Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears
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Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears
Kansas City Star sports columnist Sam Mellinger writes stories, profiles, and the Mellinger Minutes every Tuesday. Now he’s starting a podcast, For Your Ears, that you can listen to whenever and wherever. Every week, Mellinger will answer listener questions, break down the local sports scene, and te...
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The return of hate, Chiefs questions and a point about Patrick Mahomes
Kansas City sports on KC Chiefs, Andy Reid playcalling, Eric Berry ... and let’s face it: Sports here are better when KU and Mizzou play each other.
Why Denver is KC Chiefs’ ideal opponent + rare Eric Berry interview
We lead off with a Chiefs-Broncos point that a lot of people are missing, and also hit questions about Sporting Kansas City’s playoff struggles, Travi...
KC Chiefs-Cowboys is huge, but Arrowhead advantage is non-existent
Chiefs-Cowboys is the biggest game of the season so far, and this podcast is here to tell you why.
The questions are Chiefs heavy, focusing on w...
My Art Stewart tribute, KC Chiefs and (stay with me) a time machine
The top of the show is about my dear friend, Art Stewart, who died this week after 94 incredible years. I miss him, and I want you to know about him.<...
KC Chiefs are changing, strong questions, and the NCAA is going away
We start with a point about how teams change, and about how the Chiefs are evolving. The questions hit the Chiefs hard — what’s going on behind the sc...
A point about life, and a changed format for a heated week
This feels like a week where we need to talk. So the format is a bit different: a lead, and then twice as many questions as usual.
The lead is s...
Chiefs-Titans talk, thoughts on Chiefs’ luck and LOTS of World Cup
We start off with Chiefs-Titans, including some strategy and a way the Chiefs have been lucky.
The questions hit on the Chiefs, Arrowhead Stadiu...
So the KC Chiefs still have much football left to play
This week we’re worth your time with the best way to think of the rest of the Chiefs’ 2021 season.
The questions hit on Andy Reid’s long-term tr...
What KC Chiefs fans can expect from Josh Gordon and Willie Gay Jr.
This week we start with two points about the Chiefs, hitting on the two of the people that Chiefs fans are thinking and talking about the most right n...
Chiefs questions + answers, and get to know new Royals GM J.J. Picollo
This week we start with two important points about the Chiefs: one on Andy Reid, the other about where they are in the season.
The questions are...
Chiefs-Chargers, Spagnuolo, Sorensen ... Royals’ downtown stadium?
This week we start with a point about the Chargers game suddenly becoming one of the most important and interesting of the Chiefs’ 2021 regular season...
Big Royals news, plenty of Chiefs + Tony G on his Kansas City fame
This week we go hard on the biggest news of the week: The Royals announced a new general manager and made public their exploration of the notion of bu...
Chiefs game plan, what’s new and audio that paints a telling picture
We start off with ways the Chiefs can be beaten, and thinking of the teams in the AFC that are best equipped to do it.
The questions hit on the...
Royals positivity, KC World Cup bid + Chiefs season opening roster
The Royals are doing some real things that are showing up on the field and should create optimism for the future. That’s the top of the pod.
The...
The Chiefs’ biggest threats, roster decisions and Salvy Perez’s joy
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We’re going to be worth your time this week with a look at which AFC teams are the Chiefs’ biggest threats, questions on...
A whole show about the Chiefs (with one Big 12 realignment question)
We’re all-in on the Chiefs this week.
The top deals with questions surrounding Big 12 realignment, but then it’s all red and gold: What’s delayi...
Chiefs primer, Salvy questions + Mahomes’ SKC purchase explained
We start with three things to watch for when the Chiefs play their first preseason game against the 49ers on Saturday. We hit questions on the Chiefs...
Let’s talk Texas, OU, Big 12, SEC + Royals. It’s a lot
Lots to talk about this week, eh?
First up on the Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears Podcast in this episode is Texas and Oklahoma and the Big 12 a...
Travis Kel-SEE, Chiefs’ line, NIL changes and KC’s Samantha Fish
This week we do a 180 on that silly Travis Kelce stuff this week, and answer questions about the Royals’ prospects, the Chiefs’ offensive line, and ho...
