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Writer at The Athletic. Knight-Wallace fellow 2023-24. Author of KINGDOM QUARTERBACK, a book on Patrick Mahomes and the history of Kansas City. Order below:

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1 year

The first review of KINGDOM QUARTERBACK—our book about Patrick Mahomes and the history of Kansas City—is here from Kirkus. They called it "lively and meaningful." "Chiefs fans will find this a revelation, and urban planners might learn a thing or two, too." It’s out Aug. 22.…

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Zack Greinke once threw Joey Votto nothing but hanging sliders because he believed Votto recognized spin better than anyone in baseball—and he knew Votto would expect the pitch to break out of the zone. Votto on Greinke: "I f— with this guy.” Ten stories that explain why…

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7 years

so this is the most brutally accurate paragraph of 2017 so far.

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Patrick Mahomes has been a starter for five seasons. He's made three Super Bowls. About to win his second MVP. Has a winning record when his team is trailing by 10. And just beat one of the best teams in the NFL on a high-ankle sprain. Mahomes: "It took my teammates."

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Bill Walton: "Do you know who Bob Iger is?" Dave Pasch: "Yes, I know who Bob Iger is. He's our boss. He signs my check." Walton: "You don't do direct deposit?"

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4 years

Joe Kelly should have asked for immunity to admit that he threw at all the Astros on purpose.

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4 years

I'm still looking through Baseball Reference, so feel free to fact check me, but I believe Patrick Mahomes has set a new record for touchdown passes in a game by an MLB owner.

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3 years

However good you think Patrick Mahomes is, he’s even better.

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5 years

The last guy to throw a complete game in the World Series.

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2 years

From 1963 to 2017, the Chiefs won nine games in the postseason. Since Patrick Mahomes became the starter in 2018, they’ve won seven.

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The Chiefs’ Chris Jones: “We gonna party all fucking night.” He also said that GM Brett Veach is going to the Hall of Fame and they’re going to “build a fucking dynasty in Kansas City.”

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5 years

The most outrageous baseball thing is that Lorenzo Cain has never won a Gold Glove.

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4 years

OK, this is now my favorite Zack Greinke story: The whole piece:

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6 years

The Chicagoland area has like 10 million people, and Loyola finds 40 percent of a Final Four starting lineup from one class in one suburban high school in Overland Park, Kan.

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Ned Yost on Mike Moustakas: "I had this kid when he was a kid. Before he got married, before he became a dad, before he became an All-Star, before he became a world champion. I’ve watched him grow up before my very eyes."

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7 years

This was Kansas City, two years ago today:

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1 year

Time of possession: Eagles: 21:54 Rihanna: 17:31 Chiefs: 8:06

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6 years

The Brewers just swapped out pitchers *and* catchers, and all four guys were former Royals. Ned Yost appears to have built another Brewers playoff team.

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4 years

the best part about Opening Day was rolling into third grade with that note that said your dad would be coming to pick you up around 11:30 a.m. to go watch baseball, just feeling like an absolute king. what a glorious feeling.

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2 years

let's just speed ahead to the part of college realignment where all the power-five schools consolidate, negotiate one big football TV deal, then realize that, hey, divisions based on geography would really make sense for fans, travel and rivalries.

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5 years

The Royals are two games over .500 for the first time since Aug. 24, 2017.

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3 months

They don’t even let you punch the quarterback in the face anymore.

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1 year

this throw reminded me of Damien Williams once saying that Patrick Mahomes used to have him run routes at practice with his eyes closed. “He really told me, ‘Run straight, put your arms out and close your eyes.'”

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still thinking about it

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6 years

Kelvin Herrera: “I was born and raised as a player here — this is tough.”

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6 years

Whit Merrifield will finish the season with a 20-game hitting streak. He'll lead the majors in hits and stolen bases. And he gets a standing ovation at Kauffman Stadium in the eighth inning.

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The first bowl loss for Kansas in 19 years. Their run had to end sometime.

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Kansas City has never seen anything like Patrick Mahomes. The plays. The joy. The voice. "He's Len Dawson plus George Brett times Bo Jackson." On the best quarterback in football, a heartland city's identity and a future where anything seems possible:

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Patrick Mahomes' untouchable Kansas City bond

Civic pride swells over the Chiefs' star quarterback: "He’s Len Dawson plus George Brett times Bo Jackson."

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7 months

The only thing I really want to know is if Travis Kelce and Taylor have bonded over the fact they’ve both spent a night at the Hawk in Lawrence, Kansas.

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6 years

Houston's Tyler White walked on in college, got drafted in the 33rd round and signed for $1,000. Now he'll play for the Astros in the ALCS. "Everyone has a door to the big leagues,” he said “Some guys have a garage door and some guys have a doggy door."

