X-Message-Number: 22373
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:23:19 -0700
Subject: What's the big deal with the Ted Williams story?
From:  (Tim Freeman)

I read Sports Illustrated's teasers for their Ted Williams issue:



http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/tom_verducci/news/2003/08/12/insider/
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2003/08/12/williams_si/

I don't see anything interesting there:

1. Ted's family allegedly didn't pay.  This isn't a mark against Alcor.
2. Ted got a modern vitrification, rather than the old-style
   whole-body suspension, so the head was separated.  This is
   what I would have guessed too, if I thought enough before guessing.
3. Lots of surgical details that aren't the slightest bit surprising.
4. Ted's kids are allegedly procrastinating their signing up.  It took
   me a year; so what?
5. Talk about returning the body to the family C.O.D. in the absence
   of payment is accurately labelled as a joke.
6. The paperwork was irregular.  We already knew that and it's been
   adjudicated in court already.  An oil-stained napkin isn't the usual
   contract. 

If this is the most interesting dirt they could dig up to sell
magazines, Alcor should count this as a victory.  Calm down, find a
new paramedic, and get on with things.  Suing the old one might still
be in order, of course.

However, there's word that Johnson stole stuff.  I hope it wasn't
anything very important.

-- 
Tim Freeman                                                  
    May I have the imagination to see what I want to change, the
      hubris to make the attempt, and the strength to succeed. 
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