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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 12, 2006 13:40:29 GMT -5
Sounds like they are jealous of the high-flying jet set.
This has nothing to do with him being a Yankee. I am defending anyone who wants to fly their own plane and has the means to do so. Why would I not? You guys are idiots.
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Post by Chris on Oct 12, 2006 13:46:24 GMT -5
I have no problem with Cory Lidle wanting to fly his own plane. If his contract permits it, and he enjoyed it, more power to him. I'm just surprised that major league baseball teams don't have a problem with their players doing it. I know Cory Lidle wasn't the savoir of the pitching staff...but I would think that any baseball team would be aware of a players' extra-curricular activities and put language in the contracts preventing it if they deem it as being unsafe. I think the notion that flying is safer than driving needs some qualification....yeah, you and I and everyone else walking on to an American Airlines 757 are probably safer than the average Joe speeding down the freeway...but I'd rather take my chances with a novice driver than a novice pilot any day. Not saying Lidle was stupid, not saying I blame him....Just sayin, that's all.
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Post by cactusjames on Oct 12, 2006 13:57:27 GMT -5
K fine, but in my mind, you fuck over a lot of people taking a big chance like that should you fuck up. He did and now the yankees lost a pitcher, a family lost a member and the city lost a bunch of money cause of this dick. If death can be avoided, than I try and not die. If I have to get from one state to another, and I have the responsiblities Lidle did, I ask myself do I want to make it to my destination in one peice or run the risk of dying and fucking over a bucnh of people? Sure Scuba diving is fun, and flying a plane(into a building) isn't something a lot of people ever get to do, but I ask myself is it worth it? If something goes wrong in the plane, will my death be worth it? For his sake, hope it was, last flight he ever took. I think he's just as selfsih as someone who commits suicide. YAY it's fun to risk my life for no reason at all and abondon my family YAY!!!. It's worth it to have a hobby that leaves my kid fatherless for the rest of his life. But it's fine, he's 6 he doesn't need a daddy anymore. And plus it was worth it, he was learning to fly a plane.
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 12, 2006 14:06:06 GMT -5
It's not about him being a Yankee. John's right to an extent--but it's not just about him being a PRO ATHLETE and not flying commercial. It's about some schmuck getting into a small plane. This kind of crap happens to idiots like that.
A parachute rarely fails. But if it does, you're still the asshole who jumped out of a plane. As James said, thanks to this moronic "hobby," several people are dead, several people are homeless, and people will be growing up fatherless. Parents have to bury their children. All because Lidle wanted to fly.
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Post by 9 on Oct 12, 2006 14:06:21 GMT -5
"If death can be avoided, than I try and not die."
Holy sig quote material, Batman! ;D
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Post by Jason Giambi on Oct 12, 2006 14:11:04 GMT -5
stop it puff, that's balls yes man.
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Post by Chris on Oct 12, 2006 14:23:09 GMT -5
You try AND not die? Implying that simply TRYING (at anything?) prevents death?
Personally I prefer to "try NOT TO die"
Scuba Diving is a dangerous as flying or driving?
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 12, 2006 14:30:23 GMT -5
I don't think anyone is saying it's as dangerous as flying.
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Post by cactusjames on Oct 12, 2006 14:31:05 GMT -5
No of course not. Anything can kill you, waking up and crossing the street like Balls said could be fatal, but that's a risk you have to take, you can't just not cross the street ever again. But I think there's a big choice that comes into play when an inexperienced pilot decides to make a U Turn over the hudson river the way Lidle did.
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Post by BigAl115 on Oct 12, 2006 15:36:16 GMT -5
K fine, but in my mind, you fuck over a lot of people taking a big chance like that should you fuck up. He did and now the yankees lost a pitcher, a family lost a member and the city lost a bunch of money cause of this dick. If death can be avoided, than I try and not die. If I have to get from one state to another, and I have the responsiblities Lidle did, I ask myself do I want to make it to my destination in one peice or run the risk of dying and fucking over a bucnh of people? Dude the guy was a baseball player, he had no more responsibility then anyone else...granted 2 families lost loved ones which suck ..If you listened ...He has said numerous times that flying a small plane like that was no more dangerous than driving a car (whether right or wrong) The instructor was very experienced ... I see absolutely nothing wrong with him doing this, barring it was in his contract...
