Joe Girardi is such a class act. The fact that he was able to keep his cool after the tragic death of an opposing player is something I will never forget.
I’ve always respected him. Even tho I’m a Sox fan, I still respected him. That was his teams biggest rival and he took the field to make the announcement with tears coming down his face.
Joe Girardi was always the perfect kind of guy for a situation this...if there is a perfect guy....just a good leader person to deliver this kind of news....
@@woodykelleher9253 Because to the Wrigley fans, Girardi was the most respected voice in the organization and if anyone could impose the gravity of the situation on them and have them buy in, it was him.
First mention is at 9:38. As a Cardinals fan, the consideration shown by the Cubs organization after Kile's death was very classy and much appreciated.
mpacz99 never will forget. My dad and I went to get a carry out pizza for the game. As we raced home to watch first pitch, we heard on the radio that there was a delay, and he said “someone may have died.”
We has cubs fans prefer to leave the rivalry on the field. I’m events like this, we put that aside for those who have passed and honor those. I still remember this moment and the reaction.
It wasn't the Cubs, the commissioner cancelled the game. The minute they found out that DK died, Commissioner Zelig immediately knew there was no game being played that day. They couldn't say anything about it outright because first, by law (and by basic respect), Mrs. Kile had to be informed first, which was why there was a delay. I can't fathom finding out my wife died, but it'd be more devastating to find out that a crowd of 30,000 people who didn't know her found out about her passing before I did. That would upset me.
I honestly don't know how Joe managed to hold it together that well, considering his father was Jack Buck, though you can see him struggling not to cry .
People can say what they want, but that announcement by Joe Buck showed why he's one of the great ones. He had to face the nation and announce the death of a player just days after burying his own father.
I vividly remember watching this broadcast with shock and heartache live 17 years ago. After getting the news of Tyler Skaggs passing, which looks tragically similar, those emotions are still there for Kile's family, teammates and loved ones, and now for Skaggs teammates and loved ones. Life is way too short and way too fragile. I know we often look at these professional athletes in a different light, and are quick to point out on field performance and stats. Yet, we all, myself included, sometimes forget these are human beings first. News like Kile, like Josh Hancock, like Oscar Tavares, Jose Fernandez, Nick Adenhart, Yordano Ventura, and now tragically Skaggs are reminders. I also know many have their views about Joe Buck, but how he handled this, especially with his heavy heart over his father's passing just days before, was as professional as it gets.
Very sad day for the Kiles, the Cards and all of MLB. And more heart-breaking news, because just a week prior, Joe Buck's father, Jack, passed away. :-(
Len-Len Alegre I remember where I was as well. I've been a HUGE baseball fan and a Braves fan most of my life. I knew of the love of Darryl Kile from MLB's players and even watched the last two innings of his No Hitter while with Houston on TV. I became a fan of his then. But, Joe Girardi's reaction while at the microphone has always stuck with me.
Len-Len Alegre i was at my old house not far from where i am now. I grew up as an orioles dodgers and reds fan. But that day at 15 years old i was a cardinals fan. I cried my eyes out. Rest in Peace Darryl Kile and also Jack Buck.
I also remember this as well, but as a Cub fan. I was 13 but it did affect me. Jack was a class act announcer, and Daryl dying so young as well. Just another example of how precious this thing called life is.
I don’t think any baseball fan outside StL can understand the pain of losing one of the all time greats like Jack Buck and a great human like Darryl Kile so close together. Jack was a grandfather, father, brother to EVERYONE in the metro area. And DK had earned our loved in a short period of time. So much respect to the Cubs organization for doing everything they could to recognize our pain.
Still no less sad to see Joe Girardi have to make that announcement 22 years later Exactly how I remembered it How he could hold it together for an announcement like that
@@ajk at the time the announcement was made to the crowd, Mrs Kile had not been informed. Would have been horrible for her to learn of his passing via the TV. WAs handled as best it could be under the circumstances.
@@smittykins they had to delay the game to inform her first. They had no intent of playing a game under those circumstances. Once she was informed only then they made it public that no game was going to be played.
They were coming out of that tribute to Jack when they started in about DK. A true nightmare, and the Cardinals were lucky to have someone as mature and level-headed as LaRussa at the helm during this horrible time.
The day that Jack buck died I cried because it was like my childhood went to go with him. My family and I were watching the St. Louis Cardinals on TV and turn the volume off from the TV and turn KMOX to listen to Jack. I was a tradition in our family.