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“You just have to get through that door”: How Tyler White went from an overlooked 33rd rounder to...

Overlooked throughout his career, Tyler White has long defied the odds. “He can carry a team when they’re struggling,” Astros right fielder Josh Reddick said. “He carried us for a really long time.”

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Max Scherzer: "It just seems everybody wants younger and younger players. And everybody wants to forget about all the old guys. We see it in free agency, we’re not dumb. And the fact (is) we’re the oldest team and we won the National League."

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3 years

Aaron Boone said tonight that Gerrit Cole tested positive for COVID and is not pitching tomorrow.

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3 years

Shohei Ohtani eats alone because it's efficient. He once outlined his life goals and one strategy to achieve them: "Read more." On two baseball cultures, history, and the ascendance of a new master. "He wants to be the greatest baseball player ever."

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Shohei Ohtani is ‘in his own world’ … which appears to be somewhere beyond baseball’s outer limits

The 26-year-old from Japan is pitching and hitting for the Angels. Is it possible to properly appreciate something we've never seen before?

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5 years

The time the US Open champ took Keith Langford off the dribble.

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6 years

Lorenzo Cain missed the NL bus to the stadium today, so he ended up sitting next to Salvador Perez on the AL bus. “He took some pictures and video, because that’s what he does,” Cain said.

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7 years

Dave Chappelle should just do standup every night for the rest of 2016.

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4 years

I just thought about how old I'll be when Patrick Mahomes becomes a free agent. I'm going for a walk.

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6 years

One of the worst parts about Kansas City is that people never walk anywhere. Like thousands and thousands of people have moved downtown in the last decade. But you'd never know it. Crossroads on most weekends is a ghost town. People think it weird to walk more than like 5 blocks.

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6 years

Some news: This past week was my last at the @kcstar , the only place I’ve ever worked and the newspaper I read as a kid. I loved every moment of my nine years there. I can’t wait to tell you more about what’s coming next. So stick around. Until then, a quick story:

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Some more news: I'm joining The Athletic to cover the Royals. We're building a team at @TheAthleticKC , and ready for an adventure. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further.

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5 years

In fairness to Georgia, Texas was battle tested right before the bowl season.

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5 years

Here for the biggest game in Kansas City since Johnny Cueto shook his rump against the Mets in Game 2 in 2015.

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6 years

What the final result is, who can say, but the Royals signed Mike Moustakas, Lucas Duda and Jon Jay for a combined $13 million this winter. Frugal.

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7 years

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the Royals trailed by three with three hitters batting under .200 up next ... and they won.

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7 years

Holy crap, these UMKC jerseys are tremendous:

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In his postgame TV interview, Ed Volquez dedicated his no-hitter to Jose Fernandez and Yordano Ventura, who would have turned 26 today:

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5 years

Mets manager Carlos Beltran on analytics: “I like to call it information.” Yes, let’s all start doing that.

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6 years

“Are you curious to watch Ohtani?” I asked. Ned Yost: “What I’m curious about is do you intentionally curl your hair around your ears or does it do that naturally?” Happy Thursday.

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6 years

I don’t have many strong takes. And I don’t even know how it came to be. But if we could all agree Showtime Mahomes is just the worst nickname and move on to something else, I think that’s the practical choice.

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5 years

Some news: Today is my last day on the Royals for The Athletic and my first day as a features writer for @TheAthleticNYC . Thank you so much to anyone who read. I probably haven't written my last story about the Royals or KC. But here's to new things:

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Rustin Dodd: Moving to New York with a lot of excitement and some mixed emotions as well

After 11 seasons covering the Royals in Kansas City, Rustin Dodd will continue finding great stories to tell in New York City.

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6 years

Ben Zobrist said his daughter, Blaise Royal Zobrist, is taking in her first game at the K tonight. He reminisced about the nervous moments during the 2015 World Series, when she was due. “My wife basically held her in,” he said.

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Whit Merrifield enters the final day of the season tied for the major-league lead in hits (191) and leading the majors in stolen bases (44). "That would be pretty exciting," he said. "To do it in the whole league would be a thrill, especially after having a fluke year last year."

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Whit Merrifield on moving to right field to make room for Nicky Lopez: “At the end of the day,” he said, “I’m sick of losing. I really am. And we think he’s gonna make us better.”

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1 year

Marquez Valdes-Scantling is a baseball player who strikes out 225 times per year and hits 30 bombs.

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6 years

The Royals' clubhouse was also quite overjoyed to learn that Terrance Gore got his first major-league hit tonight, off Max Scherzer no less.

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Carlos Beltran is retiring. One of the most talented players in Royals history. One of just four major-leaguers with more than 400 homers, 500 doubles, 1,500 runs scored and 300 stolen bases. What a career.

