Sunday's spring training game between the Royals and Angels was delayed a couple times due to a flood of bees buzzing around the stadium. They flew throughout the outfield and stands before eventually settling on a microphone behind home plate, where they would ultimately meet their demise. The broadcast, which you can watch and listen to here, repeatedly referred to this man as a "beekeeper," but that is a lie. This man was not keeping bees, he was doing the exact opposite: he was getting rid of bees. He is a beeassassin.
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Look at that! It is just a pile of dead bees and Royals manager Ned Yost thinks that's bullshit.
#Royals manager Ned Yost didn't like inhumane treatment of bees at Angels game: I've never seen mass bee genocide like that."
— Randy Covitz (@randycovitz) March 9, 2015
Yost on bees that caused 2 delays in #Royals game at Angels:"They're just honey bees, man.There's a decline in honey bees. We need 'em."
— Randy Covitz (@randycovitz) March 9, 2015
VICE Sports is Team Yost on this one. Bees are terrible—honey or no honey, we hate them—but that doe not mean they should die. Man run amok, destroying nature because it can. What did those bees do to die a death like this; sprayed with poison, battered with a broom, and scooped up and discarded by the handful?Yost said he would have used smoke on the bees and sucked them up in a Shop Vac and let them out in the parking lot.
— Randy Covitz (@randycovitz) March 9, 2015
Down with people. Up with bees.[MLB]Pest control guy told me he destroyed bees during #Royals game because of concern for those who might be allergic. #lawsuits #beegate
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@jflanagankc) March 9, 2015