The Kansas City Royals, currently sporting the MLB's second-best record and a nine-game lead in the American League Central, are having all kinds of fun laying waste to their competition on the diamond.

The team is having so much fun, in fact, that some players have picked up a new favorite pastime to keep themselves entertained: trolling beat writers by using references to the rapper Fetty Wap.

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The rapper's debut single, "Trap Queen," has become a smash hit over the past several months and is currently outfielder Lorenzo Cain’s walk-up music. In the song, Fetty repeats the digits 1738, referencing his Remy Boyz 1738 squad. So — naturally! — some Royals players have apparently taken to fining one another if they fail to drop 1738 references in interviews.

It's random. It's brilliant. And it's very confusing to the reporters covering the team. Behold, via Andy McCullough, who covers the Royals for the Kansas City Star:

KC players are fining each other if they don't use "1738" in postgame interviews. I have no idea what it means. Success has driven them mad. — Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) July 29, 2015

Cain on Bauer: "He was like a 17-38 to the plate." Hosmer on his RBIs against Cleveland: "I'll take 17. I'll take 38." — Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) July 29, 2015

Coming to a television near you: Lorenzo Cain saying, "You can name 17, 38 great plays we've made." — Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) July 29, 2015

Moustakas on Hosmer's pick: "Hoz picks that thing 17 out of 38 times." — Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) July 29, 2015

McCullough: "I am not putting that in newspaper." Moustakas: "Why not?" AM:: "It makes no sense." Moose: "It makes perfect sense." — Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) July 29, 2015

If you still have no idea what's going on here, give "Trap Queen" a listen below. It's what all the kids are doing these days.