Why is the death of Yankees pitcher, Cory Lidle, getting so much publicity?

Question

I mean, they interrupted virtually all ESPN ( http://espn.go.com ) programming today just for the death of some Yankees pitcher that was a former teammate of A's 3rd baseman, Eric Chavez.

Answer 1

Its just very sad.

Answer 2

why wouldn't it have so much publicity? ESPN is all about sports related, but in a way cory lidle being a baseball player had the least to do with it. the fact that he died and the way it happened is such a big and shocking story. if you think this is the last that this will be about cory lidle, then you're wrong. people will talk back to this in a week, a year, and maybe even 20 years from now. and by the way, he's not just "some yankee pitcher". he's A yankee pitcher.

Answer 3

I think the fact he died piloting into a building in New York
is getting publicity, which is reminiscent of the September
11 attack, but no one in their right mind would call this a
a suicide attack. Since it was an airplane crashing into a
building, there was reason to be concerned, given the
previous history, so the government was on alert just in
case. When the plane crashed, people didn't know initially
it was Lidle's.
Cheryl04 is obviously clueless about
when pro wrestlers die. When Owen Hart died, I found
out about it on an NBC TV affiliate in Detroit. It depends on
which wrestler died. That was an uncalled for cheap shot
at pro wrestlers. They aren't baseball players, football
players, hockey players or basketball players, but what
they do to earn their money is a lot more hard work than
what those athletes do in terms of the miles they put in,
and the hours of training, and the fact they put their bodies
on the line moreso than athletes from the team sports.
They are better athletes than the other so-called team
sport athletes. Many pro athletes from other sports who
were superstars in those sports, tried pro wrestling and
failed, or were nominal wrestlers at best.

Answer 4

If it was a car accident, it would have been an "oh by the way" on ESPN. It is very rare for a plane to crash into a building and it is NYC and more 9/11 panic. The media has nothing else to deal with today, so they will ride this out. In a day or so, it will be forgotten.

Answer 5

Um, because he was a high-profile athlete on a high-profile team in one of the highest-profile cities in the world. And one that, by the way, had just suffered an eerily similar aviation disaster a few years ago ... you may have heard of it.
It was more appropriate for ESPN to interrupt its regular programming than it would've been for other networks to do so.
They almost did this when Ben Roethlisberger nearly died in his motorcycle accident earlier this year, too.

I hope this leads to some in-depth reporting on pro athletes' hobbies, or at least some retrospectives of Thurman Munson and Roberto Clemente.

Answer 6

Because ESPN and the entire media are in love with the NY Yankees and everything about New York.

Think they will play leaving on a jet plane at his funeral?

Answer 7

A plane crashing into a tower in Manhattan is a huge story. Then you add a Pitcher from the most popular and well known team in professional sports to the story, it becomes a red ball story. It is a huge deal , so you will just have to chill until World Series of Poker is back on.

Answer 8

A third baseball player who died in a private plane. It also boggles the mind after9/11. Very sad. I also think they're doing this to show the risk involved with players doing risky activities while having hefty contracts with teams. Some teams are going to prevent players from doing risky activities while under contract with them and it is the teams business if they have millions tied up in them.
Many NHL players from out west were stopped from Rodeo ridings and that was in the 70's before the real big contracts.

Answer 9

i examine that a member of the Yankees corporation become on board and that FAA information instruct the plane become registered to yankee pitcher cory lidle, notwithstanding it did no longer necesarily say that he become on the plane.

Answer 10

One thing is that it was because a plane flew into a tall building in New York City.
Two is that it was a New York Yankee that it happened to and that it was just over 27 years that it happened to another New York Yankee,,,,,,,,,, Thurmond Munson.
Three that this pitcher had ties to the A's and the Met's.

Answer 11

because he is more then just a baseball player. He was someone's son, father, husband and friend. The only reason that ESPN is publicizing it so much because he played pro baseball and with the Yankees. It's very sad that this happened. And that someone's life is gone is enough to pubicize. Just think if it were someone close to you in your family.