Tim Melia is a few minutes into a conversation in a backroom booth at a Prairie Village restaurant. He is smart, his reflexes impeccable. Some of that is literally his job as Sporting Kansas City’s star goalkeeper, but some of it is also his nature.
He will react, turning defense into offense, whether that’s coming off his line to catch a cross or filtering through a line of questions early enough that he hasn’t even taken a sip of his water yet.
“Don’t mince words,” he said. “I’m not sensitive at all. Don’t worry about it.”
Well, OK.