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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Gazoo on October 11, 2006, 02:38:56 PM
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The Yankees pitcher was killed this afternoon in a plane crash about 25 blocks north of where I'm working now. His four-seat Cessna hit a high-rise on East 72nd Street. Eerie echoes of the Thurman Munson crash from 1979 -- which, even more eerily, was alluded to in an article the NY Times did on Lidle and his interest in flying a mere month ago.
At least one tasteless -- yet funny -- joke has already arisen: "Lidle? And I thought he couldn't hit the broad side of a building!"
Condolences from afar to his family and other loved ones.
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The Yankees pitcher was killed this afternoon in a plane crash about 25 blocks north of where I'm working now. His four-seat Cessna hit a high-rise on East 72nd Street. Eerie echoes of the Thurman Munson crash from 1979 -- which, even more eerily, was alluded to in an article the NY Times did on Lidle and his interest in flying a mere month ago.
At least one tasteless -- yet funny -- joke has already arisen: "Lidle? And I thought he couldn't hit the broad side of a building!"
Condolences from afar to his family and other loved ones.
Damn. I did like him as an Oakland A.
And I remember the Munson crash very well.
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I had not heard the story until today, about how when Lidle was an Athletic, he brought his identical twin brother to the ballpark and substituted him during practice (he's not a pitcher). And pitching coach Rick Petersen was going crazy thinking Cory had suddenly lost all his stuff.
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Sad, and a little bit chilling:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=schwarz_alan&id=2622245