Kansas Crimson

Cascadia wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:14 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:24 am

Cascadia wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:38 pm That’s fucking dope. Hope it happens. Don’t really care about fountains and the crown. Fine with them either way

I suspect it's a nearly-foregone conclusion that baseball will be downtown within a decade's time.

The question - that matters a lot! - is exactly where. I worry some that they'll try to build it with a sort of pre-packaged entertainment area (not unlike Truist/Battery Park in Atlanta), somewhere downtown-adjacent, rather than just sort of drop it in (like Target Field/1st Ave./Warehouse District in Minneapolis).

Totally agree. A downtown stadium can easily be fucked up. If done correctly, they can change the entire dynamics of a city. Especially a baseball stadium that has 80+ events during the best weather of the year.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:23 pm

Cascadia wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:14 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:24 am

I suspect it's a nearly-foregone conclusion that baseball will be downtown within a decade's time.

The question - that matters a lot! - is exactly where. I worry some that they'll try to build it with a sort of pre-packaged entertainment area (not unlike Truist/Battery Park in Atlanta), somewhere downtown-adjacent, rather than just sort of drop it in (like Target Field/1st Ave./Warehouse District in Minneapolis).

Totally agree. A downtown stadium can easily be fucked up. If done correctly, they can change the entire dynamics of a city. Especially a baseball stadium that has 80+ events during the best weather of the year.

Spoken like a true Portlander. One of the things that doesn't get talked about all that much is that Kansas City has, like, bottom quartile weather among mid-size to large US cities. While it doesn't have the extremes of, say, Minneapolis on one hand or Atlanta on the other, it is hot and gross in the summer, and cold and gross in the winter. Spring and fall last a combined 20 days.

Very shitty weather city.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 9:36 am I don’t think you can beat LA for weather, particularly when you take the mountains into account. I’ve surfed and snowboarded on the same day!

Cascadia wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 1:35 pm LA is just too much of a human cesspool for me. The PNW is basically a dream world for me. There really isn’t much that I don’t like.

And it can’t be stated enough. KC is a very shitty weather city. Maybe the worst in the US (w/ St. Louis)

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:09 pm Not great, Bob.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:40 am I was ecstatic about taking Starling over Lindor, Rendor and Springer. I wanted Appel over Zimmer.


But, I'll take Lacy.

It will be either Veen or Gonzales.

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 11:12 am Rany Jazayerli dropped this fun nugget.

The Royals last picked #4 in 2010. The top 3 prospects in that draft? Bryce Harper, Jameson Tailon and Manny Machado. They picked Colon as there was no guaranteed #4.

The Royals pick #4 this year. Top 3 are almost guaranteed to be Torkelson, Martin and Lacy. No clear #4.

Hope this year's #4 ends up much better.

Keith Law has them getting Veen. I'd love Meyer or Veen. Meyer most MLB ready pitcher. Think it'll be Veen. I wish there was a good INF prospect they could get. I know Gonzales can be that, but I think they really like Veen. They seem a bit low on INF in the system.