Found near the Loop:

via tips@punchingkitty.com

Yeah! Pujols looked like Pujols the other night against the Cubs when he dropped two bombs on them, the last of which in the 12th inning to seal the victory. Here’s what it looked like via the St. Louis Post Dispatch:

A great moment to be sure with lots of happy little Cardinal faces…almost too happy. Sure a walk-off victory against the Cubs is great, but if you were really the best fans in baseball you would have kept watching the game and noticed a few other things followed Pujols down the baseline that elicited the same jubilant reaction.

#5: A Giant Eclair

Clearly chocolate frosting is Tyler Greene’s favorite. He’s stoked!

#4: Tony Danza

Check out Motte on the right! He clearly has a vote on who he thinks the boss is.

#3: Tony LaRussa Doing the Hula

Tony’s got a great head of hair here and we’ll just say it: That little hip tattoo is sexy as hell on the skipper.

#2: Blake Lively

She’s found a mirror and her iPhone. If we all stay quiet, we’re about 5 minutes from nipple.

#1: The Coolest Guy Ever

Seriously.

This is where we would normally ask if you remember the case a few days ago where a US Marshal was killed in the process of trying to take down one Carlos Boles and that since then, there as been a leaked crime scene Boles’ lifeless body leaked to the internet. We would say that, but we know that most of you already know this because people have been coming here in droves to see if we had it. (We didn’t.) But while all of you scoured the internet for a shot of the photo you’d been hearing about, authorities have been searching for who took and released the photo. Total lost cause though right? US Marshals, FBI, St. Louis Police…anyone in any of the groups we just mentioned could have leaked the photo and who’s to say which of those fine, up-standing organizations would have the nerve to leak a graphic crime scene photo in the middle of the investigation…oh god please please please please let it have been the FBI so St. Louis doesn’t come off looking like douche bags again…

An officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has come forward to admit taking a cell phone photo of a slain shooting suspect and making it public.

Crap.

Police said the officer had access to the scene through his duties as a member of the department’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team, formerly known as the Mobile Reserve. The picture, snapped with a cellphone camera, started surfacing shortly after the shooting. The photo is of Boles’ bullet-riddled body, lying on the floor in the home.

Yeah, in the grand scheme, this particular incident probably doesn’t matter much. They guy obviously shot and killed a US Marshal and even if something like this stupid stunt were to get in the way of a conviction, Boles is dead. Still though, it makes the STL PD look like a bunch of “laugh at the shot up guy” hicks, you gotta wonder what else these guys are doing on other crime scenes don’t you? Yes, the STL PD are, despite their position in a losing war on crime, are great and we highly doubt that they are all snapping pics of dead people in active investigations, but after things like this questions are raised. There’s also the issue of STL PD public relations and this won’t help their case any in communities that are already pretty anti-police.

In an unrelated note, have you ever noticed the creepiness that is the KSDK.com header with Mike Bush and Kay Quinn? First off they’re always smiling, especially Bush, even above headlines like “Officer admits taking photo of dead suspect”. Not only that, but look how close he is behind Quinn. Here’s hoping that proximity is Photoshop based and not what actually went down at the photo shoot or Quinn might have had to feel Bush “delivering the good news” to her upper thigh during the whole thing.

via STLToday and KSDK

Here we were thinking a 4 – 4 team was pretty good after only managing 3 wins the last two years, but if you look at the faces in this picture of the stands during a recent game our tipster alerted us too you would think these people were watching an episode of NCIS. Freaking horrible show. Mark Harmon?! Really, you made a show staring Mark Harmon? We’ve gotten better performances from the parking lot guy that asks for “just a couple of bucks, whatever you’ve got on you” every day, or the guy that keeps handing us envelopes with “restraining orders” in them. Shame on you CBS, and shame on you Katy Perry. That show is horrible and these “stop or I’m calling the police” jokes are getting old. We both know we have a connection, please write back with your own blood sample enclosed. I can’t make our matching lockets without it!

Shame. On. You. Both.

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Seriously. What the hell is going on here?  Jesus? Magic? Seizure?

Our guess? Someone’s trying to convince her to have her photo taken for the Post Dispatch. Should have just said yes and smiled nice, because guess what? Now you are on the front page of their website looking stupid.

Photo Credit: STLToday

Coming home from the iPad madness from earlier in the day, we noticed something “shocking” coming down Jefferson just north of 44.

Is this the only crosswalk shocker in town? Have you seen any others?

[Editor's Note: God we love that there's a Wikipedia page devoted to the shocker.]