Royals KK wrong about success of ASG - Page 20

KingPriest2 · 07-11-2012, 02:39 PM

Remember when we were awarded the ASG and KK said that KC will be a embarrassment? Then last summer a article in SI had a player talking about coming here and some players weren't sure. KK took off with that as ammo saying we shouldn't host the game?

Now he s saying that he expected it

blaise · 07-13-2012, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Milk was talking about people coming from out of town to see a Royals game. You don't have to do all of those things. The Drury Inn and Denny's will still be there if you'd rather drive 100 miles for a roach motel and a grand slam breakfast.

The people of Kansas City have spoken, and they want this.

yeah, if you drive a 100 miles that last 8 to go from downtown to the K would just be too much. Especially in that horrific KC traffic.

**morphius** · 07-13-2012, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Guru

Hence why they need to encase the club level of Arrowhead in tinted glass so it isn't as embarrassing.

Yup,and none of those downtown people would want to take their kids to the games. But, who wants to drive all the way home from downtown, back home, and then right back downtown again. Then we can walk our kids through the bar district going in and coming out. That seems fun.

blaise · 07-13-2012, 07:17 AM

If I still worked downtown KC a downtown stadium probably would have made me go to fewer games. It's just easy to take your kids to the stadium now. Leave work, get the kids, eat something and go to a game. I wouldn't have felt like going back downtown and looking for parking, or parking in some crummy lot where the only guy watching the cars is some crackhead looking dude.

Lex Luthor · 07-13-2012, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Milk was talking about people coming from out of town to see a Royals game. You don't have to do all of those things. The Drury Inn and Denny's will still be there if you'd rather drive 100 miles for a roach motel and a grand slam breakfast.

The people of Kansas City have spoken, and they want this.

Hey Kietzman,

We get it. The fact that the stadium isn't downtown is stuck in your craw. However, the decision not to build a downtown stadium was made YEARS ago, and it's not going to change just because you insist upon displaying your butthurt over it. It's just plain idiotic to repetitively whine about it for 20 pages on Chiefsplanet.

While you're at it, maybe you should spend several days complaining about how the Chiefs should NEVER have drafted that turd Todd Blackledge. And maybe you should obsess about how stupid the Royals were when they traded David Cone for Ed Hearn. And can you believe the Cubs traded Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio???? And what were the Red Sox thinking when they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees????? I don't know about you, but I'm STILL pissed about the way Cain treated Abel. That bastard!!!! Let's start a 20 page thread about it!!!!!

Those conversations would be just as relevant as your constant whining about the location of a pair of stadiums that opened in 1973, were refurbished a couple of years ago, and aren't going ANYWHERE. If you're that unhappy, move to St. Louis and shut up. You can sit in the downtown stadium there and

to your heart's content.

**Dartgod** · 07-13-2012, 07:38 AM

Saul Good is getting mauled in this thread.

**Saul Good** · 07-13-2012, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dartgod

Saul Good is getting mauled in this thread.

Good luck with that. Meanwhile every other city agrees with me and builds their stadiums where people actually congregate for things other than just the game.

Raiderhater · 07-13-2012, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Guru

Hence why they need to encase the club level of Arrowhead in tinted glass so it isn't as embarrassing.

Precisely.

Raiderhater · 07-13-2012, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Good luck with that. Meanwhile every other city agrees with me and builds their stadiums where people actually congregate for things other than just the game.

If I wanted to be like every other city I would be living in any other city. I like my beloved Kansas City just the way it is. Sure there are some oddities here and there but, what place doesn't have something weird about it. I do not want to be like NY, Chicago, St. Louis, LA, Houston ect. I want to be just a little bit different, a little unique. There is a certain charm to this town, and I don't people like you who pine for the approval of the "big dogs" on the coasts (which will never happen anyway) messing it up. If you are that fucking embarrassed by the way we do things move away.

tk13 · 07-13-2012, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Good luck with that. Meanwhile every other city agrees with me and builds their stadiums where people actually congregate for things other than just the game.

In theory you're correct, but there's no reason to be a miserable wretch about it. If having this kind of enviroment is so important to you, you really should move to one of those cities. That's the great thing about America.
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**Dartgod** · 07-13-2012, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Raiderhader

If you are that fucking embarrassed by the way we do things move away.

And lose all those Jackson County tax dollars he pays? No ****ing way!

KCUnited · 07-13-2012, 08:13 AM

I think there is something to be said about actually being out in the country while swaying to Friends In Low Places.

Raiderhater · 07-13-2012, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Dartgod

And lose all those Jackson County tax dollars he pays? No ****ing way!

Valiant · 07-13-2012, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Thanks for convincing me that winning helps. I had been arguing that winning doesn't help, so it's good of you to set me straight.

Explain to me how putting a stadium in the middle of nowhere attracts visitors from a hundred miles away better than a stadium where the Kaufman center is would. Is it the lure of staying at the Drury Inn? The ability to visit the saddest miniature golf course and worst water park in the country in a single afternoon in Cool Crest and Coco Keys?

That's way better than coming into town, staying at the Hotel Phillips, seeing a game at a downtown stadium, going to Power and Light, seeing a concert at Sprint Center, having a meal at the Plaza, checking out an indie art gallery in the crossroads, having a picnic at Loose Park, etc. all within a $15 cab ride.

I thought the original argument was walking distance? The stadium from there to pnl is what 25 bucks?

**Saul Good** · 07-13-2012, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by tk13

In theory you're correct, but there's no reason to be a miserable wretch about it. If having this kind of enviroment is so important to you, you really should move to one of those cities. That's the great thing about America.
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I'm not miserable about it at all. I love going to games. I would just like to go to more of them and have something to do before and afterwards.

This city spent tens of millions on an entertainment district only to dump hundreds of millions into a stadium in a dead area and got next to nothing to show for it.

There was no significant boost in attendance at Kaufman. Nobody is blown away by how much better the stadium got.

Instead of combining the entertainment district and the stadium, Kansas City made yet another shortsighted decision. As a result, the district can't pay the note, and the Royals are at the bottom in attendance yet again.

There's nothing charming about a failing entertainment district and an empty stadium. Green Bay is charming. Kaufman on a Tuesday is just depressing.

I talk about this because the city needs to get it right next time, whatever "it" may be. Remember that soccer stadium that was going to replace Bannister Mall? What was that, five years ago? Last I saw, that vacant mall is still there, but Overland Park built the nicest soccer complex in the country. Meanwhile, Cerner (you know, the company with it's world headquarters a block from Bannister Mall) built one of the nicest soccer stadiums in the country over in Kansas.

This City could fall into a big of tits and come out with a dick in it's mouth, and it upsets me because I've lived here my entire life, and I love this town.

**Saul Good** · 07-13-2012, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Valiant

I thought the original argument was walking distance? The stadium from there to pnl is what 25 bucks?

I think it's a little more than that, but even then, that's a $50 round trip if you're staying downtown, $60 with tips.

07-11-2012, 02:39 PM
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