A once promising season now circling the drain looks like a half-empty ballpark on a gorgeous late summer night.
It sounds like boos for the home team, first just a spatter when the Royals go down by two, more when an A’s rookie hits one over the left-field fountains, and finally in undeniable volume when a man who starred in last year’s World Series gives up a ninth run before recording a 10th out.
There were, literally, buzzards circling overhead during Royals batting practice and even as this is just a darkly hilarious coincidence from Mother Nature it is also a coldly appropriate visual for this season.