Tom Seaver, RIP.

[adjusterjack]

Moment of silence, please, for legendary Mets pitcher Tom Seaver, who died Monday at the age of 75 from complications of Lewy Body Dimentia and Corvid19.

 

[army judge]

Moment of silence, please, for legendary Mets pitcher Tom Seaver, who died Monday at the age of 75 from complications of Lewy Body Dimentia and Corvid19.

That is a very tragic way to go.
I enjoyed his performances over the years.

For those who might not know:
Lewy body dementia, also known as dementia with Lewy bodies, is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's disease dementia. Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control).

Symptoms of Lewy body dementia include:
Changes in thinking and reasoning.
Confusion and alertness that varies significantly from one time of day to another or from one day to the next.
Slowness, gait imbalance and other Parkinson like movement features.
Well-formed visual hallucinations.
Delusions.

May he RIP, and his family be comforted as they grieve his loss.

 

[Michael Wechsler]

He was a real hero here in NYC. I remember seeing him pitch once at Shea Stadium, back when tickets to games would be available by collecting milk carton UPCs. He was a consistent great on the field, served as a good role model off the field and a player of a kind we don't see often today. Ended up in the broadcast booth. Nobody else defined the Mets like he did. Difficult to watch or hear anyone who has to experience what he did, which was out of the public eye.