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I don’t have time to fully break this down, but it deserves at least a quick mention that Angel play-by-play announcer has passed away at the age of 54 due to a heart attack he suffered this yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"RIP<\/p>\n

Rory will always be remembered for his signature catch phrase, “Just another Halo victory!”\u00a0 And, of course, holds a special place in Angel lore for his call on Darin Erstad’s World Series winning catch.\u00a0 Rory will certainly be missed as a person as an announcer who was set to assume full-time TV play-by-play for the team this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t have time to fully break this down, but it deserves at least a quick mention that Angel play-by-play…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96690106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkey-with-a-halo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBREAKING NEWS: Rory Markas Passes Away - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS: Rory Markas Passes Away\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-01-05T19:30:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/i95.photobucket.com\/albums\/l142\/gstatejester\/2689143.jpg?t=1262715358\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"BREAKING NEWS: Rory Markas Passes Away\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-01-05T19:30:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-01-05T19:30:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/\"},\"wordCount\":103,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/i95.photobucket.com\/albums\/l142\/gstatejester\/2689143.jpg?t=1262715358\",\"articleSection\":[\"Monkey with a Halo\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2010\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/breaking-news-rory-markas-passes-away\/\",\"name\":\"BREAKING NEWS: Rory Markas Passes Away - 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