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“I never understood fans who resented Mike Sweeney’s salary or A-Rod making $27 million. Did you want all the money to go to the owners?”
Soren Petro, discussing why Donald Fehr was just a guy doing his job as the head of the MLB Players Union, 810 AM
GH: Petro often chastises fans who complain about the escalating salaries, ticket prices or huge profits professional teams reap. What Petro never discusses is that these salaries and profits come from Joe Fan – not some nameless, faceless TV contract or revenue sharing agreement. The dollars that make up those payments come from the price of a ticket, the cost to park your car, that $7.25 beer, that $30 t-shirt, that new Chevy truck you bought, and the case of Bud Lite in your fridge. We pay the freight on those products and services to help fund outrageous sports salaries. Petro wants to debate whether or not A-Rod is worth $27 million a season? Please. Is anyone even allowed to disagree with Petro on his show? How and why some of his pompous statements go unchallenged is baffling.

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I have seen the future of kick ass BBQ in Overland Park and it is Adam’s rib...

Once upon a time that title belonged to a gentleman named Hayward Spears. To this day Spears operates Hayward’s Pit Bar B Que at College and Antioch. During Hayward’s ’70s and ’80s heydays, it owned the barbecue bragging rights for Johnson County. It was also one of the first suburban eateries to cash in on then new liquor-by-the-drink laws in the days when only private clubs could dole out Jagerbombs and the like. It’s spanking new, upscale digs and panoramic views of Corporate Woods merged the otherwise gritty art of eating Kansas City barbecue with fine dining.

That was then…

Today Hayward’s has grown a bit long in the tooth and shopworn to be charitable. And those long lines of suburbanites from its glory years are far fewer and further between by my measure.

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“I still think talent-wise they (the Royals) are probably still the best team in the division. I think one more bat and they are absolutely a contender.”
Jeff Passan, former Star sports writer and current MLB columnist for YahooSports.com, who was a guest Tuesday on Chris and Cowboy’s show, 610 AM
GH: Passan made this comment just before Greinke’s last start. Was I hearing things? Read on.

“I think what it boils down to is that Kansas City does have the best talent in the division and frankly should win it.”
Jeff Passan, 610 AM
GH: Passan added this caveat; that you simply can’t win it without a healthy Gil Meche. After seeing Detroit’s talent up close and watching the anemic Royals’ attack the past few weeks, Yahoo might want to check Passan’s Syracuse diploma for authenticity…and his eyesight.

“After watching Detroit, I don’t see how anybody’s going to beat them. I think Detroit without question is the class of this division.”
Jack Harry, 810 AM

“The Royals need a bat. If they want to contend this year, they need to go out and get another bat.”
Jeff Passan, MLB writer for YahooSports.com, 610 AM
GH: Okay, sounds like Passan is either waffling or waking from his coma.

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Jim Rome’s always entertaining Smack-Off takes place today from 11 AM to 2 PM on 610 AM. Check out the contestants odds here for the invitation-only event.

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“I just don’t think he needs a nickname. I’m just good with Zack.”
Josh Klingler, 610 AM
GH: I like nicknames. I came up with Zack Black earlier this week and I’m going to ride it for now. It has an easy rhythm to it (just like his pitching style) and it brings to mind Greinke’s ability to pitch on the “black.” I also like that it coincides with the Royals new tough-guy ‘tude. These are no longer the pushover Royals so many AL teams have feasted on for two decades. These are the darker, Miguel Olivo stand-and-fight Royals. I’d like to see a stadium blackout for an upcoming Zack Black start where the Royals wear black jerseys and ask the fans to show up in black attire. Hell, give out Zack Black t-shirts at the gate – sponsored by Black & Veatch. The Zack Black moniker fits Greinke’s knockdown no-regrets style and this city’s new image of shedding that wimpy chip from our shoulder and replacing it with a squared-shoulders glare.

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