“It’s just bad weather more than anything,” Cardinals closer Jason Isringhausen said. “It’s cold out. Kids have school tomorrow. You know, that’s the way I look at it.”
Well, yeah. The Cardinals have paid Isringhausen about $50 million in his seven seasons here. The least he can do is give them good excuses.
I, for one, refuse to believe the Best Fans in Baseball™ would have been dissuaded by bad weather or kids having to school. It's not that the fans have gotten smaller in numbers, it's just that the stadium got bigger suddenly.
Not to come off as a homer, because I think the "Baseball's Best Fans" label is pretty ridiculous -- baseball's best fans can't judge fly balls and think every ball hit in the air is going to be a homer, for instance -- but two years of selling out every game isn't bad, and if you compare their crowd of 39,000 to other attendances on Wednesday night, it's not that bad. (Cincinnati had 14,000; apparently there's a post-Opening Day hangover in the Queen City.)
Norma Desmond approves of this line of defense.
"The fans have gotten fatter, which mean less can fit in the stadium."
The U.S. Surgeon General approves of this line of defense.
You may now resume mocking St. Louis.
Oops. I think I messed up the pattern.
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