Chapter 1: What are the latest updates from FIFA regarding the World Cup?
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Good deal. Good deal for both teams. Thursday to Monday, we'll swap. That's what they always say. It's a good trade for both teams.
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Chapter 2: How has Jeff Passan's schedule changed in the MLB coverage?
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We've sat outside at the fire pit. Love it.
I almost like it when it's cool enough that you have to turn it on. Yeah. It's fantastic sitting out there.
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Yeah. Currently in stable condition in a Mississippi hospital after being shot early Sunday morning at a club. Hardy was shot in the upper part of his left leg during what police described as a melee incident. at the end of an outdoor concert. He underwent successful surgery later on Sunday.
The school announcing today that a, quote, a timeline for his return to football activities is unknown at this time. A source tells ESPN's Pete Thamel there's optimism he will play football again, but no one knows when.
Optimism, that's scary.
Chapter 4: What preparations are being made at Arrowhead Stadium for the World Cup?
But the young man's alive. That's the most important part of the equation.
But, man. Because a lot of times that thing, I mean, All kinds of stories. College, some players at some place, and someone fires a shot, and the kid's just gone.
Next month, we will have World Cup soccer here in Kansas City. The Arrowhead Stadium has undergone some transformations to be ready for this. Today, they held a little press conference, our Todd Lebo covering it. The VP of Stadium Operations for Arrowhead Stadium, Brandon Hamilton, was asked about the field requirement for FIFA.
FIFA has some basic requirements with respect to playability. So they want consistency for the way the ball bounces, obviously the width and the size of the pitch across all the venues. Now you think about North America in general, it's a big span. You've got indoor buildings. So the grass varieties will be different across those venues.
Chapter 5: How will the Royals fans experience change during the World Cup?
This is actually Bermuda, which we use for our football games. So we're familiar and consistent. But any nuances, Brandon, you'd highlight?
Yeah, certainly. I would highlight that the crown of the field for a FIFA pitch is different than what it is for NFL football. We are also going to be installing a synthetic fiber into the pitch. It comes from a company called Sisgrass and it is a requirement that FIFA has to help reinforce the turf. What's different about the crown?
The difference in the crown is that the FIFA pitch has what we call a turtle back and so at the goals it has to be perfectly level. Where at our NFL field we run the crown completely through the end zone.
Turtle pitch.
So you're going downhill towards the goals, I guess.
Turtle back or something. Yeah, so the crown can be in the middle, but it can't be that way at the goal lines.
That other voice was Matt Kenney, Executive VP of Operations and Events.
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So talking about the field being different. It's just kind of a crown. It's kind of like a... It just allows water to... For football, it goes the whole length. Yeah. The crown's in the end zone as well.
The goal are from goal post now to goal post. It's right down the center so that the water drains off the pool in the middle of the field.
All right. Hamilton also talked about some of the sponsor signage that will be gone during this event.
So we've started the clean site work already. You can see some of the signage has been removed. There's a crane there that's doing additional work as one of the requirements for World Cup at all the venues is that the FIFA sponsors specifically around broadcasting and the fan activity areas have priority. So we've taken those things down.
We will continue to do that over the next several weeks before the first matches.
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But you will see a little bit of a transformation with respect to the signage and the branding that you're accustomed to for Chiefs matches.
Notably, the GEHA on the side of the stadium, which is being ā there's shots of cranes taking the letters down. Can't be GEHA field at Arrowhead during the World Cup. So it's going to be Kansas City Stadium for the World Cup.
Why not Arrowhead Stadium?
I don't know. I don't know why ā because Arrowhead isn't really a sponsor. It's a name it's had. It'd be like Veteran Stadium or something like that. Yeah, well, why can't we ā No idea.
That's dumb.
I didn't see that yet, but it has been referred to multiple times as Kansas City Stadium. Okay. I don't get it.
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Chapter 8: What trade strategies should the Royals consider moving forward?
Arrowhead's not a sponsorship. I know. I can't make it make sense.
All right, Todd Lebo asked Brad Hamilton what Royals fans will have to contend with during games that take place while the event is here in town.
We've worked with the Royals and they've had a voice in this for the last several years. So in terms of the stadium proper, you will have a barricade if you think of a Super Bowl or a another event where there is an actual area that's focused on the fan activations and those things. The Royals will have the remaining parts of the Truman Sports Complex to accommodate parking and their fan flows.
It will be different for the Royals fans as well, but I think the Royals certainly have a view into what that looks like, and we will work with them and FIFA to make sure Royals fans can come celebrate their team.
We saw a lot of, we talked about this a month or so ago, the odd little scheduling. There's off on a Friday or off on a Saturday. That's the situation where they've got a homestand that's interrupted by a World Cup game. And so how do you get, how do you set the thing up for World Cup and then the next day have a Royals game?
So there's going to be some people have to work through some problems, but they're going to do their best to make sure Royals fans aren't really inconvenienced greatly by it. But it won't be the same thing you're used to when you go out there.
Because they'll have a bunch of stuff that's just sitting around there. It's like some of your favorite parking places won't be available.
Barricades, as you said. Places where you can't go. That's what that sounded like to me. Barricades. I'm like, okay, that's fun.
Okay.
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