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Post by baldvinny on Oct 12, 2006 15:36:40 GMT -5
wow
just
wow
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 13, 2006 6:17:06 GMT -5
So the plane hit the apartment of the same lady who got hit by the balloon in the Thanksgiving Parade like 10 years ago. What the hell are the odds of that?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 7:14:37 GMT -5
She needs to move underground. She has a problem with things flying around. I wonder how many birds have dropped a load on her. I am, however, happy to see that the money she won from the city bought her a Hell of a luxury apartment, crashing plane aside.
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Post by MSBNYY on Oct 13, 2006 7:18:25 GMT -5
She picked a great location. What's going to hit her next? A safe?
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Post by Domi on Oct 13, 2006 8:15:16 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Giambi on Oct 13, 2006 8:32:18 GMT -5
that was funny as hell....... good one Domi.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 8:33:12 GMT -5
Very clever, and snide without being overtly offensive in any way. Gotta love The Dugout.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Oct 13, 2006 8:38:59 GMT -5
What if it were an ACME safe that fell on her, she's like ther road runner.
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Post by Domi on Oct 13, 2006 9:21:43 GMT -5
I was thinking an anvil.
The Dugout made me tear at the end, for real.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 10:10:55 GMT -5
I have one other nitpick regarding the coverage of all this, along with the Mike and Mad Dog pumpkin. The Post flippantly used the term "Bomber Pilot" in its headline. Yeah, we get it....the Yankees are the Bronx Bombers of course. Nice play on words there. Surprised they did not add the word kamikaze for the Hell of it.
One thing Lidle probably did is screw up leisurely plane jaunts by pilots around the East Side of the city. Politicos are already looking to throw the clamps on.
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Post by jwmcc on Oct 13, 2006 10:12:51 GMT -5
That pumpkin was on display during yesterday's show as well.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 10:14:45 GMT -5
I understand the use of the pumpkin, and it does not offend me per se. I am not losing sleep that the pumpkin is there. Its just something that I would have pulled out of the shot when the story took a tragic turn. When I first clicked it on and the first thing I saw outside of Russo's obnoxious red sweater was the stupid pumpkin I shook my head in disgust. The sweater we were stuck with, the pumpkin could have made a hasty exit.
Ah, its just the complainer in me.
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Post by ronmossad on Oct 13, 2006 10:37:59 GMT -5
I would have pulled out of the shot when the story took a tragic turn
Yeah because it wasn't tragic enough when it was just a no-name pilot?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 10:41:47 GMT -5
If it was a no-name pilot Mike and the Mad Dog would not have been talking about it, would they?
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Post by whalerfan on Oct 13, 2006 11:04:31 GMT -5
They were talking about it before they found out it was Lidle
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 11:06:31 GMT -5
Who do they think they are, Charles Gibson and Ted Koppel? At best, they should have mentioned it in passing and moved on. No one is turning on Mike and the Mad Dog to hear what they have to say about a small plane hitting a building in New York City. For those few minutes, a pumpkin is fine. But once the whole show became a moratorium for Cory Lidle, the pumpkin should have become pie, so to speak.
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Post by Chris on Oct 13, 2006 11:46:09 GMT -5
Anyone have a source on the Lidle Crash, Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 12:03:08 GMT -5
Wow, I would say you are calling out Metssuckballs there.
Balls, are you putting up fake info?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 12:25:24 GMT -5
Actually, in Balls' defense, he's right about this one. I am seeing it myself in the Daily News, page 6. Kathleen Caronna, who was "critically hurt" in the 1997 Thanksgiving Day parade accident.
"How do you go through two major things like this?" a relative said. "Its spooky. Its very spooky." (Cue the Mike and the Mad Dog pumpkin)
The Thanksgiving accident bought her that apartment.
The engine of the plane was found in her bedroom.
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Post by cactusjames on Oct 13, 2006 12:33:20 GMT -5
The co pilot was NOT experienced. He had only had his license a few months like Lidle. He was fucking 26 and just learned to fly. Both of them, which is why they were sight seeing and tried to attempt a U Turn in between 2 highrise apartment buildings. These guys are dead, they couldn't have been too good at flying.
And fuck that he is wrong, I've been in a car crash(passenger) and should have died. If it were a plane than the lot of you sing and dance on my fucking grave right now.
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