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[metsmarathon]

if you're gonna make off color, offensive, disrespectful, and inappropriate jokes, at least make them funny.

[metirish]

] If anyone can find a good clear headshot of Cory Lidle in a Mets cap, I'll be glad to use it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thanks, Irish!

http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0573

[Valadius]

OE: Too late. That was quick, Yancy.

[Sandgnat]

SteveJRogers wrote: ="Sandgnat"]Clearly the Bush Administration was behind this crash to scare people about the ongoing terrorist threat so they vote for Republicans in November. Please delete

Why? Did I really need to add a SC to that? It wasn't obvious?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Deleting is bad form anyway.

It was obvious you were being sarcastic, by the way. I assume Steve found the joke to be in poor taste.

[metirish]

I found nothing offensive about it Sandgnat.....gave me a chuckle .

[Centerfield]

It was inevitable, but today at the gym was the first time I heard it:

"If it weren't for A-Rod, he would have been at the Stadium getting ready."

[metirish]

From the AP.

] A moment of silence was to be held before the game in tribute to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who was killed Wednesday when his small plane crashed into a Manhattan high-rise.

[Guest cleonjones11]

The Crane Pool Forum is a forum...but seems to be more of a club. As a forum I speak for myself only not for and other readers of this forum. As far as Lidle goes there is nothing funny about a wife and child under any circumstances when dad passes away.......MY comments were in poor taste..

Anyway..on a light note..

The YES Network present the new YANKEEOGRAPHY

2001-2006 The Choke Years!

Now c'mon thats not too bad...

Hey I was called the Blacksheep...Is that rascist? I'm a white sheep..more like a goat

[Guest cooby]

metirish wrote: From the AP. ] A moment of silence was to be held before the game in tribute to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who was killed Wednesday when his small plane crashed into a Manhattan high-rise.

was?

I hope they mean is

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

It was, indeed, held before the game.

[metirish]

Sorry for the confusion, there will be a moments silence before tonight's game at Shea.

Ok I am reading this wrong..there was going to be a moments silence before the Mets game last night...I would think they would do it tonight.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Never did I think of it as "inevitable" that A-Rod would be accused of killing someone with suck.

[Guest Ned Fengus]

Centerfield wrote: "If it weren't for A-Rod, he would have been at the Stadium getting ready."

Typical bandwagon Yankmee fan - thinking it is one man's fault that a 'team" lost a series.

[apmorris]

Ned Fengus wrote: ="Centerfield"]"If it weren't for A-Rod, he would have been at the Stadium getting ready." Typical bandwagon Yankmee fan - thinking it is one man's fault that a 'team" lost a series.

that is pretty funny.

OK, Rushed in after I heard the story breaking on the car radio and put on WFAN and heard Chris and Mike saying they should cancel Game 1.

I listen to them most days (I'm in CA), and other sports talk radio, ESPN and Jim Rome. It'll be a long time before I listen again. I get the idea that Manhattan thought it was under attack again, I am really really sensitve to that kind of thinking but, after ten minutes it was clear it was just a small plane in bad weather accident. So why call for cancelling the games.
Pretending like you care, maybe? Or feeling like you should've cared more?
Maybe there were no big stories (ALCS g2 and NLCS g1 mean nothing in comparison, apparently) yesterday.
NOW, if it were a car accident, should the game be cancelled?
If the entire Yankee team died in a plane crash, in somewhere other than NYC mind you, should MLB cancel the Game? Hell no. Just have a moment of silence and play ball ferchrissakes. WW3 did not start and he was just some hired gun who yesterday "wasn't worthy of wearing pinstripes" (so said Mike) died. Tragic yes. But we need to shut the LCS down because of it? What if he commited suicide? What if he was drunk? What if he was just careless? What if he was just CARELESS? Then I hear on ESPN this morning one sentence before I turned THAT NOISE off - "some thought MLB should've cancelled the games" - WTF is going on? I'm sure they mentioned that the A's lost because they were playing with a heavy heart blah blah blah. (I wouldn't know, I've taken to watching games with the sound off.) Did The World Wide Leader in Hype run out of T.O. news?

Just an acute case of hyperbole. And ESPN and others got it terminally.

ps. DIdn't KC Chief Derrick Thomas die after rolling his SUV on Superbowl Sunday morning? Did we debate not playing the game? Maybe he needed to crash it into the Pentagon or something and then we could've got all excited and acted like it was meaningful tragic and what a great guy he was (and he was).

[Benjamin Grimm]

We do seem to have become a more maudlin society.

A lot of people have pointed out that they think we've been too weepy over September 11, and point to December 7, 1942 (and December 7, 1943...) in comparison to the annual 9/11 memorial events.

I just looked it up on Retrosheet. The Yankees played baseball the day Lou Gehrig died. They also played the following day. (They were in Detroit.)

According to Wikipedia, they were going to play on the day of the funeral, June 4, but the game got rained out.

If the Yankees played a regular season game when Lou Gehrig died, I don't see the argument for the Mets canceling a playoff game when Cory Lidle died.

And if we weren't such a maudlin society, the question never would have even been raised.

[apmorris]

"Yesterday we all experience a tragedy" on ESPN tv today.

reaching for the mute button ...

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's a little bit surprising, but Cory Lidle was the first Met to die in 2006.

It's pretty late in the year. I hadn't realized it, but 2006 had a shot at being the first year without a Met death since 1991.

[Guest Edgy DC]

With Paul Linblad passing, it seems the death rate of the Bronx Is Burning-era Yankees is just huge.

So I privately worry about Wilie Randolph, but take comfort that he keeps himself in pretty good shape.

[Zvon]

Anyone see the POST's PAGE SIX cartoon relating to the tragedy?

Its hilarious, tho I felt so guilty laughing.

[Guest SwitchHitter]

My daughter was trying to comfort me and she said that now he was in a better place. The first thing that popped into my mind is that anything is better than playing for the MFY. I'm bad, I know it.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

http://progressiveboink.com/dugout/archive/jon79.html

Absolutely perfect.

[Guest cleonjones11]

And I'm an Ogre about all this? What a joke...

[Guest OlerudOwned]

cleonjones11 wrote: And I'm an Ogre about all this? What a joke...

I know it's not even worth my time, but what in the bloody hell are you yammering about now?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm curious about what the Post's Page Six cartoon looked like. Is it online anywhere?

How about the fact that Lidle's plane crashed into the apartment of the woman who was knocked into a coma by the Cat in the Hat balloon at the Thanksgiving Day parade in 1997?

Weird.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

="Yancy Street Gang"]I'm curious about what the Post's Page Six cartoon looked like. Is it online anywhere? How about the fact that Lidle's plane crashed into the apartment of the woman who was knocked into a coma by the Cat in the Hat balloon at the Thanksgiving Day parade in 1997? Weird.

via Deadspin

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thanks!

That could have been in better taste, but it is the Post after all.

[soupcan]

I don't get it. How come he doesn't get wings?

'Cause the Yankees spit the bit?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

soupcan wrote: I don't get it. How come he doesn't get wings? 'Cause the Yankees spit the bit?

It took a minute for it to click in my head, too.

Wings...airplane...