After voters reject tax measure, Chiefs, Royals look toward future
Royals owner John Sherman and Chiefs president Mark Donovan stood on a small stage Tuesday night in the second-floor lounge of the historic J. Rieger & Co. distillery in Kansas City, acknowledging the will of voters who had rejected a sales tax initiative that would have helped pay for a new downtown ballpark and renovations to Arrowhead Stadium. “Won a baseball game tonight,” said Sherman, whose Royals had beaten the Orioles, “but we didn’t win this.” The ballot measure didn’t just lose, though. It lost decisively.