terrible baseball story

I was going to report on my happy time at Fenway, but first saw THIS AWFUL STORY about the apparent suicide in Los Angeles of former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu.

Who knows what was going on his life? But his terrible flop in New York after great success in Japan, coupled with fairly vicious treatment of Irabu from many disappointed fans, as well as from late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, are painfully in my mind now as I think of the poor guy taking his own life. Just breathtaking news.