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Sean Burroughs, Olympic gold medalist, Little League World Series champion and former MLB Player, dies at 43
CNN ^ | 5/11/24 | Wayne Sterling

Posted on 05/16/2024 10:03:24 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Sean Burroughs, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist, Little League World Series winner and former first round MLB pick, died Thursday, the California-based Long Beach Little League organization announced Friday. He was 43.

Burroughs died of a cardiac arrest, his mother, Debbie, told the Southern California News Group via text, the San Bernardino Sun reported.

According to Doug Wittman, Long Beach Little League president, Burroughs was found unresponsive next to his vehicle at the Long Beach complex after dropping his son off for a game Thursday, The Sun reported.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: addiction; california; covid; diedsuddenly; drugs; fentanyl; mlb; overdose; seanburroughs; suddendeath; suddenly; vaccine
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RIP and sympathies to the family.

I know, but there an elephant in the room, although Jim Fixx, a best selling author on running, died of a sudden heart attack in 1984.

1 posted on 05/16/2024 10:03:24 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Condolences to family and friends of Sean Buroughs.


2 posted on 05/16/2024 10:06:11 AM PDT by PGalt (Past peak civilization?)
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To: DallasBiff

Vaxxed?


3 posted on 05/16/2024 10:06:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

Fixx died of a heart attack at 52. He tried to run away from heart disease and was a bit successful. His father died of a second heart attack at 43. What Fixx did not do was get screened. It’s possible one of the available treatments might have extended his run.


4 posted on 05/16/2024 10:07:44 AM PDT by jimfree (My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: DallasBiff

Not Safe and Effective.


5 posted on 05/16/2024 10:12:54 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: DallasBiff

History and exposure to drugs may be part of it but this is happening too often at a ridiculously young age.


6 posted on 05/16/2024 10:13:45 AM PDT by erlayman (E )
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To: DallasBiff

Fixx was also a decade older and had other issues.

But this is playing out all too often.


7 posted on 05/16/2024 10:14:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DallasBiff

I remember Sean and his team in Williamsport.

RIP Sean. You did great things.


8 posted on 05/16/2024 10:16:19 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: DallasBiff

Global warming?


9 posted on 05/16/2024 10:20:31 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: DallasBiff

Jeff Burroughs son if I recall correctly.


10 posted on 05/16/2024 10:20:48 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DallasBiff
Burroughs, who died Thursday at age 43 from cardiac arrest, overcame a drug addiction that fueled a descent into what the ex-Padres third baseman described as a hallucination-filled, wretched existence from 2008-10.

Scavenging garbage cans for food and moving from one seedy Las Vegas motel to another, Burroughs may have died if not for family members, substance-abuse workers and others who rescued him...

11 posted on 05/16/2024 10:25:31 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: ifinnegan

Your recall is perfect.


12 posted on 05/16/2024 10:29:03 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: DallasBiff

Sympathies to the family.


13 posted on 05/16/2024 10:38:08 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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Burroughs, who died Thursday at age 43 from cardiac arrest, overcame a drug addiction that fueled a descent into what the ex-Padres third baseman described as a hallucination-filled, wretched existence from 2008-10.

That was nowhere in the article AI bot.

14 posted on 05/16/2024 10:38:17 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: lee martell

The forbidden question.

Soon just asking it will be a hate crime against the deep state.


15 posted on 05/16/2024 10:40:55 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: DallasBiff

Sean Burroughs told his own story to ESPN in 2011.

https://www.espn.ph/mlb/story/_/id/40121064/ex-infielder-sean-burroughs-dies-was-coaching-little-league


16 posted on 05/16/2024 10:46:09 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: FLNittany

First LLWS I watched on TV


17 posted on 05/16/2024 10:55:15 AM PDT by darkangel82
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Jim Fixx always comes to mind in these situations. That one and this one are real shockers.

18 posted on 05/16/2024 11:34:51 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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died Thursday, the California-based Long Beach Little League organization announced Friday.

Do little leagues normally do death announcements? Seems odd.

Anyhow, condolences to his family and friends.
19 posted on 05/16/2024 12:03:06 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: DallasBiff

Burroughs gave several interviews where he described his drug use. On top of that many MLB players of his era were using steroids. Hard to be sure what killed him but if I had that history I wouldn’t get near the clot shot with a ten foot pole.


20 posted on 05/16/2024 12:21:44 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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