https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/read ... 74565.html
"Of course, the answer is politics. In Kansas City, there appear only to be warring factions with narrow and short-term interests. No one is willing to compromise and lead the city to higher ground. It’s not just the City Council, but also the downtown development interests, KC Tenants, the Royals ownership group, Visit KC, Crown Center, the Country Club Plaza, the Truman Sports Complex, the Legends Outlets Kansas City and the Kansas-versus-Missouri partisans. They are all spread out and separated, physically and civically. Why can they not team together in a common cause to build a clearly defined, thriving downtown area?"
It seems harder now than ever to get big projects done for all of the reasons he cited, and yet the big projects seem increasingly more important. I think the general consensus is that we just muddle through, but in reality we begin our slow march towards irrelevancy. This applies to everything, not just baseball. Consensus is rare, someone needs to get out on a ledge and lead on big (and sometimes unpopular) initiatives.