Keith, I love you man

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but listing ballplayers who have died in plane crashes and you left out Clemente. Que lastima!

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1. Was Clemente flying the plane? n/t

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2. No but the Yankee guy wasn't either

unless I misheard what Keith said. He said the Yankee had 90 hours of experience while the pilot today had 75.

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3. Well that can't be right, because the other person was an

instructor pilot. Somebody had the hours wrong. I think that Keith's list was of private pilots crashing in their own planes. It is unclear who was at the controls today. Clemente was on a flight carrying earthquake relief supplies (googled it). I assume there are other big-leaguers who died in commerical or charter plane crashes.

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4. I am glad for that then

He was going to hear from every Clemente fan, of which there are a ton, for a long time to come.

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5. Found a website that lists famous people who died in aviation

accidents: http://www.celebratetoday.com/airceleb.html

Interesting. I didn't know, for instance that the guy who sang the hit song from my youth "Sukiaki" (sp?) was dead, nor that he died in a 747 crash. They list a ballplayer who died from being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during a drunken brawl on an airplane a long time ago.

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6. wonder it is one of my uncle's fireestinguishers

He designs fire supression systems for airplanes. That would be a heck of a bizarre way to die.

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7. He'd have to be really old. It was a long time ago, 1930's?

Keith was on Joe Dead Intern and talked about his list, only piloting or co-piloting planes in the past 50 years. Clemente was mentioned by Scarborough.

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8. yeah I saw that

and also my uncle isn't that old.

[VeggieTart]

9. You're not getting his Bud Light.

Sorry, old commercial reference I could not resist, even at the expense of mentioning corporate assholes.