Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears

Every week we give you some audio you can’t hear anywhere else, and this one is especially insightful: Royals chairman and CEO John Sherman on the decisions that shape his new team, how he sees success happening, and how he’ll judge the process of getting there.

And you might think high school football should play this fall, and you might think it’s crazy. Either way, there’s a point that’s not being talked about enough.

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The Royals have undertaken their most drastic year-to-year shift and most people are missing it. You won’t if you listen here.

Also, we talk to Chiefs GM Brett Veach and Emory University epidemiologist Zach Binney about how the NFL is attempting to navigate COVID-19 this season. The perspective is, well, it’s not the most encouraging thing you’ll hear today. But it’s honest.

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Remember when Chiefs cornerback Charvarius Ward said his vision was so bad he couldn’t see the football? He calls in to tell us what he did to fix it.

And depending on when you listen to this, I’m in various stages of traveling to and then back from Cleveland, covering the Royals. With mixed feelings.

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This week on Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears Chiefs president Mark Donovan explains how the team has been handling its issues around Native American imagery since long before Washington changed its name.

Also: We get into why college football is probably gone until at least next year.

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We’ve heard some of you say Patrick Mahomes is making too much money, in terms of the salary cap or general life. This week’s Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears explains why that’s not true.

Also, a point about sports returning through positive test results for the coronavirus.

We also talk about the Chiefs potentially changing their name, and get the Royals’ plan for handling their pitchers directly from a team executive.

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This week on Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears: As coronavirus cases rise in the Kansas City area and across the country, the Royals are starting “summer camp” — a huge step in the return to play this year. We talked with Nick Kenney, head athletic trainer for the Royals, Kurt Andrews, director of sports medicine for Sporting Kansas City, and Zach Binney, an epidemiologist from Emory University about how and if sports can safely return.

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We’re so excited about the return of baseball that we made a whole podcast on it.

This week’s Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears hits the Royals’ side of baseball’s restart, answers questions about the Royals, Kansas City nemeses, and MLS’ own restart. We’ll take you inside a conversation with Mike Matheny interrupted by Salvador Perez asking for a Chiefs meeting.

Or shift meeting.

Just listen.

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This week we talk with Kansas City native Bryndon Minter, a 27-year-old creative producer with the NFL who was behind the push for last week’s video showing players — including Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Tyrann Mathieu — calling for change and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. It became a viral social media hit.

We also talk about the NFL’s team owners needing to treat fans better and answer questions about whether Mahomes should take less money in his looming mega-contract with the Chiefs, and whether the Royals have a competitive advantage in the way they’re treating their minor-leaguers.

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The newest Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears talks about baseball’s tone deaf mistakes, the protests happening around the country, and a story about Sporting Kansas City coach Peter Vermes we’d never heard before.

Sam is also answering questions about the Royals ownership’s willingness to raise pay , and he spitballs the question: Would Patrick Mahomes be just as good without Andy Reid? 

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This week on Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears, we're talking about baseball’s mistakes, answering questions about the NFL’s return and Patrick Mahomes becoming the highest paid athlete in the league — then we talk to his dad about it.

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