The death of Darryl Kile is obviously a shock to everyone, and it seems to be exacerbated even more by the somewhat mysterious circumstances surrounding it. (I won't get into the sausage factory details of how we got everything packaged together online, though.) It's hard to believe, I guess, that it's the first in-season death (i.e. not spring training) of an active major league player since Thurman Munson back in 1979. Condolences go out to his family, the Cardinals and all of baseball.

Going in another direction, it was amusing seeing Luis Castillo looking forlorn because his hit streak ended with him on deck but the Marlins scoring the winning run. It's Rick Manning-Paul Molitor all over again, except replace Manning with Tim Raines, of all people. I suppose it's good that the Florida fans didn't boo. The Marlins put on one nice comeback in the ninth inning to win the game. Then again, there were only a few thousand there anyways, so there probably weren't enough of the smart-asses around.