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For ****'s sake let this not be true.

I've always been fond of the guy, and for the last year or so I've talked with him regularly on instant messenger about Tigers baseball and life in general, sometimes long into the night. Just a hell of a guy. Smart as a tack and he never wavered from his convictions, even for a simple pleasure like baseball. I love the guy. I count him as a good friend even though I've never spoken to him or met him.

I won't believe it. I can't right now.