Cory Lidle killed in NY plane crash

[rocket]

I'm at work so I can't access cable TV, how is ESPN covering this? I'm sure it will be on 24/7 since it was a Yankee player. If Lidle played for anyone besides the Yankees or the Red Sox this would hardly get mentioned.

 

I really doubt that's true.

[CuseCubFan69]

I remember when Thurman Munson died in private plane crash, many of my friends were crushed.

[goonys evil twin]

I'm at work so I can't access cable TV, how is ESPN covering this? I'm sure it will be on 24/7 since it was a Yankee player. If Lidle played for anyone besides the Yankees or the Red Sox this would hardly get mentioned.

 

I really doubt that's true.

 

It's game day for the NLCS, and several people involved had relationships with the deceased. I think any player would be talked about like this.

[baseball7897]

Shocking news

[rocket]

I'm at work so I can't access cable TV, how is ESPN covering this? I'm sure it will be on 24/7 since it was a Yankee player. If Lidle played for anyone besides the Yankees or the Red Sox this would hardly get mentioned.

 

I really doubt that's true.

 

It's game day for the NLCS, and several people involved had relationships with the deceased. I think any player would be talked about like this.

 

And especially how he died. Any d-list celebrity piloting a plane that crashed into a NYC building would be huge news anywhere.

[mjohnson71]

I'm at work so I can't access cable TV, how is ESPN covering this? I'm sure it will be on 24/7 since it was a Yankee player. If Lidle played for anyone besides the Yankees or the Red Sox this would hardly get mentioned.

 

I really doubt that's true.

 

Okay, I was exagerating a bit.

 

However the Sportscenter* than ran Sunday night/Monday AM: you want to know what the first 11 1/2 minutes was about? The Yankees. Not the Cards/Padres series ending or the 13 NFL games that were played Sunday. No, it's all about what The Boss is going to do.

 

I've still got it saved on my DVR at home. At 11 minutes 26 seconds they change subjects.

 

I both love and hate ESPN.

 

* Not "Baseball Tonight" the regular SportsCenter that's 90 minutes long this time of year and gets rerun from midnight until noonish.

[beowulf28]

Wow, what a shock! I heard about the crash on my way to school, but no names were mentioned. Then, when I just went on the internet, the aol main page announced that a Yankee pitcher was on board. I was shocked. Then found out it was Cory Lidle.

 

Prayers and condolensces to his family, and everyone else who was affected.

[CuseCubFan69]

Lidle was the first winning pitcher at the new Syracuse Sky Chiefs new stadium.

[Jon]

I edited the title since it has been confirmed.

 

The death of any young spouse and parent is tragic and this is certainly no exception.

[rocket]

Hope this isn't "too soon", but this has to be the least appropriately named eyewitness ever.

 

[LeftCoastCubFan]

My condolences to all of the families involved

 

Athletes Who Died In Plane Crashes

• Oct. 18, 1925 -- Marvin Goodwin, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, in Houston.

• March 31, 1931 -- Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, in Kansas

• May 4, 1949 -- 22 members of Torino, the Italian soccer champions, in Turin, Italy.

• Oct. 27, 1949 -- Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight champion, en route to fight Jake LaMotta in Spain.

• July 1, 1954 -- John McBride, Alabama halfback, killed in ROTC training flight in Texas.

• Oct. 30, 1954 -- Wilbur Shaw, President of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Decatur, Ind.

• Sept. 20, 1956 -- Tom Gastall, Baltimore Orioles catcher, in Maryland.

• Nov. 27, 1956 -- Charlie Peete, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, in Venezuela.

• Feb. 6, 1958 -- Eight members of the English soccer champion Manchester United, in Munich.

• Aug. 14, 1958 -- Six members of the Egyptian fencing team, in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Oct. 30, 1958 -- Philip Scrutton, British Walker Cup golfer.

• April 29, 1959 -- Joaquin Blume, Spain's European gymnastics champion, in Madrid.

• Oct. 10, 1960 -- 16 members of the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team, in Toledo, Ohio.

• Feb. 16, 1961 -- 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team, in Belgium.

• April 3, 1961 -- Green Cross, a first-division Chilean soccer team, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.

• March 1, 1962 -- Johnny Dieckman, world fly-casting champion, in Chicago.

• April 12, 1962 -- Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver, in Melbourne.

• Feb. 15, 1964 -- Ken Hubbs, 22, Chicago Cub second baseman, in Utah.

• July 24, 1966 -- Tony Lema, 1964 British Open champion, in Munster, Ind.

• April 28, 1968 -- Six members of the Lamar Tech track team, in Beaumont, Texas.

• Aug. 31, 1969 -- Rocky Marciano, heavyweight boxing champion, Newton, Iowa

• Sept. 26, 1969 -- 25 members of Bolivian soccer team "The Strongest", in the Andes.

• Oct. 2, 1970 -- 14 Wichita State football players, in Colorado.

• Nov. 14, 1970 -- 36 Marshall University football players, in Huntington, W.Va.

