TSM Death Pool - 2008

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

1 Montel Williams

2 Patti LaBelle

3 John Glenn

4 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

5 JR Simplot (oldest living billionaire in US)

6 Bob Seger

7 Alex Trebek

8 Sean Connery

9 Al Copeland (founder of Popeyes)

10 Julia Carson (Indiana Congresswoman)

 

Blazing Saddles Trifecta

11 Harvey Korman

12 Dom DeLuise

13 Gene Wilder

 

14 David Hasselhoff

15 Stuart Scott (BOOYAH!)

16 Mikey Dread (Raegae Singer/Producer/DJ)

17 Mickey Rooney

18 Sylvia Kristel

19 Boog Powell

20 Randy Pausch (BEST BET)

 

 

 

 

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Manny Fernandez (not the goalie) - BEST BET

The wrestler, or the ex-Miami Dolphin?

[Guest Original Zacster]

1. Dick Van Dyke

2. Mae Young

3. Queen Elizabeth II

4. Dick Clark

5. Pete Doughty

6. Don King

7. Muhammad Ali

8. Abe Vigoda

9. Jerry Stiller

10. Barbara Bush

11. BB King

12. Britney Spears

13. Jerry Lewis

14. Fidel Castro *BEST BET*

15. Mr. Fuji

16. Michael J. Fox

17. Amy Whinehouse

18. Kurt Angle

19. Raven

20. Bob Barker

[CanadianChris 0]

Manny Fernandez (not the goalie) - BEST BET

The wrestler, or the ex-Miami Dolphin?

The wrestler/ex-Kansas City Chief.

[Darthtiki 0]

1. Kirk Krekorian (Head of MGM Mirage) (Best Bet)

2. John Wooden

3. Wilford Brimley

4. Nancy Reagan

5. Amy Winehouse

6. Britney Spears

7. Charlton Heston

8. Billy Graham (Preacher)

9. Estelle Getty

10. Jim Otto

11. Don Hewitt

12. Jack Lalanne

13. Carl Karcher (Founder of Carl's Jr.)

14. Pat Robertson

15. Gordie Howe

16. Walter Cronkite

17. Eli Wallach

18. Abe Vigoda

19. Les Paul

20. Fidel Castro

[Sideburnious 0]

Fidel Castro *BEST BET*

Leslie Nielson

Pete Doherty

BB King

Jimmy Carter

 

Anthony Hopkins

Muhammad Ali

Pele

Sidney Poitier

Paul Newman

 

Leonard Cohen

Jerry Lewis

Queen Elizabeth (of England)

Osama Bin Laden

Mel Brooks

 

The Pope

Judi Dench

Rob Reiner

Rev. Billy Graham

Kirk Douglas

 

 

For some reason I don't think Amy Winehouse is going to die. I think she'll get cleaned up before then.

[haVoc 0]

1~ Yogi Berra (BEST BET)

2~ Stephen Hawking

3~ Osama bin Laden

4~ Britney Spears

5~ Nancy Reagan

6~ Kid Rock

7~ Brian Wilson

8~ Bob Barker

9~ Clive Davis

10~ Hillary Clinton

11~ Hank Aaron

12~ Adam "Pacman" Jones

13~ Vince McMahon

14~ Prince Charles

15~ OJ Simpson

16~ Buff Bagwell

17~ Paris Hilton

18~ Dustin Diamond

19~ James Lipton

20~ Woody Allen

[MillenniumMan831 0]

Herb Score

- Chavo Guerrero

- Mae Young

- Kevin Von Erich

- Art Modell

- Scott Norton

- Elton John

- Geddy Lee

- Jake Roberts

- Bob Vila

- Dan Rather

- Pat Summerall

- Morgan Freeman

- "SuperStar" Billy Graham

- Nicole Ritchie

- Jack McKeon

- George Tekei

- Ed Asner

- Dick Vitale

- Louie Anderson (Best Bet)

[NYU 0]

1. Fidel Castro *Best Bet*

2. Bob Barker

3. Estelle Getty

4. Ariel Sharon

5. Nancy Reagan

6. Barbara Bush Sr.

7. Tim Allen

8. Jerry Stiller

9. Sandra Day O'Connor

10. Mae Young

11. Wilford Brimley

12. Charlton Heston

13. Queen Elizabeth

14. Michael J Fox

15. Muhammad Ali

16. Beverly Cleary

17. B.B. King

18. Darryl Strawberry

19. Chuck Berry

20. Roger Ebert

[Guest Smues]

George H. W. Bush

Fidel Castro

OJ Simpson

Jose Canseco

The Queen of England

Larry Craig

Pervez Musharraf

Osama Bin Ladin

Lex Luger

Betty White - BEST BET

Marv Levy

Amy Winehouse

Colin Farrel

Owen Wilson

HHH

Tom Brady

Wilford Brimley

Warren Buffett

Dog the bounty hunter

Chuck Knoblauch

[Cuban Linx 0]

Muhammad Ali

Pamela Anderson

Fidel Castro

Dick Cheney

Maurice Clarett

Walter Cronkite

Elijah Dukes

Farrah Fawcett ***BEST BET***

John Goodman

Charlton Heston

Houston (The Porn Star)

Houston (The Rapper)

Houston (Whitney)

Jack Klugman

Pervez Musharraf

Ariel Sharon

Elizabeth Taylor

Tina Turner

Owen Wilson

Amy Winehouse

[Xavier Cromartie 0]

I'll make my glorious return to deathpoolin', but I'm picking only wrestlers who are younger than 60. I already won with the standard 'on-base percentage' tactic (2006), and so I'm going for all home runs this time, just for fun.

