At this point, we’re quite sure that you know all about the Giants and Vikings NFL adventure: The Giants tried to get to Minnesota, but got stranded in Kansas City (sucks for them), causing Sunday’s game to be played on Monday…and then…this shit happened.

…which moved the game to Detroit. You also know that the Vikings got destroyed and people talked about Brett Favre the whole time.

What you might now have known is that one mayor offered to have the game played at his local stadium instead of Detroit. Sure his stadium is much farther than Detroit’s proximity to the original game, in fact the teams would have to pass up at least 4 other perfectly good stadiums on the way to his. Also his stadium is pretty crappy, not tattered roof with piles of snow crappy, but close. What mayor would make himself look like a complete dumbass by not only officially offering his stadium but then following that up with telling everyone that he did it, sparing himself just the quiet embarassment of having NFL officials laughing at him?

Our mayor of course.

Fantastic.

If you felt a little extra safe in your cozy bed last night its a freaking miracle because this town has so much crime you can’t be in a balloon race without getting your car jacked, and now the Mayor is calling out the Police publicly because he believes the crime is even higher than the cops say it is. Someone in Detroit that just got stabbed fell down and is bleeding on a copy of USA Today, started reading about this bullshit and is laughing at all of this right now.

“The chief doesn’t report to me, the police board doesn’t report to me. So, there is a culture that, subconsciously we’re not all part of the same team, because if we were, I would have had that information from the very beginning.”

St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom says previous reports that overall crime is down in the city are correct. Earlier this month St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom reported that crime was down 25 percent over the last 3 years.

What they are arguing over is if a series of probably related crimes should be counted as one incident or counted individually.

“If five cars are broken into on one lot, around the same time, that’s one incident and it’s reported as one incident, with five different victims,” Isom said. “That hasn’t changed at the police department for many years.”

Slay says it’s disingenuous to compare crime stats from year to year, when the reporting methodology changes.

…or we could just focus on stoping them instead of counting how horrible or less horrible all of this is?

Another issue of some importance is the difference of opinion I’m having with that girl that lives by the park. I would say she’s a lovely lady that I run in to a lot somehow while her restraining order calls it “stalking”. Come on now! Is it stalking to wait outside her house to bring her gifts and eat her garbage so that we can always be together? No. It’s just being neighborly and that’s not something I’m comfortable giving up.

via KWMU

Last Wednesday our honorable Mayor Francis Slay, took to his blog and proceeded to, out of nowhere, dick-punch former Rams owner-in-waiting Shahid Khan by backing the “familiar face” of Stan Kroenke.

Two potential new majority owners have emerged. One is a familiar billionaire face [Stan Kroenke] with generally unknown, but demonstrably successful, views. The other [Shahid Khan] is an unfamiliar very, very rich face with widely known, but generally untested, views. I’d pick the tested billionaire owner.

Not sure this does any good what so ever there your Mayor-ness. What is the point of this? You trying to back the probable winner to make sure you get some games in the owners box?

Post Dispatch sports scribe Bernie Miklasz also seemed a little weirded out by the Mayor sudden take on local sports as he quipped in his Saturday “Bernie’s Bits” column:

Perhaps the mayor can give us his views on the pitcher batting eighth in his next blog.

…which apparently the Mayor reads, as later on Saturday, Mayor Slay posted:

Position Players Hitting 9th

Tony La Russa is the only manager in the National League to bat a position player ninth regularly. Other managers, Ned Yost and John Russell come to mind, have done so occasionally.

La Russa’s unorthodox practice drives some sportswriters crazy, but it makes sense to me. With Big Bats hitting third in the lineup (McGwire in 1998, Pujols in 2008, 2009), putting an additional player more likely than a light-hitting pitcher to get on base ahead of the Big Bats seems like a prudent idea. La Russa, who keeps charts about just about everything, is certain of it.

Free Bill Siedhoff.

Well played Mr. Mayor…still have no idea why you would think it was a good idea to back a potential owner and throw more drama in an already crazy situation though.

Oh that’s right, you’re the mayor of St. Louis. You like the crazy.

We checked the Punching Kitty inbox last night and found this:

Welcome to the party Mayor Slay!

There’s some beers in the cooler, pull up a lawn chair and have yourself a read.

We will graciously accept any advisor role you would like to bestow on us.

Call me: 314-266-8477

Driving around the other day I saw a “Reelect Slay” sign, which of course means its that time again!  The Demacratic Mayoral Primary is on March 3rd and Slay squares off against former Alderman and former second-fiddle to Slay in the last election, Irene J. Smith….oh and some one else, but seriously…who cares?  The fact I even know Smith is running is because of an article in the Post about how bad ass Mayor Slay is with his campaign and because “she” started following my personal Twitter account!

Slay blogs (kinda) but Smith Twitters!  Are we looking at a Ron Paul situation with Smith?  Maybe!  Go iSmith!

Of course, it would really give her marks if she agreed to an interview of some kind for Punching Kitty…just saying…

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