The Royals “eye a move” to the Northland, as a series of “recent closed-door meetings solidify that Missouri is still in the fight” to keep the team at home, according to Kacen Bayless of the K.C. STAR. Throughout the past month, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) has held “three private, 30-minute calls with leaders” from the Royals and the Chiefs. Two more calls, one with each team, are “scheduled for the end of the month.” The meetings “illustrate the significant role” the governor is still playing in negotiations over the teams’ future. Revelations and reports on both sides of the state line, including an Overland Park real estate deal tied to the Royals, have “only intensified speculation about either team’s intentions.” However, records “did not reveal the substance of the governor’s recent talks.” Multiple officials across the K.C. area also “suggested in interviews with The Star that the private calls were a positive sign for Missouri’s bid to keep the Royals inside state lines, either downtown or in Clay County” (K.C. STAR, 10/23).
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