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We were alerted by our tipsters that, bizarrely enough, NBC’s national news story about how everyone is pissed off at all politicians, no matter their affliliation, should be set at Woofies hot dogs in Overland.

Sure to be thrilled with the news are some of our local celebrities got to be national celebrities for a second when you can catch their autographed 8×10 in the background. Take for instance Fox2 anchor Kevin Steincross’ glossy by the door:

Congrats Kevin!

They even included the standard “I came here to enjoy a hot dog,…what’s this? A camera?! I better say something while walking towards it.” shot:

It’s all coming together for Overland, Missouri now! We hear NBC has more plans for our little suburb, as shooting should begin on Overland’s To Catch a Predator episode any day now. …or maybe we made that up. You don’t know. Just to be safe, if you head off to any meetings in Overland with a young child, make sure you bring plenty of condoms and Mike’s Hard Lemonade. We hear they go easier on you if you bring gifts.

See the actual NBC story with a St. Louis wiener vendor backdrop after the jump!

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It’s true, and we have to agree:  The Sunday Cardinal games aired on KSDK (channel 5) are easily the worst out of the four broadcast entities that air Cardinals games.  (The other three being, Fox, ESPN and of course Fox Sports Midwest)

A quick Twitter scan on the subject quickly returned thoughts like these:

I wouldn’t be upset if they moved all their games to cable like the Blues.

Other than Randolph’s “confused old guy” routine and Horton’s “washed-up average ex-player” bit, what is not to like?

It has always seemed to us that KSDK was so obsessed on getting the Cardinals Sunday games away from KPLR they completely forgot to plan accordingly on how to actually broadcast the games.

The most obvious part to pick on is the broadcast team of Jay Randolph and Rick Horton.  Although, admittedly we can’t pick on one specific thing that doesn’t work, our complaint is more of an all over “this isn’t working” kind of feel.  Randolph seems to be there just to get to that inning where they bring in Mike Shannon to create the single oldest and confusing broadcast team of all time.  Add to that Horton, who feels like he’s just keeping the seat from floating away until they can find someone better than will work for the same price.  Don’t even get us started on the Frank Cusumano “man in the stands” bit that apparently only exists because KSDK thinks that what you are supposed to do these days (also see the Ken Rosenthal experiment on Fox proper’s baseball coverage).

Add to their broadcasting issues the constant overlap of NBC’s national sports converage that always seems to leave some sporting fan segment out in the cold.  Whether it be cutting away from major golf events for a pre-game show or relegating one of the most competitive tennis matches to a small box in the corner of a blowout Cardinals game, KSDK has left no sports fan un-pissed off.

We would be happy if the Sunday broadcasts went the cable route like the rest of the games, but if the Cardinals want something different for their Sunday broadcasts, just put a damn camera in with John Rooney and Mike Shannon.  Sure Shannon is probably even crazier and more out of it than even Randolph, but at least he’s managed to make himself in to an institution.