Chris Suellentrop, big shot, gazes into empty Sprint Center, navel

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“We pretty much all left,” native son Chris Suellentrop writes in a piece posted today at Grantland, the ESPN-sponsored treasure chest of writing about sports and pop culture.

The “we” refers to smart and talented people like Suellentrop, who works as an editor at the New York Times Magazine. The place they left is Kansas City, a wasteland for anyone who has ever eked out an original thought, in Suellentrop’s view.