NEW YORK -- Raindrops falling on Shea Stadium felt like enormous teardrops Wednesday, as baseball lost one of the good ones from its own family. Baseball people were shocked to learn that Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, a pilot, was aboard the small plane that crashed into a high-rise apartment building on New York's bustling Upper East Side, creating reams of smoke and commotion and killing Lidle and one other person.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/10/11/lidle.reaction/index.html?cnn=yes

I'm gonna go eat some rat poison.