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Originally Posted by Gravedigger
I find that a person who purchased the team a couple years ago is already wanting a new stadium and for all intents and purposes threatening to move the team, or at least his wife running her mouth, and it comes across as very Major Leagueish and I don't think you're going to win many fans that way, but that likely wasn't ever the case and this was the intention you wanted from the get go. Doesn't matter where the team is in your mind, as long as you can make the most money off it, you'll Baltimore Ravens a great franchise so you get what you want. It's a problem when rich people buy things you care about, they can tear it apart right in front of you just as easily.
If the Chiefs separate themselves from the Royals and ask for money for renovations, even if they were the same lazy plans, it'd probably pass. Tying themselves to John Sherman is not a good strategy or look.
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I think the Royals handled the communication of things horribly right to the very end, but to be fair to my knowledge they've never once threatened to move anywhere but the KC area. Even Sherman's wife going off on Facebook was just a rant about Frank White and Jackson County.
All this hype about them moving is coming from fans, which isn't realistic because it's not just Sherman, the Royals have a huge ownership group and almost all of them are KC locals with big money. The Chiefs have the ownership group that lives in Texas and have basically become an international brand with Mahomes and Kelce and Taylor Swift. They can do literally anything they want at this point and no one can stop them.
I don't think either team is moving though. They didn't do a good job here but you also have to realize Frank White fought them uphill every bit of the way. I 100% think they're going to make an attempt to build new stadiums in the KC area with government agencies that are on their side and actively trying to help them come up with and sell a better plan. I think the vote wasn't for the teams to move, but I think it was the end of the Truman Sports Complex.