Uh...the only thing that the plane crash had to do with the Yankees is that Lidle used to pitch for the Yanks. He wasn't going to be in pinstripes in 2007 and you know it.
Come on, man. You're a Yanks fan. You should be used to getting ribbed.
Hell, man, the Yanks almost fired a man who has won four World Series for them and you don't expect to get some grief about their relative lack of return on investment?
Ribbing is a healthy part of life, we should ALL get it occasionally
. The last 4 or so World Series proved that money doesn't always get it...I believe it just gets it EVENTUALLY. It obviously can't buy drive, determination, emotion, chemistry, intagibles, etc. I vote for getting in a time machine, going back 6 years and kidnapping O'Neil, Brosius, Clemens, Pettite, Rivera etc..etc...and letting them play from next year on:rawk: .
Anyhow, RIP Mr. Lidle and Mr. Stanger. I wish that, just like when someone important in baseball dies the players wear a black band or something similar, when
we lose one of our own colleagues, there should be something tasteful that us instructors(and other aviators) could wear. I don't know what, but I'm thinking about it.
If the NTSB and FAA deem that decisionmaking appears to be the most probably cause of this tragedy, then it shows us all that we must maintain vigilance and guard against bad decisions no matter how many hours of flight time we have. If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Crossfield lost his life possibly due to a bad decision...as it's been said, SUPERIOR pilots use their SUPERIOR judgement, to keep from having to use their SUPERIOR skills. NONE of us are immune from death, and we all need to drive that point home to our students, and mostly, OURSELVES.
(As a sit and ponder the tens of thousands of twins having flown safely throughout decades!)
