Quick fun fact for tonight, we've desperately been looking for an upside in all of this MSM baseball hype and there have already been a half a dozen reports about how much Salvador Perez loves Empanada Madness . . . But in since nobody is talking anything else about Kansas City except baseball . . . Let's indulge Kansas City stat geeks.
TKC Fun Fact: The homicide rate drops when the Royals are competing in the World Series!!!
It happened last year as well according to some Jackson County Insiders we spoke with this week.
Until the Royals got really serious this season, Kansas City residents were killing each other at the pace of one every 48 hours in a murder uptick so serious that it merited mention from the New York Times while local media wanted to keep it quiet . . . Now, the count has slowed in much the same way that it did last year . . . KCMO hasn't recorded a homicide in more than a few days probably because most people are busy watching the games and we HOPE the trend will continue.
Again, in a year when homicides have spiked more than 20% over last year and KC NoVa and Aim4Peace all but disappear when we talk about holding them accountable for their wild claims about numbers . . . This is just about the only good news we can find.
So maybe, just maybe, sports success has something to do with the quotient of Kansas City misery that keeps people killing each other at a nearly constant rate in this town despite an array of alphabet soup organizations citing "community engagement" as the panacea to crime fighting.
Whatever the case, this wildly low expectation of ours is the only real bright spot we can find in all of the Royals hoopla given that it's all just a distraction to keep people from thinking about their real lives and the politicos profiting from a seemingly neverending series of conflicts and broken promises.
And all of this has inspired tonight's playlist about numbers that harken back to 1985 . . .
As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe and fun Saturday night . . .
Honestly, I think it's more depressing when you try to be upbeat. But the effort is appreciated, I guess.
ReplyDeleteTony when the Royals win the World Series, step outside.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a stray celebratory bullet will end your agony.
Damn this blog just sinks lower into oblivion each day. Just when you think it has reached bottom, it digs deeper.
ReplyDeleteOh well, as they say in blogger land, when one goes down, 10 pop up.
Bye Chili Chunker......
It's a real slow Saturday night. How about a Craig Glazer post and then we can laugh at the 40 comments that he will post. Then one or two by Thunder Fart Thorton, the smashed dog turd of JoCo. and a few lies about the King of Snitching and how he is going to be made into a movie.
ReplyDeleteStarsky and Hutch ........nah. More like Craig and Alonzo in Blow Fest.
Any reports on how empanada madness likes to charge gratuity even when it is not a large group. They figure since their service is bad and slow they'll stick you with the charge since you may not leave a tip. Ended up tipping twice.
ReplyDelete"Kansas City residents were killing each other at the pace of one every 48 hours..."
ReplyDelete180 a year? That's nigger math right there.
Will be glad when kc loses this one in 5.
ReplyDeleteNo, 1027, that's J school flunky math.
ReplyDeleteThere are no murders in KC, EVERYTHING is #FROSTY. Didn't they tell you?
ReplyDeleteAnd, what about your Toronto prediction 1114?
ReplyDeleteDumb ass.
8:04 PM: A here you are agin doing your part to sink it into oblivion with your oblivious commentary.
ReplyDeleteAnd back again at 8:33 it would seem.
Life much?
Of course. I have two ears and a heart, don't I?
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