A thread about my friend, @GrantWahl :
When you are a writer, you think a lot about words – not just vocabulary, but syntax, verb conjugation, tenses. Words, and how we construct them, matter to us.
On behalf of myself and our family, I want to express our deepest gratitude for the outpouring of support, love, and sympathy from around the world. Here is a message from our family and the latest update surrounding our beloved Grant:
https://t.co/jPsggW6gfd
"Grant died from the rupture of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium...No amount of CPR or shocks would have saved him...There was nothing nefarious about his death." https://t.co/D3LjoC532T
"So much of the burst in soccer popularity in America directly goes back to him, his words, his zeal, his generosity, his passion. Yep. https://t.co/KFoszUJRAm
Twitter was an important channel for my interactions with @GrantWahl over the years. Thanks @JesseAHardman for sharing my personal therapy session for coping with Grant's death.
What a loss of a great human being RIP @GrantWahl “He was the real deal and on a completely different level. But when you were around Grant, it never felt that way.” @DaveLandes https://t.co/flQYsMwrAA