It was a terrible time for Fox announcer Joe Buck. He had not only lost his father after a long illness, but he also had to report Darryl Kile's tragic death on the air. Imagine the heartbreak for any other reporter to do.
I still remember where I was when I heard the news on Darryl Kile. I was on vacation in Nashville and was in total shock. Absolutely tragic. And Joe Girardi is a class act. I don't think I would have been able to keep my cool addressing the crowd on this horrible situation like he did.
It's crazy how technology changes the way we communicate. When Girardi addressed the crowd and said 'you will find out later on' , I just thought if it were today, then the fans wouldve probably known before Girardi even had a chance to address crowd. Also they probably wouldnt have had such a tough time contacting Darryl Kile's wife.
it was not getting in touch with her, it was getting a representative to her home. The local police made the notification, it took time to call them, get them over there and get confirmation back she was informed.
@@JPF941 She was informed by the wife of pitcher Dave Veres, who was his best friend and teammate with all three teams that Kile played with. th-cam.com/video/Jg0otHoseXI/w-d-xo.html
Imagine today. Everyone would be on their phones and would know before the announcement. Tough day for Joe. I grew up listening to his dad on KMOX with my dad. Such fond memories of my home city and team.
bigblocklawyer yes there were indeed cell phones back then and popular they were but not nearly as popular as they are today especially with texting and social media
I was there that day. It was my brothers first time ever in Wrigley field. No one knew what happened. We didn't even find out until we got back home hours later.
I remember watching this live. They said there was a delay and when they came back girardi was about to make an announcement and stood there for a second in silence, someone could be heard saying “ what is it?!?”.. I thought he was gonna day there was a terrorist attack or something and not DK being dead 2 days after buck
Joe Girardi will always be a Cub. He was always classy and loved in Chicago. I worked at Wrigley with the Cubs for 4 years and know for a fact that the fans were heartbroken by the death of Kile and that no game would be played that afternoon. I remember that like it was yesterday. I thought it could have been because of the heat. Joe settled the fans down and don't know of anyone who could've done better under those circumstances
I will go to my grave remembering how a giant of a man like Larry Walker was crying unabashedly in a press conference after this, his wife having spoken to Flynn Kile herself. Walker and Kile had been teammates with the Rockies, and the news was devastating to him.
Walker, Girardi and even Kile's former Teammate Lance Berkman would go on to be Cardinals, with Berkman winning a World Series in 2011. Cardinals owner, Bill DeWitt gave Walker a 2006 championship ring for being a guest instructor at Spring training, and he was stunned! It's been mentioned that one reason for the gesture was that Walker was the one Cardinal who played well in the 2004 World Series against Boston.
The deaths of both Jack and Darryl Kile were both tragedies to those who love baseball and to the Cardinal Nation and well as those who loved the great Jack Buck in whatever sport he was covering. It means even more to me because though I did not know Jack or Darryl personally, they both had an impact on my personal life in ways neither of them knew. I have to take you back fifty-three years for this story, sometime in April of 1970. I was a junior at St. Louis University, a school that was a family tradition, not only counting my father and uncle as alumni. but also myself and my two cousins Jack and Carol as students at the time and later graduates. as was I. Tired of dorm life, my three friends Angelo, Mike, and Steve decided that they wanted to move to an apartment complex in Brentwood Mo. named the Audubon Park Apartments, but better known to the number of students who lived there as "Birdland". These were two story condos built after World War Ii and built in U shaped multiple apartment complexes with a green space in the middle and lot and street parking. The apartments had two bedrooms and a bath upstairs and a living/dining room combo and kitchen on the main floor. They were dated with fixtures and appliances from the 50's but clean, quiet, with little crime in the area. Our rent was the main selling point, 126 dollars per month . Split four ways, it came to s dollar a day and change Besides we were tired of the crime around campus and the smoke from the "recreational" stuff wafting up from the air vents after supper most nights. There was only one problem. I was the only person who was 21 and could sign the lease and I had some misgivings about whether my father would agree to the deal, even though the cost of the apartment was far less than paying housing and food in the dorm. Especially since Mike's dad worked for H. J. Heinz in Pittsburgh and could get us all sorts of soups and other food and drink mixes, and Steve's