Hometown Baseball Legend Dies

Kirby Puckett died of a stroke today, at the age of 45. Wow. Holy crap.

I have fond memories of sitting next to my dad at baseball games--when I was younger, it seems like we made a trip to The Cities once a year to catch a game--and I loved it when Kirby Puckett came up to bat, the announcer had a special way of saying Kiiiiiiiiirby PUCKETT! And as an 8-year-old or whatever, that was just awesome.

By the way, whatever happened to that assault charge a few years ago? I forgot.