St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Darryl Kile dead.

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[dennis1x]

As a Cardinal fan this has been an awful week.

[John W]

I was suprised to see the post that was deleted was the one that tipped off most of the rest of this thread.It had been up quite a while and shouldn't have been removed.My opinion.

[John W]

No.There are typically as many as 6-10 times as many people at an auto race as at Wrigley today and with baseball playing 162 days per year,rescheduling is not near the problem it would be in racing.So,when necessary-see 9/11/01-9/16/01-accomodations can be made.Its a humanity thing.

[Dan from Michigan]

As someone involved in team sports as a coach and formerly as a player, you don't understand.

A teammate in sports is like family. The Cardinals lost a brother.

[ValerieUSA]

Looks more like a scheduling thing than a humanity thing according to your own explanation.

[connectthedots]

That's why I used the word 'drafted' instead of 'played'. I like being on your Black conservative ping list.

[John W]

Nascar did not race the weekend after 9-11 for what its worth to you.I'm sure not much.

[Neets]

Why bother??? Some people only see/hear what they want to.

[ValerieUSA]

You are comparing the death of a baseball player in his hotel room with the terrorist attack on America last September? Is that your point?

[Quicksilver]

In 1993 Winston Cup Champion Alan Kulwicki died in a plane crash two days before the scheduled race in Bristol. NASCAR did not cancel the race, it is next to impossible to reschedule a NASCAR event.

[Darlin']

So, lemme get this right.... you're saying that on occasion.... expediency trumps grief. Is that about right ?

[ValerieUSA]

So it is a scheduling convenience thing, not a "humanity" thing, after all.

[Frapster]

bleh - I came to this article to pay respects to the passing of DK. I live in Houston, TX and watched him as an Astro for the entire beginning of his career. I was saddened to see him go to Colorado, even more sad to see him struggle so valiantly yet unsuccessfully there. It was a good move to leave that high altitude and based on the articles at the ESPN site - everyone who knows baseball understands the type of character that made DK a man.

It's a shame that someone derailed this thread with hateful and moronic statements - I guess I'd just like to see if there are those among us who know how to show respect to a true man.

[ArneFufkin]

My great condolances. I met Mr. Kile at a Qwest "Golf excuse and wasteful extravagance" at La Quinta after he played for the Rockies in 1998. He was a really good guy. We laughed about him pitching in Coors Field after posting really stellar numbers at Houston. I suggested that he would have better elemental and atmospheric advantage pitching on the moon. He and I came to complete agreement, however, that every baseball pitcher should have at bare minimum a statistical 1:1 ratio between home runs and batters hit by pitch. The Bob Gibson school ... give up a home run, drill a batter. In Coors Field, we decided, it needed to be at least 2:1 plunk/tater.

I'm sorry for the fans of the Cardinals and praying for the family of Darryl. 33 years old ... faaak!!! He was a real leader on that team. What a human tragedy.

[CARDINALRULES]

06/11/2002 8:46 pm ET 

Father's Day interview shows real Kile

By Matthew Leach / MLB.com

	Darryl Kile enjoys being at home and sharing experiences with his children. (Tom Gannam/AP)

Cardinals right-hander Darryl Kile, who died Saturday at age 33, was a father of three. His twin son Kannon and daughter Sierra are five, and his son Ryker Davis was born last August. On Monday, June 10, in celebration of Father's Day, he sat down with MLB.com to discuss the experience of fatherhood and how it relates to his career in baseball. What became apparent was his dedication to his family and his desire to see his children attack life the way he does ... to take the ball every fifth day, as he would say.

MLB.com: What has changed the most for you, personally and professionally, since you became a father?
Darryl Kile: I think the changes for the better are, now that my family's grown a little bit, when I go home after a game, it's easier to forget the bad ones. My kids and my wife help me enjoy things other than baseball.

MLB.com: How have your priorities changed? Has parenthood put the game more in perspective?
Kile: I don't think my priorities have changed. I just think my free time is spent differently. I look forward to days off when I can hang out around the house, take the kids somewhere or do something like that, a lot more than I used to.

MLB.com: How is your kids' childhood different from yours?
Kile: I hope not a whole lot. I think it's different in that I'm gone a lot. Now that they're old enough, they kind of understand that I go but I always come back. The difference, I would guess, is the time away, more than anything.

MLB.com: Your oldest are both five. Are they playing any sports yet?
Kile: They're just kids. They just like playing. The funnest games we play are games we kind of invent. They have a baseball kind of feel, but we just kind of make up our own games. Over the line, and number of catches and stuff like that. Just fun games and hopefully the kids enjoy playing them.

MLB.com: Would you like to see them become pro athletes?
Kile: If that's what they want. I just want them to be happy and I want them to enjoy doing whatever they pick to do. Hopefully, whatever they decide to do when they grow up, they do it hard, and they take the ball every five days. What I mean by that is, I hope they go after it and get what they want.

MLB.com: How do you make the balance work between the dedication to baseball and dedication to your family?
Kile: I think you just kind of re-allocate your free time. I think the amount of time that you have to spend to stay ready to go and stay healthy and be able to compete is the same. But the time that I had off before, I would do different things than I do now.

MLB.com: What do you do similarly and differently as compared to your father?
Kile: I think that one of the coolest things my dad and I had was, we were friends. He was always showing me different things and I'd ask him questions, and if he didn't know the answer we'd go work it out together, we'd go look it up. That meant a lot to me. So hopefully as my children grow up, I'll be able to help them learn things more than tell them what to do.

MLB.com: How much have you brought them into your life in baseball? How do you want the game and your job to be a part of their lives?
Kile: I don't know. I just think that if they're curious or interested in what I do, I'd like to show them what I do. If they're excited to come to work with dad, just like any other little kid is excited to go to work with dad, I like to bring them around and let them see where I work. I just think it's a situation where, if they show interest in it, you want them to have fun and enjoy the game like I did when I was younger.

Matthew Leach covers the Cardinals for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

[baseballfanjm]

Well, they play baseball for a living and to play baseball well, you have to have a good time. From what I've heard, he was a team leader and had friends on both teams. When a blow like this happens, if the game wasn't canceled, I'd bet neither team would want to take the field.

[Rome2000]

I remember early in his career with the Astros he struck out the first eight batters. Tommy Lasorda had the pitcher bunt so he wouldn't get nine in a row.

No Way!!!!!

Did he ever make the All-Star team?

[bootless]

I checked in after the deleted and offending posts. Good God, SotN must have misplaced his/her heart ... and wherever the common sense resides.

I didn't hear about this until just now - so, so sad. Deep sympathies from a Giants and A's fan...

[null and void]

I didn't get to see it. It was pulled before I came to this thread, but I gather from the replies, some with quotes, that it was where Swervant said that the sports wussies should suck it up and let the game go on.

Hard to do an arson investigation when the point of ignition has been surgically removed from the universe...

[ArneFufkin]

You are the reason men schedule ongoing opportunities to escape this particular cluelessness of women. You don't get it ... Kile is a respected and admired man among his Big League peers. He's a brother in arms. Every man here - especially those who understand THIS particular rivalry - knows that the Cubs players and organization acted in a profound gesture of respect and deference to the loss to the players, staff and fans of the St. Louis Cardinals. Yeah ... sadness, honor and authentic grief. Men are capable of that, Medusa. Go watch effeminite ice-skating waifs jump luxes and axels; everybody gets flowers and someone's hurling a catty comment with bratty intent. Ditz.

[lavrenti]

Three-time All Star. Nasty curve.