“Unfortunately, it looks like SoCal Edison is going for the same ‘look over there!’ arguments that we so often see from utilities in these cases,” Moghadas said in an email.

But in St. Louis, “as a kid, I’m like, ‘Why can’t we go over there?’

And my great uncles would say, ‘We don’t go over there, you stay away from there, you stay on this side. Just leave those people alone.’

“I love those guys over there,” Poole said of his former teammates, before quickly self-editing.

“I love most of those guys over there.”