Royals Circling the Drain, Spaun's Bomb Wins Open, NKC for Ballpark, KU AD Backs Hoops, No Kings Day Deadly, Pope Leo on Jumbotron

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Kevin Kietzman

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Royals just lost a homestand. Every game. All very similar as the bats are so silent you can hear yourself breath inside Kauffman Stadium. Is this the end of the 2025 season? Should the Royals be thinking about trading away players to build a better team down the road? Well, somehow they are still only 3 games back of a playoff spot so we think they'll be hanging on a few more weeks. But, man, its ugly. The US Open Golf Championship at Oakmont in Pennsylvania was a hot mess from start to finish but what a little known journeyman named JJ Spaun did on the 72nd hole is the stuff of legend. A guest columnist pens a nice piece in support of NKC being the best location for a new Royals Stadium. KU Athletic Director Travis Goff says KU will spend more of it's salary cap money for Bill Self's basketball team than almost any other school. Army 250 and No Kings Day made headlines this weekend. One was a celebration of American Greatness, the other a collection of misfits bitching about Trump being a King. And No Kings Day was plenty peaceful in KC but deadly in Utah and Minnesota. Pope Leo appeared on the Jumbotron at White Sox park for a special mass this weekend. Rand Paul may be on board with the Big Beautiful Bill and Fenway Park workers may go on strike.

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0:00.0	Sports, politics, life, Cross Kitchens, Kansas City's home remodeling presents Kevin Keatsman has issues online at cross kitchens kC.com.
0:14.4	Well, I've heard from many of you that spent a little time over the weekend driving by some No King's protests around the Kansas City area and a couple
0:22.9	people out of town who went to or drove by some of them that occurred in other places around
0:28.2	the country. We're going to get to all of that and increasing tensions between Israel and
0:34.2	Iran as it's just getting really crazy now. We've heard Benjamin Netanyahu
0:38.2	say over the weekend that Iran's enemy number one is Donald Trump and they are actively trying
0:43.0	to kill our president. So a whole bunch of stuff today. But we're going to lead with the Royals
0:48.5	because this could be the weekend the Royals season died and they become sellers instead of buyers
0:53.9	this year. The Royals get swept by they become sellers instead of buyers this year.
0:54.5	The Royals get swept by the lowly Oakland A's, or should we call them the Sacramento
0:59.3	A's? Royals are now 34 and 38 on the season, 11 and a half games out of first place.
1:05.2	The difficult problem with all of this is the Royals are only three games out of a wild card
1:09.9	spot. And we know what fun it can be to be a wild card and that you can still get to the
1:15.3	World Series and do great things in the postseason if you just get there.
1:18.4	But the Royals simply aren't hitting.
1:21.4	There's no reason to spend any time on this unless we want to say, we better look at
1:25.8	the hitting coaches.
1:27.1	Maybe the manager is part of the
1:29.2	problem. What happened again on Sunday was a repeated offense. You may recall that the most
1:35.5	emotional were upset I've been over any game this season was game one of the doubleheader
1:39.9	on the last road trip at St. Louis when Noah Cameron started, and the Royals were up 3-0
1:45.9	through six innings, and Cameron had only thrown 82 pitches and had a two-hit shutout going.
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