Royals Close to Announcement, World Cup Bans Tailgating at Arrowhead, Banks Could Clean up Elections, Negro Creek is Dems New Plan, Surgeon Removes Wrong Organ, R's Bullpen Fail

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Kevin Kietzman

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Mayor Q says the only thing left is a "Chiefs-esque" news conference announcing a new Royals ballpark at Crown Center. Despite a whole bunch of angry people showing up in opposition, the $600 million from KCMO is about to fly through to approval. The Royals team president was in attendance for the council meeting Tuesday and he calls this a "great project" that will pass. It's very close to a done deal as we wait to hear what the state of Missouri is kicking in. Kansas City will be soft on complaining about World Cup gouging and problems we experience for hosting but they aren't holding back in the northeast. People in New York, Boston and Phildadelpia are going bonkers over transportation gouging of 800 percent, ticket switch fiascos and now.... NO TAILGATING at World Cup venues. And yes, that includes Arrowhead. Sorry fans, you just don't matter that much. Scott Bessent says an executive order for American banks is coming and one of the benefits could be cleaner elections. In Johnson County, they are keeping the name Negro Creek after years of trying to remove it. You have to hear why the Dems have changed their minds on these things moving on from canceling and embracing something even worse. A surgeon in Florida is indicted for losing a patient on the table when the removed the wrong organ. The Royals have real problems... but it looks like a lot of other teams do as well. Diana Russini quits her job over scandal and an American sweeheart has hooked up with another celebrity finding love later in life

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0:00.0	Sports, politics, life, advanced medical imaging presents Kevin Keatsman has issues.
0:11.0	Online at MedimageKS.com.
0:14.9	Well, it looks like all we need is a little packaging, some wrapping paper, and a bow on top,
0:20.3	and the Royals are going to build a new
0:21.6	ballpark at Crown Center. That is our lead story today at Kevin Keatsman has issues as the
0:26.3	meetings all took place with the Parks and Rec Commission and the City Council as they forwarded it to
0:32.0	their agenda for Thursday night, what could be Thursday night, a full and complete vote on approving the $600 million for the Kansas City Royals in order to build the new ballpark and complex at Crown Center.
0:45.3	This is very exciting news. Mayor Quentin Lucas was quoted and I'm paraphrasing here saying the only thing that's left is to finalize this with the council vote and then have our chiefs-esque news conference and announce that this thing is going to be done.
1:00.0	What I have not heard at this point is how much money is coming from the state of Missouri.
1:03.9	Now, obviously, that's not the job of the council or the mayor or the parks and rec departments.
1:08.3	So we will wait in the coming days to hear what happens out of Jeff City with Governor Kehoe
1:12.4	and what is announced there for what their contribution will be to what is being called a $1.9 billion
1:17.7	Royal's ballpark, which is an interesting number because the Royals from the start were saying $2 billion.
1:25.3	And prices haven't gone down over the last three years, four years while they've
1:28.5	been talking about this. So I'm wondering if the price is actually lower because they have,
1:33.5	I know that this space at Washington Square Park is smaller. It's less acreage. There's less land
1:40.0	acquisition. There's less development. There's less of the stadium. We're also looking at only
1:45.3	30,000 seats or slightly over. I wonder if they've changed their view of exactly what they
1:50.9	will be building as far as a stadium amenities, suites, luxuries, electronics, school boards,
1:57.0	things like that. It's hard for me to say. There's been no information from the Royals on
2:02.3	this, but somehow the price has been lowered, which I don't think is the greatest idea. It sounds like
2:07.5	politics to me because this stadium will go over budget. If Kansas City, Missouri is involved,
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