dad owned a Polish delicatessen in Chicago. But I put a call to my Dad anyway and was turned down for the apartment. But i had only lost the battle and not the war. This is where Jack Buck comes in. The four of us were sitting around the radio listening to the Blues Hockey game when a Cardinals commerical featuring Jack came on, reminding people that the first home stand of the year was coming soon and to get your tickets now! That gave me an idea! My Dad was a HUGE Cardinal fan and would not pass up a freebie ticket. Guys, if you help me get two box seats for a night game during opening week for the Cardinals so I can get my Dad down here to school. I can get us that apartment. If we can get him here in the dorm when that marijuana smoke starts wafting through the vents, I think we might have a chance. To make a long story short, it worked. While I hid in their room, my buddies held my dad in my room until the smell was undeniable telling him that I had left to turn in a library book that was overdue. Then I came rushing in the room, apologizing that I was late. On the elevator my dad questioned what the smell was. I dummied up and asked him what smell he was talking about. He said it smelled like something funny burning . And i casually replied that it was marijuana that he smelled and its common at this time of night and one of the reasons we want lo leave because all of us were planning on graduate school in medicine, law, and social services and did not want to be involved or accused of possession of the stuff, even indirectly. I thought the poor man was going to have a coronary. This was NOT the school he KNEW. I reminded him that he went to school here during Prohibition, and went home on the weekends to help my grandfather makee bootleg booze to keep both him and my uncle in school. Dad and i went to the game and my father said nothing further about the lease. I thought i was doomed when he dropped me off at the dorm. But as i got out of the car he told me to take him by the apartents. Luckily, my older sister had shared an aparment there in the late 50's and early 60's so he was famiiar with the place. But taking no chances, I drove him the long way, past the Catholic Church and the police station. Thanks to Jack Buck and a little bit of conniving on my part, we got the apartment and Mike and I lived there for over two years before everyone went their separate ways. Angelo to med school, the Navy, and then Northern California, Mike to grad school and and his own business in the St. Louis area, and Steve to grand school as well . I went to law school, the Air Force and later practice in Texas, until i returned home after my fathers death and a law practice here in Illinois. And that's where i was when Jack and Darryl passed away. I had not seen or heard from my old roomies since my college days as i bounced around when I was not in class at law school. But a few days after Darryl's death I received a call from Angelo who had written me that his son Mike had been drafted from college by the Cardinals some time ago. He called to tell me that Mike had been called up to be a reliever after Darryl's death and wondered if we could all get together for a game when Mike might pitch. Angelo and I got together for a game in St, Louis and later on we found Mike and three of the Fearsom Foursome and our wives and families got to see Mike Crudale pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2002 and went to dinner afterwords.. Though Mike had a great rookie season with the Cardinals, even pitching in the NLCS game against San Francisco, a freak injury to his foot ended his career much too early. So thanks to both of you for making those times so special to me. May you rest now in God's Kingdom, where it is always baseball season and never a rainout.
You can tell Joe was pretty close to breaking down right before he mentioned Darryl's kids. He's a professional for not, and a good man for having us see that
Great Tribute to Jack Buck by the Great Pat Summerall. All of them Jack, Pat, and John Madden will be missed. Jack Buck's legacy is the St.Louis Cardinals, but with guys that he has worked with. Harry Caray, Pat Summerall, Mike Shannon, Ray Scott, John Madden, and of course Hank Stram. It's the elite of the elite with Jack, but I think that his favorite booth is with him and his son, Joe Buck. Both are Royalty in St.Louis. On this tho, Thanks to Pat Summerall, the Fox Crew, and Joe Girardi of the Cubs. Announcing Darryl Kile's death was gonna be hard to do. But Girardi did it, and us Cardinal fans had to deal with both Jack Buck and Darryl Kile's deaths within the same week, the team played inspired Baseball and made it to the NLCS! RIP Jack Buck and Darryl Kile!!!!!
Never will forget. My dad and I went to get a carry out pizza for the game. As we raced home to watch first pitch, we heard on the radio that there was a delay, and he said .”someone may have died.”
It was his second stint with the team; he was drafted by the Cubs in ‘86 and left after the ‘92 season after being selected by the Rockies in the expansion draft, then returned in 2000 after his tenure with the Yankees.