 

1. Don Muraco, age 58–59

2. Kamala, age 57–58

3. Jake Roberts, age 52–53

4. Leon White (Vader), age 50–51

5. King Kong Bundy, age 50–51

6. Mike Shaw (Bastion Booger), age 50–51

 

7. Lex Luger, age 49–50

8. Scott Hall, age 49–50

 

9. George Gray (Akeem the African Dream), age 47–48

10. Del Wilkes (The Patriot), age 46–47

11. Marty Jannetty, age 45–46

12. Scott Steiner, age 45–46

13. The Warlord, age 45–46

14. Tony Halme (Ludvig Borga), age 44–45 — best bet

15. Sabu, age 43–44

16. Konnan, age 43–44

17. Giant González, age 41–42

18. P.N. News, age 38–39

 

19. Juventud Guerrera, age 33–34

20. Test (for my girl Leena), age 32–33

[The Niggardly King 0]

Muhammed Ali - Best Bet

Kirk Douglas

Captain Beefheart

Jerry Lewis

Prince Phillip

Amy Winehouse

Joe Pesci

Roddy Piper

Bobby Brown

John Madden

Trent Green

Bob Barker

Charlton Heston

Abe Vigoda

Mae Young

Mel Brooks

OPRAH

Eli Wallach

Scott Strap (dude who use to front CREED)

Don Vito

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

Earl Butz

Miep Gies

Russell Watson

Bobby Murcer

Art Linkletter

 

Bill Haast

Dolores Hope

Nelson Mandela

Beverly Cleary

Boris Efimov *BEST BET*

 

Chuck Yeager

Gore Vidal

Chuck Berry

Olivia de Havilland

Pete Seeger

 

Michael Gough

Verne Gagne

Joseph Wiseman

Ray Brabdury

Ruby Muhammad

[spiny norman 0]

I'm pretty sure it's still the 31st of December somewhere in the world.

 

Gough Whitlam - BEST BET

Ariel Scharon

Farrah Fawcett

Margaret Thatcher

Gloria Stuart

 

Billy Graham (Evangelist)

Sidney Lumet

Kirk Douglas

Ornette Coleman

Betty Ford

 

Fidel Castro

Chuck Berry

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Christopher Lee

John Turner

 

Roman Polanski

Nancy Reagan

Arnold Spielberg

Olivia de Havilland

Jake LaMotta

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

 

 

Id like to take the time now that entries are officially over to note that not one of my 20 was picked by anyone else so I get 25 points for each if they kick the bucket. And my best bet was diagnosed with terminal cancer back in August and given 6 months to live..and he's only 40-something. Thats what..an easy 190 {(10+50+25)x 2} points right there to start off..

 

Mikey Dread was originally my best bet as hes only 50 and has a really nasty brain tumor. Julia Carson also has terminal cancer but she was too old to be worth much points.

[CanadianChris 0]

I'd like to take the time to note that 14 people were completely shut out last year.

 

Could someone pin this thread and unpin last year's?

[spman 0]

Now that it's too late for new entries as well, in hindsight after I poster my picks, it occurred to be that Charles Manson as a Best Bet would have been a great choice. Wasn't he supposedly on his death bed with some sort of kidney disease?

[tominator89 0]

I should have added Arthur C. Clarke to my list. Oh well.

 

 

EDIT: He didn't die yet, but he probably will shortly.

[CanadianChris 0]

I'm amazed at the number of people who think Jake "The Snake" Roberts will ever die.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I'd like to take the time to note that 14 people were completely shut out last year.

 

Could someone pin this thread and unpin last year's?

 

Including me. My team is almost the same as last year's. Did I send you a drunken private message about Errie Ball? He's gotta be getting close.

 

 

 

Jake Roberts, even though he's wrestling's Keith Richards, just has to die one of these days as well. I know I completely contradicted myself, but come on.

[Sideburnious 0]

Yeah, I generally copy and pasted my last years list with a few changes from dead/ out of the "danger zone" people.

[Youth N Asia 0]

When doing wrestling picks you should know that Jake Roberts, Scott Hall, and Terry Funk will outlive us all

[chuck415 0]

Billy Graham

Wrestler or evangelist?

 

[MillenniumMan831 0]

Jake Roberts will die the year I don't have him on my list.

[spiny norman 0]

Billy Graham

Wrestler or evangelist?

 

Evangelist. I'll edit that now to be more specific.

[Red Baron 0]

I'm still quite bitter that Bhutto has/was died/assassinated.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Sorry that you couldn't get any points from her tragic death, this must be very hard for you :-P

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

Norman, what led you to pick Sidney Lumet? I had him last year because a lot of famous directors had just died and I had a funny feelin'.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I doubt anyone has him but we have our first "celebrity" death of 08

 

George MacDonald Fraser (writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died January 2, 2008.

 

Among his highlights he wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film Octopussy.

 

Oh, and I wish I had noticed this..the Korean Boxer Yo-Sam Choi, he collapsed during a fight on Christmas Day (after winning the WBC Flyweight Title) but wasn't pronounced legally dead until the 2nd. He was only 35 AND it was "technically" an accident..damn.