Who’s Your Dead-y?
(Note to my female, homosexual male and foreign readers: Please stick with me through the beginning of this post where I briefly discuss certain baseball players. I know you won’t care about them, but I assure you that you’ll enjoy the point of the story.)
Jose Uribe was a shortstop for the San Francisco Giants while I was growing up. He was fairly obscure, nothing special, and mostly anonymous to a mere casual fan. He died on Friday in a car crash.
I was talking about this tragedy with one of my buddies. He, like me, is a walking baseball encyclopedia so when I mentioned another story of a baseball player dying way too soon, I figured he would have been familiar with the story. He wasn’t.
I brought up Bo Diaz. He was a catcher, mostly for the Cincinnati Reds. He also played while I was growing up. He was killed in 1990 when he was crushed by the satellite dish he was installing on his roof. My friend doubted my story so he did what anyone does these days to confirm a fact—He Googled “Bo Diaz died”.
That led us to one of the most macabre, yet entertaining website that I ever have come across: http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/It’s the ultimate database of dead celebrities from all walks of fame. You not only find out who is dead, when they died and how it happened but you also learn who they’ve outlived, how many more days you have to live to outlive them and 
much, much more.
Did you know that if Artie Lange, the portly comedian from the Howard Stern Show, who is known for his abuse of drugs, alcohol and food can manage to stay alive for just 1,255 more days he can outlive Elvis Presley (also known for his “excesses”)? Fascinating!
I spent hours on this site last night. They even have games you can play like “Dead or Alive?” or “Guess The Age”Try it out…here’s one:
Dead or Alive?
Cass Elliot, AKA “Mama Cass” of the group The Mamas & The Papas
Fun, right? I can play on there all day and I think that I will…Imagine, if Bo Diaz had cable, I never would have known about http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/ !
UPDATE (12-13-06) Peter Boyle AKA “Frank Barone” just swiched teams.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
OH NO… Will you be paying my rent now that you have turned me on to this site? I will not be able to go to work…I must find out…
Sheesh ya coulda picked an easier one then Mama Cass…
Dr. –walking baseball encyclopedia – see I knew there were reasons i liked you…
December 11th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
this website is totally going to get me fired.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Hehe – nice website. Well, no not nice, really… But… Well… Me like:D
December 11th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Thanks a lot Doc!!!
I am suppose to die on the 27th of this month! If you don’t hear from me after that, you will know it’s true. Yep, this is the site I needed to visit!
December 11th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Lex, I’m pretty sure the site doesn’t predict your death. But just in case, I’m really sorry that you’re time is so short. Please use the next 2 1/2 weeks wisely.
December 11th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Saddened me to hear about Uribe, que descanse en paz.
What a macabre website but I like it. It’s almost as bad as one of my favorite website of photos of cadavers in caskets – culturally speaking I found that quite intriguing.
Hug
Tisha
December 11th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Hot Damn! I do have more time to dominate the world. Maybe my eyes need checking. Do you give eye exams Dr. B?
December 11th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Tish! What’s the cadaver website url?
Lex: I give eye exams only through phone consultations.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Dearest Doc: This may take away from my precious Dr. Blogstein time…
December 11th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Heaven forbid, Anndi. Please, save enough time for everyone.
December 12th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Doc! The cadaver website is: http://www.gravesights.org/postmortem.htm
CAUTION TO ALL YOU FAINT OF HEART: THIS WEBSITE IS NOT FOR YOU! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
December 12th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
I’m with dmbmeg, I am gonna get fired =(
December 13th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I was expecting gross from the cadaver site…it was just sad. The photos dead children depressed me.