June 22, 2002

[MusicMan]

RIP, Darryl Kile.

Hard to believe it's been 5 years.

[dirty steve]

Probably my favorite memory of DK was when he hit a home run in 1993 at a game I was at in the Dome--still one of my favorite Astros moments.  He went CG shutout also.
box score:  http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU199307030.shtml
RIP DK #57.

[Foghorn]

RIP, Darryl Kile.

Hard to believe it's been 5 years.

Its funny, not ha ha funny, to think about what would have happened if he re-signed with the Astros after the 1997 season.

Would we have traded for The Unit in 1998, meaning Guillen/Halama/Garcia would have been Astros. 

The 2001 pitching staff could have been Kile, Oswalt, Miller and Garcia who went a combined 64-28 with an ERA around 3.10. 

[Andyzipp]

Its funny, not ha ha funny, to think about what would have happened if he re-signed with the Astros after the 1997 season.

Would we have traded for The Unit in 1998, meaning Guillen/Halama/Garcia would have been Astros. 

The 2001 pitching staff could have been Kile, Oswalt, Miller and Garcia who went a combined 64-28 with an ERA around 3.10. 

Also, you could probably do something more interesting with Hampton than trading him to the Mess in 2000.

[Foghorn]

Also, you could probably do something more interesting with Hampton than trading him to the Mess in 2000.

Yeah, but hampton became Dotel and Dotel became Beltran.  Plus no Hampton also meant no Operation Shutdown.

[MusicMan]

Its funny, not ha ha funny, to think about what would have happened if he re-signed with the Astros after the 1997 season.

Would we have traded for The Unit in 1998, meaning Guillen/Halama/Garcia would have been Astros. 

The 2001 pitching staff could have been Kile, Oswalt, Miller and Garcia who went a combined 64-28 with an ERA around 3.10. 

And if Garcia had been an Astro, then Felix Hernandez would have signed with the Astros.

[Andyzipp]

Yeah, but hampton became Dotel and Dotel became Beltran.  Plus no Hampton also meant no Operation Shutdown.

Oddly, I could do without Beltran or Dotel.  Shutdown could have still been ducttaped to Hampton for something better.

[MusicMan]

Shutdown could have still been ducttaped to Hampton for something better.

Given that Hun mistakenly belived both:
(a) that Dotel was a starting pitcher, and
(b) that Cedeno was a functional outfielder,

I don't see how he could have gotten much less for the package.

[drew corleone]

Man, I loved DK. I was watching the Horns win the CWS when I heard the news. It made a national title very bittersweet.

[Limey]

Also, you could probably do something more interesting with Hampton than trading him to the Mess in 2000.

Yes, you could have him model a clothing line for gay chimpanzees.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Yes, you could have him model a clothing line for gay chimpanzees.

Isn't that a bit redundant? Traded to the Mets, or, model a clothing line for gay chimpanzees.

Jane Goodall couldn't find any thing different between NYC and Africa. She just preferred to avoid the hostile environment of NYC and do her studies in the safety of the jungles of the dark continent