Yeah, Baez and Fernandez look especially painful. I think Fernandez is going to become an 'every start watch' for me this year. It's uncommon to find a guy with that kind of easy velocity that can sustain it for 90 pitches, command it and pair it with a knee-buckling breaking ball. Felix Hernandez seems like a lazy comp, but I'll be damned if I can't avoid making it.

That said, Starling still has Mike Trout level tools. It's hard to really bang on the Royals for taking him; he's a generational athlete that is going to take more work than most thought to pull it together.

You do hate to see scouting reports bombing his pitch recognition, though. That takes a looooooong time to click and is the area that's least likely to come together. Apart from "often finds himself tits deep in mounds of cocaine arranged haphazardly on random exotic dancers", there's not a much more cringe inducing line to read for a young player.

So what happens if his bat never comes around but his fielding skill stays where it is or improves?

Who was that pitcher we took with a 100mph fastball out of high school? Colt something. Never even SNIFFED the majors, iirc.

I think you've got your facts backwards. Sprawl is the enemy of light rail. And there will NEVER be shit around the stadiums. NEVER EVER EVER. Nor should there be. It's in a terrible location...pretty much like everything else in Kansas City.

Airport 30 miles north of town? Check

Casinos on the river north of the city? Check

Stadiums on the east side of the city? Check

Theme parks next to the caves? Check

Kemper Arena in the west bottoms? Check



The Sprint Center/P&L is the first thing the city has done right since...well...ever.

We have our next Jarrod Dyson, just with a better glove?

Colt Griffin. Same draft.

The problem is that everyone around the metro proper has adjusted their lives to being able to drive to whereever they want whenever they want. The sprawl knocks down on traffic here (I've never been stuck in traffic at 2 am like I have been in Chicago).

I guess I just disagree on what light rail could do for the town. I live up by Worlds of Fun, and would happily get on the EL if it took me to Sprint, the airport, or the Stadiums.

Pretty much this. Unfortunately KC did a lot of its building when times were a bit whacko, so we have a real ****ed up city. Lately things have self corrected a bit...but it's all a mess

There is no reason that I know of that the area can't be just like The Legends. Could be the exact same thing really.

In order for mass transit to work, you need high populations of people. There is a reason why they happen in big cities, and not say, the middle of South Dakota.

Try living in Phoenix, bro. I just moved to the River Market in KC after being in PHX for a couple years and it's LIGHT YEARS better. Phoenix is the mothership of sprawl. You've got a downtown basketball and baseball stadium, and a central airport. Other than that, you're driving 30 miles in either direction to get ANYWHERE. University of Phoenix Stadium and Jobing.com Arena are all the way the **** out in Glendale, which is basically East LA. If you live in Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert or even Tempe, good luck making it out there without blowing your brains out during the commute. They have a light rail. If you'd like to get from Mesa to the airport, it's super convenient, so long as you've got an hour to spare and don't mind a homeless dude pissing himself in the seat next to you while asking you for change so that he can hop off at Mill Avenue and buy crack from the peddlers on ASU's campus. I once hopped on the light rail in Mesa to go to a Suns game and by the time we made it to the stadium we were 30 minutes late for tipoff and the shuttle was so overcrowded that it looked like a Japanese subway.

Kansas City? It's cake. Sure, the airport's location blows. That's common knowledge. But I much prefer our stadium locations to places like Phoenix. And if those ****ers can have a lightrail that runs damn near from New Mexico to California, surely we can have one. Our downtown is blowing up right now, so yeah...a downtown stadium would be cool. I don't know that it'd be more convenient though.

Are you gonna tear out half of that beautiful parking lot? Theres no room for something that size currently.

From experience... arguing over stadium location with Saul Good is pretty much an exercise in futility lol.

Exhibit A: http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=261302

Yep.

Hey, since we've got an off day, let's talk about something important.
Anybody notice Chen launching snot rockets on the mound last night? That's really colorful in high def!

I am just going by the sentiment of some that there is a lot of woodland space out there. I have never really looked with the intent to develop the area so I am not sure.