John Sherman's Wife Makes Stunning Declaration on Royals/Chiefs Future
 

In comments under a public Facebook post, Marny Sherman said, "Unfortunately neither team will work with Jackson County again. The lack of leadership has lost the city two treasured assets."

STFU Not a good look for an owner’s wife imho. Didn’t realize that she was also a spokesperson for the Hunt family.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Unfortunately neither team will work with Jackson County again,&quot; wrote the wife of Royals owner John Sherman in a Facebook comment. <a href="https://t.co/Kd5o8mCTu8">https://t.co/Kd5o8mCTu8</a></p>&mdash; KCTV5 News (@KCTV5) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCTV5/status/1776067242045718612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


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Karens ranting on social media, news at 11.

Wow. I really couldn't care less.

Little different when the “Karen” is the owner’s wife. Not a good look.

Then you suck. All the no voters just don't get it.

Wonder if Kansas will build the two venues side by side with a shared roof?

Social media has been the downfall of many stupid people…

Voting no made this woman's maid's life a bitch. Think before you vote

When a highly profitable business tries to pressure voters to subsidize them so they can make even more money and then piss on said voters when they disagree, they can go **** themselves. Go extort someone else. I'm a capitalist and that's how it goes.

The whole thing seems like each side did a shit job selling their side.

Marny's the kind of name a rich bitch has anyway. FU, Marny!

Get hit by a cement truck ****

Calm down with the clickbait titles.

Define “highly profitable.” Most of the owner’s gains are in the continued rise in the value of their franchise. The Chiefs and certainly the Royals aren’t raking in $500 million net profit per year.

What exactly is so stunning? Rich folk going to make money?

I'm assuming that the problem was more that the voters just didn't want a new downtown ballpark for the Royals. Had it just been for Arrowhead renovations, then it would have passed. Which is why they bundled it together. They thought that the fear of losing the Chiefs would be enough to sway the voters to pay for the new Royals stadium. Well, that didn't work. Probably the best bet going forward is for the Royals to get their own deal in Kansas and put the Chiefs renovations up for a vote separately.

The internet is great because it gives people a voice
The internet is bad because is give people a voice



Some people deserve NOT to be heard.

**** off with these comments. This is a major piece of news regarding the number one topic in KC sports right now. This isn't some random person, it's a pretty major window into the raw opinions of key decision makers that the public usually doesn't see. It is absolutely "stunning" and yes it's worth it's own thread.

In all seriousness, I'm sure they put a bunch of effort into it and are frustrated. Other people said it, but social media was a bad idea. There's no filter or anything preventing you from instantly putting any thought out for the world to see no matter your state of mind.

Looks like Sherman needs to remind the hen who the rooster is.

Scho... It's obvious at this point that the Chiefs wanted this to fail to gain all the leverage. They will either get a big shiny new stadium in Kansas, or Jackson County will pay even more than before to keep just the Chiefs. I hate to see Arrowhead go away, and hope it doesn't, but the Chiefs intent with those mediocre to piss board plans should be an indicator that they wanted PR cover in case they take the deal in Kansas.

I’m sure Mr. Sherman is very pleased that she ****ed up the leverage he had with Jackson County and the state of Kansas..

That's not a good business strategy on her part, even if the comments are true.

I mean... did anybody think that rejecting this would lead right back to negotiating table? That is naive. Some other county or state will step up. It's complete free agency now.

I love it. Shes ride or die.

I posted this on the stadium thread a few days before the media caught wind of it

Sounds like Marny was one too many cosmos deep and doing some facebooking.

I assume many will be disappointed when the Royals move to Nashville. That’s the most likely scenario.

The Opera would have been so much closer

Sherman has shareholders to answer to, and I don't think Mahomes and other local shareholders are gonna sit quietly by and watch a KC franchise walk away. Maybe they move to another part of KC, but to leave the city? Seems like Sherman would have a fight on his hands to me.

Team moves to a better market and sells for $1.5 billion or more?

Who wouldn't take a 7-10% return on an investment?

