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Radio station apologises for stunt involving star's widow

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The manager of a baseball team has denounced a DJ who phoned the widow of one of his players to ask if she needed a date for a play-off game.



St Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa says the Phoenix-area disc jockey who called Darryl Kile's widow should suffer "dire consequences".

Mr Kile, a Cardinals pitcher, was found dead in his bed at the team's hotel in Chicago on June 22.

An autopsy showed the 33-year-old died from blocked coronary arteries.

According to the Arizona Republic, Flynn Kile hung up the phone after KUPD-FM radio's Beau Duran called her Phoenix hotel room.

Chuck Artigue, the market manager for the Sandusky Group, which owns KUPD, says the prank "was in terribly bad taste" but no action would be taken against Duran.

Mr Artigue says he talked to Major League Baseball officials and Arizona Diamondbacks president Rich Dozer to apologise.

Mr La Russa says: "I'm vehement in saying that whoever is responsible should suffer serious and dire consequences. If we could get our hands on them, we would deal with them physically. It was so brutal that something should happen to them. I hope whoever was responsible gets nailed."

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