(This is kind of a re-phrase of a previous question)
150 people die in America each day in traffic accidents, but we don't mourn them. Nor do we mourn all the kids that die of cancer or the daily crime victims in the US.
So why should we feel sorry for Cory or his family? Are they more deserving of our sympathy because he is a rich athlete? Or is it because the media deems him worthy of more coverage?
I don't get it - why the outpouring of grief from people who probably didn't know he existed until 5 hours ago?
2006-10-11 17:32:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
A plane that crashes into a high rise in NY City would make the national news regardless of who was on the plane..
Those 150 people per day you mentioned are mourned by hundreds of other people each day and days after.. It's highly unlikely that anyone here has not known someone who has died, and someone close..
I feel sorry for anyone who has lost a family member.. I don't shed a tear, persay and haven't for Cory Lidle, but it is sad to know that a week earlier, he was pitching in the first round of the playoffs and now he is forever gone.. He is not a better person than anyone here, but he is better known than the vast majority of us..
Asking why people mourn the loss of Cory Lidle should go hand in hand with why should we cheer any athletic achievment? If you have never cheered for a sporting event, then so be it.. but cheering, mourning, get mad at a player's screwups, it's all part of the human emotion, the human release.. some just show it more than others.. And if you 'don't get it' than really you are the one who loses out, and that is a shame.. I won't cry for Cory Lidle, but I can understand why others would
2006-10-11 18:25:16 · answer #1 · answered by thorfin39 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first person is right, first off he is more well known. Second part of it is the way he died, the timing, news is all about timing. On the sports pages is a lot about the Yankees collapse, Joe Torre, plus they are the darlings of Madison Avenue. So when a player and a good one, one that will have some following dies in such dramatic fashion, it will garner attention i don't think it has anything with him being better then you or I. Each traffic accident death is reported on the local news and paper, but Mr. Smith of Roanoke who dies of a rollover on I-75 will not be known by people in Oregon or Ontario. Doesn't make him any less of a person. Trust me, they is mourning for all the people you mention above, but its hard enough for people to hear the names of the soliders who die each night, support the war or not, if we had to hear the name of everyone who died, in every way...we would go insane. No but we do want to hear of our soliders, police man, athletes and entertainers because they are people who have crossed a gap in our culture. Mr. Smith of Roanoke is not a lesser man then them, he is just not as know, but as long as his friends and neighbors are there for him, then is nothing to worry about. The people who did not know Cory Lidle 5 hours ago, still won't care anymore then did before all this.
2006-10-11 17:42:42 · answer #2 · answered by Beerhero 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignore for a moment that he's a "rich athlete" and probably has had everything come a little easier to him his whole life. We mourn him because A.) he's a human being with whom we have some degree of familiarity, and B.) he's an extension of a sport and/or team about which we may feel passionate.
Sports are an escape for us. We get lost in our love or hatred for some team, which is comprised of some of the best athletes in the world. When we lose a part of that, suddenly and in a tragic way, it affects us.
2006-10-12 03:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by Lawn Jockey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was a tragic accident. To say this less than 24 hours after his death is in poor taste.
Of course it got a lot of attention. He was a somewhat famous athlete AND a plane crashing into a building in downtown NYC is going to get a lot of attention in the post 9/11 world.
2006-10-12 03:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by Tony M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've tried to watch as many Yankees game if possible i must have missed like 2 of his starts ....i have criticized him and applaud him when you see some one like that on a weekly basis and is on my favorite baseball team he became someone i admired and losing him just felt weird im like i just saw him pitched a few days ago and yes i fought back tears hard they eventually came down and even though i didn't know him personally i felt like i knew him through baseball cause i love that sport so much its a connection you just cant break
2006-10-11 19:12:28 · answer #5 · answered by nyyfan4life23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we dont know all those people . We may not know cory but we watch him play over the last 9 years or so. We feel like we know him.
2006-10-11 17:40:28 · answer #6 · answered by SF Giants 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't really tried flying myself, but Cory Liddle is not better than me at flying, at least he will never know. Why stick up for this creep anyway. With his reckless attitude and fistful of dollars he thought he had it all, how wrong he was! He put thousands of lives at risk by flying this missile in restricted airspace in the most sensitive of places. Was he thinking of his wife and child when he decided to do this, probably not! Lots of good people die every day, useful people. What use was Cory Liddle?
2006-10-11 21:50:03 · answer #7 · answered by Turbot Face 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When someone is known for whatever they do, people feel like they have a personal connection to that person. As for feeling bad about for someone even if you don't really know them -- it's called empathy. The world needs a little more.
2006-10-11 17:41:12 · answer #8 · answered by tsopolly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but any plane crash in NYC gets a lot of attention cuz of 9/11. And It is you and me not you and I - after a a preposition it is ME
2006-10-12 01:23:41 · answer #9 · answered by Jim G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quit asking the same question
and wording it differently!
2006-10-11 19:35:18 · answer #10 · answered by Mary* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