As an Orioles fan, I'm now used to disappointment and sadness and grief. But this is too much.
Mike Flanagan. Dead at 59. Sick about it and sorry for the way it all happened.
Here's an example from a blog of how funny he was (after he'd left Baltimore as a World Champion and ended his career in Toronto)...
"Here's an example of Flanagan's humor. On Aug. 16 1989, Kelly Gruber of Toronto hit a homer, a double and a triple. His next hit was a double but he stopped at first, becoming the first Blue Jay to hit for the cycle. After the game Judge Flanagan presided at a kangaroo court where Gruber was fined five bucks for "stretching a double into a single."
Don't know where everything went wrong. Hurts me. God bless him...
