One year ago Tuesday night during the American League Wild Card Game, Royals manager Ned Yost marched briskly from the pitcher’s mound at Kauffman Stadium and somehow stood tall as he absorbed ferocious boos from the home crowd.
The catcalls after the Yordano Ventura-for-James Shields pitching change backfired were of such intensity that it’s hard to know how much harsher they would have been for, say, Satan.
By the time the Royals had tumbled into a 7-3 abyss in their first postseason appearance in 29 years, the caterwauling was even more harsh and shrill in the echo chamber of social media as the rest of the nation was being introduced to the local Twitter phenomenon of #Yosted.