R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson

Posted By on September 29, 2024

Kris Kristofferson has drawn his last breath. On this somber day, September 29th, 2024, the curtain has closed on a voice that has long echoed in the hearts of wanderers, poets, and dreamers. His songs, carved from the raw, sinewy elements of life, will forever linger in the bones of American music. I am an LA Dodger Fan, but I have always been a Kris Kristofferson fan as well. Kris died today at age 88. The world will never be the same.

Kris was a Rhodes Scholar and has so many stories that spoke to me, but this was my favorite:

R.I.P. Kris!

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      1. RIP Kris Kristofferson…
        Happy to hear Mark you are on the mend…..was there ever a doubt?
        Let’s roll Dodgers!

  7. Glad to see you back Mark.

    Godspeed.

    Now lets get ready for SD on Saturday night. Hopefully the Wild Card goes 3 games. SD gets lucky as crap with the DH today….such BS. Once again the #1 seed does not really get an advantage.

  8. I was a fan of his songwriting. Not so much his singing. But I always found the breadth of his life accomplishments to by utterly amazing.

    Military kid, Army Captain and Ranger, helicopter pilot, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford student, Hall of Fame songwriter, award winning actor, father of 7. He was even a Nashville janitor for awhile. All this together is really breathtaking. A life very fully lived. Rest in Paradise, Kris.

  9. I was a fan of his songwriting. Not so much his singing. But I always found the breadth of his life accomplishments to be utterly amazing.

    Military kid, Army Captain and Ranger, helicopter pilot, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford student, Hall of Fame songwriter, award winning actor, father of 7. He was even a Nashville janitor for awhile. All this together is really breathtaking. A life very fully lived. Rest in Paradise, Kris.

  10. I’m 76 years old. “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Sunday Morning Coming Down” are two of his songs on my personal lifetime top 100 song list. He was a true Renaissance Man. It’s amazing the heartfelt messages that I’ve read from his contemporary artists. He just seemed like a real good guy. You’d be thrilled if he asked you to have a beer with him.

    1. I figured something was up when I read Posey negotiated the recent Chapman extension contract. Some on this site implied Zaidi was a better baseball executive than our own AF. WRONG!!!!!

    3. You’re two-faced, look what you said, just a week ago, about Mark and his site:
      Old Bear 48
      Reply to Scott Andes
      6 days ago
      I said something about being nicer to each other since we all are fans, and he turned around and basically insulted the site, Jeff, the posters and me. I am done there. Period. I won’t even read the posts anymore. We can all be nice without calling people names. He continues to do so. He basically also said that Jeff and I tolerate morons over here. I do not see any, I just see fans with an opinion.

      1. How can one help it unless they’re blocked? This site is just better. It’s like a drug! You think any of the blocked morons who claim they would never come back really wouldn’t if they could? Of course they would.

      2. Mark and I still get along. I was just posting some news. Far from addicted to the site. Most posters here I like. I just think we do not need to call each other names period. You don’t like me, that is fine.

  12. Many Dodger fans have said out loud that Zaidi was the brains behind Friedman… I guess this dispells that.

    Posey buys the Giants fan base a little time, but I have doubts that he can be a Genius of Baseball Ops. That’s just my opinion… the proof will be coming in a few years.

    The fact of the matter is that many players do not want to go to SF because the city has become a S___ Hole and it’s not a great place to play some days. There are much better places to be.

    1. ****There are much better places to be.*****
      For instance, say Panama.
      We’re going in December to check some things out and if everything’s the way it currently appears to be will be selling out and going there permanently. I’ll have to figure out what city to have my VPN look like I’m in to miss the least amount of games.

  13. Will some other team take a chance on him after his contract is up… after 2025? I could see it.

  14. Kris Kristopherson had an amazing life. He wrote about 5 songs that are among the best ever. My favorites are Johnny Cash, Sunday Morning Coming Down and Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby Mc Gee. The latter song has one of the best lines ever written. Referring to Bobby Mc Gee who has left. The line is “I would trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”

    The Dodgers had an incredible year overcoming the injuries. It looks like they are on a roll heading into the playoffs.

    1. That one is one of my favorites too. No I think my favorite line of all time is from Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story. Combed my hair in a thousand ways, and I came out looking just the same.

  16. BTW, I have deep purple bruising from just below my belly button to my mid-thighs. I think my career as a pole dancer is put on hiatus! 😉

    1. I don’t know dude you could probably find people willing to pay money to see that. Hopefully not on this site though.

  17. Braves will have to use Sale today if they dont come back and win.

    Makes him pretty much unavailable for the SD series.

    What a joke the playoffs have become.

    2. Sale out of the second game with a suspicious back injury. More to this story than the Braves are letting.on. Sale ‘hasn’t pitched in 11 days with the season on the line and his last start his velocity was significantly down.

  19. The MLB is changing so much right now and the Dodgers are taking advantage of this. Work the count and get into their bullpen, and the Dodgers win. We exploit other bullpens very nicely thank you. And the Dodgers bullpen is nails! No teams let the starters go more than 5…maybe 6 in the postseason. Advantage Blue!
    Book em

  23. I will write about Pete when the time is right.

    He was not a good person.

    But, he should be in the Hall of Fame.

    He is part of the fabric of baseball.

  24. Porpoiseboy,
    Used to communicate with a guy who lived in Panama City. Had lovely view of canal. If you call a doctor they come to your house with a nurse. Don’t need prescriptions for drugs.
    On the other hand he had no mail or phone service. !! Had to use Fed Ex to mail him stuff and use Whats App for calls

    1. Panama has been called the Singapore of Central America.

      I am partial to Pererenan, Bali.

      Cheap, beautiful and fun.

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