[Mudboy Slim]

"Not to mourn..."

There's really no mourning an 83-year-old's life when it was lived with the gusto with which Teddy lived his...although I betcha he'd still trade somethin' or other for that World Series Championship he never conquered...MUD

[BluesDuke]

True, but I cannot help thinking of how it was said yesterday that the previous months, if not years, had become physical hell for a man who above all lived his own kind of physical life. Knowing Williams, to have been removed from his beloved fishing waterways was tantamount to suffering any injury that might have turned him into a sub-.300 hitter. Johnny Pesky spoke of his quality of life having been compromised so. In that sense, it may have been a kind of sad relief that he suffers no more, even if something unique has gone from this island earth.