along with Bobby Schnitzer, Dik Hedlund and Bruce Kurnow. They followed Jarreau out to California in 1971, where he eventually signed with Warner Bros. Records.
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