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Gazoo

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RIP Cory Lidle
« on: October 11, 2006, 02:38:56 PM »
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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Re: RIP Cory Lidle
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2006, 03:02:24 PM »
Quote from: "Gazoo"
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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RIP Cory Lidle
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2006, 09:02:02 AM »
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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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2006, 12:26:59 PM »
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