Re: Bad news...


obaivasc@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Serious post.
>
> BAD news...
>
> A friend of mine with whom I had been enjoying
> e-mails back and forth regularly until a few
> weeks ago and was one of the honourable
> gentelemen on my e-mail list as well as a
> repeat participant in the FOOTBALL CHALLENGE,
> known to most as "Tnut" or James Bridgeford -
> the runaway winner of this year's 2005 BASEBALL CONTEST -
> I just received an e-mail from his home computer
> saying that James passed away last evening...
>
> This hurts.
>
> James has had heart & repiratory problems for
> some time, though he had explained to me last spring
> how the doctors had misdiagnosed one particularly
> ailment and the new treatment was showing hopeful
> signs for improvement.
>
> He missed posting picks in the CHALLENGE for three
> weeks from mid-OCT thru the first week in November
> and I was concerned then (he spent some time in the
> hospital then, which was almost a routine occurance
> for him except for the length of time) but then he
> posted some picks 2 weeks ago and I figured all was
> better.
> No picks again from him this past week because
> his lungs were apparently filling up with fluid AGAIN
> from his weakened heart and this caused him a SECOND
> trip to the hospital in short succession.
>
> I'm heavy-hearted as I type this.
> He was a good guy and a long-time member of rgs.
> We had our disputes 4 years ago (around the time
> HC and I were exposing ray moron as a FRAUD)
> but unlike others of less integrity, James B.
> apologized for his actions (in e-mail) and asked
> that we start over and be friends - and so we were.
>
> I consider James a man of HONOUR and a gentleman.
> Several others here knew him this way too.
> He was a good man man of religious faith as well.
>
> I'll have more to say later, including the funeral
> arrangements...
>
> God rest, Jim.
> You'll be missed.
>
> James Bridgeford, dead, Nov 20, 2005


Wow. When you know people from here and only from here you never really
know who's full of *** and who's who or what's what. I always thought
Jim was an old man and never really truly believed him about his heart
condition, just thought he was another newsgroup nutboy. Then one day,
after one of our many fights we emailed back and forth a few times and
it turns out he was a young man and absolutely did have a bad ticker.
This is so sad, I'm really sorry to hear all this, Brian and to anybody
else that had a close relationship with him, my condolences.

RIP James Bridgeford
One of the original RGS "Good Guys"

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