Posted on 06/22/2002 12:39:36 PM PDT by dennis1x
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:33:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As a Cardinal fan this has been an awful week.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
After all, how many celebrities have ODed? They are "Above The Law".
I think you forget how beloved they are by their fans. Have you considered how you would have felt if he had died right on the field DURING the game? Just kick him to the side and continue I suppose.
What the frog is wrong with you??? Of course you don't go to work!! It is known as bereavement leave!!
Jesus!
No, someone soaked his suppositories in tabasco sauce and he's turned into a flaming ...hole
CHICAGO, June 22 (Reuters) - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile, 33, was found dead in his Chicago hotel room on Saturday, according to radio reports.
A spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner confirmed that her office was investigating.
The Chicago Cubs were scheduled to play the Cardinals Saturday afternoon at Chicago's Wrigley Field, but the baseball game was canceled following reports that the veteran pitcher had been found dead.
"We got a call that he had expired. Our doctor won't examine the body until tomorrow. We can't confirm anything. We haven't investigated the scene," the spokeswoman at the medical examiner's office said.
She said her office was called to the Westin Hotel at 909 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.
No further details were immediately available about the cause of death.
One more L.Com refugee.
Goldwater Republican
semi-libertarian
Trying to get back to Texas.
Professor of Street Pharmacology, 1963 - 1980 (Should that be updated to 6/02?)
Theoretical Hippy, 1963 - 1972 (I never could give up bathing and clean clothes)
Raised Registered Cattle
Imported Art
Military and Police Equipment Dealer
Para-Legal
OG&M title researcher
Meta-Retired.
A little woodworking
a little gunsmithing
a little hacking
still Meta-Retired
Year, Team IP W-L SV BB SO ERA
1991, Hou 153.2 7-11 0 84 100 3.69
1992, Hou 125.1 5-10 0 63 90 3.95
1993, Hou 171.2 15- 8 0 69 141 3.51
1994, Hou 147.2 9- 6 0 82 105 4.57
1995, Hou 127 4-12 0 73 113 4.96
1996, Hou 219 12-11 0 97 219 4.19
1997, Hou 255.2 19- 7 0 94 205 2.57
1998, Col 230.1 13-17 0 96 158 5.20
1999, Col 190.2 8-13 0 109 116 6.61
2000, StL 232.1 20- 9 0 58 192 3.91
2001, StL 227.1 16-11 0 65 179 3.09
2002, StL 84.2 5- 4 0 28 50 3.72
Totals 2165.1 133-119 0 918 1668 4.12---
Division Series
Year, Opp. IP W-L SV BB SO ERA
1997, Atl 7 0- 1 0 2 4 2.57
2000, Atl 7 1- 0 0 2 6 2.57
2001, Ari 6 0- 0 0 5 5 3.00
Totals 20.0 1- 1 0 9 15 2.70
Cardinals' hurler Kile dead at 33
CHICAGO -- St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was found dead in the team hotel Saturday, a spokesperson for the Chicago medical examiner's office confirmed.
The spokesperson, who declined to give her name, did not provide information about the cause of death.
The Cardinals' game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field was canceled. Sunday night's game, in which Kile was supposed to pitch, will go on as scheduled.
Joe Girardi, the Cubs' player representative, addressed the fans and told them the game was called because of a "tragedy in the Cardinals family.''
Several stunned players walked out of the Cardinals' clubhouse shortly after the game was called without comment. Saturday's Cardinals-Cubs game was postponed because of the tragedy.
Kile, 33, had the day off and was scheduled to start the final game of the series Sunday. He was 5-4 with a 3.72 ERA in 14 games this season.
Shortly before the game was supposed to start at 2:20 p.m. CT, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa came out of the dugout and walked across the field to meet with Cubs general manager Andy MacPhail and Girardi. Then all the Cubs came out of the dugout and got behind Girardi.
Speaking in front of the dugout on a microphone, Girardi told the crowd there had been a "tragedy'' and asked fans to pray for the Cardinals' family organization
La Russa, who'd earlier shaken hands with Cubs manager Don Baylor, walked back across the field.
The Cubs filed back into their dugout and down the steps into the clubhouse runway and then an official announcement was made in the press box that the game was off and will be made up later.
The death was the second in the Cardinals' family this week.
Kile pitched the Cardinals into first place in the NL Central on Tuesday night, the same night longtime broadcaster Jack Buck died at 77 after a long illness.
Kile and his wife, Flynn, have 5-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, and a son who was born last August.
Kile had won three of his last four starts, and had a solid work ethic.
"Once you take the ball, you've got a job to do,'' he said after his last start.
Kile, who was 16-11 with a 3.09 ERA and threw 227 1/3 innings last year, had arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder during the offseason.
He pitched a no-hitter while with Houston in 1993 against the New York Mets. He was 133-119 in 11-plus major league seasons and known for an exceptional curveball.
Kile's best season was 2000, when he went 20-9 with a 3.91 ERA in his first year with St. Louis -- finishing fifth in NL Cy Young voting. He also helped St. Louis advance to the NL championship series against the Mets that season.
Kile was traded to St. Louis from Colorado, along with pitchers Dave Veres and Luther Hackman on Nov. 16, 1999, for pitchers Jose Jimenez, Manny Aybar and Rick Croushore and infielder Brent Butler.
A 30th-round pick of the Astros in 1987, Kile was called up to the majors in 1991 and went 7-11. He spent his first seven major league seasons with Houston, finishing fifth in NL Cy Young voting in 1997 after going 19-7 with a 2.57 ERA.
Kile signed with Colorado during the offseason and struggled in his two seasons with the Rockies. He led the league in losses with 17 in 1998 and was 21-30 with Colorado.
Yeah, right. Hell, I took 5 days off when my cat died.
As I mentioned earlier, that's essentially what Marge Schott wanted to do when an umpire died at a game. Candid Camera creator Alan Funt demanded that his staff get back to work the afternoon JFK was assassinated. Most of the staffers, including future gossip columnist Liz Smith, quit on the spot rather than comply with this demand.
My condolences to the Cardinals and their fans -- it has been an awful week for them.
I grew up in Southeast Missouri, listening to Cardinals games on KMOX. Tough, tough week for the team and Cardinals fans everywhere.
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