On the latest episode of © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ’s Missouri Mailbag, STLPR’s Jason Rosenbaum poses a zany hypothetical question: Which Show-Me State athlete should be Missouri’s governor and why?
This query, inspired partly by the Missouri General Assembly’s special session that includes funding for professional sports stadiums, spurred a lot of responses. Listeners nominated some prominent Missouri athletes who could win a political race in a landslide but would likely rather be revered, retired and rich than accountable to the state’s voters.
Rosenbaum also recounts in Hermann possibly altered the course of Missouri political history: