{"id":127289,"date":"2025-06-24T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/127289\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:34:15","slug":"kansas-city-mayor-quinton-lucas-optimistic-on-keeping-chiefs-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/127289\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas optimistic on keeping Chiefs, Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mayor of Kansas City Quinton Lucas speaks during a press conference for THUNDERGONG!, a charity benefiting the Steps of Faith Foundation\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/RH2QRH7GGRA3NLJJ5NRDNKIC5M.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>K.C. Mayor Quinton Lucas on Sunday \u201cexpressed optimism\u201d that both the Chiefs and Royals \u201cwill remain in Kansas City &#8230; while attending a KC World Cup community event\u201d on the Kansas side of the border.  Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">K.C. Mayor Quinton Lucas on Sunday \u201cexpressed optimism\u201d that both the Chiefs and Royals \u201cwill remain in Kansas City &#8230; while attending a KC World Cup community event at the Aspiria campus in Overland Park\u201d on the Kansas side of the border. That area \u201chas been mentioned as a possible site for a Royals stadium.\u201d Lucas: \u201cI\u2019ve had optimism all the time, and I think there are more and more reasons for that. I said (last summer) that I believe we\u2019d have a compelling Missouri state offer. We\u2019ve gotten to that. \u201cIt took a little longer than perhaps some would have wanted. I think the local government conversation is something that continues to proceed, as well\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/article309186420.html#storylink=cpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">K.C. STAR, 6\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K.C. Mayor Quinton Lucas on Sunday \u201cexpressed optimism\u201d that both the Chiefs and Royals \u201cwill remain in Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,2044,936,2123,55,2596,2595,9600,4,1082,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-127289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-royals","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascityroyals","15":"tag-leadership","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114737896762079941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}