Mayor Q Has $500 Million for Royals, KS Dem Says OP/T-Mobile Holding up Announcement, Minneapolis Mediation, Andy Fires then Sells Nagy, Circa Sports at The K, SB Nuggets, Climber Ripped Off

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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According to Missouri lawmaker Mike Jones, KC Mayor Quinton Lucas has $500 million in the Port KC slush fund that he's offering the Royals to build a ball park in KCMO. Jones says this should require a vote... but that isn't how this game is played. There was no vote in Kansas. Give Q credit for finding a way, even if it feels wrong. And if this number is true, the Missouri offer could actually top the Kansas offer. In Kansas, the Senate Democrats Chief of Staff has told people in his circle the Royals to Overland Park is a "done deal," but the announcement has to wait. Information obtained by KKHI shows that Cory Sheedy believes the city of Overland Park and T-Mobile are delaying the inevitable move. This would all make sense as the mortgage holder of the land has told T-Mobile they will not be renewing the lease when it expires. The Royals and OP, at all cost, must not allow 5000 T-Mobile jobs leave KC and relocate to Bellevue, Washington. This is tricky, Tom Homan is on the ground in Minneapolis and set to meet with the Mayor to calm down the insanity in that city. Andy Reid basically fired Matt Nagy and now he's lobbying to get him hired because Nagy is a "gem." The Royals sign a deal with Circa Sports Book for premium experiences with the team and at Kauffman Stadium. We have some tasty Super Bowl nuggets for you, a moment of silence at a hockey game goes wrong and the daredevil climber on Netflix last weekend got ripped off.

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0:00.0	Sports, Politics, Life, North Kansas City Dental presents Kevin Keatsman has issues online at nkcdental.com.
0:15.1	Okay, so we have a ton of breaking news and new news on the Royals in a possible stadium location in Kansas or Missouri
0:21.7	and what the future holds for a new ballpark, as the Royals have said for years now, they are not
0:26.2	staying at Kaufman Stadium. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Kevin Keatsman has issues where we
0:30.8	have exclusive information coming up about the Royals to Kansas. But the big news last night on Monday evening had to do with a Missouri
0:40.3	representative from the Kansas City area who is introducing legislation in the state of Missouri
0:45.3	that basically is going to require a vote for any time there's something more than a hundred
0:51.9	million dollars or more involving sports teams.
0:55.3	His name is Mike Jones, and he released a statement to the public after he says he was informed
1:03.3	and learned that Mayor Quentin Lucas in Kansas City, Missouri, is prepared to give the Royals
1:08.8	$500 million toward a new stadium.
1:14.8	Now, where Quentin Lucas is going to get this money has been anybody's guess all the way along.
1:19.1	There is a massive slush fund in Kansas City, Missouri, called Port KC.
1:23.5	Think about the fact that we are landlocked in the middle of this country and we have a port authority.
1:29.3	Yes, we do. Port KC has hundreds of millions of dollars that they dole out. They get federal money.
1:35.5	They get money from everywhere. The only way to describe what Port KC is is a slush fund for Kansas City, Missouri.
1:42.6	In particular, for Democrats in Kansas City, Missouri. If you've
1:46.8	been following this ICE detention center in South Kansas City and Mayor Lucas and the county
1:52.3	executive and Mania Barka, the head of the commission, and those folks not wanting ICE to turn
1:57.9	this brand new, massive warehouse building into a detention center for ice.
2:03.3	If you've been following that, you know that $80 million went to the company that built this.
2:09.6	They have 195 acres near where the old Richards Gabaugh Airport was.
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