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I don’t know if they do or not, Bling. The walk up was bad enough, but not near as bad as the intense and annoying noise over the PA system between innings or during a pitching change. I’d almost rather be subjected to a protracted waterboarding session.
I should qualify my last couple of comments by saying that I realize I’m getting a little grouchy as I grow long in the tooth, but you’ll just have to trust me when I say a ballgame at Busch lll is nothing like the relaxing and entertaining experience that an afternoon or evening at the ballpark once was.
I haven’t been to Busch in a good while. Even longer ago I quit Blues games because of the unbearable blasting from the PA system. It seemed non-stop. For the large majority of the time I could not converse about the game with the person sitting nest to me.
Me either, Bling. Last game I attended was a Friday night series opener vs. the Yankees in ’22. Before that it was at least a couple of years. The last Blues game I attended was at the Arena…Haha!
I don’t care for the loud music between innings, but am okay with walk up music. Back in the ‘90s, and granted I was obviously 30 years younger at the time, not to mention single, I loved the Rockies walk-up music. The best was when Dante Bichette would come up in a big situation and they played his walk-up song, Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer”. It was real theater.
But I will also say back in the ‘70s in Busch when you got there early for batting practice, then at some point Ernie Hays would start playing the organ with “Meet Me In St. Looie”, or “Summer Samba”, it was magical.
Ernie would also play that organ to amp up the fans during a rally. He’d play that thing while 45,000 or more rabid Redbird fans would clap their hands and stomp their feet in rhythm with his beat until the entire stadium felt like it was experiencing an earthquake. It literally bounced. I recall a game vs. the Mets in which we were situated in upper deck seats located beneath the decorative precast concrete arches that were the architectural signature of Busch Memiorial Stadium and I was genuinely concerned about the possibility of a disastrous stuctural failure…Haha! It was a rowdy venue. Just take a look at some old clips or photos of the capacity crowd spill on to the playing field over the OF wall like a waterfall after Sutter K’d Thomas in ’82. Busch Memorial Stadium was one heck of a place to take in a ballgame.
All I know is that this team can be downright unbearable to watch sometimes. Can’t even win home series against the White Sox and Rockies, pretty much the two worst teams in MLB along with Skip’s Marlins.
Just pathetic and embarrassing. A real organization would shake things up but we will just keep bungling along in our pursuit of mediocrity.
Phew! They really had me worried there for a while. But with true diligence we finally made it back to the cellar!
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