Either the Kansas City Royals are the unluckiest team in Major League Baseball or there’s something strange going on at their spring training home. That’s because exactly one year to the day of a swarm of bees interrupting a contest with the Anaheim Angels it happened again.
This time it was the Royals and the Colorado Rockies that got a visit from the bees.
The bees have arrived to watch @Royals vs @Rockies @KCStar #SpringTraining #Royals #Rockies pic.twitter.com/8GiVzkCeTo
— John Sleezer (@jsleezer) March 8, 2016
Perhaps it was coincidence, or perhaps it was a group of bees with a long memory of their removal and ancestral death the previous year. Last season, Yost joked a bit about the removal of the bees as “mass bee genocide.”
This year, Yost had some advice for those not too happy to see the buzzing insects:
Yost on bees: “They’re not gonna mess with you; just don’t mess with them. Kind of like the #Royals.” #RoyalsSThttps://t.co/osKdQMYpil
— Bally Sports Kansas City (@BallySportsKC) March 8, 2016
This time around, a retired beekeeper just so happened to on scene and avoided the disaster that was the bee-killing of 2015. According to the Kansas City Star, Yost had a hand in making sure the bees weren’t killed this time around and he sent a #BeeLivesMatter message to his team in the process:
“I told (vice president of communications Mike Swanson), we ain’t killing those bees. We better figure something out. But we’re not killing those bees. Luckily, we had a beekeeper from St. Joe, I told Swanny, ‘Just get a bag.’ They had already devised that plan by the time I called them over. Just get a plastic bag, take ’em out and let them go.
There’s not enough bees in the world, boys. We can’t be exterminating them. I’m telling you, they are dwindling, and they’re so important to our environment, because they pollinate everything. It doesn’t make any sense for me to panic and kill bees.”