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Pete Alonso leads the majors with 45 homers. In a volatile Mets season, he has been a rock. On the simple ethos that explains his rise: "He wants to turn up Led Zeppelin really loud, take his shirt off, and crush baseballs."

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‘The goofy kid who diesels baseball’: Stories of how Pete Alonso became Pete Alonso

His rookie season with the Mets has been prodigious and unprecedented. Yet his persona can still be summed up in two words: That’s Pete.

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5 years

So what’s after the divisional round?

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3 years

If you were raised Catholic, you’re not getting “On Eagles Wings” out of your head for days.

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5 years

The Royals select Bobby Witt Jr. with the No. 2 pick. Viewed as one of the best high school shortstop prospects in the last 20 years. Club officials see him as being from the "same family of players" as Adalberto Mondesi. Possible five-tool shortstop. Elite speed.

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6 years

The Athletic is the kind of ad-less internet oasis where even the commenters come with elegant prose about Mike Moustakas:

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Every day, I feel like I spend too much time on Twitter, that we put too much importance on it, etc. And then I stumble upon an exchange like this.

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The Royals just announced that Salvador Perez will start the All-Star Game in place of an injured Wilson Ramos. This will be his fifth-straight start. George Brett is the only Royal who has started more.

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A quarter-century ago, some grad students on a Usenet discussion group came together to write a baseball book that was barely a book. It's still influencing baseball. The miracle of Baseball Prospectus '96, and its founder, who no longer watches baseball:

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‘The SNL of Sabermetrics’: How a group of message-board misfits changed baseball

Baseball Prospectus was a launching pad for talented outsiders, but its founder can no longer enjoy the sport he once loved to argue about.

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2 years

College GameDay in Lawrence soon? 👀

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3 years

The idea: @JaysonJenks and I called up 15 catchers who have worked with Zack Greinke during his career and asked them to explain his genius. The result: John Buck told me maybe the funniest baseball story I've heard — and it's maybe the fifth best here:

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Zack Greinke's catchers try to explain his blunt ... brilliance?

As the 37-year-old future Hall of Famer embarks on his 18th MLB season, 15 of his catchers tell their best stories.

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9 years

Yordano Ventura, in the middle of an interview last night, low-key opened a beer with his teeth.

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6 years

After his double in the second, Alex Gordon's next extra-base hit will be the 500th of his career, which will pass Mike Sweeney for fifth all-time in Royals history. I truly hope someone out there finds this tweet worth existing.

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5 years

The Royals have Adalberto Mondesi, Hunter Dozier and Whit Merrifield under team control through the 2023 season, so that seems good for them.

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2 years

More and more people are recognizing that Kansas is the last Big 12 football team to get a first-place vote in the final AP poll of the season.

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I’m completely serious, we need a documentary or podcast on the 2007 Kansas Jayhawks

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If you grew up in Kansas in the 90s, it’s impossible to overstate how central Roy Williams felt at the time. It was a different era of college hoops, of course, but those teams had a charm that’s hard to describe now. The first sports thing I ever cared about.

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50 years ago today, a Connecticut man was furious over the lack of baseball on television and radio.

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Brad Keller, 23 years and 244 days old, is the youngest American League starter to win on Opening Day since Felix Hernandez in 2009. And youngest in the majors since Jose Fernandez in 2014.

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6 years

Reliever Peter Moylan spent his 20s working day labor and sales gigs in Australia. He’s had two Tommy Johns, back operations and shoulder trouble. If the end has come at age 39, it’s time to appreciate one of the most improbable and wondrous careers ever:

Man at work: The improbable and wondrous career of Peter Moylan

The Braves reliever is on the final legs of a weird and wondrous baseball career, the kind that can slip by without proper notice. But whatever happens, he's ready to keep working.

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If things weren’t going bad enough, a huge chunk of ice flew off one of the Royals’ team buses and slammed into the windshield of the other last night. The shards hit the bus driver and reliever Blaine Boyer had to grab the wheel. The driver was OK.

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6 years

Wade Davis has now thrown exactly 40 innings for four different teams in the postseason. He has a 1.35 ERA with 57 Ks.

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7 years

Mike Moustakas on today's trade and the message from Dayton Moore: "We’re in it. We’re going to go out there and try to win a World Series."

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On Saturday before the Super Bowl, Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy played a clip from the Eagles-Jaguars game, where a receiver faked a jet sweep motion. “EB put it on tape and said: ‘Hey, like, if they do this, this guy is wide open.”

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How Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes authored his greatest comeback in Super Bowl LVII

Playing on a bum ankle, Mahomes delivered a vital 26-yard scamper that helped set up the Chiefs for the game-winning field goal.

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In the span of 17 months, Eric Hosmer has won a World Series, won the All-Star Game MVP, visited the White House, and crushed at the WBC.

