Top Ten Tasteless Cory Lidle Jokes

* Updates *
More on Cory Lidle's fatal plane crash here.
If you think this is in bad taste, then read about the conspiracy theories.
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Bonus #12 - Lidle will be forever remembered as The Yankee Clipped.

Bonus #11 - One of his off-season goals was to work on his sinker.

#10 - And in today's sports roundup.... Yankee relief pitcher Cory Lidle was hurling nothing but high heat.... 

#9 - Sure he was in shape, but every athlete sooner or later hits "the wall."

#8 - His last thought was, Damn, those drapes are UGLY!

#7 - The crash gives new meaning to the term "nosebleed seats."

#6 - Look for a commemorative poem, something like "Cory at the SPLAT."

#5 - Next season Major League Baseball will introduce a new statistic: the Earned Runway Average.
(Update (10/13) Stranger than fiction: A-Rod's private jet jumps runway)

#4 - Lidle's passenger really didn't know much about baseball and had asked him to explain how the foul pole works.

#3 - He'd taunted Lidle by saying, "I flew with Jack Kennedy, Jr. Jack Kennedy, Jr. was a friend of mine. Cory, you’re no Jack Kennedy, Jr."

#2 - NY Post headline: CORY LIDLE TRADED TO THE ANGELS
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And the #1  Tasteless Cory Lidle Joke -

Announcer’s Voice: "Cory Lidle, how do YOU spell relief?"
Cory Lidle: "C-I-R-R-U-S!"

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Comments

[Not Amused]

I'm sorry but I don't see the humor in this. Two people are dead. There is no government plot. No one did this on purpose. It's just very, very sad.

[JMK]

Thank you for your honesty, Not Amused. It was a horrible accident (which I acknowledged in the previous post).

So let's talk turkey:

1. It could have been much much worse (more dead and even more fire, police, media & military personnel's time & energy wasted), but wasn't. Good.

2. So, why are planes permitted to be flown over that airspace *at all* and at that low altitude?

3. Remember crazy small craft incidents since 9/11 - flying over the White House; one crashing into an office bldg in Florida. We need to be vigilant about this, whether it's an unaffiliated loony or an Islamic homicide pilot. Perhaps it's appropriate to penalize pilots who choose flight paths over sensitive air space -- and this tragedy can bring attention to it.

4. Don't forget Lidle's overestimation of himself. Like JFK Jr., Lide was an inexperienced pilot who wanted ... to fly across the continent???!!? If he'd been driving *cars* for as short as a time he'd been flying planes, you'd wouldn't necessarily advise a cross-country road trip. And like JFK, Jr., Lidle got others killed too.

5. If the crash was due solely to was mechanical failure, then #4 is moot, but #2 and #3 still apply. (Actually, #4 is not quite moot, since his plane had a parachute -- which probably emboldened Lidle in thinking it was "ok" to fly in it anywhere, anytime.)

Thanks again for your honesty, Not Amused. With humor I usually try, first, to make people think, and then second to amuse them. These tried to amuse first, and I apologize if with them I fell short of my own standard. I hope this reply makes up for it.