Why you shouldn’t eat the snow cones at Minute Maid Park

• Flickr: Sean Loyless
• Let’s just keep the snow cones in the stands. Okay?

The Kansas City Royals’ most recent road trip was like taking snow cones in the bathroom, things went downhill in a hurry. After getting swept by the Oakland Athletics and then dropping two-of-three to the Houston Astros (who can now the thank the boys in blue for a whopping 14 percent of their 14 wins on the season), the Royals limp home at a game under .500.

But while the Astros can revel in capturing the series in an otherwise abysmal season, there may be another reason the Houston team is struggling to draw fans (there were 12,092 fans in attendance last Monday night). CNNSI.com has the story of an Aramark vendor who was fired from his post at Minute Maid Stadium after video of him taking his snow cone tray, which still had snow cones in it (not that it’s any better if it’s empty) into a bathroom stall and setting it on the floor during the first game of the series against the Royals, was sent to a Houston news station. The video is in the link. It’s not graphic, and yet it’s still stomach-churning.

Kansas City is home tonight against the Los Angeles Angels. The game starts at 7:10 p.m. and Royals’ fans can move on to more civilized dining options like the batting helmet full of nachos.