Imagine an opening day ceremony at Busch Stadium with St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famers Edgar Renteria and Jason Isringhausen. Okay. Nice ovation. Next, out of the wagon gate pops David Freese sitting in that red convertible wearing that red blazer. Hopefully, you can easily imagine the needle pegging into the red and the guys in the Fox Sports Midwest sound booth scrambling to adjust.
Indeed, that was the sound-level at Busch Stadium last week when Freese’s team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, came to St. Louis. That has been the scene every time Freese has revisited Busch Stadium, and it has not diminished one decibel since Freese made his first return appearance in 2016.