Free Press sports writers Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez break down the Detroit Lions after the loss to the Vikings on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Carlos Monarrez and Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press
He wore a stocking cap and an oxygen cannula, fighting for air because of a lumbering ticker in his chest. As he sat up in his bed, in the basement of a house run by a money launderer, he wanted the launderer to know he had long ago accepted death.
“It is what it is …,” said Buddy Dyker, a retired union rep and the resident sage of the Netflix show “Ozark.