Brad Keller, Royals vs. Rays, lots of soccer + some NIL insight
The Royals are a hot mess right now, so that’s where we lead the show. A lot of what’s going wrong can be told through Brad Keller, and by extension C...
Kansas City Royals, Chiefs + national women’s soccer and a summer drink
This week we start with a conversation about where the Royals really are — the good and the bad.
The questions hit on surprising press conferenc...
Travis Kelce, weird MLB rules, small crowds, and Royals pitching coach Cal Eldred
This may sound hyperbolic but I don’t think we’ve ever seen an athlete transform more completely in Kansas City than Travis Kelce. The top of the show...
Smart way to watch the Royals, plus John Sherman and Dayton Moore
We start off with two things to keep in mind while watching or talking to your friends about the 2021 Royals.
Then we hit questions on the diffe...
Mondesi convo reset, best and worst questions ever + Salvador Perez
The Adalberto Mondesi conversation needs a reset. A fresh perspective. That’s what the top of this week’s show is for.
The questions are all ove...
Tyrann Mathieu’s contract, Monarchs’ brand, BBQ and NCAA NIL rights
There’s a point about Tyrann Mathieu’s contract extension you should hear, and that helps shape the next few years of the Chiefs’ salary cap.
We...
A Chiefs prediction, lots of rants and KC Royals’ Matheny opens up
Somehow, we live in a world where the NFL announcing a schedule that we already know is the biggest sports news of the week. So we talk about that her...
Chiefs Ring of Honor omission, liars + KU football success?
Tim Grunhard deserves all the flowers he’s getting, but we start the show with a plea for the Chiefs to correct a glaring omission to the Ring of Hono...
More Royals, Brett Veach on Chiefs’ draft + Kansas City's beer scene
Can we make this deal? As long as the Royals are in first place, they will lead this show.
In the questions we hit on Patrick Mahomes’ draft nig...
1st place Royals, Chiefs draft, politics + Tyrann Mathieu
You probably guessed we’d start the show with the first-place Royals, but hopefully you didn’t guess what we’d say about them.
The questions hit...
Greg Holland, Jackie Robinson, being kind, and Mike Matheny’s essense
Maybe this sounds weird, but we’re starting this week with a Greg Holland appreciation. We’ve seen this guy for nearly a decade now — same as always o...
Tons of Royals, KU and K-State basketball, and journalism
You already know this week’s show is built around the Royals playing a real baseball game in front of real humans.
The show leads off with a per...
Chiefs freakouts, KU blowouts, Royals contracts + sports on TV
This week we start with something I hear a lot of you doing: freaking out about the Chiefs.
Questions hit on KU’s blowout loss to USC, the poten...
March Madness, sports gambling, and Royals and Sporting shut out on your TV
Fair warning, this week’s lead is essentially me drooling over the fact that you and I and everyone else can watch actual, real, NCAA Tournament games...
A KU-Chiefs analogy, the salary cap and truthfulness
Believe it or not, there’s a point about Jeff Long and Kansas that I haven’t made yet this week and an analogy that will help make sense of the mess,...
Fans in stands + what you need to know about who the Royals are
You guys, I’m back from spring training and it was all of the following: weird, not the same as normal, and incredibly satisfying to watch baseball ga...
Loving sports all over again, Chiefs’ offseason and Royals’ *season*
Now’s as good a time as ever for the wonder of sports. All that stuff we fell in love with, it’s coming back. Slowly, but it’s coming back.
Plus...
Tell your friends you love them + Terez memories from Brett Veach
The only show I had it in me to do this week is a show about our dear friend Terez Paylor.
We talk here about telling people we love them, liste...
Everything you need for the game + a Bucs expert
So I guess we’re talking about the Chiefs in the Super Bowl every year now, huh?
Here we go, about the importance of not taking this for granted...
Super Bowl breakdown, and Reid and Mahomes unintentionally say a lot
It wouldn’t be Super Bowl hype week without a show, right?
We give you a breakdown of three main points from this game, questions about Mahomes...
AFC Championship edition: Game breakdown and how Josh Allen got good
Packed with Chiefs stuff.
We give you a full(ish) breakdown of the AFC Championship Game between the Chiefs and the Bills, including what I’m lo...