While I hoped the City Council would have come to an understanding with the organization Thursday, I am not shocked by the outcome. This tired, less than tacit game of cat and mouse has been played out in front of the public for the last six years, and nothing really shocks me anymore: not Stu Sternberg’s explicit threats to ________________ (fill in the blank, like Mad-Libs) the team he uses as leverage, nor the city’s attempt to regain the leverage lost during the Bill Foster years.