Players on the Kansas City Royals recently and mysteriously began working the numbers “17” and “38” into all of their postgame interviews.

The upstanding citizens and newspaper beat writers of the heartland, who cling to their traditional values and vast acreage of corn fields, did not understand.

1738 was the birth year of King Kamehameha I, a Hawaiian “royal.” 1738 was also the year in which German clockmaker Franz Anton Ketterer added a cuckoo bird to his clock, creating the first ever cuckoo clock. George Brett also likely ate between 17 and 38 crab legs before he shit himself in Las Vegas.

Still yearning for a more clear answer, Missourians turned to the dark art of numerology.

But maybe this was too far. The answer was right under their nose the whole time.

REMY BOYYYYYZZZZZZ

Fetty Wap, the genius behind “Trap Queen,” hails from the crew “Remy Boyz”, which is named after the cognac, Remy Martin 1738 Accord Royal––”Royal.” “1738” is one of the first things Fetty Wap says in the song, which also happens to be Lorenzo Cain’s walk-up music. But this obviously was too hip of a reference for the Kansas City media.

Abiding to our strict journalistic principles, VICE Sports reached out to plaid-loving, hipster glasses wearing Kansas City Star Royals beat writer Andy McCullough, the exact type of person you would expect to miss a Fetty Wap reference.

“If Remy Martin gives endorsement deals to any Royals players, I just want a finder’s fee that covers my credit-card debt,” McCullough told VICE Sports in an exclusive interview.

As proof of this claim, McCullough supplied this screenshot from May 22, in which he recommended that Cain make the song his walk-up music.

Really makes you think.