RIP Roy Halladay (Toronto Blue Jays Pitcher)

[Ghost Rider]

Too bad, one of the best pitchers to grace the MLB and the Blue Jays were lucky enough to have him for a number of years...

Roy could have went on to pitcher many more years that he did...but decided to quit baseball to spend time with his kids so that he could still play ball with them and do activities why he was still young vs. damage his body playing baseball as long as he could

[ZR]

Former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay is dead after his plane crashed into shallow waters off the coast of Florida on Tuesday, officials with the Pasco Sheriff's Office confirm.
Halladay's ICON A5 light sport aircraft crashed into the Gulf of Mexico about 10 miles west of St. Petersburg at around noon.
According to the Pasco Sheriff's Office, there were no mayday calls sent out prior to the crash.
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Roy Halladay is shown in a screen capture from a short video released by Icon Aircraft when he took possession of his plane. (YouTube)

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Roy Halladay throws against the Seattle Mariners during first inning AL baseball game action in Toronto September 25, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Thornhill

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A plane belonging to former Toronto Blue Jays player Roy Halladay is pictured in this photo from his Twitter account. (@RoyHalladay /Twitter)

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Two-time Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay answers questions after announcing his retirement after 16 seasons in the major leagues with Toronto and Philadelphia at the MLB winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Monday, Dec. 9, 2013.(AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay speaks during the induction ceremony at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Mary's, Ontario, Saturday, June 24, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins



Halladay, 40, was the only occupant of the plane.
“Many know Roy as a Cy Young winner and future hall of famer but we know Roy as a person, as a caring husband who loved his wife Brandy and loved his two boys. When he spoke of his family he spoke with pride and to Brandy and the boys and the entire family we are so sad for your loss,” Sheriff Chris Nocco told reporters. “We know how much he meant to you and we know how much you meant to him.”

[Scrape]

Story is from MLB.

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TORONTO -- The baseball community has lost one of its all-time greats far too soon. Longtime Blue Jays and Phillies star Roy Halladay passed away at the age of 40 following a tragic plane crash in Central Florida on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Halladay's ICON A5 light sport aircraft crashed into the Gulf of Mexico at approximately noon ET. Halladay was an avid pilot who frequently talked about his love of flying and recently posted images and video of his aircraft to social media.


"All of us at baseball are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic passing of former Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay," said Commissioner Rob Manfred. "A well-respected figure throughout the game, Roy was a fierce competitor during his 16-year career, which included eight All-Star selections, two Cy Young Awards, a perfect game and a postseason no-hitter.
"On behalf of Major League Baseball, I extend my deepest condolences to his family, including his wife, Brandy, and two sons, Ryan and Braden, his friends and countless fans, as well as the Blue Jays and Phillies organizations."
The plane crash happened 10 miles west of St. Petersburg, Fla. Halladay lived in nearby Clearwater and is survived by his wife Brandy and their two sons. The Pasco Sheriff's Office confirmed that Halladay was the lone passenger of the aircraft and that no mayday call was received prior to the accident. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the crash.
"I know there are people in his family that fly," Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a news conference on Tuesday afternoon. "That's where he got it from. He loved to fly. He talked about flying. He talked about refurbishing planes. He grew up doing it. He talked about baseball and they talked about flying."

Halladay will be remembered as a top pitcher from his era and one of the best starters to wear a Blue Jays uniform, and a key member of some of the best rotations in Phillies history. He was a two-time Cy Young Award winner, eight-time All-Star, has a perfect game on his resume and also tossed a no-hitter during his postseason debut with the Phillies on Oct. 6, 2010.

More on the story can be found on MLB from the above link.

[ZR]

I merged the three threads together.

[Ghost Rider]

One of the best lines quoted from Gregg Zaun this afternoon

Roy Halladay

"He could tell you what pitch he was going to throw you and he'd still get you out!!"


Perfect!!

[WTF]

that's terrible news

only 40 years old

RIP

[mavrrrick]

R.I.P.

[allicedout]

Sad day.... He was a great player and an even greater person. R.I.P

[Scott]

RIP

[Scrape]

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[Laffs]

Ugh, guy lives a fantastic life, retires for the right family reasons and chases a passion of his and that ends up killing him. Hate stories like this, life can be so cruel. RIP
,

[RedSN]

He just got the plane less than a month ago.

Very sad. Every news story about him says he was a heck of a guy.

[Gabe]

There was a story on the radio last night that after he threw his no-hitter, the team wanted to take him out to celebrate, he declined instead choosing to take his son to chuck-e-cheese for his birthday.
That is a man who had his priorities straight

[Ghost Rider]

Wow...I little fucking harsh if you ask me...

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/mlb/michael-felger-on-roy-halladay%E2%80%99s-death-%E2%80%98he-got-what-he-deserved%E2%80%99/ar-BBEKotf?li=AAadgLE&ocid=ientp

[True Blue]

Fuck him, I hope they can his ass.

[ZR]

Just read what he said, wow that was harsh. Same for his comment about loosing Dale Sr. Suspect baseball fans will rip him a new ass but know for sure Nascar fans are gonna eat him alive.

