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I'm sure you're going to see a push for a downtown stadium. I don't know what's going to happen. KC is kind of in a weird position.

There are some teams who've done the new downtown stadium quite well. Look at the Twins.. if you haven't been, their stadium is great. You could see how something like that could work in KC. On the flip side, they were replacing the Metrodome. Plus they have an actual light rail that drops you off at the stadium. That's a huge deal for convenience and a lot of people use it. If you really wanted to do a downtown stadium right you really should create some kind of transportation to get people there.

The biggest issues are that KC is not replacing one of those multi-sport stadiums like a lot of these other teams did, they'd be replacing what is pretty universally considered one of the top ballparks in baseball, so there's a feeling of why spend a 500 million to a billion dollars to fix something that works very well. Then there's a tailgating culture in KC that some of these other cities don't have. It's obviously bigger for Chiefs games but it still exists in KC more than a lot of these other cities. Given the Royals general record over the last 30 years most of the fans are obviously diehards and have zero interest in catering to people who just want bars to go to and don't care as much about the baseball game.