To Tristan Andrew-I imagine it wasn't easy for Girardi to d eliver the news to the waitin g fans in regards of DK's su- dden passing. I remember t- he time Ken Harrelson got al l choked up making the ann- ouncement of Don Drysdale' s death in 1993; I remember watching that (White Sox) g ame on t.v. The Hawk was h aving a terrible time trying to remain composed.
The Masked Heel keep sodomizing boys in the rectum and being alcoholics too. Then, lie to everyone about how you “follow the ways of Jesus Christ” smh lololol!!!!
In "Jack Buck Remembered Career Highlights" at 1:34, there was one error (Baseball HOF Inductee in 1987, not 1997). YTML (You'll thank me later) Cardinals fans.
Joe Girardi is such a class act. The fact that he was able to keep his cool after the tragic death of an opposing player is something I will never forget.
As a diehard cards fan , i have never forgotten it either
Very gutsy of Joe Girardi to face the Wrigley crowd like that.
I’ve always respected him. Even tho I’m a Sox fan, I still respected him. That was his teams biggest rival and he took the field to make the announcement with tears coming down his face.
Joe Girardi was always the perfect kind of guy for a situation this...if there is a perfect guy....just a good leader person to deliver this kind of news....
nobody else would have been able to do it
Kyle was the opposition. Why not have a Cardinal say that?
@@woodykelleher9253 Because to the Wrigley fans, Girardi was the most respected voice in the organization and if anyone could impose the gravity of the situation on them and have them buy in, it was him.
15 years ago. Extremely sad. I was only 6 years old when these two deaths occurred.
R.I.P. Jack and Darryl. We love you both.
Jack Buck, Harry Carrey, Vin Scully, Shirley Povich were among the best baseball announcers ever!
Amen
First mention is at 9:38.
As a Cardinals fan, the consideration shown by the Cubs organization after Kile's death was very classy and much appreciated.
mpacz99 never will forget. My dad and I went to get a carry out pizza for the game. As we raced home to watch first pitch, we heard on the radio that there was a delay, and he said “someone may have died.”
We has cubs fans prefer to leave the rivalry on the field. I’m events like this, we put that aside for those who have passed and honor those. I still remember this moment and the reaction.
I miss Jeannie Zelasko...HOT!
It wasn't the Cubs, the commissioner cancelled the game.
The minute they found out that DK died, Commissioner Zelig immediately knew there was no game being played that day.
They couldn't say anything about it outright because first, by law (and by basic respect), Mrs. Kile had to be informed first, which was why there was a delay.
I can't fathom finding out my wife died, but it'd be more devastating to find out that a crowd of 30,000 people who didn't know her found out about her passing before I did. That would upset me.
I honestly don't know how Joe managed to hold it together that well, considering his father was Jack Buck, though you can see him struggling not to cry .
Pujols Had Been Devastated Kile Taught Pujols To Respect His Game
He's a true professional. Say what you want about his announcing, but he's a professional.
@@futuregohan4837 Pujols has since had to endure the loss of 2 other teammates. Josh Hancock and Tyler Skaggs. Both of those deaths were avoidable...
People can say what they want, but that announcement by Joe Buck showed why he's one of the great ones. He had to face the nation and announce the death of a player just days after burying his own father.
I always cry my eyes out seeing Joe and Jack Buck together not only as St Louis Cardinals baseball announcers but also father and son
I doubt you "always cry your eyes out."
Do you really take it THAT seriously? MAN!
I always cry hearing Joe try to do commentary
Thanks for putting this together. It was quite a week, and one that should not be forgotten.
I vividly remember watching this broadcast with shock and heartache live 17 years ago. After getting the news of Tyler Skaggs passing, which looks tragically similar, those emotions are still there for Kile's family, teammates and loved ones, and now for Skaggs teammates and loved ones. Life is way too short and way too fragile. I know we often look at these professional athletes in a different light, and are quick to point out on field performance and stats. Yet, we all, myself included, sometimes forget these are human beings first. News like Kile, like Josh Hancock, like Oscar Tavares, Jose Fernandez, Nick Adenhart, Yordano Ventura, and now tragically Skaggs are reminders. I also know many have their views about Joe Buck, but how he handled this, especially with his heavy heart over his father's passing just days before, was as professional as it gets.
When I first heard the news about Tyler, I immediately thought of Darryl.
Wow, i did not realize that girardi went in front of the crowd like that. Jesus.
Yeah, this was an ultimate display of respect and courtesy from the Cubs organization and fans.
