Dr. Morbius (Bill Weber) RIP

we watched game 6 of the 2017 world series between the dodgers and astros there. he asked me to take a photo of him so he could post it on facebook

https://i.imgur.com/mtqP7aL.jpeg

na nice

losing singular places like that fucking sucks, like bars come and go but youre not going to get another one of those, ive looked over a few of those places weve lost articles and they upset me more than i expected

<3

awww cute pic

now maybe "Big" Don will gain a clue about who this mysterious "morbs" was. RIP.

losing singular places like that fucking sucks, like bars come and go but youre not going to get another one of those, ive looked over a few of those places weve lost articles and they upset me more than i expected

― lag∞n, Friday, January 8, 2021 3:56 PM (twenty-five minutes ago)

it's easy to be cynical about places in nyc for a myriad of reasons but that ny mag feature really bummed me out

lotta penguins stuff in that photo. perhaps i was too harsh when i considered foley's as Yet Another NYC Irish Bar

lol

you can see the wall of baseballs in the back left of the photo... the bar really did have stadium seats like nailed to the wall in stuff lol. dinner was actually pretty good too iirc

great picture <3

That Letterboxd list alone makes him alright in my book.

“now maybe "Big" Don will gain a clue about who this mysterious "morbs" was. RIP.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless),”

<3

beautiful

that's a terrific photo.

Wonderful.

Really great photo of Bill.

I wish I didn't hate baseball so much, but he actually understood *why* I didn't like it: at the height of my fandom, the year after my beloved Phillies totally took a shit in the Series against the Blue Jays, that strike just tore my kid heart out. I was furious, and swore I'd never watch a baseball game again, and aside from a few moments where games were on in bars, I haven't. That he understood, even after pushing back a little, was really great, tbh. Most people think I'm nuts when I mention that kind of thing.

(I was legit a baseball fanatic up until that point).

OMG Bill looks so hot with a beard! And you can't even see the white sneakers.

Miss u buddy.

Shockingly anti-labor of you tabes

that's the way i remember him too

Charming pic. Missing u morbs :(

jordan thanks for posting that <3

Thanks for sharing the picture, Jordan!

Yeah it makes me wish I were friends with Morbs, and also that I could go sit with my friends

he looks so lordly in that pic, almost just I like I imagined him tbh!

i will enjoy a beer tonight in honor of this excellent photo

morbs!!!! thank you j0rd

yes what a great photo!

Silby, given that I was 9 going on 10, I mostly didn't give shit.

To be honest, I still think professional sports players are paid way too much, and don't pay attention to any professional sports. Waste of time.

But that's not in the spirit of this thread, so enough of it. Thanks for sharing that pic and that article, J0rdan

I miss Morbs.

xp

grumpy dissension is completely in the spirit of this thread tbf!

I guess true. Morbz understood that those assholes ruined something I loved when I was a kid, and I couldn't let go of that betrayal.

(Imo ban all professional sports though)

except hoops

I stand with leader bison on that

(tbh so do I, I like basketball but don't follow it at all)

morbs would fp all of you for mentioning non-baseball sports

morbs always posted on ilh during the finals lol

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he liked boxing too iirc, though i don't know if he followed pro boxing closely. the last time i saw him he seemed pretty pleased when i told him i'd started taking boxing lessons

I miss morbs presence here too. Great pic, thanks j0rdan.

Great pic! :) :)

Agree that everyone in pro sports is paid too much. I still like baseball and hockey.

see imo pro athletes are pretty much the only highly paid people who deserve it, they objectively are the best at what they do and peoples interest in that generates a ton of money, who else should get the money the business guys, i mean obvs ultimately i would support redistributing most of that wealth, but within our current system they the most justifiable rich people

100%

Aside from pro sports being one of very few routes to wealth, status etc for a very large number of people from certain backgrounds and class

Professional athletes are underpaid imo. Especially nfl players

not sure you can even pay someone enough to play football

Used to love when morbs would wander into ilh or the boxing thread

Aside from pro sports being one of very few routes to wealth, status etc for a very large number of people from certain backgrounds and class

― nob lacks, noirish (darraghmac), Saturday, January 9, 2021 11:17 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Um, this is a huge problem, not something to be cheered on? It might be possible that encouraging young, mostly Black men to ruin their bodies (and often their brains) for life to enrich a bunch of already rich white dudes because "it's the only way out of poverty" is the biggest indictment of sport as it relates to race and class in the US.

Yeah definitely i wouldnt romanticise it either, alternatives should be there that don't leave sports as an "only way out"

But i think youve to acknowledge that starting from where we are its not a wholly negative aspirational motivator

Paying junior athletes fairly and managing the safety nets and all that as given

Teaching kids to get their hustles on early builds strong adults and healthy society. It teaches meritocracy and doping skills to the youths, and so of course they should be paid.

It also weeds out the laggards who werent born in february or whatever that gladwell bullshit says, and it allows them to start assimilating to their slavery gig futures sooner.