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Thursday, October 12, 2006
Yankees' Pitcher Corey Lidle Killed in Yesterday's Plane Crash
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 10:04 AM

That was confirmed after I left the office yesterday.

Whether the subject is sports or politics, you can be sure of one thing-- Keith Olbermann will remain classless.

I don't know a lot about this kind of thing, but this YouTube at Wizbang! is fascinating. Someone looked up the radar track for Lidle's flight yesterday and found that he was avoiding a mid-air collision about a minute before he crashed.

The FAA is backing off reports that there was a mayday call from him before the crash, so who knows.

The NYT has a nice profile of Lidle. And, further coverage.

As far as I can tell, only Lidle and his flight instructor died in the crash, instead of the four casualties some reported yesterday.

Update: Commenter Brando doesn't think Olbermann was slamming Lidle. I don't think he's slamming him, either. He's giving an honest assessment of his baseball career. He just doing it really dumbly and tastelessly considering the guy just died hours ago. "Not a superstar" would have been 'nuf said, but I think he says "not a star" three times in that short clip. Ouch, dude. Lay off.



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Brando writes: Thursday, October, 12, 2006 10:45 AM
Olberman SLAMS Lidel?
I disagree that it was a slam. You have to remember that Olberman used to be a sports guy (and still does a better job at being a sports guy than a political pundit). My thought is that he was trying to comment on what kind of player this guy was for an audience that wasn't ESPN. In this context, saying that Lidel was "not a star" was intended to tell the MSNBC audience where this guy stood in the major leagues. I wouldn't have chosen that language, but I doubt it is a slam.

Also, the Yankees are Olberman's team, so he probably thinks in these terms, because he knows the players very well, including who is a star and who isn't.
IfAFrogHadWings writes: Thursday, October, 12, 2006 10:49 AM
no margin for error
As someone commented at Wizbang (barring some mechanical failure) they probably were distracted by something during their turn, forgot to increase the throttle soon enough, and stalled out. And because of where they were, and how low they were, they had no margin for error.
one hot minute writes: Thursday, October, 12, 2006 2:50 PM
Olbermann.

MKH,

Good observation about Olbermann.

Olbermann's reputation is that he doesn't get along well with others. The complaint about him is that he lacks empathy for people.

Naturally, that might explain his politics, which is a different discussion for another day.
But for Olbermann to continue to focus like a laser on Lidle's LACK of All-Star credentials just a couple hours after the man's death, demonstrates a lack of empathy in my mind.

Lidle may have been nothing more than an average pitcher to Olbermann, but he was more than a baseball player to a lot of the people who knew him.

I can just see Olbermann saying something like, "Well, Lidle may have been a caring husband and parent, but do viewers realize he gave up 30 home runs this season !?"
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