@The Radio Broadcast Vault in Chicago, it stayed local. It didn't switch over.
Amazing moment
Very sad day for the Kiles, the Cards and all of MLB. And more heart-breaking news, because just a week prior, Joe Buck's father, Jack, passed away. :-(
And the Astros :/
Four days prior actually MLB ch 2. Saddest week ever for Cardinals fans.
I cried for the rest of the day after darrly kile passed away just a sad week
The recent death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs brought back memories of this sad day.
The coverage of Skaggs’ death was tough for me to watch. He was as old as I am.
Even though i’m a New York sports fan from Canada, i don’t know what it is about this video but something hit me. Jack Buck is a legend. RIP Jack.
Brett Rhyno Jack Buck was old and sick... and it was expected. He was in the hospital for 6 months. Kile was not.
Jack was the best, we, as cards fans , were fortunate to have him.
Classy comment from you and appreciated by this diehard cardinals fan
Thank you
Thank you for posting this. I had forgotten that it was so close to Jack Buck's passing.
I still remember exactly where I was that day... heartbreaking.
Len-Len Alegre I remember where I was as well. I've been a HUGE baseball fan and a Braves fan most of my life. I knew of the love of Darryl Kile from MLB's players and even watched the last two innings of his No Hitter while with Houston on TV. I became a fan of his then. But, Joe Girardi's reaction while at the microphone has always stuck with me.
Len-Len Alegre i was at my old house not far from where i am now. I grew up as an orioles dodgers and reds fan. But that day at 15 years old i was a cardinals fan. I cried my eyes out. Rest in Peace Darryl Kile and also Jack Buck.
Same here
My grandfather has been to Wrigley Field once. And it was this game. He says it’s one of the weirdest days of his life
I also remember this as well, but as a Cub fan. I was 13 but it did affect me. Jack was a class act announcer, and Daryl dying so young as well. Just another example of how precious this thing called life is.
Imagine Jack Buck Calling Pujols 500th Home Run I'd Like That
I don’t think any baseball fan outside StL can understand the pain of losing one of the all time greats like Jack Buck and a great human like Darryl Kile so close together. Jack was a grandfather, father, brother to EVERYONE in the metro area. And DK had earned our loved in a short period of time. So much respect to the Cubs organization for doing everything they could to recognize our pain.
wow I remember this day.i was watching it live can't believe it's been 16 years
Now Tyler Skaggs rip😰😰
Unfortunately for Albert Pujols, 2 of his teammates passed away during his career. First, Darryl Kile and now Tyler Skaggs.
Jett P and Josh Hancock in 2007...
R.I.P. Darryl Kile (1968-2002)
Still no less sad to see Joe Girardi have to make that announcement 22 years later
Exactly how I remembered it
How he could hold it together for an announcement like that
Those that were booing after hearing about a tragedy still pisses me off.
they didn't even know yet what happened, they shoulda been told honestly....
@@ajk they had to find and tell his wife first. Could you imagine her hearing it just randomly that would have been more heartbreaking
@@ajk at the time the announcement was made to the crowd, Mrs Kile had not been informed. Would have been horrible for her to learn of his passing via the TV. WAs handled as best it could be under the circumstances.
My understanding is that they learned Mrs. Kile had been informed around the time Girardi made the announcement.
@@smittykins they had to delay the game to inform her first. They had no intent of playing a game under those circumstances.
Once she was informed only then they made it public that no game was going to be played.
They were coming out of that tribute to Jack when they started in about DK. A true nightmare, and the Cardinals were lucky to have someone as mature and level-headed as LaRussa at the helm during this horrible time.
How Ironic that the Dodgers and Red Soxs are playing the Fox Game of the Week at this moment, 17 years later and a pitcher has just passed away.
You neaver know when it's your final breath it could happen anytime. You just don't know it was sad for the kile and his family
Only God knows. He's all knowing.
The day that Jack buck died I cried because it was like my childhood went to go with him. My family and I were watching the St. Louis Cardinals on TV and turn the volume off from the TV and turn KMOX to listen to Jack. I was a tradition in our family.
"33 is old."
Me at 30: *sweats geriatrically*
Narration of Jack Buck's career, courtesy of Pat Summerall!!!
As far as I know Summerall never did baseball. He would have been a good baseball announcer.
Yes, he would've been good, announcing baseball("3-2 payoff, struck him out...")!!!
