The advent of smartphones and tablets – and their proliferation around the clubhouse, sometimes two or three to a person – has empowered the armchair meteorologist and given players one more thing to do during rain delays. Inevitably, manager Mike Matheny said Sunday, there’s “one jokester” who tromps around the clubhouse, shouting: “They banged it. It’s over.”
This time the joker wasn’t forecasting for laughs.
He was right.
The Cardinals and Major League Baseball postponed Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Royals and will reschedule the game for later in the season, officials said. Waves of poor weather separated only by a few hours of playable conditions led to the postponement after a delay of 2 hours and 45 minutes.