Missie B’s went full McFadden’s for a little while last night

There isn’t a gay sports bar in Kansas City anymore (though Jeff Edmondson and Eric Christensen, owners of the Hamburger Mary’s restaurant, plan to open one next year in midtown). But last night, in the final moments of the fourth game between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles, the popular Missie B’s nightclub was about as sports-obsessed as any saloon in the city.

There were a few women in the room cheering on the game, but it was mostly, as one patron said, “an all-male baseball hysteria punctuated with beer and butchness.” That person added, “If someone just walked in and didn’t know it was a gay bar, they might have thought they were at friggin’ McFadden’s.”

Michael Burnes, who owns the 20-year-old bar, was watching the game on one of the monitors — his place has at least 13 screens just on the street level of the club — with a packed house. Many wore Royals garb, and everyone chanted, “Let’s go, Royals.” People pounded on the bar, screamed at the TV screens (and at one another), cheered, wept, and pretty much behaved the same way that the televised audience at Kauffman Stadium did at the end of the game: loud, crazy, euphoric.

As fans rushed onto the field, Burnes announced that he was giving away free shots of Jagermeister — a declaration that incurred another round of yelling and cheering. He also sold $1 drinks for the half-hour after the game.

I didn’t notice any drag queens mingling with the crowd, but they weren’t required to be there for another few hours. The Wednesday-night “Dirty Dorothy Show” didn’t start until 10 p.m.