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The NY Post's Cory Lidle comic

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by enigami, Oct 15, 2006.

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  1. patchs

    patchs Active Member

    At least the cartoon didn't have Lidle pitching to Thurman Munson.
    Now that would have been classless.
     
    patchs, Oct 16, 2006
    #37
  2. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    That actually would have been sort of nice. Now having those two playing pickle in a plane headed for one of the Twin Towers? THERE'S classless.
     
    Mystery_Meat, Oct 16, 2006
    #38
  3. swenk

    swenk Member

    Agreed. I should have added to my earlier post about this: there's probably no way to win a lawsuit over this, but that usually doesn't preclude anyone from suing.

    Most likely, Lidle's family has more to think about right now than a dumb cartoon.
     
    swenk, Oct 16, 2006
    #39
  4. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Like whether that rat bastard Steinbrenner will try to welch them out of any money on Lidle's contract...or try to claim he invalidated it by flying. Now that would be tasteless.
     
    hondo, Oct 16, 2006
    #40
  5. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Or both of them driving a VW with Billy Martin bouncing around in the back seat.
     
    Boom_70, Oct 16, 2006
    #41
  6. Chef

    Chef Active Member

    game

    set

    match
     
    Chef, Oct 16, 2006
    #42
  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Steinbrenner might be a rat bastard. And he is a skinflint with the typical $40,000-a-year grunt walking around the stadium in a stupor. But he almost always does the right things in cases like this. (Don't confuse his hard-on for Dave Winfield with something like this). There's also a weird, giving side of Steinbrenner that 9 out of 10 times doesn't get reported. Like he'll read in one of the NY papers about a poor Bronx family that somehow got screwed, and the next day a big check will be sitting in their mailbox. He's an interesting guy. In this case, my guess is, he'll be thinking about the wife and kid, not about the fact that a guy under one of his contracts was doing something risky.

    EDIT: Wait. Didn't Lidle just polish off a 2-year contract he'd signed with the Phillies at the end of this season, pretty much making it moot? He might have already collected his last paycheck.
     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 16, 2006
    #43
  8. Nathan Scott Phillips

    Nathan Scott Phillips Member

    "What, too soon?"

    I'm curious to see if there are other examples that match this level of tastelessness. I haven't read the Post much over the last few years (except online) so I don't know if this is typical of them. Have they generally gotten this bad?
     
    Nathan Scott Phillips, Oct 16, 2006
    #44
  9. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    If that's true, I stand corrected and I am wrong. But he sure doesn't project that image.
     
    hondo, Oct 16, 2006
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  10. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    What does Steinbrenner have to do with the 'no payment if he was the pilot" situation? This is an insurance policy that applies to all mlb players through the league benefit plan. It has nothing to do with the Yankees.

    Lidle would have been a free agent....there's no contract to invalidate, his money from the Yankees had already been paid to him.
     
    21, Oct 16, 2006
    #46
  11. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Don Fehr should be in cartoon instead.
     
    Boom_70, Oct 16, 2006
    #47
  12. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Actually the word liberal was in the quote. But I'm glad you agree with the sentiment. That makes one thing between the two of us.
    There might be hope for the world.
     
    hondo, Oct 16, 2006
    #48
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