O/T RIP Steve McNair

[yanks12025]

I can't believe how many stars have died so far this week/year, and whats also sad is that they are passing away at earlier ages.

[drc]

He seemed like a normal, nice guy in interviews. He was a Southern country boy and when he got rich he still on a farm/ranch during the off season.

[OldSchoolBaseball]

Out with someone other than his wife.......asking for trouble (remember Lyman Bostock).

[Brian Weisner]

My thoughts and prayers are with Steve's family.... I don't know who he was with or why, because it really doesn't matter...
Someone chose to kill Steve.....

I'm saddened Brian


PS I'm not fond of the asking for trouble argument..... In fact I think it sucks...

[DixieBaseball]

The details are sketchy at this point, although it does not look too good (Possible Murder-Suicide situation)...

McNair was a important piece of the Nashville community and has always been very active with charity here in the city. He was our first great Pro and more importantly he was well respected for how he carried himself off the field in the community. He was the real deal. Genuine as can be...

We will sorely miss him -

JJ

[JrMacdaddy]

"Out with someone other than his wife.......asking for trouble (remember Lyman Bostock). "

Not the same as Bostock. Circumstances not even close.

He was batting .296 and hot enough to expect to once more hit .300 for the season the day the Angels left Minnesota for Chicago shortly before the end of the season. When Bostock played in Chicago, he always stayed in Gary, Indiana, with his uncle, Thomas Turner.

Bostock went 2-for-4 on a September Saturday afternoon game in Chicago, then drove to Gary.

Bostock told Turner that he hadn't seen childhood friend Joan Hawkins for years, so Turner called Hawkins' sister, Barbara Smith, who said Hawkins would be by soon. Bostock and Turner drove to Smith's house, where friends began to gather to meet Bostock. He chatted and signed autographs for friends of Smith, whom he had known for about 30 minutes when she asked Turner if she and Hawkins could catch a ride to a friend's house.

Bostock and Smith got into the back seat of Turner's Buick Limited. Six blocks later, Turner heard a shotgun blast and thought it had come from outside a nearby store. It had come from a car next to them. Leonard Smith, the estranged husband of Bostock's seatmate, had driven beside the Buick and pulled the trigger on a sawed off shotgun.

Reports suggested Smith wanted to kill his ex-wife, but those close to the case later said Smith mistook Bostock for his estranged wife's boyfriend.

[timn1]

I'm glad you clarified the details on the Bostock situation. And thanks Brian, for calling out the "asking for trouble" argument. I think it sucks too, especially when it's used so loosely that somebody just riding in a friend's car like Bostock is blamed for his own murder. Poor taste.