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Manny Abarca says teams met with governor of Kansas this morning. EDIT: Just the Chiefs KCDowntown Gotta say, Abarca seems like one of the biggest “the sky is falling!!!” people I’ve ever seen! Someone should teach him to negotiate. Poker face, Manny. And why is anyone surprised about the Chiefs ru...

This feels a little bit like everything political: wait til the absolute last minute digging for the best deal on both sides. I expect we’ll get a stadium racing to be built before the stadium lease expires in 2031.

How do you know it was even her? FB is notorious for fake accounts. I cannot imagine someone in that position making a tone deaf post like that the day after an election even if it accurately portrays the most likely scenario. Why don’t you just go look for yourself? Search her name. Friends with t...

shinatoo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:19 pm She didn't say it, she reposted someone else's rant about the loss. Still not great but....

No, this was her quote from the comments. Direct copy.

unfortunately neither team will work with Jackson County again. They had been working behind the scenes for two years attempting to get a location approved. Which was I think Frank Whutes plan all along. In any case most unfortunate for sports fans in KC. The lack of leadership has lost the city tw...

Anyone see Marny Sherman’s (Johns wife) posts on FB today about moving to Kansas?

I have lived here 25 years and what I would tell anyone is if you don't like the way KC is right now, you will not like it in 25 years, because not much changes here and not much is going to. Sincerely. Oh come on! In the last 25 years we have a new streetcar line, Sprint Center, P&L Dustrict, ...

I suggested they could ride the streetcar and their response was "are you kidding". That was pretty much the prevalent attitude of almost everyone I know that voted no. People on this board are likely very forward thinking. Most people aren't. They can't envision something before they act...

^^^ Drunk in Thailand and it still makes loads of sense. Talk about residual benefit to the Historic NE, potential for rail transportation further east, jobs for real people... This campaign had zero passion.

Flashy ads and paid people knocking on doors do not win an election, at least in this town. What wins an election is passionate advocates who will sell the plan to their neighbors, people who live in the urban core now but whose parents still live in Raytown or Blue Springs and will sell the vote ov...

East Village isn't coming back on the table. The Royals are all in on this site. The city will have to get more involved and the city leaders want this in East Crossroads, not EV. Things change, just like “we have two sites selected” and “we will be removing Oak St” and “we will eminent domain east...

I can disagree that the teams did a terrible job here. But they objectively did do a terrible job here, by basically any metric you could evaluate and measure the effort. They blew their own arbitrary deadlines, they provided half baked information that raised more question than answered, they let ...

What happened with Sly James? His "Magic" has seemed to run out the last 5 years or so from the Justice endorsement to this. The guy came across as a grumpy asshole throughout this process. You can tell when someone fully believes in a project and sells it with passion and when they're ge...

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:07 am I think the save the crossroads did more damage than anything. You already had to overcome the suburban vote so once everyone latched onto "destruction of the crossroads", it was all over.

East Village would have won.

Oh they care. They were just naïve enough to think they held all the cards. Unlike Beauty from Ashes, I don't think the Crossroads lost the vote for the Royals. The Crossroads lost them their base, the people that they needed to go out and sell this plan, talk about how great downtown baseball woul...

I'm not a gambler, but I suspect the county gets kicked to curb regarding the Royals. Sherman and the Royals will work with the city alone to fund this fully with 250 million or so from the state at most. Site will still be Crossroads. Chiefs get to break up with the Royals finally. Kansas has alre...

How do we think a Sporting Kansas City vote would go? Would gaining a team as opposed to just keeping one you already have be a bigger vote getter?

Y'all best simmer down with the doomerism. Fuck me. Give it a little bit. You take a setback like this and act like it's the end of the world. And then some wonder why folks on the other side of the argument can't take the pro-downtown stadium folks seriously. I swear, negativity feeds off of negat...

Arrogance lost this vote. I voted for it but I had to hold my nose because it was bad from the beginning. You can't just waltz into the Crossroads saying you're going to close major roads and bulldoze whole sections of buildings without some bit of humility. And the Chiefs plan gave nothing real to ...

DColeKC wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:03 pm I think too many people look at KCT's propaganda and assume it means more money will come out of their bank accounts.

With standard inflation on a percentage tax, it will.