Cory Lidle, You Deserve Better

This guy? Is a dick.

I mean, the conversation he's trying to re-propose for the umpteen billionth time had its place when Roethlisberger obliterated his jaw over the summer, but this whole question of what atheletes are supposed to do with their money and their free time is ridiculously insensitive and out of place in the narrative of the death of Cory Lidle. I question the brains of the editor that approved this garbage article. In an attempt to be philosophical and thoughtful, the writer castigates on one hand and half-excuses on the other and offers zero insight that has not been regurgitated by every local sports writer when a pro athlete cuts his hand on a table saw (name that reference!) or breaks a bone rough-housing or whatever.

(Of course, those articles are always couched in language asking why athletes risk their careers in this or that hazardous or risky activity, as this asshole did, but the subtext is always, "How can he do this to us!" The "us" involved always being the fan's inclusive "we" that assumes the fans have some right to the player's presence and performance that trumps whatever free will the player may wish to exercise.)

Maybe for an encore he can bemoan Pat Tillman's choice to join the Army and become a Ranger.