Jays Roundup - Mother Doesn't Go Out Any More

Friday, October 08 2004 @ 07:16 AM EDT

Contributed by: Pepper Moffatt

Just sits at home and rolls her spastic eyes
But every weekend through the door
Come words of wisdom from the world outside

In today's roundup we have a couple of John Cerutti related articles from the Star and a piece by Batter's Box reader Stephen Tomlinson:


  1. Dave Perkins:

      Mary Clement spoke for the congregation, there to give John Cerutti the warm and heartfelt sendoff he deserved.

      "We see the words and can't believe it. We speak the words and can't believe it. We hear the words and can't believe it. We just can't believe it," Cerutti's sister said in an eloquent and stirring portion of a touching funeral mass said over the late Blue Jays pitcher and broadcaster, whose shocking death came in his sleep at age 44 last Sunday morning.

      Cerutti, his large family and many friends feeling varying degrees of numbness at his still-inexplicable passing, was remembered as "a beam of energy" who "packed more experiences, achievements, quality time with his family and just plain fun into 44 years" than most people in much longer lifetimes. His widow, Claudia, spoke of John's traits, integrity, courage, faith, honour and love, being passed along to each of their three children, Daniel, 18, Nicole, 15, and Janine, 10. To his sister Mary, he was "the best kind of shot in the arm."

  2. Donovan Vincent:

      An otherwise healthy-looking person, fit, athletic, drops dead in the middle of competition or dies suddenly in their sleep.

      We've seen it happen so many times, most recently this past Sunday with the death of former Blue Jays pitcher John Cerutti at age 44.

      There was the sudden and shocking death in 1990 of college basketball star Hank Gathers in Los Angeles during an NCAA game. He had been diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia three months prior, but cleared to play.

      There was the death of 28-year-old Russian pairs skater Sergei Grinkov at Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1995 of an apparent heart attack. The family of Devaughn Darling, a Florida State football player, recently reached a $2 million (U.S.) settlement with the university after Darling, 18, collapsed and died in February, 2001 of an apparent cardiac arrhythmia.

      There's been no official cause of death released as yet for Cerutti, but his wife said yesterday that some time ago a doctor told Cerutti he might have an arrhythmia problem that he should get checked out as he got older.

  3. Stephen Tomlinson - Jays of '04: Stat Report:

      Equivalent Average, R27, Age, On-Base Percentage and Slugging Percentage for every 2004 Blue Jay (and Major League leaders).


    Feel free to use today's roundup to discuss whatever you wish. Like an 8-3 Cardinals victory over the Dodgers or a 4-2 Braves victory over the Astros. Or how about the importance of Porter's Five Forces. Or the fact that the one thing Mike Wilner, Spencer Fordin, and former Ontario premier Bill Davis have in common is that they have never been in my kitchen.

    I know I'm behind on the prizes and cuttlefish. Will award those today in this thread.

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