Former MLB Pitcher Brian Powell commits suicide.

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Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Brian Powell dies of self-inflicted gunshot

By Dan Nilsen | Flint Journal

October 06, 2009, 10:59PM

 

Brian Powell, who pitched for the Detroit Tigers in 1998 and again in 2002 as part of a six-year major-league career, died Monday of a self-inflicted gunshot. He was 35. Powell, a resident of Bainbridge, Ga., died at Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare, about 40 miles south of Bainbridge. Powell was an All-American at the University of Georgia and made his major-league debut with Detroit in June 1998. He was 3-8 with a 6.35 earned-run average that year. For his career, Powell was 7-18 with a 5.94 ERA with the Tigers, Astros, Giants and Phillies.Powell leaves a wife and three children.

 

Sad, you think professional athletes have it all......all but happiness I suppose.

[Dipre]

The surprising thing for me is that i will never understand what powerful internal demons can drive a person to commit suicide.

 

May God have mercy on his soul.

[Emmz]

Sad' date=' you think professional athletes have it all......all but happiness I suppose.[/quote']

 

Yeah, it's terrible. Any time someone takes their own life it's sad. I've had a couple of people close to me commit suicide; It's just something that really makes you think: "Wow".

 

Alot of people who you think have everything lack that one thing you mentioned, and that's happiness. Kurt Cobain's an example of it too, and you can tell the man had inner problems just by his song lyrics alone that he had demons.

 

Anyways, RIP, very sad story.

[jacksonianmarch]

RIP, I feel very bad for his children and his wife

[msubulldogs21]

Terribly sad news.

 

A permanent end to a temporary problem.

[The_Destroyah]

its sad what happens when someone manages to let all of the bad things in life add up on them instead of looking at all of the great things that counter those pains.