(TNS) — Pittsburgh Pirates fans are used to losing, but the team’s self-inflicted blunders this season on and off the field are angering people more than ever.

From team play and management decisions, to destroying commemorative bricks bought by fans to honor loved ones, to offending the memory of a Pirates icon, the atmosphere at PNC park is stormy this spring.

First, the team did virtually nothing in free agency to improve its anemic offense and give ace pitcher Paul Skenes some much-needed run support, although team officials repeatedly tell a disbelieving fanbase that they are committed to winning.

That was followed by the Pirates giving up three walk-off wins against the equally moribund Miami Marlins to start the season, and a home opening series against the New York Yankees that had fans booing the manager and chanting for owner Bob Nutting to sell the team, or flying a banner with the same message over the ballpark.

More controversy quickly enveloped the team as fans noticed a “21” sign honoring franchise legend Roberto Clemente had been removed from PNC Park’s right-field wall and replaced with a sign of an alcoholic beverage can.

That prompted the Clemente family to issue a critical statement, which, in turn, forced the Pirates to apologize and backtrack on the decision.

Now, the latest gaffe by the franchise has fans seething and using words like “disgusting” and “unbelievable.”

Thousands of commemorative bricks — known as “Bucco Bricks” — that fans paid for years ago were quietly removed from sidewalks outside of PNC Park after the team told KDKA-TV in January that it was considering display options and said nothing else.

Fans, many of whom purchased the concrete bricks to honor family members, were outraged, though, that the bricks had not only been removed but no option to retrieve them was offered.

Things only got worse when KDKA learned that the commemorative bricks were found broken and piled up at a recycling center in Westmoreland County.

“Unbelievable. That’s unbelievable,” Pirates fan Mark Robinson told KDKA. “We bought those bricks. That’s my brick.

I mean, my daughter’s name is literally on the brick. It’s mine and they just got rid of it. It’s awful.”

One woman posted about her family’s connection to a brick on the station’s Facebook page.

“My dad bought one of those bricks for our family and he is no longer living,” she wrote. “He loved the Pirates more than anything! He had season tickets for years.

This is disgusting.”

Another commenter said the team’s actions were “about as tone deaf as it gets.”

Longtime Pirates beat writer John Perrotto wrote a scathing article on the team’s move, recounting how he and his mother had bought a brick in memory of his father, a diehard Pirates fan who died in 1991.

“When I watched the KDKA report, it felt like the Pirates had urinated on my father’s grave,” Perrotto wrote. “And like they had hit me over the head with a brick.”

A statement from the Pirates released Tuesday said that it was the third time bricks had been removed due to deterioration from “weather and foot traffic” over the years.

“We respect, appreciate and understand just how meaningful these messages are,” said the team, adding that it was “actively planning to develop and unveil a more permanent display for these special messages to honor the enduring support that our fans shared then and continue to share in our future.”

The team said it hopes to share details as part of celebrating PNC Park’s 25th season.

If all that wasn’t bad enough, the Pirates then went out on Tuesday amid the controversy and saw Skenes allow the most runs in his short career in a 5-3 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, dropping the Pirates to 4-8 on the season.

The game was so poorly attended — the temperature for the first pitch was 38 degrees — that the team offered free tickets to a future game to those shivering fans who showed up.

Announced paid attendance was just under 8,300 even with Skenes on the mound.