Just kidding.

But that was a ridiculous, pointless, ego-driven stunt that he pulled. Sounds like he's not going to be a Cardinals fan anymore.

Don't have any opinion on who should replace him since I've been out of the STL market for a long time—don't think I've ever even listened to KFNS. It'd be cool if Ernie Hayes had his own show with nothing but dirty stories and organ music.

a Cards fan.

he blames the team for his job. hes an idiot

He put the station in a pickle. If I did something that could cause legal action against my company im pretty sure they would fire me.

not really, but nice avatar

I used to love Slaten, but over the past year he got incredibly negative. I kind of agreed with him on the cheaters stuff, but it seemed to take over his life.

Got kind of boring.

Slaten's response is the same as when he got fired from FSMW a few years back. He got fired then for non-sensical ranting against the Cards with very little research to back up his claims. He went on a tirade about how Renteria and Pujols had no business going to the All-Star game that year. Then, when he got fired, he blamed the Cards for getting him fired because he was "too critical." That's probably where the vitriol against LaRussa and Duncan has come from the last few years.

That said, I would love to see John Maracek get an opportunity for a drive-time program. The guy actually researches his opinions, and he doesn't seem to blow in the wind of popular outcry. I think you might see Frank Cusamano get promoted up.

riddance

on this front, as well. I've made my opinions on Mr. Slaten pretty clear in the past, so I won't go off on a rant here. Hopefully, he learns something from this whole situation and can take a bit better tack in his next job. I doubt it, but I suppose it could happen.

I nominate John Maracek, and I will continue stumping for this guy until he has his own show. He's the best in the market, in my ever so less than humble opinion.

Avatar, by the way. I loved the Aquabats more than you can imagine back in 1997 or 98. I still have wonderful memories of the only time I ever saw them play, at the now defunct Galaxy, I believe it was.

My favorite part of the show was the rant.

Then the whole show turned into a rant.

I say give the show to EMac!!!!

;-)

here's KFNS saying...buh-bye.

purse salesman if he cannot get a radio gig in the local market. Mwhwhaaahaaa!

Waaaay back in about 1979 or 80, I had him for a Radio news class at UM-St. Louis, when he was doing sports for Channel 4. I was a communications major, and this was a required course for me, so what do they do but hire a TV sports guy for a class on radio news. So Slaten is friends with the baseball coach, and he loads the class with all of the baseball players. Those guys do absolutely nothing in the course, and here I am, working for the campus station, producing a news magazine show, writing news, doing interviews and all that, and I get a freakin' "C", while rumor has it that the jocks all got "A's" from Professor Slaten. Naturally, the top of my head blew off, and I went into the department chair, demonstrated that I did more than my share of the required work, and got my grade changed to a "B", and only because by campus law, you could not get a grade changed higher than one level up.

So you see, with me, it's personal. All the bad words I ever learned in my entire life, I would use to talk about that man. And if he never works another day in the St Louis market again, as far as I am concerned, as they say, payback is a bitch.