Kansas City and Sports

While thinking of what to put in my blog on President Obama's on ways to pay for his jobs initiative, I am taken by all that is going on in sports around Kansas City, which got me thinking:
1. While I agree that the demise of the Big 12 will be a tremendous loss for Kansas City, the thought that the Big 12 is in KC's DNA is over the top. For most fans here, if you held a basketball tournament and the local teams played ( MU,KU,KSU) played, it wouldn't matter if the other teams would be major universities from any state (possibly with the exception of ISU) or whether they were basically the Little Sisters of the Poor. This is old Big 8 country from way back. Nebraska football is still in the paper. Do you think that Texas Tech or Baylor will be after the Big 12 disbands?
2. After 2 games, people here want the head of either Chiefs GM Pioli, Head Coach Haley, or both. I always thought that sports organizations, no matter the sport, that made rash decisions, changing coaches and GMs every few years were thought of as losing organizations, and showed a lack of leadership and stability. Is this what Kansas City wants?
3. It was ranted on local TV this weekend that this is a down time in our professional sports, worse than any time before. What a crock! The MLS team is streaking toward the playoffs, the Royals, while not good, have again the best minor league system in baseball. And the Chiefs, while being horrible right now, still have a very good young nucleus. Unfortunately, most of it is injured for the year. Remember the early 2000s, when the Royals stunk and Schottenheimer was fired? Remember the mid 60s when the A's were leaving, and nobody went to see the Chiefs? Okay, even I don't remember that one-LOL!!!
4. There was a letter in the paper today that said that Kansas City deserves better teams than we have. I have to ask, why? Is there anyone in the local area that stepped up and bought the Royals? So neither the Royals nor the Chiefs are locally owned. And want to go to a game, have a few drinks (or maybe more than a few), and get want to take mass transit there and back? Sorry, there is no mass area transit, not on Sunday or later than 6 or 8 the rest of the week. So we should have built a stadium downtown, where there is transit? There is still no way to get there without a car. For people in Kansas City, go to the bus schedule and ask to go to Kansas or Eastern Jackson county at night or Sunday. It can't be done. Now, the people in Jackson county did agree to raise taxes to keep the stadiums up-to-date, and for that, all of us in Jackson county should be commended. But did the other counties follow suit and help? Not only no, but the former Mayor of Kansas City suggested that the city withhold money to the stadiums, even though the city gets revenue through the stadiums. So again I ask, why do deserve great teams?
5. It looks like my fantasy team is going 0-2, although this week is so close it will again go down to the last quarter of the game. ( I lost by 2 last week)
6. Nothing more. It just seems that a 6-pack of things to talk about is a good number. Now I guess I'll go to the fridge and open up a different type of 6-pack-LOL!!!