So your Royals abruptly went splat to lose nine of 14 games into mid-September. With that, a season of promise was punctured and doomed.
The losses were amassed in a variety of exasperating, worrisome ways, and woe and panic bubbled up in a fragile fan base because there was no way to put this all back together again.
In the middle of it all, turkey vultures literally were perched on team banners at Kauffman Stadium, figuratively boding the end.
But enough about the 2014 Royals …
Yep, that was the condemned skid the Royals were in at almost precisely this stage a year ago.