Month Five and Cory Lidle

I don't have much of an update as far as I'm concerned--things are pretty much normal and routine at this point.

Not routine: Cory Lidle has died in a plane crash--there's still a lot of details up in the air about this, but a small plane he was apparently flying crashed into a Manhattan apartment building on East 72nd Avenue, the Upper East Side.

It's a very rainy day, but apparently this happened well before the rain started falling. I was in the middle of watching A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints at a Queens arthouse in Kew Gardens. Amazingly, I didn't hear anything about it until I got home.

Mike and I saw Cory Lidle pitch against the Twins on September 4 and it was probably one of his most brilliant games--a shutout before the bullpen allowed a much-booed run in an 8-1 Yankees victory.

It's sad no matter what--but even for a brief moment in time, I've seen a person at his job, excelling even, and now he's gone.

Tonight the Mets are supposed to play game 1 of the NLCS, and it's raining pretty hard, and they're thinking about maybe playing the thing--but I think it would be nice to let this slide. Just go ahead and cancel it.