Well it's been a while for you because they took the shitty part of the name off years ago. Its just Joe's now and you must go to the one in the gas station. It is the original and the original is the best. But you are right it is one of the best.
Anyone who doesn't understand why Misery is a shithole just hasn't done enough research. Go to a game there, sit right behind the wall. Then come back and let us know about it. It is Louisiana of the north. If you didn't know you crossed from Kansas into Mo the potholes and loss of control in your vehicle would have told you. Injuries on that old field, multiple concussions from the 90's when they played on patio turf laid over concrete.....these are just some of the dumbest redneck people you will run into. Anyone who's lived in St. Louis and hasn't left never stopped inside the city limits. STL (no coincidence you can't spell shithole without it) like most cities has its good and bad areas. St. Louis, unlike most cities just has way more bad than good. So much racism and division. Always tension.
Columbia, good riddance what a redneck backwoods sooey fucking town. I imagine that it's what St. Louis was like 100 years ago. Branson isn't terrible and KC is pretty fucking exceptional, the majority of which is on the KS side. I'd trade KCMO for Topeka in a split second and I don't like KCMO that much.
TLDR mizery sucks