www.calapitter.net

I was on the Cardinals website, seeing if there were any pictures of the demolition of Busch Stadium, when I came across this, "Rooney Joins Cards Radio Team". I got kind of excited because there was a picture of Mike Shannon (infamous in my household for his *heh heh heh* and *wooh!*), making what I thought was a gesture of valediction, taking leave and welcoming his predecessor to ring in a new era of Cardinals baseball broadcasting. At least, that's what I hoped.

Nope.

They decided to let Wayne Hagin go (with a year remaining on his contract, paid in full) and replace him, instead. As far as I'm concerned, Wayne was the better half of the broadcasting partnership, staying on topic (the baseball game at hand), whereas Mike loved to wander aimlessly into the ancient past (the 60s in general, his 1964 World Series home run off of Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford in particular, etc.)

I think they're making a mistake.