[Gabe]

What an idiot

[N89]

Listening to all the interviews on the radio about people that knew him, one thing keeps coming up is how great of a guy/ father he was, feel so sorry for his kids.

[Laffs]

Wow...I little fucking harsh if you ask me...

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/mlb/michael-felger-on-roy-halladay%E2%80%99s-death-%E2%80%98he-got-what-he-deserved%E2%80%99/ar-BBEKotf?li=AAadgLE&ocid=ientp

Wonder what this guy does for fun, sit in a windowless padded room wearing a straight jacket? Lifes full of risks, hell every major sport essentially has inherent life threatening perils. Buddy needs to fuck off the air waves forever.

[ZR]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Federal aviation investigators say retired star pitcher Roy Halladay performed steep turns and flew feet above the water in his small plane moments before his fatal crash two weeks ago.
The National Transportation Safety Board didn't place blame for the crash in the preliminary report released Monday. It says witnesses and the plane's data recorder show Halladay was flying as low as 11 feet (3.3 metres) above the Gulf of Mexico in the minutes before the Nov. 7 crash near Tampa.
A witness told investigators Halladay's ICON A5 climbed to between 300 and 500 feet (90 and 150 metres) before it went into a 45-degree dive and slammed into the water.

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The body of the two-time Cy Young Award winner was found in the wreckage.
The NTSB says the full investigation could take two years.

[Scrape]

That is sad to hear but that is what the video footages showed as well as witnesses.

[StAnger]

Wow...I little fucking harsh if you ask me...

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/mlb/michael-felger-on-roy-halladay%E2%80%99s-death-%E2%80%98he-got-what-he-deserved%E2%80%99/ar-BBEKotf?li=AAadgLE&ocid=ientp


What a fucking twat.

[ZR]

As both a land and seaplane instructor most of my life, I take every aircraft accident personally, whether I knew the pilot or not. The death last November of Roy Halladay, former MLB star pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays and later the Philadelphia Phillies and a multiple Cy Young award winner, seemed even more needless than many because of the low-altitude maneuvers he was performing just before the crash. How many times, I thought, have I cautioned students against such stunts close to the ground or the water? What was he thinking, I wondered?

Halladay’s Icon A5 crashed in shallow water near New Port Ritchey, Florida, under near-perfect skies on November 7, 2017, after a short flight from a lakeside beach in Odessa. The airplane’s Rockwell Collins engine control unit recorded the airplane’s altitudes first at 1,909 feet, then 600 feet, then down to 36 feet and finally 11 feet above the water. The final data point showed the airplane 200 feet above the water before it descended in a final steep 45-degree bank.

There was certainly plenty of finger pointing after the accident, some focused on Halladay’s flying habits, some on Icon for marketing efforts that seemed to encourage low-level maneuvers exclusive of landing or takeoff.

More distressing, though, were the details contained in the autopsy released yesterday to Flying. No surprise that Roy Halladay — his given name was actually Harry Leroy Halladay — suffered from multiple broken bones and internal organ damage when the aircraft hit the water. Even at the relatively low speeds associated with an Icon A5, slamming into the water at nearly any angle is like hitting concrete. Halladay was a relatively new private pilot having logged just over 700 hours, of which 51 were in the Icon A5.

What was unknown until the autopsy surfaced was that Halladay was still breathing after the accident, perhaps while people stood on the deck of nearby boats shooting videos after witnessing the crash. No one jumped in the water to help, to see if the pilot was still alive. The autopsy said contributing to Halladay’s death in addition to the blunt head and chest trauma was “foamy fluid in the larynx and airways,” meaning a contributing cause of the MLB star’s death was drowning.

If the details of the multiple traumas to Halladay’s body were not insult enough, the Pasco and Pinellas County Coroner’s report discovered the former ball player had enough mood-altering drugs in his system to confirm he shouldn’t have been driving a car, much less flying an airplane.

Halladay’s blood report listed zolpidem, amphetamine, free morphine and ethanol, while the urine test uncovered cotinine, dihydromorphone, fluoxetine, hydromorphone, morphine, morphine metabolities, nicotine and zolpidem. A physician/pilot I spoke to about the results said there was no doubt Halladay was “soused,” when he crashed. He also said some of the drugs, most of which are not on the FAA’s list of approved medications, were essentially contradictory, like zolpidem, a generic name for Ambien, a sleep aid, and amphetamine and Adderall a medication to perk people up and is often used to treat ADD. Fluoxetine was another strange addition to this medical cocktail of Halladay’s. Fluoxetine is a generic name for Prozac used to treat depression.

As to the mentions of morphine, our source didn’t think that seemed strange for a retired baseball star who might be coping with the aches and pains of who knows how many injuries he’d suffered over the years … but certainly morphine didn’t belong in his system while he was flying.

What the autopsy could not tell us was exactly how soon before his flight Halladay ingested this cornucopia of medications. In the end, however, there’s little doubt that many things were troubling Roy Halladay on the day he crashed his Icon A5.

The real question is how we talk to new pilots about the risks they add to each flight with these kinds of medications in their system.