KNIGHTS RETIRE NO. 57

NEW YORK -- Not that it means anything -- in fact, it means absolutely nothing -- but if I was going to put anything related to my fantasy baseball team on the Web as any kind of a lark, I had to honor a man who was a big part of several such teams, Darryl Kile.

As I'll say elsewhere in cyberspace, I respected Darryl Kile a lot because of his no-hitter against the Mets in 1993 and because of that 12-6 curveball. I grew to admire Darryl Kile because he proved me right as a fantasy baseball nerd a few times. I can't even claim to have ever met Darryl Kile, but his death deeply saddened me because of those two links I had to him. May he rest in peace.

So, officially in this little corner of the world, No. 57 joins Nos. 34 (Nolan Ryan) and 72 (Carlton Fisk) on the wall at Con Ed Stadium. It means nothing, but it's all I have.

Darryl Kile's Van Nest Knights stats

Season	INN	K	GS	W	L	ERA	SV	BB	H	FPTS
2001 VNK	196.2	158	29	13	9	2.792	0	53	188	336.0

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