Love hearing his voice.
It was a terrible time for Fox announcer Joe Buck. He had not only lost his father after a long illness, but he also
had to report Darryl Kile's tragic death on the air. Imagine the heartbreak for any other reporter to do.
I was born the night before this happened...weird to see this
Makes me feel old, I remember watching it as it happened......
@@TheRealCaptainJamesTKirk My Dad told me on the way to a reds game the next day.
That very eerie thing about Kile's and Bucks' deaths are? Darryl Kile's final start was on June 18, 2002. The very same nigh Jack Buck passed away.
I still remember where I was when I heard the news on Darryl Kile. I was on vacation in Nashville and was in total shock. Absolutely tragic. And Joe Girardi is a class act. I don't think I would have been able to keep my cool addressing the crowd on this horrible situation like he did.
It's crazy how technology changes the way we communicate. When Girardi addressed the crowd and said 'you will find out later on' , I just thought if it were today, then the fans wouldve probably known before Girardi even had a chance to address crowd. Also they probably wouldnt have had such a tough time contacting Darryl Kile's wife.
it was not getting in touch with her, it was getting a representative to her home. The local police made the notification, it took time to call them, get them over there and get confirmation back she was informed.
@@JPF941 She was informed by the wife of pitcher Dave Veres, who was his best friend and teammate with all three teams that Kile played with.
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Still brings a tear to my eye.
I'm not Joe Girardi's biggest fan but that was a class act and very heartbreaking to watch.
Imagine today. Everyone would be on their phones and would know before the announcement. Tough day for Joe. I grew up listening to his dad on KMOX with my dad. Such fond memories of my home city and team.
bigblocklawyer yes there were indeed cell phones back then and popular they were but not nearly as popular as they are today especially with texting and social media
Rip Jack Buck and Darryl kile
1) They died in 2002.
2) "RIP" is lazy, overused and unoriginal.
0:05 that’s when you know this is old lol
I remember this like it was yesterday. He was a local kid from the same hometown as I grew up in. It shocked us all here too
Kile was 33 and it happen 3 days before my 33rd birthday RIP
Man that was a rough week..
R.I.P. Jack Buck, Pat Summerall, Hank Stram, John Madden and Darryl Kile.
Jerry Remy too
@@notoriouseagle1074 Ok.
The Chicago White Sox should make Joe Girardi their new manager!
Kile would've been fifty years old today.
12:47 Damn, he was choked up.....took guts
I was there that day. It was my brothers first time ever in Wrigley field. No one knew what happened. We didn't even find out until we got back home hours later.
Sad. That will be 20 years next year, already. MAN!
I remember watching this live. They said there was a delay and when they came back girardi was about to make an announcement and stood there for a second in silence, someone could be heard saying “ what is it?!?”.. I thought he was gonna day there was a terrorist attack or something and not DK being dead 2 days after buck
You could have probably heard a pin drop at Wrigley when Girardi came up to the mic on the field.
Elliott Davis breaking the news on Fox 2. An STL TV legend
I loved him confronting people for the "You Paid for It" segments.
Joe Girardi will always be a Cub. He was always classy and loved in Chicago. I worked at Wrigley with the Cubs for 4 years and know for a fact that the fans were heartbroken by the death of Kile and that no game would be played that afternoon. I remember that like it was yesterday. I thought it could have been because of the heat. Joe settled the fans down and don't know of anyone who could've done better under those circumstances
He needs to manage the Chicago Cubs
"...he picked it up and he died about 30 days later....." In my 70s, I weep. I wish I could've given Lance my life. What a sweet kid.
I will go to my grave remembering how a giant of a man like Larry Walker was crying unabashedly in a press conference after this, his wife having spoken to Flynn Kile herself. Walker and Kile had been teammates with the Rockies, and the news was devastating to him.
Walker, Girardi and even Kile's former Teammate Lance Berkman would go on to be Cardinals, with Berkman winning a World Series in 2011. Cardinals owner, Bill DeWitt gave Walker a 2006 championship ring for being a guest instructor at Spring training, and he was stunned! It's been mentioned that one reason for the gesture was that Walker was the one Cardinal who played well in the 2004 World Series against Boston.
Crazy that some Cubs fans were booing after the announcement
As an Astros fan, it was tough to see DK leave, but seriously one of the best class acts in all of baseball
Wow the way Girardi chokes up is so sad
Tyler Skaggs of the Angels just died.
