[Neets]

Though as a widow and the mother of children who lost their father at a young age, I know none of them are reading this now, and the fiesty grief expressed by strangers here is all about celebrity worship and the bonding ritual of public mourning, and not about her husband and her family, just as the comments about the game's rescheduling are not about them personally either.

So it only took you 12 posts to finally offer some sense of condolences here???

I guess it was important first and foremost to chide the Fans of Darryl Kile....and jump on the Swervie band wagon...

I have seen you on baseball threads before and am quite shocked are your comments prior to this post.

I guess people are only entitled to feel pain/grief, as you are wont to remind us from time to time, when it's in their immediate family...and not in the family of baseball...excuse us.

Pity Party begins promptly at 10PM.

[ValerieUSA]

Like I said -- the people who are really hurting are not reading this thread, so offering condolences here is just an exercise in bonding with FReepers who are into judging the public display of grief for someone they never even met. Instead of playing baseball today, they are playing "wake" and keeping score. Okay.

I just wondered why it would be insensitive to play a scheduled baseball game where the fans are already seated and waiting when news of a player's death breaks, while it isn't insensitive to carry on a NASCAR race after tens of thousands of spectators have watched a driver crash and die on the track. Apparently the acceptable level of fan sensitivity to death is gaged by the convenience of scheduling.