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A violent storm

A rather violent tornado has swept through St. Louis tonight, causing some unprecendented damage to Busch Stadium. The Cardinals were scheduled to take on Atlanta tonight, but the game is currently in delay at the start, perhaps soon to be cancelled.

I was driving home from work and-- for the first time-- forced to listen to the studio crew from this new Cardinals radio network, and I must tell you the broadcast product is abysmal. A couple of bonehead sportsjocks are trying to describe the scene and blathering on about how extraordinary the whole scene is, but providing few details. The worst is suspected to have passed, but concession stands were overturned, and the field tarp pulled up, causing the homeplate area to be flooded with water. Reports are that very few fans had left the park, though obviously many people were on downtown streets when during the threat.

By the time you read this, we'll know a lot more about the damage, and it may turn out that the whole thing is being overblown, but information has been hard to find on-line, the TV broadcast of the game has switched to alternate programming, and I just wanted to take this opportunity to single out some unqualified broadcasting baffoons-- reason #819 why the Cardinals should have never been pulled off of St. Louis heritage news station 1120 KMOX.

posted by CM @ 8:33 PM