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5191. wabbit - 10/12/2006 2:24:30 AM  Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor were killed Wednesday when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building in New York, city and baseball team officials said. No residents at the Belaire Condominiums at 524 E. 72nd Street near the East River were injured.
Emergency responders found Lidle's passport in the street below, the officials said. Two bodies were found in the street. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner confirmed that Lidle was killed in the crash. The state-of-the-art single-engine airplane was a Cirrus SR-20 registered to Lidle, said Yankees manager Joe Torre.
The plane departed from Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey at 2:29 p.m. Shortly after circling the Statue of Liberty and heading north near the 59th Street Bridge, air traffic control lost contact with pilot. There was a mayday from the pilot involving a problem with fuel before the aircraft crashed into the 50-story high-rise on Manhattan's East Side, the FAA reported.
Lidle was 4-3 for the Yankees, who acquired the right-handed pitcher in a trade with the Philadelphia Phillies on July 30. He pitched 1 1/3 innings and gave up three runs in the Yankees' season-ending loss to Detroit in the American League Division Series on Saturday. Lidle, a nine-year veteran, was in the last year of his contract. Lidle was married in 1997 to Melanie Varela and has a 6-year-old son, Christopher Taylor Lidle. His twin brother, Kevin Lidle, played minor league baseball. The name of the flight instructor has not yet been released.
5192. wonkers2 - 10/13/2006 2:52:29 AM Jex, how about a little bet on the Oakland pussies? 5193. jexster - 10/13/2006 3:49:47 AM Just like a DEEETROITER..wants a bet up 2-0!
Now the poor A's get to go to Motown and get bored to death...if they don't get mugged first in the Failed State!
Crescent Sail Yacht Club 5194. jexster - 10/14/2006 4:46:07 PM Hey Wonk ...how about a little wager! 5195. wonkers2 - 10/14/2006 8:57:47 PM OK ten'll get you twenty. 5196. jexster - 10/15/2006 2:03:47 AM 
World Series on the Frozen Tundra
5197. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/15/2006 2:37:03 AM
DETROIT (AP) -- Magglio Ordonez lofted a high fly ball to left field and when it landed, a most amazing thing: the Detroit Tigers in the World Serie
Congrats wonker and every good wish in the series! 5198. jexster - 10/15/2006 4:27:07 AM Gotta be for DeeTroit!
I am for Macacans of all sorts and conditions and skin colors where ever they may be.
 5199. wonkers2 - 10/15/2006 7:54:41 AM Jex, I assume your check for $10 is in the mail! 5200. wonkers2 - 10/15/2006 7:55:37 AM Thanks, guys. Detroit is badly in need of a winner for a change. 5201. jexster - 10/15/2006 9:09:11 AM Try WonkerStein 5202. jexster - 10/15/2006 9:09:45 AM again...
It will take more than a bazeball game to revive the Failed State of Michigan 5203. arkymalarky - 10/15/2006 4:41:27 PM Congrats to Wonk and our other Detroit pals! 5204. wonkers2 - 10/15/2006 5:31:26 PM tnx, arky! 5205. arkymalarky - 10/15/2006 5:34:12 PM Will you be able to go to any of the games? 5206. wonkers2 - 10/15/2006 10:20:13 PM Nope. 5207. wonkers2 - 10/15/2006 10:20:37 PM It's too cold. And too expensive. 5208. jexster - 10/15/2006 11:14:16 PM And some are at night when COLD is the least of a white man's worry in DEEtroit 5209. wabbit - 10/16/2006 1:14:40 AM  James Blake defeated Jarkko Nieminen 6-4, 6-2 Sunday to win the Stockholm Open for the second straight year. The second-seeded American became the first player since Thomas Enqvist in 1996 to defend his title at the Royal Tennis Hall. The 26-year-old Blake also improved his chances of reaching the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup next month in Shanghai, China. He is sixth in the standings with 410 points, with the top eight qualifying. It was the fifth ATP title of the season for Blake, tying him for second with Rafael Nadal. Only Roger Federer (nine) has won more.
American teenager Vania King rallied past Tamarine Tanasugarn 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 Sunday to win the Bangkok Open and her first WTA title. King used aggressive groundstrokes and came back from a 2-4 deficit in the third set to win in her first final. She is the first 17-year-old from the United States to win a WTA title since Serena Williams won the U.S. Open in 1999.
5210. wabbit - 10/16/2006 1:14:58 AM  Trainer Todd Pletcher broke what he once considered an unattainable record, earning his 93rd stakes win of the season with Scat Daddy, a three-quarter-length winner of the $400,000 Champagne Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Belmont Park. One day after equaling the record for stakes wins in a season set by former mentor D. Wayne Lukas, Pletcher broke it when Scat Daddy dug in with determination and overtook two foes in the stretch. Pletcher also has 52 graded stakes wins this season, one short of Lukas's record.
Martin Schwartz's Gorella (Fr) won her third straight start as she rebuffed a game rally by Karen's Caper in deep stretch to win the $400,000 First Lady Stakes (G2) on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course. The four-year-old Grape Tree Road (GB) filly, who finished third behind Artie Schiller and Leroidesanimaux in last year's Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) at Belmont Park, could be headed for another shot at the Mile or a tough test against the best of her own division in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) following the impressive performance. Trained by Patrick Biancone, Gorella entered off back-to-back victories in the Just a Game Handicap (G2) on June 10 at Belmont and the Beverly D. Stakes (G1) on August 12 at Arlington Park.
Trainer Michael Stidham was thinking Breeders' Cup following Sutra's impressive 1 3/4-length victory in the $400,000 Frizette Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Belmont Park. In only her third start, the dark bay or brown Meadowlake filly has won a Grade 1 race, finished second in a Grade 3, and proven to Stidham that she can compete with the best in her division.
Jockey Carlos Marquez Jr. turned Vacare loose in the stretch, guiding the Lear Fan filly to a half-length win in Saturday's $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Race Course. Winning trainer Chris Block said that he wanted Vacare to settle near the back of the field, but the bay filly wanted to go to the front early in the 1 1/8-mile race.
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