Jeff Herr, Chiefs Beat Writer Kent Babb, Chris Kamler

Here at the Royalman Report, we’re not 100% Royals – we like to do our best to cover the other big stories in Kansas City sports if they pop up and there is currently no bigger story than the scandalous charges going on at One Arrowhead Drive.

With Troy and Michael “on assignment,” we had the JV squad of Jeff Herr and Chris Kamler manning the submarine tonight.

We had the author of the Kansas City Star article “Arrowhead Anxiety,” Kent Babb, in the Man Cave to discuss the current state of the Kansas City Chiefs. Kent also spent time recapping his article and then had strong words for the Kansas City Media, whom he called “corrupt.” Kent was very opinionated and pulled no punches when it came to TV and Radio Stations and the Chiefs. He also shot a couple torpedoes towards fellow KC Star columnist and friend of the program, Sam Mellinger.

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Thursday, Mayor Mark Funkhouser put forward his plan, which includes eliminating nearly $2 million the city gives each year to the Truman Sports Complex.

“This came with no notice to us. We were unaware that this was even going to be an issue,” Sanders said in a KMBZ radio interview. “The money would be the violation. But the fact that we would have violated a substantive provision would mean those leases are now gone … We would be on a tightrope or a high wire with no safety net.”Sanders said if the city pulls its $2 million annual contribution, it would break the lease and leave the city with no written guarantee keeping the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City for the long term.”The teams would then be, to use the sports phrase, free agents to do whatever they wanted to do. Re-negotiate the deal or to not honor any of the provisions of the lease they did not want to honor,” Sanders told KMBC’s Martin Augustine.“This came with no notice to us. We were unaware that this was even going to be an issue,” Sanders said in a radio interview. “Those leases are now gone. … We would be on a tightrope or a high wire with no safety net.”

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