This IS a mayor...

and these ARE good things to pick up on.

I should mention, in the interest of full disclosure, that I am working on a campaign to Oren Koules to become a Jumbtron copy editor for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Besides being a huge fan, I'm also a grammar Nazi, and there are too many instances of errors on the big screen recently that have made me want to cry. We have one of the biggest display screens in the NHL, and inexcusable mistakes.

In any case, it makes me happy that other parts of Channelside are working on keeping the rest of the country from believing that we're idiots. Presently, there is a banner in downtown Tampa, reading "Welcome to Tampa Bay: There's so many reasons to like it." Pam Iorio is urging city officials to change it before the Super Bowl comes into town next week, lest it make us look stupid in front of the rest of the country, and indeed the world.

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For the benefit of those who may not pick up on the error (for instance, the MAKER OF THE BANNER), I'll explain. "There's" would be correct if there were only one reason to like Tampa Bay. Were there to be more than one reason, the contraction should read "There're", for "there are". "There are" would be equally acceptable (and quite frankly, more aesthetically pleasing).

So HOORAY (and I mean that) for a mayor who gets the importance of good grammar, and HOORAY FLORIDA!