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Kevin Kietzman Has Issues

Play Ball: Ryan Lefebvre on All Things Royals and Baseball

Kevin Kietzman Has Issues

Kevin Kietzman

News, Sports News, News:sports News, Politics

4.2803 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Lefebvre is back for the 2023 baseball season and will join us from time to time to talk about the Royals, Major League Baseball, broadcasting and, well, anything else he wants.       You know Ryan as the voice and face of the Royals broadcast team and we all know him as a great Kansas Citian with a giant heart.  He's as sincere as they get and we know you'll enjoy his thoughts on the start of the season, the new manager and the new rules in Major League Baseball.  Grab some peanuts or Cracker Jack and enjoy!

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0:00.0

Sports, politics, life.

0:08.1

Buckroofing presents Kevin Keatsman has issues.

0:13.2

All right, it is baseball season, and Ryan Lefevre is our guy.

0:16.9

We're going to have our first chat with Ryan Lefevre coming up in just a couple of moments.

0:20.9

As baseball season has arrived, we will have Ryan on from time to time. We'll talk about baseball issues. We're not going to do a lot of day in and day out, Royals, topics, breaking news, things like that. You know how this works. If you're new to the podcast, you probably didn't hear our Ryan Lefevre discussions last year. Sometimes we talk about broadcasting. Sometimes we talk about historical figures

0:38.5

in baseball. Sometimes we talk about rules. Sometimes we talk about how the manager is handling the team.

0:44.3

We try to keep to issues or people or personalities when we have our discussions, but it's always

0:49.2

something interesting with Ryan. We also from time to time get into some of the things that

0:53.9

Ryan enjoys in

0:55.3

his life, not the least of which is his church and his faith. He is a wonderful family man.

1:02.0

Big family. He's got a big family. And we didn't connect this winter. It was pretty interesting at the

1:06.7

end of the season last year. He said, you know, I really want to have you out to the house. He's got

1:10.6

some land out by his house in Greenwood in Missouri. And he said, I'd love to have you out and we'll get the axe out and we'll chop up some wood or get the chainsaw out. We'll do some outdoor work and come see the horses and just generally speaking, have a good time. And I was like, That'd be great. The one day that he had thought we could do it was prior to Christmas,

1:30.1

then I couldn't do time. And I was like, that'd be great. The one day that he had thought

1:28.3

we could do it was prior to Christmas, then I couldn't do it. And then the spring training started

1:32.8

in February just didn't work out. But he's a great guy. And there's nobody that I'd, I'd rather

1:37.5

chat with than Ryan Lefevre. We used to have dinner every year at spring training. We went to a

1:41.5

prince concert one time at spring training. We went to an Italian restaurant one time in Surprise, Arizona, in one of the retirement

1:49.4

communities that we went to dinner. And I'm just seriously, we met for dinner. Like, I had a show to do.

1:56.2

And, you know, he had things to do. They played a game or something that afternoon. It was over.

1:59.7

And we went to dinner at like seven o'clock out there about 7.15.

2:04.8

And the place closed at 8.

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