• Oct. 11, 1972 -- 30 members of a Uruguayan rugby club, in Chile.

• Dec. 31, 1972 -- Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder, from San Juan, Puerto Rico en route to Nicaragua to aid earthquake victims.

• June 24, 1975 -- Wendell Ladner, New York Nets forward, in New York.

• Dec. 13, 1977 -- 14 University of Evansville basketball players and coach Bobby Watson in Evansville, Ind.

• Aug. 2, 1979 -- Thurman Munson, New York Yankees catcher, in Canton, Ohio.

• Jan. 11, 1980 -- Bo Rein, LSU football coach, in the Atlantic Ocean.

• March 14, 1980 -- 14 members of the U.S. amateur boxing team in Warsaw, Poland.

• Dec. 12, 1983 -- Rex Dockery, Memphis State football coach, with offensive coordinator Chris Faros and defensive back Charles Greenhill, Lawrenceburg, Tenn.

• Nov. 25, 1985 -- Six members of the Iowa State women's cross country team in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Aug. 16, 1987 -- Nick Vanos, Phoenix Suns center, in Romulus, Mich.

• Dec. 8, 1987 -- 17 players of the Alianza Peruvian first-division soccer team in Lima, Peru.

• Sept. 30, 1988 -- Al Holbert, six-time IMSA champion, near Columbus Ohio.

• July 19, 1989 -- Jay Ramsdell, CBA Commissioner, in Sioux City, Iowa.

• April 1, 1993 -- Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR's 1992 champion, in Blountville, Tenn.

• April 28, 1993 -- 18 players and five team officials of Zambia's national soccer team in Libreville, Gabon.

• July 13, 1993 -- Davey Allison, NASCAR driver, the day after a helicopter he was piloting crashed on the infield at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala.

• April 18, 1996 -- Brook Berringer, Nebraska quarterback, two days before the NFL draft, when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Raymond, Neb.

• May 11, 1996 -- Rodney Culver, San Diego Chargers running back, in Florida Everglades.

• Oct. 25, 1999 -- Payne Stewart, winner of the 1989 PGA Championship and a two-time U.S. Open winner, two miles west of Mina, S.D.

• Jan. 27, 2001 -- Oklahoma State basketball players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming, and six team staffers and broadcasters, in Byers, Colo.

-- Associated Press

[mjohnson71]

I edited the title since it has been confirmed.

 

The death of any young spouse and parent is tragic and this is certainly no exception.

 

Yes it is.

 

(looks towards anyone who made jokes, snide remarks and/or snarky comments about Daryll Kile dying)

 

The only thing stranger I've seen like this is Payne Stewart's death. Now that was a weird one.

[Jon]

Was Kile the last active player in MLB to pass away?

[rocket]

Was Kile the last active player in MLB to pass away?

 

what about the orioles pitcher who died from ephedra?

[Jon]

Was Kile the last active player in MLB to pass away?

 

what about the orioles pitcher who died from ephedra?

Yeah, I forgot about Bechler. I knew I was forgetting someone.

[Drew Doughty]

Hope this isn't "too soon", but this has to be the least appropriately named eyewitness ever.

 

 

:lol: :lol:

 

but Lidle...RIP

[beowulf28]

I edited the title since it has been confirmed.

 

The death of any young spouse and parent is tragic and this is certainly no exception.

 

Yes it is.

 

(looks towards anyone who made jokes, snide remarks and/or snarky comments about Daryll Kile dying)

 

The only thing stranger I've seen like this is Payne Stewart's death. Now that was a weird one.

 

Yes, Stewart's accident was weird.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

What a strange twist. How sad. :(

 

RIP.

[Omar]

Wow. Very sad news. Rest in peace, Corey Lidle.

[ConstableRabbit]

I couldn't believe that it was Lidle.

What a tragedy.

 

RIP

[Roast]

:cry:

 

Thats terrible.

[UMFan83]

When I was out a bit earlier I was listening to B & B on 670, and someone called crying claiming to be Cory Lidle's first cousin, saying that Boers and Bernstein were making fun of Cory's death. The hosts did what they did best and deflect blame and claim that they were just stating facts. Did anyone else catch this today?

 

(BTW, I love boers and bernstein, so my comments aren't of critical nature of them, but they do this sort of stuff a lot)

[USSoccer]

When I was out a bit earlier I was listening to B & B on 670, and someone called crying claiming to be Cory Lidle's first cousin, saying that Boers and Bernstein were making fun of Cory's death. The hosts did what they did best and deflect blame and claim that they were just stating facts. Did anyone else catch this today?

 

(BTW, I love boers and bernstein, so my comments aren't of critical nature of them, but they do this sort of stuff a lot)

 

I heard it too. It was definetly bizzare and uncomfortable. I didn't hear what the cousin was talking about earlier in the show, though.

[Bote McBoteface]

So, it was a mechanical issue with the plane?

 

 

Cirruses have parachutes on board that literally bring the entire plane down gently in case of something like this......any word on why that wasn't used?