Chilling
The deaths of both Jack and Darryl Kile were both tragedies to those who love baseball and to the Cardinal Nation and well as those who loved the great Jack Buck in whatever sport he was covering.
It means even more to me because though I did not know Jack or Darryl personally, they both had an impact on my personal life in ways neither of them knew.
I have to take you back fifty-three years for this story, sometime in April of 1970. I was a junior at St. Louis University, a school that was a family tradition, not only counting my father and uncle as alumni. but also myself and my two cousins Jack and Carol as students at the time and later graduates. as was I.
Tired of dorm life, my three friends Angelo, Mike, and Steve decided that they wanted to move to an apartment complex in Brentwood Mo. named the Audubon Park Apartments, but better known to the number of students who lived there as "Birdland". These were two story condos built after World War Ii and built in U shaped multiple apartment complexes with a green space in the middle and lot and street parking. The apartments had two bedrooms and a bath upstairs and a living/dining room combo and kitchen on the main floor. They were dated with fixtures and appliances from the 50's but clean, quiet, with little crime in the area. Our rent was the main selling point, 126 dollars per month . Split four ways, it came to s dollar a day and change Besides we were tired of the crime around campus and the smoke from the "recreational" stuff wafting up from the air vents after supper most nights.
There was only one problem. I was the only person who was 21 and could sign the lease and I had some misgivings about whether my father would agree to the deal, even though the cost of the apartment was far less than paying housing and food in the dorm. Especially since Mike's dad worked for H. J. Heinz in Pittsburgh and could get us all sorts of soups and other food and drink mixes, and Steve's dad owned a Polish delicatessen in Chicago. But I put a call to my Dad anyway and was turned down for the apartment. But i had only lost the battle and not the war. This is where Jack Buck comes in.
The four of us were sitting around the radio listening to the Blues Hockey game when a Cardinals commerical featuring Jack came on, reminding people that the first home stand of the year was coming soon and to get your tickets now!
That gave me an idea! My Dad was a HUGE Cardinal fan and would not pass up a freebie ticket.
Guys, if you help me get two box seats for a night game during opening week for the Cardinals so I can get my Dad down here to school. I can get us that apartment. If we can get him here in the dorm when that marijuana smoke starts wafting through the vents, I think we might have a chance.
To make a long story short, it worked. While I hid in their room, my buddies held my dad in my room until the smell was undeniable telling him that I had left to turn in a library book that was overdue. Then I came rushing in the room, apologizing that I was late. On the elevator my dad questioned what the smell was. I dummied up and asked him what smell he was talking about. He said it smelled like something funny burning . And i casually replied that it was marijuana that he smelled and its common at this time of night and one of the reasons we want lo leave because all of us were planning on graduate school in medicine, law, and social services and did not want to be involved or accused of possession of the stuff, even indirectly.
I thought the poor man was going to have a coronary. This was NOT the school he KNEW. I reminded him that he went to school here during Prohibition, and went home on the weekends to help my grandfather makee bootleg booze to keep both him and my uncle in school.
Dad and i went to the game and my father said nothing further about the lease. I thought i was doomed when he dropped me off at the dorm. But as i got out of the car he told me to take him by the apartents. Luckily, my older sister had shared an aparment there in the late 50's and early 60's so he was famiiar with the place. But taking no chances, I drove him the long way, past the Catholic Church and the police station.
Thanks to Jack Buck and a little bit of conniving on my part, we got the apartment and Mike and I lived there for over two years before everyone went their separate ways. Angelo to med school, the Navy, and then Northern California, Mike to grad school and and his own business in the St. Louis area, and Steve to grand school as well . I went to law school, the Air Force and later practice in Texas, until i returned home after my fathers death and a law practice here in Illinois.
And that's where i was when Jack and Darryl passed away. I had not seen or heard from my old roomies since my college days as i bounced around when I was not in class at law school. But a few days after Darryl's death I received a call from Angelo who had written me that his son Mike had been drafted from college by the Cardinals some time ago. He called to tell me that Mike had been called up to be a reliever after Darryl's death and wondered if we could all get together for a game when Mike might pitch. Angelo and I got together for a game in St, Louis and later on we found Mike and three of the Fearsom Foursome and our wives and families got to see Mike Crudale pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2002 and went to dinner afterwords..
