RIP Hideki Irabu

Maybe he was doing a David Carradine.

 

MLB Network's crawl tonight didn't mention suicide and said he "passed away." Don't think the euphemism works for this one.

 

Just what you'd expect from the ultimate Fat Toad, at full arrogant bellow.

There isn't enough lipstick in the world . . .

 

Good thing that SI lets its top baseball writer work for such an unbiased, hard-hitting news source.

My wife and I always clash on the "passed away" thing. She doesn't understand why I find it to be nails on the chalkboard. She thinks its "tactful" and "comforting" and that I'm being very cold when it comes to using "died." Drives me absolutely bonkers because she's, in almost all other ways, a very straight forward, no. b.s. kind of girl.

 

What should the crawl have said?

Hideki Irabu's lifeless body found hanging from rope in Los Angeles home.

Kurt Cobain shoots himself in the face.

John Bonham drowns in his own vomit.

Michael Hutchence/David Carradine found hanging with their dicks in their hand.

Sometimes euphemisms are necessary.

 

"Died."

 

I have no problem with "found dead" or "died"

I agree "passed away" is probably not the way to go when someone dies unexpectedly.

 

I never understood it either until my dad died, and for weeks I had an enormously difficult time telling (or even writing in an email) people that my dad "died." Somehow, "passed away" was so much easier to get through. I don't know if that should govern how a news outlet chooses to present it, but there is certainly an inexplicable emotional difference between the two phrases.

 

Yeah, that comment really motivated Irabu into a Hall of Fame pitcher. More George stupidity.

Frankly, if I was Irabu, I would have gone over and punched Steinbrenner out after saying that.