Last All-Star gets Presidential treatment
From Jake Wagman, Mr. City Hall and The Post-Dispatch’s roving and revealing reporter:
BRIDGETON — How did last minute All-Star Chone Figgins get to Busch Stadium in time?
With a little help from Lambert Field’s finest.
After greeting President Barack Obama on an auxiliary runway, Lambert Police Chief Paul Mason was scheduled to meet Figgins, who was on a commercial flight.
Mason said his plan was to personally drive Figgins from the airport to the game.
Even for a late addition, Figgins was cutting it close — his plane was not set to arrive until after Obama, who touched down on Air Force One at about 5:30 p.m.
Figgins was installed into the American League roster after Tampa Bay slugger Evan Longoria was removed with an infected ring finger.
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Derrick Goold said he was going to Mizzou for capital-J journalism, but after growing up in the Time Zone Baseball Forgot he was really drawn to MU sitting between two major-league cities. Goold joined the Post-Dispatch in 2001 after working for The Times-Picayune and Rocky Mountain News, covering sports from LSU to NHL and every level of baseball in between. 
Drive Figgins in a police car? My tax dollars wasted again. Chief, I am going drinking Friday night, will you drive me around in your police car? Taxi’s are expensive and with gas at $2.30 a gallon. Oh wait, I can’t hit .280 and I am not a professional athlete making four million dollars a year.
Love the response Watcher. Wonder if he broke the speed limit as well?????
You go Watcher
Isn’t this the same “Chief” that always chauffeured Mrs. Georgia all over St. Louis in his take home police car? His slogan should be “Have Money-Will Kiss Your Ass.”
I agree…what is the chief of Police doing getting involved with getting a johnny come lately player to the all star game. That is ridiculous and a waste of tax dollars. Let MLB charter a helicopter if necessary…they can afford it. Why didn’t Obama give him a lift, he was going there anyway…and Figgins could have met Willie Mays…lol.