Downtown Royals Stadium
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There's only so much the Royals can do. Sherman wants to stay in KC but he knew the city wasn't going to invest in the team so he's gotta go through the motions. In a sport where there isn't a hard salary cap its a bad business decision to stay in KC. There are plenty of cities that would build a stadium. KC doesn't deserve pro sports. I hope the Big 12 moves the Big 12 tournament out of KC ASAP to because the the T-Mobile center would be better off being something else. And don't say having 20k Iowa State fans in KC for that week does anything for the town because your evidence shows it doesnt. It does nothing for the city but sit there. It was built for the Penguins who stayed in Pittsburgh
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Nobody cares. They get 10k a night maybe. Nobody wants to drive clear out there anyway. At least there is a lot of parking though.
That is not true. Nashville is actively looking at building a baseball stadium and a new one for the t
Titans. They want stuff going on in their city. So does Portland. At least Kansas City has BBQ I guess.
No it's not. They are a drag on MLB playing at the K. If you understand sports business it's obvious as hell. I love KC, but its pretty easy to see they just want to be slightly larger than Omaha and Des Moines and truly be part of fly over country. Well ****'em. I love these medium sized cities who want a place at the table. They support teams better anyway. Move them to OKC and let KC rot next to the river for all I care. I'm apathetic at this point.
Taxpayers are on the hook for 1.1 billion in interest because of their garbage football team/stadium. This is a fact.
They want teams. Look it up. Its gonna be a venue to be included in the music and entertainment industry. Its hilarious that you think every other city joins you in your "we won't help billionaires" protest but its not based on reality. They want baseball and they will commit to it. Hopefully KC and all the other protest cities get their "we won't help billionaires" trophy's in time for opening day in Nashville
Clearly you're not apathetic, for whatever reason cities not wanting to build stadiums for professional sports teams gets you really animated. Even teams you're not a fan of apparently.
Too much apathy for you to look it up and continue posting on this subject?
No you losing your mind in a post made about moving fences in is ******* weird man.
The Royals aren't going anywhere. The earliest they can get out of KC is 2029 and that's breaking 1 year of their lease (and you have already pointed out they are broke so they can not afford to do that).
Nashville has no stadium and nothing even remotely close to being able to be pushed through. Hell it took the Titans a decade to get their deal done.
San Antonio? Over the Rangers and Astros dead bodies.
Portland? Over the Mariners dead body.
Charlotte? They have nothing remotely close to being MLB useable AND they just got done with a long fight to dump damn near a billion dollars into BOA stadium.
If you understood sports business its obvious as hell.
Look it up. Sorry they aren't joining your protest. At least you'll be able to go snow sledding in the winter. I'm agreeing with you. Move the teams where people want them. This is easy.
The Royals are a poorly ran operation and have been for years, their biggest screw up was not moving to the national league when it was offered the last expansion. Milwaukee jumped at the chance after the Royals turned it down. They choose hosting 3 games yearly with the Yankees and Red Sox as opposed to hosting 8 or 9 game yearly of both the Cardinals and Cubs, plus another 3 with the Dodgers. Teams that when they visit stack the stadium.
Ah yes, I remember the Brewers in back-to-back World Series some years ago...
They've averaged over 20k per game the last 2 years. Not that that is good but half the league doesn't even average 30k.
I do wish the NL Central could trade the Pirates and Reds for the Twins and Royals.
And still can generate enough revenue to be competetive. The Royals have certainly had bad management at times but they have a revenue problem. They need to be somewhere(even if it's in greater KC) to generate more revenue. The K have served it purpose. Its outdated and in a terrible location for what is needed to compete in MLB these days. That's just the way it goes. They need to go somewhere where they aren't a glorified AAA team
The Royals have struggled since the arrival of free agency, except for very short stretches of success of a few years. Draft, play together, win is great, but once the winning started they could not afford to keep the players together and continue to win. Short window to win, and then rebuild and try to do it again.
They really struggle growing the fan base, go east of KC a little bit and its Cardinal territory, to the north its all Cardinal or Cubs fan except the bottom SW corner of the state. What really hurt them is when the Rockies came into the league, they were making inroads out to the west into Colorado, but lost all of those fans once they had a team to root for.
The Royals are the most successful expansion team in MLB history.
