RIP Cory Lidle

His father cried, "Icarus, Icarus, where are you?"

Four days after ending his season, Yankess RHP Cory Lidle is killed in a plane crash in New York City. He had recently purchased his small plane and was planning on flying it cross country to California. He and a passenger crashed into a 50-story condo tower on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Although I was born no Yankees fan, this has shades of Thurman Munson for me. The Yankees all-star catcher died in a plane crash on the runway in Ohio in 1979. I was nine.

The writers of Curly R and Curly W send their condolences and best wishes for the families of the deceased.


Cory Lidle: AP