Though Mike had a great rookie season with the Cardinals, even pitching in the NLCS game against San Francisco, a freak injury to his foot ended his career much too early.
So thanks to both of you for making those times so special to me. May you rest now in God's Kingdom, where it is always baseball season and never a rainout.
17 years later and I still bawl
You can tell Joe was pretty close to breaking down right before he mentioned Darryl's kids. He's a professional for not, and a good man for having us see that
remember this like yesterday always liked Kile rip #57
Great Tribute to Jack Buck by the Great Pat Summerall. All of them Jack, Pat, and John Madden will be missed. Jack Buck's legacy is the St.Louis Cardinals, but with guys that he has worked with. Harry Caray, Pat Summerall, Mike Shannon, Ray Scott, John Madden, and of course Hank Stram. It's the elite of the elite with Jack, but I think that his favorite booth is with him and his son, Joe Buck. Both are Royalty in St.Louis. On this tho, Thanks to Pat Summerall, the Fox Crew, and Joe Girardi of the Cubs. Announcing Darryl Kile's death was gonna be hard to do. But Girardi did it, and us Cardinal fans had to deal with both Jack Buck and Darryl Kile's deaths within the same week, the team played inspired Baseball and made it to the NLCS! RIP Jack Buck and Darryl Kile!!!!!
Rest In peace Pat Summerall
Never will forget. My dad and I went to get a carry out pizza for the game. As we raced home to watch first pitch, we heard on the radio that there was a delay, and he said .”someone may have died.”
I now know it's actually Pat Summerall, but at first I thought Jack's obit was voiced by Larry King!
I had No idea that Joe Girardi was a Cub
It was his second stint with the team; he was drafted by the Cubs in ‘86 and left after the ‘92 season after being selected by the Rockies in the expansion draft, then returned in 2000 after his tenure with the Yankees.
He was my age at the time. It was chilling and scary to think about my own mortality
great piece of media history here
A different time without smart phones and all that. People in the stadium had to be so confused.
Why was Joe Girardi chosen to give the announcement a bout Darryl Kile's death inste ad of a representative of the Cardinals?
It was a Cubs home game.
I suspect the cubs fans would not have been as respectful to the cardinals rep making the announcement, better from the home club.
To Tristan Andrew-I imagine it wasn't easy for Girardi to d eliver the news to the waitin g fans in regards of DK's su- dden passing. I remember t- he time Ken Harrelson got al l choked up making the ann- ouncement of Don Drysdale' s death in 1993; I remember watching that (White Sox) g ame on t.v. The Hawk was h aving a terrible time trying to remain composed.
@@kevinmiller1985In that case Harrelson was reporting on the news of the death of a former broadcasting partner who was also a friend of his
Not a good week for Joe Buck, RIP Jack and Darryl
It was on every sports channel.
I saw Darryl pitch against the Cubs on 4 May, 1999. It was surreal hearing this news in 2002 as a 14 year old.
5 years later Cardinal pitcher Josh Hancock
Nick Adenhart's death was also so sad and so shocking. What a waste.
Baseball: a gentleman's sport (who occasionally punches one each other)...
Shocking - two deaths in just one week.
Rip skaggs
I lost a friend the day before this
Sorry to hear that..
Coronary artery disease in a athlete is difficult sure he had symptoms but ignored them 😢
Skaggs was damn near exactly like this. What was the cause of Kiles death?
Heart Attack
Nice homerun at the end
Rip go redbirds
Saturday 22nd June 2002
33 like Jesus . #godson
arthur wiebe you sound like a jerkoff, have some class. Must be a Cubs fan, you’re all a bunch of disrespectful demons.
@@andrewbova5887 , keep crying, snowflake.
The Masked Heel keep sodomizing boys in the rectum and being alcoholics too. Then, lie to everyone about how you “follow the ways of Jesus Christ” smh lololol!!!!
DK57
Kyle shouldn’t have smoked the doobie.
He had illegal marijuana and pain killers in his suitcase. I wonder if opiates had anything to slow down his heart? Maybe peds too
In "Jack Buck Remembered Career Highlights" at 1:34, there was one error (Baseball HOF Inductee in 1987, not 1997).
YTML (You'll thank me later) Cardinals fans.
As an Astros fan, he was dead to me the moment he chose to leave Houston......
based
arthur wiebe he didn’t die of a drug overdose troll.