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8 years

A reporter asked Alex Gordon if he knew many Bieber songs. "Yeah, we had Jeremy Guthrie on our team."

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The Royals signed Homer Bailey to a minor-league deal with an invite to spring training. He’s spent his entire career with the Reds.

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5 years

Meet Luke Falk, the unexpected Jets quarterback. And Luke Falk, The HR manager from Salt Lake City who has been following the other Luke Falk’s career through wrongly sent emails:

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Meet Luke Falk, the unexpected Jets quarterback (and the guy with the same name who gets his emails)

One communication mixup does not seem that notable. But here’s the thing about Luke Falk and Luke Falk: This has been happening for years.

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Alex Gordon is retiring at the end of the season, the Royals announced. I had a feeling. So I wrote about his legacy in KC this week. He was the face of the franchise in the most honest way — the ups and the downs — a perfect fit between star and city.

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With humility through the ups and downs, Alex Gordon came to define a Royals era

"If this is the end, it will mean the end for a franchise stalwart, a homegrown star who became something more: an athlete who embodied KC."

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Royals outfielder Brett Phillips, who grew up 15 minutes away in Seminole, Fla., said he’s expecting “800 to 1,000” friends and family at the Trop tonight. He’s apparently the Ferris Bueller of Tampa Bay.

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As man has evolved, we've come to understand that getting hit in the face with a baseball is dangerous.

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@nate_bukaty @rustindodd @FlannyMLB can someone please explain to me the trend of MLB players wearing the face protector on their helmets??????

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If you watched Joel Embiid for two minutes at Kansas, it pretty much seemed like he had a chance to be the best basketball player in the world. He also once crashed a Bill Self press conference in full uniform, grabbed a plate of barbecue, then left.

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Adam Wainwright after finishing this broadcast.

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Whit Merrifield on Terrance Gore's three-hit night in his first career start: "He got a chance tonight, and he said: ‘Screw you guys, I’m gonna show you guys I can play.’"

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Ned Yost: "What series in Minnesota?" Me: "The opening series?" Ned: "The one that I don't even think about or care to bring up again?"

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After leaving Fenway Park, this is where Salvador Perez's solo homer landed. (h/t @mwads10 )

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This KU team reminded me of 2008 in a few ways: Best player from KC, epic title game comeback, a team so defined by depth and balance that they were hard to analyze and easy to overlook. They had six really good college players. At least 3-4 usually played well. Fourth NCAA title

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Filed a story from Game 162 at Kauffman Stadium. Thanks for following along and reading The Star this season. It's a true privilege.

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Eight days before he was traded, Kelvin Herrera sat in a dugout in Oakland and told me about his childhood in the Dominican Republic, his unlikely signing story, his struggles with English, his relationship with Yordano Ventura and why he loved the Royals:

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Kansas City will always be the place where Kelvin Herrera found his voice

Kelvin Herrera is a National now, but his time with the Royals is where he grew his confidence, vocabulary and sarcasm.

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I had a Hall of Fame vote for the first time this year (a privilege I didn't take lightly). There are so many variables, and a 10-player max, which makes consistency particularly hard. Here's my ballot:

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Last night Al Michaels and the TNF broadcast mentioned Rainy Day Books—a local book store in the Kansas City area. The shoutout featured our book KINGDOM QUARTERBACK. Which caused sales to spike (No. 1 in two categories, third in another) … on Amazon.

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As the great Terez Paylor would say: “Over my dead body” game. This guy is unreal.

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5 years

Hearing the Royals are looking hard at center fielder Billy Hamilton, recently non-tendered by the Reds. Not a surprise considering they reportedly looked into trading for him in the past and he fits their stated profile of 'action-type' players. Looks like @FlannyMLB is on it.

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Ned Yost said he was unaware storms were approaching in the 14th inning: "I didn’t have any idea," he said. "I heard somebody say, 'If we don’t score this inning, we’re going to be here until 5 in the morning.' And I thought they were talking about our offense.”

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5 years

Tim Anderson pimped a homer. Brad Keller hit him. The benches cleared. Dale Sveum is fired up. There was a lot of chatting and posturing .. and then Ned Yost and Rick Renteria just got into it.

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5 years

Ned Yost is retiring. The all-time winningest manager in Royals franchise history. Won two pennants and a World Series. The end of an era in Kansas City baseball. Ned is a classic baseball character who was fun as hell (most of the time) to cover:

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The World According to Ned: 21 stories that explain the Royals' manager

From his dry sense of humor to his entertaining stories, manager Ned Yost has given reporters plenty of memorable sound bites of the years.

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1 year

Two years ago, we asked a bunch of Reds (and other people around baseball) for their best Joey Votto stories. This time, we asked Votto for his side, then let him take a red pen and annotate the story. The Joey Votto Oral History: The Votto Cut:

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