The rain at Busch Stadium wouldn’t let Mike Shannon retire Sunday. There was a 17-minute stoppage in the fourth inning and then a longer one after the seventh.
The first one had put the Cardinals broadcaster, stepping out after 50 years, into rain delay mode on the radio and the stories started to flow.
“These showers … it rains on one side of the street and not the other,” mused Shannon on the KMOX air before the game was halted the first time. The second delay was getting too long as it neared the half-hour mark.
Shannon was getting itchy.