A national news organization did the digging here. Where is the local media on this? Just toothless these days and the team uses access to keep them from digging around.
This take somewhat inspired by doing some Epstein digging here and remembering it was a local reporter who blew the lid off and brought the story back to life.
Yeah, we want the Royals. This has nothing to do with current standings and everything to do with remaining games. The team with six games left against the Tigers has more chances to catch up than the one who has none.
Reading the story, it does look like he actually did something good beforehand (stopping and intervening on a domestic violence incident he witnessed). People contain multitudes.