The baseball lost a true Hall of Famer at a too young age of 40! RIP Roy and thanks for the memories!
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Roy Halladay, what a tragic loss!
In reply to WestDem
Yep. Even though I am not a baseball fan, I know he was a Blue Jays
In reply to tops
Yep ... he retired as a Jay after signing a one day contract just for the purpose...
In reply to WestDem
Really sad. He has young kids who now will be growing up without a father.
In reply to WestDem
Arguably the best pitcher to come up through the Jays system. When Doc was on the mound the relievers could relax cause the man going 8 or 9 innings almost every outting
In reply to defeyeant
Yep. He would zip through his innings. The batters could never settle. Such a wonderful pitcher.
I saw something on news that suggest he was flying very close to the water at over 100mph. There is no room for error when you're flying that close to earth. Very sad.
All his baseball prowess apart, this dude sounds like he was a daredevil:
"He was flying like that all week," another witness told the gossip website. "Aggressively."
Halladay, who was 40, had owned the ICON A5 for less than a month before Tuesday's crash, and he was among the first to fly the aircraft. Halladay had tweeted that flying the ICON A5 felt "like flying a fighter jet."
In reply to RemainsUnknown
A long time ago I played cricket with a guy who was getting his pilot's licence. He would occasionally talk about the dangers of flying and I distinctly remember him saying that altitude is your friend up there. No pilot ever crashed their aircraft against the sky. The more altitude you have the more time you have to recover or prepare for a rough landing.
In reply to RemainsUnknown
Dem seh he was showing off .... sad!
I wouldn't be surprised if many professional athletes still want to experience the adrenaline rush and want to take up things like flying planes.
There was a CBS report last night that suggested there were three crashes of this particular model of jet in recent months, spurring safety concerns.
Boston radio host mocks Roy Halladay's death, says he 'got what he deserved'
Felger decided it was important to blame someone for Halladays death, so he blamed Halladay, over and over again, in fact calling him a moron and saying Halladay got what he deserved. Heres the entire 10-minute segment captured by Awful Announcings Andrew Bucholtz:
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In reply to Tryangle
In fairness to Halladay his dad is a professional pilot so he grew up wanting to fly just like Pops. His playing contracts prohibited him from obtaining his pilot's licence otherwise he probably would have gotten it years ago.
A lot of news stations were showing promo vids of the company that makes the aircraft and almost all of those videos have pilots flying very close to water or ground and doing high risk maneuvers. People have said that aircraft is like jet skis with wings as it's amphibious. All the accidents so far with this aircraft were as a results of pilots flying too low to ground and water. Two of those accidents were determined to be pilot error.
Halliday Video flying too low
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In reply to sgtdjones
If ghosts are real then this guy should be getting his fair share of haunting on a nightly basis.
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