 

This is very sad. RIP Cory :(

[Electron Blue]

My condolences to all of the families involved

 

Athletes Who Died In Plane Crashes

• Oct. 18, 1925 -- Marvin Goodwin, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, in Houston.

• March 31, 1931 -- Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, in Kansas

• May 4, 1949 -- 22 members of Torino, the Italian soccer champions, in Turin, Italy.

• Oct. 27, 1949 -- Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight champion, en route to fight Jake LaMotta in Spain.

• July 1, 1954 -- John McBride, Alabama halfback, killed in ROTC training flight in Texas.

• Oct. 30, 1954 -- Wilbur Shaw, President of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Decatur, Ind.

• Sept. 20, 1956 -- Tom Gastall, Baltimore Orioles catcher, in Maryland.

• Nov. 27, 1956 -- Charlie Peete, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, in Venezuela.

• Feb. 6, 1958 -- Eight members of the English soccer champion Manchester United, in Munich.

• Aug. 14, 1958 -- Six members of the Egyptian fencing team, in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Oct. 30, 1958 -- Philip Scrutton, British Walker Cup golfer.

• April 29, 1959 -- Joaquin Blume, Spain's European gymnastics champion, in Madrid.

• Oct. 10, 1960 -- 16 members of the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team, in Toledo, Ohio.

• Feb. 16, 1961 -- 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team, in Belgium.

• April 3, 1961 -- Green Cross, a first-division Chilean soccer team, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.

• March 1, 1962 -- Johnny Dieckman, world fly-casting champion, in Chicago.

• April 12, 1962 -- Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver, in Melbourne.

• Feb. 15, 1964 -- Ken Hubbs, 22, Chicago Cub second baseman, in Utah.

• July 24, 1966 -- Tony Lema, 1964 British Open champion, in Munster, Ind.

• April 28, 1968 -- Six members of the Lamar Tech track team, in Beaumont, Texas.

• Aug. 31, 1969 -- Rocky Marciano, heavyweight boxing champion, Newton, Iowa

• Sept. 26, 1969 -- 25 members of Bolivian soccer team "The Strongest", in the Andes.

• Oct. 2, 1970 -- 14 Wichita State football players, in Colorado.

• Nov. 14, 1970 -- 36 Marshall University football players, in Huntington, W.Va.

• Oct. 11, 1972 -- 30 members of a Uruguayan rugby club, in Chile.

• Dec. 31, 1972 -- Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder, from San Juan, Puerto Rico en route to Nicaragua to aid earthquake victims.

• June 24, 1975 -- Wendell Ladner, New York Nets forward, in New York.

• Dec. 13, 1977 -- 14 University of Evansville basketball players and coach Bobby Watson in Evansville, Ind.

• Aug. 2, 1979 -- Thurman Munson, New York Yankees catcher, in Canton, Ohio.

• Jan. 11, 1980 -- Bo Rein, LSU football coach, in the Atlantic Ocean.

• March 14, 1980 -- 14 members of the U.S. amateur boxing team in Warsaw, Poland.

• Dec. 12, 1983 -- Rex Dockery, Memphis State football coach, with offensive coordinator Chris Faros and defensive back Charles Greenhill, Lawrenceburg, Tenn.

• Nov. 25, 1985 -- Six members of the Iowa State women's cross country team in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Aug. 16, 1987 -- Nick Vanos, Phoenix Suns center, in Romulus, Mich.

• Dec. 8, 1987 -- 17 players of the Alianza Peruvian first-division soccer team in Lima, Peru.

• Sept. 30, 1988 -- Al Holbert, six-time IMSA champion, near Columbus Ohio.

• July 19, 1989 -- Jay Ramsdell, CBA Commissioner, in Sioux City, Iowa.

• April 1, 1993 -- Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR's 1992 champion, in Blountville, Tenn.

• April 28, 1993 -- 18 players and five team officials of Zambia's national soccer team in Libreville, Gabon.

• July 13, 1993 -- Davey Allison, NASCAR driver, the day after a helicopter he was piloting crashed on the infield at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala.

• April 18, 1996 -- Brook Berringer, Nebraska quarterback, two days before the NFL draft, when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Raymond, Neb.

• May 11, 1996 -- Rodney Culver, San Diego Chargers running back, in Florida Everglades.

• Oct. 25, 1999 -- Payne Stewart, winner of the 1989 PGA Championship and a two-time U.S. Open winner, two miles west of Mina, S.D.

• Jan. 27, 2001 -- Oklahoma State basketball players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming, and six team staffers and broadcasters, in Byers, Colo.

-- Associated Press

 

Being 8 years old and a huge Huskers fan at the time, Berringer's death is the first time I can remember caring about something on the news. He had spoken to my school just 3 days before the crash, and had autographed a football for me. Man, that still brings a tear to my eye.

 

Anyways, sorry for the thread-hijack, I just think it's interesting to note the retrospection (and introspection) that shocking tragedies like these seem to bring. :(