Yankee Cory Lidle Was On Plane That Crashed . . .

Mayor Bloomberg is holding a worthless press conference right now*, confirming nothing that we already know:

Corey Lidle, a pitcher for the New York Yankees, was killed today when his small private plane crashed into a residential high-rise building on New York City’s Upper East Side, igniting several apartments before pieces of the aircraft crashed to the ground, a high ranking city official confirmed late this afternoon.

Police said two bodies were found on the ground shortly after the crash, one of them that of Mr. Lidle, who was a licensed pilot. The plane was registered to Mr. Lidle.

*Why bother? It certainly doesn’t make him look Giuliani-like when the graphic underneath him tells us more than he’s revealing.