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Just too bizarre an event.

I have friends who live in the very next building. Haven't been able to reach them yet.

too sad .... :-(

The FBI found his passport in the street. They also said they got a Mayday from him before the crash.

Ballplayers and airplanes . . .

I'm stunned speechless.

Speechless.

I hope Lidle's wife and child can find some comfort and that the people in that building can get their lives back together.

What an awful thing.

The plane had a special safety feature - a parachute. But they were probably too low for it to work properly.

I stopped at my uncle's on the way back home. We talked about it for a bit, then he gets a call; he's talking and I hear him say 'it was Corey Lidle?' I ran down here to the public library and now I see this.

I do not have words now. This feels like a bad dream.

Wow. I still can't believe this.

RIP, Cory and his instructor.

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A law enforcement official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lidle was on the plane. And Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to the athlete, who just days ago — after the Yankees' humiliating elimination from the playoffs — told reporters that he was getting his pilot's license.
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Just can't resist getting a dig in, can they?

"Right now, I am really in a state of shock, as I am sure the entire MLB family is. My thoughts are with Cory's relatives and the loved ones of the others who were injured or killed in this plane crash. I have known Cory and his wife, Melanie, for over 18 years and watched his son grow up. We played high school ball together and have remained close throughout our careers. We were excited to be reunited in New York this year and I am just devastated to hear this news."

46 Throwing the dig at the Yankees in there shows a complete lack of class, but it is not at all unexpected.

I'm hearing an interview with a woman across the street who witnessed the crash. It's on the local ESPN affiliate!

"I am shocked by this devastating news. Spending the last few months as Cory's teammate, I came to know him as a great man. While he was known as a baseball player, he was, more importantly, a husband and father and, at a time like this, I want to share my deepest sympathies with his wife Melanie, his son Christopher and all those who know and loved him."

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RIP Corey.

Now and then, I flipped to Michael Kay. First he was talking to Tiki Barber - laughing and joking about a Michael Jackson concert that Tiki apparently attended with Michael Strahan. A little while later he and his cohorts were talking about their predictions for the NLCS, complete with their usual shtick. Then there was a call which started with condolences to the Lidle family - then went directly to talking about some woman who was HOT! hotter than Jennifer Aniston! They laughed about that for a while as well.

When I did hear him talk about Lidle, he was woefully uninformed. It seemed no one had even listened to Bloomberg's press conference, because they were lacking even the basic facts that had come out there.

It was really an appalling, rather repulsive showing. I don't demand all somber, all the time - but Michael Kay is always talking about his role as a journalist, and maybe just once he should act like one.

As for the other, well, I had no intention of posting it, and I suppose I shouldn't have responded. But I did think it, and I can't be the only one.

Please, everyone.

That's enough.

Until then, the best course of action is to ignore.

Luis Gonzalez, 23, was one of several construction workers and others viewing plans for renovating an apartment in the Belaire when they looked out the window and saw a plane headed their way.

"It was coming right at us, directly at us at the floor where we were working on," he said.

They could see the pilot's face, he said, and then they saw the plane veering toward the right, as if the pilot was trying to avoid hitting them.

http://tinyurl.com/ljkgj

This is you being funny? While I certainly don't hope for any tragedies in YOUR near future.....

I hope that at least you can be banned for being a complete jackass.

RIP Mr. Lidle

That said, if certain posts remain, I will wait a while before coming back because its one thing to ridicule and complain about performance on the field but this is really life and death and more so, respect and class. And whether or not you liked the Yankees, you respected their class.

That's it and again I hope soon you guys and gals can talk baseball.

Rest in peace, Cory. You will be missed.

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At 5:40 p.m., an anonymous painful wail pierces the silence of a still-vacant Shea Stadium.

The day before, Preston Wilson had reminisced about cavorting around Shea Stadium as a 12-year-old watching pop Mookie and the rest of the 1986 Mets win the World Series. Preston talked about how welcoming it was to still see many of the same people working in various capacities in the park.

It stood then to reason a lot of current workers were also here in 1997, when Lidle spent his rookie season with the Mets.

That anonymous, painful wail confirmed it.

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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2622099

JL, thank you for apologizing.