I don't think you pick the baseball franchise for the ROI alone. There are many more liquid options to invest in that can provide a similar return.

I have a friend that is a Kansas State Senator. He tells me that Kansas would be interested in the Chiefs but maybe not so much with the Royals. He is the one that told me about Nashville.

Oh no! They might move to another county! THE HORROR!11!!

How am I supposed to drive that far?

I heard Belize was nice, I could do that.

I mean, you can hate her for being a bitch, but a lot of us have been saying this ever since the votes were tallied.

Downtown KC is the only correct answer. Both sides need to get over themselves, act professionally, and get it done. It will help greatly if Frank White is recalled, between the property taxes and the Stadium process, he has proven to be as talented as the night manager of a Minit Mart

Plutocrats whining that the taxpayers won’t shovel more wealth upward is a bad look.

Well past time for pitchforks and torches.

No one ever needs to hear from the “spouse”. That’s just not a good look.

But with that said, I think Jackson County made a lot of mistakes in this process.

Jackson County just ran off two of few remaining community assets they had.

Mahomes owns 1% or less lf the Royals....he has almost no say in what they do...and he actually might want them to move to Texas. Since hes from there

KS regulators get paid like $10K a year..

People know people. I used to be acquaintances with a former speaker.

Bitch all you want, but the people spoke loud and clear

Doubt me if you want to but it’s absolutely true. He had more to say but I will just keep it to myself. 😂

You obviously missed my point! It is certainly not stunning that a billionaire’s wife is complaining about the peasants not forking over more. Then, when they stood their ground, a huffy “fine! We’ll take our toys to another playground!”

You think that’s stunning? I think it’s F’n typical!

When KC Tenants and 65 year old white guys afraid of downtowns come together for the greater good

No it's not

Maybe billionaires shouldn't beg for money then

Your post might have a little credibility if Sherman hadn't committed to forking over $1 billion for the new stadium...not exactly on the street corner with a tin cup

He and his ownership group want to finance a bil in order to get, what, probably $800M plus in public revenue. Great ROI on someone else’s money.

Do you even capitalism, bro??

There was no winning the vote, you just don't get it. The Hunts/Shermans wanted it to fail. They want to leave.

CP is failing , we could have rigged that poll and got a new stadium!

Yes I do, bro, and like you say a "great ROI". Yay capitalism! If KCians vioted down every public-private partnership project, donwtown woulld stilll be a ghost town, our airport would still be on par with Dwight D. Eiesenhower airport, and both the Chiefs and Rs would have already left because they couldn't make improvements decades ago when it was originally passed. I guess it all depends on what kind of city you want to live in.

Do you even work, bro?

Didn't see the full text of her comments in the OP article. The indictment of Frank White hits pretty hard. I actually somewhat empathize with her frustration. Frank White is petty as ****, and has a massive conflict of interest with this whole process. He is like a super villain now, obtaining public office to use government as a weapon against his former employer. Sounds like Lucas was in there dicking around as well with the plans. I think the Royals misplayed this, but some of that I think is them trying to navigate a very difficult group of KC leaders.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The owner of the Kansas City Royals’ wife. <br><br>Oof. <br><br>This might get ugly. <a href="https://t.co/OZFWHkqnhl">pic.twitter.com/OZFWHkqnhl</a></p>&mdash; Josh Chavis (@JoshChavis65) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshChavis65/status/1776044650459017355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Those are legit projects.

Stadiums are an economic ripoff for cities. The plutocrats behind stadium scams vastly inflate revenue projections and intentionally understate annual maintenance costs.

But ignore empirical evidence like a dumb ****ing sheep if that helps you sleep at night.

Oh, and I have a finance degree and worked in the industry prior to grad school.

Parking and free refills are the issues that move voters in the 816.

It takes 13 blocks of parking to facilitate Coors.

I dunno guys.
Its alot of necessary space.

But.
Downtown is packed even with a shit show on the field. That's what a Downtown stadium does.

Downtown St. Louis today has a Cardinals game, Battlehawks UFL game, and St. Louis City MLS game.

