Mets Announcer Makes Unusual Claim About the People of St. Louis

The Mets and Cardinals wrapped up a three-game series on Wednesday in St. Louis with the home side taking the rubber match via an 11th-inning walk-off. Cardinals pitchers were able to hold the Mets to just a single run over the last 23 innings of action between the two clubs and it's possible the team is destined for a surprisingly competent year if its young talent develops ahead of expected pace. The announced attendance for the series finale at Busch Stadium was 21,684 people, perfectly respectable for a mid-week matinee.

On the Mets broadcast, play-by-play voice Gary Cohen had a pressing question about the city as a whole.

Where are all the people?

"The only thing missing from that picture, as is often missing from every picture we show of downtown St. Louis..." Cohen began.

His partner Todd Zeile jumped in to answer "no people."

"There's never anybody walking around in downtown St. Louis," Cohen said. "Remember the old neutron bomb that wouldn't knock down buildings but just would eliminate all the people? It's like one of those hit St. Louis."

"There's never anybody walking around in downtown St. Louis. Remember the old neutron bomb that wouldn't knock down buildings but just would eliminate all the people? It's like one of those hit St. Louis" – Gary Cohen pic.twitter.com/ULkU6aSEKJ
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 2, 2026

Awful Announcing, which provided the above clip, helpfully dove into some population studies and pointed out a downward trend in St. Louis' population. It is still somewhere around 300,000 people which is a lot of people. Not anything like New York, of course, but how many cities are?

This could definitely be something that draws ire of proud Cardinals fans who definitely get out and about and ocassionally pop into an establishing shot now or then. Or maybe they can just say they were out having fun with their friends just off-screen.

Cardinals-Mets is not a traditional rivalry but one is always waiting for a spark.

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