Joe Pelaez

[ElCabron]

This is horrible news. Joe was one of my favorite board members. I had several 2 and 3 hour phone conversations with him and like many others, received regular e-mails from him, usually unexpected and always offering encouragement or a joke, or sometimes saying "way to stick it to that asshole" when I was involved in a controversial thread.

I can see him now, flying through the air as a baby (to his mother's horror), waiting for Adolfo Luque to catch him. I loved that story so much that ever since he told it to me he signed all of his e-mails to me "Joe Pelaez y Adolfo Luque."

I always prodded him to try to get him to go to the National. It makes me sad that I'll never get to hang out with him in person.

Thanks for everything, Joe. You'll be missed.

-Ryan