Downtown StL is one step up from Escape from NY.

All may be true, but it also true that other areas/cities are more than ready to step up to the plate. So it's a decision for the citizens. Do you want to live in a city without baseball?

Appeal to authority fallacies are terrible, especially when you are debating someone with a few semesters of Finance in Grad School that has developed real estate ; )

So you got nothing.

Figures.

Not The Battery in Atlanta which is a mixed-use development as part of the Braves new stadium.

Taxable property values in the area have risen from $5 million to $736 million during the past decade.

$38 million in tax revenue generated for the county/city/state.

The development has attracted major business ventures such as Papa John’s global HQ relocating to be in the development.

You are against that type of economic development/impact?

Yeah, sometimes you have to rise above your own principles and figure out if it's really what you want... billionaires will keep being billionaires, but is it worth $140/year to have a football team in town while driving around those unrepaired potholes. :shrug:

Nothing you'd understand, anyway. If you think the Street Car and P&L projects are legit (KC has picked up $160mm of the P&L tab, and the Street Car has no revenue and maintenance has already blown out original figures) but the stadiums "are not" legit because you don't like baseball, then there is nothing more to discuss.

Godspeed using the Battery as a positive example given its controversial choice of location.

Only controversial if you are myopically pro-downtown baseball.

They went to a suburban area of Atlanta more conveniently located for their fanbase.

That and the old one was located in about the same as Raytown......Just crack instead meth.

TSC is not located in Raytown or in the Raytown School District...carry on

This message went out on purpose. The teams are playing the victim role while belittling leadership and the voters. It doesn't look good for the headline to read "teams file divorce from loving fans, will remarry highest bidder".

Ok' Marny spells the whole thing out.. The Royals were always leaving K, they leveraged the chiefs success to get a deal that the city leadership does not like and didn't want to go to vote. I'm guessing Marny is right now in the back of her jet, headed to a game and then dinner in someone's 100th floor penthouse suite. It must be embarrassing to have to drive guests through KCMO for a game.

And it was impossible to get to with Atlanta’s bad traffic.

If the Braves can leave Fulton County, there is no reason the Royals couldn’t similarly leave Jackson County for a suburban location.

The main barrier appears to be imagination and initiative from Sherman.

Truist Park (the Braves new stadium) was a public/private finance deal between the team and Cobb County, but the surrounding mixed use development was mostly initiated by the team with a $400 million initial investment.

And they helped secure hotels, residential development, business develop, etc. They worked with Live Nation to redevelop a concert venue nearby.

They also partnered with Comcast and Papa John’s to bring their Southeast regional HQ and global HQ respectively to the development.

The Crossroads location was going to be a tough pass even with the Royals "answering all the questions" (which the Crossroads Association claims they did enough to enter into an agreement with them) so this whole coming back to the table with a better plan still seems like a loser especially with the bad taste in both sides mouth

If I were a JaCo resident I'd be a little put off by the Chiefs forcing me to choose between the Crossroads and Arrowhead with their plan that did nothing for the fans

And KC schools are always going to suck, so are the roads, its a ****ing city

The BEST solution to this whole thing:

1. The Royals get a new boutique stadium downtown. 37,500-40,000 max attendence. Needs some type of public transit option such as light rail.

2. The Chiefs get some improvements to stadium and rearrange the parking for better access.

3. Build a concert facility further away from Arrowhead that shares the parking lot. This way it becomes the Truman Sports and Entertainment Complex.

4. Allow a few hotels to be built there as well.

5. During summer they can do car shows, carnivals, flea markets and plenty of other events during summer months when there is no football to maximize the property.

Any downside to this?

Truman Sports Complex is still in a shit location.

Only one...include a sports book to one of the hotels, hell, throw in a few craps tables if they want!

Put it in the stadium like BetMGM and State Farm

Yes, but so is every casino in town when they were built. The casinos didn't give those areas a facelift, but people still come and definitely attend concerts and shows there.

TBH, I wonder if they would get any action, since if sports betting is legal, would people just use their phones?